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view of towering cliffs along the north west coast of Malta

Europe’s stone age hunters made sea voyages to Malta – thousands of years before evidence of sails

August 19, 2026

Refugees on a big rubber boat in the middle of the sea

Should Andy Burnham be ‘relentless’ on small boat crossings? Experts react

August 10, 2026

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

Robot Dogs at the World Cup: Safer Crowds, Smarter Technology and Privacy by Design

June 15, 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