Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global study suggests the problem remains far from resolved.
“The black will take no other hue.The devils will not heed scripture.Let justice not be a dream deferred.” On 27 May 2025, Bangladesh’s Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of the so-called
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Daiza Gordon watched her two younger brothers die from Hunter syndrome, a rare and incurable genetic disorder that mostly affects boys. It occurs when the body is missing a crucial enzyme. At
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When Bruce Levine and colleagues began developing engineered immune cells to fight cancer in the 1990s, their work was largely dismissed. “The wider community was very sceptical,” Levine, an immunologist at the
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A new report from Statistics South Africa has revealed a sobering reality: over 25.4 million South Africans—roughly 40.1% of the population—depend on social grants as a means of survival. The findings, published
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The Iranian regime is being accused of subcontracting European criminal networks, including the notorious Dutch “Mocro mafia,” to carry out targeted assassinations on European soil, according to an investigative report by The
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Global consulting giant McKinsey & Company has reduced its workforce by more than 10% over the past 18 months, marking one of the most significant staff reductions in its nearly century-long history.
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In a region too often consumed by the drums of war, particularly between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan, the importance of a sustained ceasefire cannot be overstated. While military skirmishes and nationalistic posturing capture
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor Myanmar continues to bleed under the yoke of militarised oppression, yet refuses to surrender its voice or vision. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in
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by Durga Velayudham On 25 May, Africa does not merely remember—it aches. This is not a celebration but a ritual of endurance, a painful reminder of a dream buried beneath treaties, banknotes,
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A damning new report has accused senior Cambodian politicians of supporting and profiting from a vast criminal industry that uses trafficked forced labour to run online scam centres targeting lonely individuals in
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