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When #MeToo surfaced in October 2017, it was viewed as a time of change for the US and Hollywood. Bu

Hurricanes are among the most dramatic examples of extreme weather. And with climate change making t

Demand for ‘Hollywood’ weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, has turned a once-niche Danish pharmace

Russia's most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in an Arct

There is growing concern that a new wave of violent misogyny is becoming popular with young men. Man

Javier Milei was sworn in as Argentina’s president in December. He's referred to as El Loco (the mad

Nearly 40 years after the BBC brought famine in Ethiopia to the world's attention, there are fresh w

Access to Putin and Trump puts him in a powerful position, less than a year since losing his high-pr

Anxiety disorders are the world’s most common mental health condition, affecting over three hundred

Taylor Swift is the world’s biggest pop star and an economic powerhouse. She has become so popular t

Farmers’ protests have swept across France, Germany, Spain, Italy and beyond, and descended on the E

As the US opioid crisis continues, politicians in Washington are blaming Mexico’s cartels. But what

As governments across the globe grapple with ways to tackle the climate crisis, seventeen critical e

It’s 20 years since Facebook was brought into the world by a group of Harvard University roommates.

In 2017, Stuart McCormick survived the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in US history, whi

Elon Musk says Chinese electric vehicles could ‘demolish’ competition unless trade barriers are put

The politics of growing anger from desperate relatives. Israel’s crushing military response to the H

What’s the plan, Iran?

2024/1/30

Tehran’s Middle East strategy after a lethal attack on US troops. The risk of military escalation in

Germany is wrestling with the question of whether to ban the country’s second-most popular political

Thousands of people from Georgia in Eastern Europe have found out that they were stolen from their p