Among the select band of truly great editors who have led British newspapers with sovereign authority, Harold Evans – who has passed away, aged 92 – stood out as a titan. The working-class boy who left his local state school at the age of 16 to learn his trade onContinue Reading
Lesterman/Shutterstock Two months ago I received an email from a colleague inviting me to join a global campaign to support a form of vaccine research that would involve deliberately infecting volunteers with COVID-19. This might seem like a strange idea. Some people have raised concerns about this research. Some evenContinue Reading
Luis Suarez leaves Barcelona as the club’s third highest scorer with 198 goals.© Twitter Atletico Madrid announced the signing of Barcelona forward Luis Suarez late on Wednesday, confirming the Uruguayan striker is set to continue playing in La Liga rather than joining Juventus in Italy. Barcelona said that Atletico hadContinue Reading
IPL 2020: Mitchell Marsh has been ruled out for the remainder of the tournament.© BCCI/IPL SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH), who lost their first game in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020, took to Twitter on Wednesday to announce that Australian all-rounder Mitchell Marsh has been ruled out of the remainder of theContinue Reading
IPL 2020: Ambati Rayudu top-scored for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL 2020 opener against Mumbai Indians.© BCCI/IPL Chennai Super Kings (CSK) skipper MS Dhoni badly missed the star player Ambati Rayudu during their second game against Rajasthan Royals at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Tuesday due to the latter’sContinue Reading
IPL 2020: Hardik Pandya crashed the stumps with his own bat against Kolkata Knight Riders.© BCCI/IPL Mumbai Indians put on a fine batting display against Kolkata Knight Riders in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 match in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. A fine knock of 80 from Rohit Sharma andContinue Reading
From Brazil to Bolivia, native peoples collectively care for their health Farmers from the Brazilian Reforma Agraria Popular distributed about six tons of food to indigenous peoples during the pandemic. Photo credit: Vinícius Braga/Fotos Publicas (CC BY 3.0) In Latin America, indigenous people are at higher risk of COVID-19 infection dueContinue Reading
Polio patient in an iron lung to help them breathe. Everett Collection/Shutterstock If you have been following the media coverage of the new vaccines in development for COVID-19, it will be clear that the stakes are high. Very few vaccine trials in history have attracted so much attention, perhaps sinceContinue Reading
The Istanbul Convention is a Council of Europe treaty designed to prevent violence against women Screenshot from Anit Sayac home page. A website called Anit Sayac (Turkish for “monument tracker”) indicates the number “276” on its home page at the time of writing this story. It represents the number ofContinue Reading
The exhibit ‘redefines an ideologically charged word’ in a post-pandemic world The “Global South.” It’s a loaded, highly political term often used to define regions of the world in opposition to each other. More than 90 young artists from Gabon, Mozambique, the UK, the USA, along with refugees, asylum-seekers, andContinue Reading
