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When violent conflict erupts in Africa, attention often turns to the United Nations, major powers, or external donors.

Scientists want to learn more about the cosmic rays that create particle showers in Earth's atmosphere.

Houthi rebel forces have seized the Yemeni port of Mokha as well as Mayyun Island overlooking the Bab el-Mandab strait.

Providing drug users with clean syringes is part of Portugal's harm-reduction approach to substance use.

Iranian Presidency/Handout/Photo by Press Information Bureau (PIB)/Anadolu via Getty Images Over the past two weeks, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin staged a major diplomatic blitz.

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth’s landmasses.

Pedestrians walk down a crowded street in Tehran, Iran.

This week, Donald Trump made American voters an offer that he hopes they can’t refuse.

To most of the world, he was the “Butcher of Bosnia”.

Svetlana Evgrafova/Getty As we reflect on 25 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people, terrorism remains an ongoing yet evolving threat that defies easy answers.

Artisanal cobalt miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo risk exposure to uranium while working.

Persistent allegations of chemical weapons use in the Sudanese civil war have recently been reinforced by new evidence.

Humans everywhere use mind-altering substances, from stimulants and narcotics to hallucinogens.

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images For most Australians and New Zealanders, IKEA is where you go for a BILLY bookcase, Swedish meatballs and a trolley full of purchases you never intended to make.

Israel has been building settlements in the occupied West Bank for decades.

The UK, which in 1917 issued the Balfour Declaration supporting the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, is now initiating a historic and consequential shift in its foreign policy.

valkird/Shutterstock Sweden is imagined as the land of equality, modesty and Jantelagen – the unwritten rule that no one should think they are better than anyone else.

The results of Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt state election on September 6 were far worse than feared for the country’s mainstream political parties.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) marked its 25th anniversary in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, with all the trappings a diplomatic milestone demands.

It’s the middle of the night in April 2023 in the East China Sea.

The exact timeline of the recent Nepal flooding disaster is becoming clearer.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s fight against Ebola has reached a tipping point.

Illustration of early mammals and dinosaurs.

Entering Ghouta Osman Bahadir Dincer It was around seven o'clock in the evening when we arrived at a church in the city of Hama, Syria, to attend the wedding of a friend.

Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images Many participants at the Pacific Islands Forum in Palau this week would like to talk about anything but great power rivalry: transnational crime, energy security, climate change, development finance, seabed minerals, transp…

Christopher Furlong/Getty For over a decade, the world has been trying to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

The Mora, far right, was gifted by Matilda of Flanders to her husband William the Conqueror.

Accountants are often portrayed sitting at a desk studying financial reports. alphaspirit.it / Shutterstock When asked to think about accounting, most people imagine numbers, calculators, spreadsheets and offices populated by smart-suited bean counters hu…

It was 1967, and country musician Porter Wagoner was introducing a guest on his weekly TV show.

In recent weeks, Ukrainian drones have targeted large warehouses across Russia, destroying millions of dollars of merchandise stored inside them.

Do you sometimes wish that you had telepathic or other supernormal powers?

Water stored in dams and reservoirs for humans to use often evaporates, especially in hot regions like southern Africa.

Loredana Sangiuliano/Shutterstock/Canva Robert Harris has returned to Rome with his new novel, Agrippa.

Shackleton crater on the Lunar South Pole.

In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Gillian Anderson plays Billy, a reclusive actress famous for playing a classic “final girl”.

He’s an intergalactic space warrior from the planet Sigma 9 and a part-time politician on Earth.

Jonathan Brady/PA Images As the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) sweep across the labour force, it’s understandable for workers to be concerned about which jobs are most at risk of being replaced by technology.

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Camerique/Getty I AM WORK.

Imagine spotting a butterfly species in your garden you have never seen before.

samoila ionut/Shutterstock In November 2020, a Belgian racing pigeon called New Kim sold at auction for £1.44 million.

ko_orn/Getty Images “We are now, like, in the singularity”.

The front page of the Times on July 25 carried a photograph of three people sitting under a striped parasol on the sand near Lacanau in southwest France, looking out to sea.

Daniel Eskridge/Shutterstock When all we have left of dinosaurs is their fossilised bones, how do we know what they looked like on the outside?

pikselstock/Shutterstock When an adult refuses to let an injustice pass – stands up to a bully, or asserts their rights – we call it principle.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent holds up an image of the proposed $250 bill in May 2026.

A farmer gathers goat carcasses in drought-hit northeastern Kenya on Jan. 21, 2026.

Initial concerns about the cancer risk of GLP-1 drugs have made an about-face.

When Javier Milei took over as president of Argentina in December 2023, monthly inflation was 25.5%.