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Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept; it is deciding what we see on social media, driving cars, monitoring bank transactions and even taking orders at restaurants. Its rapid...

When world leaders gather in Antalya, Turkey, this November for COP31, they will confront a familiar contradiction: governments continue promising climate action while the world struggles to deliver...

Images coming out of France’s high school protests are disturbing: burning bins, tear gas, riot police outside schools and teenagers being arrested. But behind the disorder is a question that risks...

Once you start noticing AI-generated writing, it can feel as though it is everywhere. It appears in school assignments, advertisements, restaurant descriptions, corporate announcements, social media...

In a world where reaching for a phone has become almost automatic, Singapore is asking people to replace just 15 minutes of scrolling with something increasingly neglected: reading a book. The...

France has long defended laïcité, or state secularism, as a principle intended to protect both the neutrality of public institutions and the freedom of individual conscience. But the National...

For more than 150 years, birthright citizenship has meant that almost every child born on American soil begins life as an American citizen, regardless of where their parents came from. President...

For years, parents, educators and policymakers have debated what social media is doing to teenagers. The concerns are familiar: how much time young people spend scrolling, what content algorithms...

For decades, school shootings were largely viewed outside the US as a uniquely American crisis. From Columbine to Sandy Hook, Parkland and Uvalde, images of students hiding in classrooms and heavily...

For several years, it appeared that Hollywood was finally moving away from its obsession with extremely thin women. Body positivity became mainstream, plus-size models appeared on magazine covers and...

In late July, around 72,000 migrants from Morocco attempted to enter Ceuta, a small Spanish territory on the North African coast, with large numbers swimming around border barriers to reach European...

What began as an internet joke has evolved into one of the most significant youth-led protest movements India has witnessed in years. The so-called "Cockroach" movement, organised by the Cockroach...

The devastating wildfires spreading across Spain and France should not be viewed as another difficult summer for Europe. They are further evidence that climate change is no longer a future threat but...

France is once again at the centre of a national debate over policing, this time following the National Assembly's approval of a bill that would fundamentally change how fatal police shootings...

The Egypt-Argentina World Cup match could have been remembered as one of the tournament's most entertaining games. Instead, it has become a symbol of something much larger: growing distrust in...

For many people, the sight of a spider scurrying across the living room floor is enough to cause panic. Now imagine that spider being noticeably larger than the ones you remember growing up with....

Oman’s decision to reserve 11 additional seats for women in the Majlis Ash'Shura marks one of the most significant political reforms for women in the country in recent years. By allocating one...

Every World Cup comes with controversy, but few have arrived under political circumstances as divisive as the 2026 tournament in the US. What should be a celebration of football has instead become...

The United Kingdom's move toward designating Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation raises serious questions about how governments define extremism, political violence and dissent. If the...

Europe's latest heatwave should be a wake-up call, temperatures reaching 35°C in parts of France and the United Kingdom would once have been considered exceptional. Today, they are becoming...