Apr 26, 2024 01:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Vaping is now more common than cigarette smoking among young people, according to a new report coordinated by the University of Glasgow and commissioned by the World Health Organization. This echoes research that has...
South Africa’s youth are a generation lost under democracy – study
Apr 26, 2024 01:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently painted a rosy picture in which the countrys youth democracys children had enormous opportunities for advancement, all thanks to successive post-apartheid governments led...
Nigerians throw naira notes around to show love: but it could land you in jail
Apr 26, 2024 01:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The legal implication of physically damaging the naira, Nigerias currency, came into focus recently with the prosecution of at least two celebrities by the countrys Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Nigeria has a...
Apr 26, 2024 01:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Did you receive a mail-order package this week? Carriers in the U.S. shipped 64 packages for every American in 2022, so its quite possible. That commerce reflects the expansion of large-scale retail in recent decades,...
New ‘cold war’ grows ever warmer as the prospect of a nuclear arms race hots up
Apr 26, 2024 01:34 am UTC| Insights & Views
Champagne corks popped on December 3 1989 as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president George H.W. Bush met on the cruise ship, Maxim Gorky, off the coast of Malta to declare the end of the cold war. Gorbachev...
Apr 26, 2024 01:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this...
Tarantino abandons his tenth film – five other times Hollywood giants cancelled big projects
Apr 26, 2024 01:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Quentin Tarantino has reportedly scrapped what was supposed to be his tenth and final feature film, The Movie Critic, deep into pre-production. This decision is one in a long line of cancelled or unproduced projects...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight