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Monday briefing: How the civil war in Syria reignited
Good morning. Eight years ago, indiscriminate Russian airstrikes helped Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad’s forces drive rebels from Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city. Assad’s victory in Aleppo, once a symbolic stronghold of the Syrian rebellion, relied on a brutal “surrender or starve” strategy that killed thousands of civilians and forced many …
Dawson’s Creek actor James Van Der Beek sells merch to pay for cancer treatment
‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’: meet the neuroscientist who believes life could be eternal
Elizabeth Hughes Gossett shouldn’t have survived beyond 11, the age at which she developed type 1 diabetes. Born in Albany, New York, Gossett received her diagnosis in 1918 when diabetes had no known treatment. Tragically, her life expectancy was just a matter of months. Her parents desperately searched for any …
On a bright Sunday morning in occupied Paris, 23 July 1943, a German soldier was standing at the Pont de Solférino, watching the river go by. Suddenly, a young woman on a bicycle approached him, took out a revolver, and shot him twice in the head.
Cycling away, she was …
‘I’m a mixed Black female historical re-enactor in a sea of men with beards’
It is the summer of 1265. I am bottling leeches in an open-air apothecary as a medical apprentice of the church. Minstrels tune their musical instruments and soldiers sharpen their swords. Gloucester has just been captured by Prince Edward, and royal forces are growing in the west of England. The …
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
Monique was three years old when a white man from the government came to her village and changed everything. Everyone came out to see him, including Monique, who, as always, was with her “little auntie”, a girl of nine who was also her best friend. Monique cannot recall what the …
Australia restricting number of domestic workers foreign diplomats can bring into the country, UN official says
The Australian government has restricted foreign diplomats bringing domestic workers into the country, a UN anti-slavery expert has reported, after two recent federal court cases exposed systemic exploitation a judge described as “slave-like working conditions”.
The United Nations special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery concluded a visit to …
We need to talk about capitalism. Why won’t Labour do it?
We often hear how ministers should be more honest about the state of the economy. How they should signal their intentions and, before announcing a policy shift, have the guts and intellectual heft to debate the expected impact in public, such that when a section of the public dislikes the …
Can goats predict earthquakes? Can dogs forecast volcanic eruptions? These scientists think so
Scientists are enlisting some unusual recruits in their efforts to forecast earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other natural phenomena. They are enrolling thousands of dogs, goats, and other farmyard animals – as well as a wide range of wildlife – in studies that will monitor their movements from space.
The programme …