Recording casualties during a conflict can provide a body of evidence of how violence has affected particular communities or groups, such as the Yazidis in Iraq and the Kurds in Syria. When the Islamic State entered Iraq in 2014, they immediately started committing gross human rights violations and displayed violenceContinue Reading
This research could change our understanding of the heart. Liya Graphics/ Shutterstock Around sixty times every minute, your heart beats, delivering nutrients and removing waste from every cell in your body. It has been doing this since you were in the womb – the heart forms 18 days into foetalContinue Reading
The idea of relocating Whitehall departments to the regions has a long but rather mundane history in the UK. Already, more than 80% of civil servants are based outside London – probably higher than most of us assume, given Britain’s highly centralised political system. If we exclude the Ministry ofContinue Reading
Houses as power stations. Shutterstock/Studio Harmony Homes are the places we spend most of our time, especially during lockdown. Heating your home in winter can be expensive, and comes at a huge environmental cost too. Technology to make homes more self sufficient could help the UK decarbonise, while also makeContinue Reading
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NZ vs AUS: Tim Southee was reprimanded for showing dissent at an umpire’s decision.© AFP New Zealand fast bowler Tim Southee has been reprimanded for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct during the third T20I against Australia in Wellington. Southee was found to have breached Article 2.8Continue Reading
IND vs ENG Live: Rohit Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara looked solid in the last hour on Day 1.© BCCI India have put in a steady start against England on Day 2 of the fourth and final Test match, at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The hosts currently have RohitContinue Reading
Tracking what you eat is one method proven to work. Okrasiuk/ Shutterstock There’s no shortage of weight loss programmes out there to choose from, each of which claim to have the key to shedding pounds. One of the latest popular weight loss programmes out there is Noom, which claims thatContinue Reading
National selection trials were held on Wednesday where Pragati Choudhary secured the third spot.© AFP Pragati Choudhary, a 16-year-old Indian archer, has booked a place in the Indian women’s compound team after suffering a brain stroke in May last year. Pragati secured the third position in the national selection trialsContinue Reading
In the face of mounting concern from fishing businesses about new red tape and paperwork, Luke Pollard directly challenged George Eustice, the Environment Secretary, in a heated exchange in the House of Commons to apologise to fishing communities. The majority of fish landed in south west ports is exported toContinue Reading
