
Russia-Ukraine talks: both sides play for time and wait for Donald Trump’s 50 days to run out
Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul on July 23 for a third round of talks since face-to-face negotiations resumed in May. Expectations were low. Two previous rounds have yielded very few concrete results, apart from...
A satellite image of the Clearwater Lakes, the site of two large asteroid impacts that struck Earth about 290 million years ago (NASA Earth Observatory) When high-velocity asteroids land on the Earth, they can form a...
Pelvic floor training can help active women avoid exercise-related symptoms
Dudarev Mikhail/Shutterstock Are you a woman who exercises regularly? If so, heres a vital question: do you train your pelvic floor muscles as part of your routine? If the answer is no, nows the time to start. Its never...

African sci-fi imagines new ways of living in climate-changed worlds
A new book called African Climate Futures explores how African science fiction is addressing climate change. International politics scholar Carl Death weighs up climate policies in African countries and discusses stories...

Who Will Bury You? Short stories from Zimbabwe about women who refuse to be easily defined
Zimbabwe-born, Canada-based Chido Muchemwas debut short story collection, Who Will Bury You?, was published late in 2024 and immediately attracted the right kind of attention. Here was an unexpected range of themes: queer...

Nigeria guns for a 10th Wafcon title – but women’s football has never been more competitive
Whatever the outcome of the Womens African Cup of Nations (Wafcon) final on Saturday in which Nigeria faces Morocco, the days of the west African nations sole dominance of womens football in Africa has ended. Nigerias...

What makes a person cool? Global study has some answers
From Lagos to Cape Town, Santiago to Seoul, people want to be cool. Cool is a word we hear everywhere in music, in fashion, on social media. We use it to describe certain types of people. But what exactly makes someone...