Teachers are at the heart of education, and their valuable work must also lead to better salaries and working conditions, the heads of three...
Pterosaurs may have evolved from tiny, fast-running reptiles
A mysterious ground-dwelling reptile unearthed in a Scottish sandstone over 100 years ago turns out to be part of a famous flying family. Tiny...
A way to snap molecules together like Legos wins 2022 chemistry Nobel
A tool kit for snapping together molecules like Lego building blocks has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Chemists Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford...
Successful Climate Solutions Require Investment in the Lives of Adolescent Girls
WASHINGTON DC, Oct 05 (IPS) – This year commemorates the 10th anniversary of the International Day of the Girl Child. While the last decade...
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Former German chancellor Angela Merkel was named winner of the prestigious Nansen Award, for offering a haven to over 1.2 million refugees and asylum...
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The absence of a functioning government in Iraq one year after elections were held is hard to justify, the top UN official in the...
Women in Argentine Slum Confront Violence Together
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 04 (IPS) – The Padre Carlos Mugica neighborhood looks like another city within the Argentine capital, which most people usually see...
Pakistan: To avert ‘second wave of death’, UN raises funding appeal to $816 million
Battling what the top UN aid official in Pakistan has warned is a “second wave of death and destruction”, following catastrophic flooding since June...
Small Farmers in Peru Combat Machismo to Live Better Lives