‘We are scapegoats’: The rise of anti-migrant anger in Poland | The Far Right
It started with a violent crime. In June, in the centre of Torun, central-north Poland, a Venezuelan man stabbed 24-year-old Klaudia, a Polish woman, to…
How Sylvia Young went from housewife charging 10p for drama lessons to theatre school boss who made Britain’s top stars
FOR a housewife who started out charging ten pence for after-school drama lessons, Sylvia Young had an incredible ability to spot raw talent.The 85-year-old, who…
‘We are starving’: Bread becomes a distant dream for Palestinians in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Gaza City, Gaza Strip – Hani Abu Rizq walks through Gaza City’s wrecked streets with two bricks tied against his stomach as the rope cuts…
‘No land, no home, no future’: Himalayan Lepchas fear new dam | Floods
Sikkim, India – It was the middle of the night when Tashi Choden Lepcha was jolted awake by the tremors that shook her mountainside home…
On huge river island in India’s Assam, annual floods threaten local arts | Arts and Culture
Assam, India – Makon Kumar’s wrinkled fingers are covered in dried-up clay. She squats on the damp dirt outside her one-room, bamboo-stilted home and spins…
How England’s Lionesses won the UEFA Euro 2025 title | Football News
Hands on her head, disbelief clouding her thoughts, Lioness defender Lucy Bronze stood frozen in front of the goal. England were 1-0 down in the…
Why Sudan’s RSF chose this parallel government ahead of peace talks | Sudan war News
The Tasis Alliance, a coalition of Sudanese armed groups formed in February, has unveiled a parallel ”transitional peace” government to rival Sudan’s wartime government in…
Dahiyeh families displaced by war now trapped by identity | Israel attacks Lebanon
Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon – Fatima Kandeel, 43, and her two sons moved into a new rented apartment in the southern suburbs of Beirut in March.…
Desperate Zimbabweans get in debt to pay for lifesaving blood transfusions | Health News
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – When Lloyd Muzamba was critically injured in a car accident on the Harare–Bulawayo highway in 2023, he needed an urgent blood transfusion…
‘Did you eat today?’: Voices of Gaza speak of starvation and survival | Israel-Palestine conflict News
This is not a warning. Famine has already arrived in Gaza. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a prediction. It is daily. It…
Inside Ozzy & Sharon’s wild marriage – drugs, fights, affairs… and what she told him after he attempted to murder her
IT was the craziest start to a love affair that survived against the odds for more than 40 years.Superstar rocker Ozzy Osbourne had been given…
The boy who bled to death as an Israeli soldier ‘celebrated his shot’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Sebastia, occupied West Bank – When Israeli military vehicles approach, news of the latest incursion begins cascading through Sebastia from one person to another, and…
‘Flour, fire and fear as I try to parent in a starving Gaza’ | Israel-Palestine conflict
Deir el-Balah, Gaza – “There is no voice louder than hunger,” the Arabic proverb goes. Now it has become a painful truth surrounding us, drawing…
The night divers seeking sea cucumbers and profits off West Africa’s coast | Environment
Banana Islands, Sierra Leone - As the sun dips below the horizon, Emmanuel Pratt tugs a worn cord and the outboard engine sputters to life. His…
Air and Space Center features slides, revealing view of space shuttle
Along with the stars on Hollywood Boulevard and the Universal Studios theme park, a new celestial attraction is set to debut in Los Angeles.The Samuel…
How did Albert Luthuli, anti-apartheid hero, really die in 1967? | Racism
At half past eight on the morning of Friday, July 21, 1967, following a quick breakfast with his wife, Chief Albert Luthuli set out from…
Genocide or tragedy? Ukraine, Poland at odds over Volyn massacre of 1943 | Genocide News
Kyiv, Ukraine – Nadiya escaped the rapists and killers only because her father hid her in a haystack amidst the shooting, shouting and bloodshed that…
UN experts cast blame on Rwanda and Uganda. What are they doing in DRC? | Conflict News
Kampala, Uganda – Rwanda is in “command and control” of M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda has “unilaterally doubled its…
How Zohran Mamdani reached a multilingual, multicultural New York online | Social Media
New York City, the US: Swinging around a tree mimicking the signature open-arm lean of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, Zohran Mamdani asks, “Hey! Have…
Israel presses ahead with Gaza ‘concentration camp’ plans despite criticism | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Israel is ploughing ahead with a plan to build what critics have described as a “concentration camp” for Palestinians on the ruins of Rafah in…