‘They don’t have enough’ – schools in England are running food banks for families
Apr 18, 2024 06:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The peak of the cost-of-living crisis may have passed, but millions of families are struggling to buy enough food to feed their children. Experiencing food insecurity can be deeply damaging for children and negatively...
Mexico’s slow slide towards vigilante violence
Apr 18, 2024 06:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Life
Mexico has witnessed two high-profile public lynchings within the space of two weeks. In late March, a woman suspected of murdering an eight-year-old girl in Taxco, Guerrero, was lynched by an angry mob. Then, on April 9,...
Why experts fear the EU’s new migration laws could lead to more deaths at sea
Apr 18, 2024 06:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
A little over ten years after a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the coast of Lampedusa, claiming the lives of 368 migrants, another boat has capsized in the same waters, around 50 km off the...
Modern pentathlon is invoking a fictional Pierre de Coubertin to justify its controversial politics
Apr 18, 2024 06:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) recently published two articles involving the long-dead founder of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin. In one article, Coubertin is quoted several times as a...
A new wave of wearable devices will collect a mountain on information on us
Apr 18, 2024 06:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Web and mobile services try to understand the desires and goals of users by analysing how their interact with their platforms. Smartphones, for instance, capture online data from users at a large scale and low...
The yen plunges to 34-year low despite interest rate hike
Apr 17, 2024 09:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years on March 19, bringing an era of negative interest rates to an end. The key rate was hiked from 0.1% to a band from zero to 0.1% a token effort...
Apr 15, 2024 10:37 am UTC| Insights & Views
Close to midnight on April 13, hundreds of military drones were launched from both Iran and Iraq toward Israel. Subsequently, several waves of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and rockets followed, originating from...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects