The instructions are modest enough on their face: keep some cash in a drawer, store a few litres of bottled water, make room in the cupboard for tinned food. Yet when those words come from a Defence Secretary on the…
The rapper who once sang about finding bargains at Goodwill has, over the course of a decade, transformed into one of the most outspoken advocates for Palestinian rights in mainstream American music. The sequence of events that brought Benjamin Hammond…
Scotland has recorded 1,133 drug-related deaths in a single year. The number is not an abstraction. Published by National Records of Scotland, the latest figures represent an 11 percent rise on the previous year — 116 additional fatalities — and…
A false audio clip circulated widely across British social media in the weeks before the 2024 general election. In it, a voice unmistakably resembling Wes Streeting — then a senior opposition figure, now the UK’s Defence Secretary — could be…
What happened at Tumbler Ridge, and why is a government suing a tech company? On 10 February 2026, an 18-year-old named Jesse Van Rootselaar killed eight people in and around a secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, a small town in…
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a Venezuelan man working as a food delivery driver in Austin, Texas, on Sunday afternoon, triggering immediate protests and demands for an independent inquiry into what is now the second…
In mid-August, a supertanker called the Singapore Prosperity — carrying an estimated two million barrels of crude oil — docked at a series of Saudi ports before heading toward the Strait of Hormuz. Then its transponder went dark. Two days…
A mathematics teacher at the Santos Peres State High School in the Brazilian state of Pará was stabbed by one of her own students on September 11, in an attack recorded by classroom surveillance footage and subsequently circulated widely. The…
The Bab al-Mandeb strait — thirty kilometres wide at its narrowest, separating Yemen from the Horn of Africa — has long functioned as one of the arteries through which the global economy breathes. Roughly twelve to fifteen percent of world…
What is being proposed, and who is proposing it? The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), one of the United Kingdom’s most prominent economic research bodies, has recommended that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) consider replacing cash payments under…