
Older South Africans need better support and basic services – and so do their caregivers
In South Africa, most long-term care for older people happens at home through the efforts of family members, largely female kin, not through government services. With South Africas population growing older, combined with...

Nuclear energy is a risky investment, but that’s no reason for the UK government to avoid it
The UK governments investment of around 14 billion in a new nuclear power plant marks a big economic shift for the countrys approach to energy. The Sizewell C plant in Suffolk will be the second of a new generation of...

Why did Israel defy Trump – and risk a major war – by striking Iran now? And what happens next?
Alarmed by an intelligence assessment that Iran will be able to produce nuclear weapons within months if not weeks, Israel has launched a massive air campaign aiming to destroy the countrys nuclear program. Israels air...

Just one man survived the Air India crash. What’s it like to survive a mass disaster?
Vishwashkumar Ramesh, a British citizen returning from a trip to India, has been confirmed as the only survivor of Thursdays deadly Air India crash. I dont know how I am alive, Ramesh told family, according to his brother...

News of the Air India plane crash is traumatic. Here’s how to make sense of the risk
On Thursday afternoon local time, an Air India passenger plane bound for London crashed shortly after takeoff from the northwestern Indian city of Ahmedabad. There were reportedly 242 people onboard, including two pilots...

Why anti-trafficking measures alone won’t save Africa’s pangolins
Nigeria accounts for the largest volume of detected pangolin scales illegally traded from Africa. Between 2010 and 2021, 190,000kg of scales representing nearly 800,000 African pangolins were seized in shipments linked...