Prisons running near capacity have created a dilemma for Andy Burnham. The new prime minister has now confirmed that anyone convicted of manslaughter would not be eligible from the prisoner early-release scheme. Questions around prison capacity hinge on public safety, of course, but also on what types of criminals “deserve” to be let out…
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0 claims checkedGermans in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt will go to the polls on September 7 to elect a new parliament. With forecasts indicating that the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is on course to win…
You can imagine being a queer teen in a Christian fundamentalist community in rural Australia is not an easy ride.
Midlands Wanderers coach Vincent Myeni has expressed his appreciation for 21-year-old right-back Jabulani Mokone, who is on loan at Abafana Bebatha from Orlando Pirates. Mokone’s small frame has led…
Flood survivors in Nepal cross the swollen Trishuli River in Nuwakot district on a makeshift cable, with Nepali soldiers and local residents pulling them to safety.
Cases of giardiasis, an intestinal infection that causes diarrhoea, bloating and gas, have reached their highest level in England since 2016 according to newly published data by the UK Health…
We often think of microbes as organisms that live around us, like the salmonella bacteria and flu viruses that cause illness.
In recent years, archaeologists from around the world have marked the centenaries of some of Iraq’s most influential archaeological discoveries. The excavation of the ancient city of Ur, for example,…
We seem to be caught in a loop that AI will either save or ruin democracy. At one extreme, politics scholar David Altman worries that artificial intelligence is leading the world toward an “AI-driven…