A technique borrowed from ecology hints at hundreds of lost medieval legends
King Arthur’s lasting renown is one for the books. But a statistical spotlight now shines on medieval European literature’s round table of lost and...
The Weaponisation of Libyas Elections
TRIPOLI, Libia, Feb 17 (IPS) – Libya was supposed to hold elections early this year. Instead, it now has two rival political administrations —...
International Accreditation in Education Can Bring Huge Benefits to the Pacific- If It Is Done Right
International Accreditation in Education Can Bring Huge Benefits to the Pacific- If It Is Done Right
SUVA, Fiji, Feb 17 (IPS) – All over the world, students who attend tertiary education do so with the belief that the investment of...
Artificial intelligence challenges what it means to be creative
When British artist Harold Cohen met his first computer in 1968, he wondered if the machine might help solve a mystery that had long...
Counter-terrorism, Afghanistan, top priorities for UN cooperation with Eurasian security body
Conflict prevention, counter-terrorism and support to Afghanistan, top the list of issues on which the UN and the Collective Security Treaty Organization – a Eurasian regional...
Africa’s Sahel region facing ‘horrendous food crisis’
As the Sahel region “stares down a horrendous food crisis”, the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday that the number of people...
Haiti at ‘crossroads’ entering post-earthquake reconstruction
Haiti is once more at a ‘crossroads’, six months after a devastating earthquake hit the south-west of the country, according to the UN Deputy...
A Step Toward Africa’s First Covid-19 Vaccine of Its Own
NEW YORK, Feb 16 (IPS) – Akshaya Kumar is the crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.Efforts to combat the vast global inequity in...
Fierce Urgency Required to Include Children with Disabilities in Education – ECW’s Yasmine Sherif says
Nairobi, Kenya, Feb 16 (IPS) – Unable to walk, see or hear, and without assistance, the multiple barriers between 240 million children with disabilities...
Sunlight helps clean up oil spills in the ocean more than previously thought
Sunlight may have helped remove as much as 17 percent of the oil slicking the surface of the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010...
As El Niño Returns, East Africa’s Urban Poor Brace for Heavy Rains 
Hunger is ‘an avoidable tragedy’ in a world of plenty: Türk 
UN condemns deadly wave of drone strikes in war-torn Sudan 
Guterres honours Indonesian troops who paid ‘ultimate sacrifice’