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Maasai tribe traditional dressed women and man. Decorated with hand made colorful jewelry and clothes woman in Africa street village market in Kenya. Masai in Africa

Drought and the war in Ukraine changed what families in Kenya could afford to eat – research tracked food and cooking gas use

August 7, 2026

Nicaraguan flag waving in front of historical colonial buildings

Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua plans to scrap elections – what that says about today’s autocrats

August 5, 2026

What the lotus flower reveals about veteran PTSD in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

July 31, 2026

Metropolitan policeman on duty in front of 10 Downing Street

No lectern and the promise of a ‘new model’ – what we can learn from Andy Burnham’s speech

July 21, 2026

A pile of folded newspapers on a table

How the British press has undermined the ECHR over many years: new study

July 14, 2026

Low angle view of a road crossing the equator line in Uganda, marked by a yellow centre line leading toward green hills and a rural settlement.

Are Uganda’s environmental impact reports just a box‑ticking exercise? What a study of 108 projects reveals

June 9, 2026

Sonny Rollins at Detroit Jazz Festival

Sonny Rollins the last great of the jazz era dies

June 2, 2026

Image if Miles Davis taken from a portrait of Tommy Potter, Charlie Parker, Max Roach, Miles Davis, and Duke Jordan, Three Deuces, New York, N.Y.

Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is the highest selling jazz record of all time – he thought it was a failure

June 1, 2026

Three little boys shelter from the sun under a battered umbrella during London's summer heatwave.

How London, Paris and New York coped in the heatwaves of the past

May 22, 2026

Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester

Andy Burnham: what has made the king of the north so popular?

May 20, 2026