Firefighting planes are dumping ocean water on the Los Angeles fires − why using saltwater is typically a last resort
Firefighters battling the deadly wildfires that raced through the Los Angeles area in January 2025…
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Commission facilitates the world’s largest and most powerful ground-based gamma-ray observatory, revolutionising our understanding of the universe
Yesterday, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory European Research Infrastructures Consortium (CTAO…
1. Global perceptions of inequality and discrimination
In our 36-country survey, we asked respondents how large a problem various types of inequality…
How AI could assist humans in expanding access to global literature and culture
News that Dutch publishing house Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK) has confirmed plans to experiment…
GCA’s 2025 annual survey now live
Take part in the survey here. The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) has today (13 January…
World News in Brief: Communal violence in South Sudan, Syria and Gaza updates
In an update covering July to September last year, the UN Mission in South Sudan…
Top humanitarian official issues ceasefire appeal during visit to Gaza City
Muhannad Hadi, who is also the Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process,…
Secretary Antony J. Blinken with Martha Teichner of CBS News Sunday Morning
QUESTION: No easy stroll to the exit for Antony Blinken. With exactly eight days left…
Social media ‘soft girls’ depend on men for money – but Sweden once used state ‘influencers’ to urge women to get jobs
The idea of becoming a “soft girl” – a woman who embrace values that are…
In Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst takes an elegiac look at class, sexuality and race in post-Brexit Britain
Late in Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel Our Evenings, the narrator David Win, gracefully ageing doyen…