People who move to Uganda from the west say it’s like enjoying an endless summer. The east African country, one of the biggest beer consumers in the world, always has an excuse to party and bars are open 24/7. In fact, there is a four-day dance fest...
Donald Trump tells us the US economy is “absolutely booming”, the “strongest we’ve ever had” and “the greatest in the history of America”. Well, at his Mar-a-Lago country club where the price of admission has doubled to $200,000, he is right. The ec...
People in sub-Saharan African can expect to live for 11 years longer than the generation that went before them, new statistics show. Factors including recovery from HIV epidemics, reductions in child mortality, improved nutrition and access to drink...
As a child, Sharon McIvor spent her days roaming her grandmother’s First Nations community deep in British Columbia, learning to fish, harvest sap and pick berries, as the Nlaka’pamux Nation had done for millennia. When the time came to teach those...
Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand and Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, join London mayor Sadiq Khan to take questions on gender equality from young Londoners. In a Q&A session, the two heads of states touched on gend...
Educational inequality has cost the Australian economy more than $20bn, as well as contributing to the widening gap between rich and poor, new research has found. The report from the Public Education Foundation found that students at the bottom of A...
A shattering collapse of civilisation is a “near certainty” in the next few decades due to humanity’s continuing destruction of the natural world that sustains all life on Earth, according to biologist Prof Paul Ehrlich. In May, it will be 50 years...