Lucy Cooke’s new book ‘Bitch’ busts myths about female animals
BitchLucy CookeBasic Books, $30 To Charles Darwin, nature had a certain order. And in that order, males always came out on top. They were...
A celestial loner might be the first known rogue black hole
A solitary celestial object — more massive than the sun, yet far smaller — is wandering the galaxy a few thousand light-years from Earth....
SWIFT Dollar Decline
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 14 (IPS) – US-led sanctions are inadvertently undermining the dollar’s post-Second World War dominance. The growing number of countries...
The Weaponization of Energy & Europes Way Out
BRUSSELS, Jun 14 (IPS) – The fast-changing environment requires Europe’s energy system not only to adapt but to also find the right mechanisms to...
The New Era Of The Saudi-Emirati Relationship
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are the dominant economic players in the Middle East and North Africa...
Afghanistan: World Bank provides $150 million lifeline to stem rural hunger
A critical $150 million dollar lifeline for rural families in Afghanistan was announced by the World Bank on Monday, part of an overall package...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Monday dismissed the British Government’s proposal to process United Kingdom-bound asylum seekers in Rwanda, describing the...
Mali: Support ‘deep aspiration’ for reform, top envoy urges Security Council
Long-term uncertainty related to the length of the transition period in Mali has made it even more difficult to achieve progress on implementing the...
Myanmar’s multidimensional crises have ‘deepened and expanded dramatically’
The political crisis unleashed in Myanmar following the 1 February military coup last year, has “opened new frontlines that had long been at peace,”...
A social media campaign launched on Monday by the United Nations aims to bring the world closer to preventing a decaying supertanker, anchored off...
Sudan: The harrowing reality of giving birth in a war zone 
How a brutal drought may have helped unleash yellow fever in Brazil 
A light-based scan could detect deadly bowel disease in preterm babies 
Colombia quake: In Cali’s ruins, an ‘overwhelming sense of humanity’