A substantial proportion of these new students come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) is often the only ...
Vincent van Gogh sliced off his ear with a knife during a psychotic episode. Ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky developed schizophrenia and spent the last 30 years of ...
Global internet monitor Netblocks estimates internet shutdowns cost the Iranian economy more than $37 million a day.
These protests are civic and rooted in social grievances. US military strikes would allow the Iranian state to recast a diverse domestic movement as a foreign-backed ...
In Venezuela the situation is far from stable. Rodríguez represents just one of multiple and competing interests within a Venezuela elite composed of a precarious ...
Amid the festive return lies a quieter and more solemn south-north movement – that of Zimbabwean migrants who have passed away and are taking their final journey ...
The manosphere is big business today. Once a niche network lurking on the margins of the internet, this diverse community of male supremacist cultures has grown ...
Broadly, the manosphere is centred on anti-feminist, misogynistic and anti-gender equity ideas and beliefs.
While often miscast as mysterious or hard to understand, cats are actually excellent communicators.
Hurricane Melissa is tearing through the Caribbean, bringing record-breaking wind and torrential rain to Jamaica – the island’s first ever category 5 landfall. What ...
In Africa, less than one in five continental airline routes are direct, so getting from one country to another often requires travellers to fly to Europe or the ...
Chimpanzees use insects to tend to their wounds and sometimes even help others
AI is changing who gets hired – what skills will keep you employed?
One widely circulated drawing from the 1840s crystallises the image. Women swoon or faint, others hurl flowers toward the stage. Men also appear to be struck by ...
They were pregnant. Some were prisoners. Others were the poorest of the poor, forgotten in death as in life. Yet dissection and depiction of their bodies have become ...
Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model ...
The Sorbonne University, founded in Paris in 1253 and known globally as a symbol of education, science and culture, has just announced that, starting in 2026, it ...
Climate change, shifting monsoons, relentless extraction and damming are pushing the mighty river towards collapse, with consequences for food, water and livelihoods ...
The relationship between inequality and economic growth is a complex one, especially in Africa. Inequality is the result of a host of factors, including policy choices, ...
Provoked by the deaths of the protesters on September 8, angry, young demonstrators burned down several government buildings across the country, including the parliament ...
Trump’s actions have ordinary Indians seething and demanding action, but the Modi government does not have good options.
The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map.
Despite promises of moderation and inclusion, four years later, the Taliban has established a repressive, exclusionary regime – one that has dismantled institutions ...
For too long, Africa’s agency has been exercised defensively: managing expectations, preserving stability, reacting to external scripts. The continent has copied ...
More girls and women around the world are playing rugby now than ever before. However, many systems, including coaching and medical support, have not kept pace with ...