by Christianez Ratna Kiruba | 10 Jun 2025 | Health and Wellness, India
In India, traditional medicine seems to cure most snake bites. But most snakes there aren’t venomous. When they are, that’s a different story. A non-venomous Burmese python coils around a tree branch. The snake is common in the Northeast of India. (Credit:...
by Frank Burkybile | 9 Jun 2025 | Africa, Environment
Kenya has been hit with a whiplash of extreme weather and government help for recovery has eluded many at the bottom level of the income stream. Residents watch as excavators and bulldozers bring down homes in the Mathare area of Nairobi, 8 May 2024. The Kenyan...
by Alistair Lyon | 6 Jun 2025 | Israel-Palestine, Middle East, Politics
Standing by while a whole people gets massacred doesn’t absolve countries of their responsibility in that. There is complicity in silence. A Palestinian woman holds the body of her 8-year-old daughter who was killed in an Israeli military strike on Gaza, at...
by Tira Shubart | 5 Jun 2025 | Europe, Japan, Politics, Space, United States
Some 10,000 U.S. soldiers protect weather balloons and navigation and spy satellites from threats from above. It isn’t the only space force out there. Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on 4 October 2023. (Credit: Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix) Not many military...
by Marcy Burstiner | 3 Jun 2025 | Human Rights, Journalism, United States
In only a handful of countries are journalists supported, protected and generally trusted. We need to change that. A clickable map of press freedom. Courtesy of Reporters Without Borders. After a century of gradual expansion of press rights in the United States, the...
by Jack McConnel | 29 May 2025 | Government, Politics, Student Posts, Tatnall School, United States, Youth Voices
Voters in the U.S. state of Delaware elected someone to Congress because of issues they care about. The gender of that person at birth was not one of them. U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride walks through the U.S. Capitol on 2 April 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)...
by Leah Pattem | 28 May 2025 | Decoder Replay, Economy, Europe, Spain
With housing prices at sky-high levels, people in Spain say it is time for their government to take action. Governments elsewhere are taking notice. A protest in Madrid 13 October 2024 over high rents and a shortage of long term rentals. (Credit: Leah Pattem)...
by Francesco Locane | 26 May 2025 | Culture, Education, Italy, Music
Inside one of Italy’s quietly radical institutions, musicians and educators reshape how we hear — and understand — a nation’s soundscape. A grand piano at the Museum and Library of Music, in Bologna, Italy. (Photo courtesy of the Museum and Library of...
by Mohammad Aatif Ammad Kanth | 22 May 2025 | Education, India, Politics
As India and Pakistan battle over control of Kashmir, young people there flock to reading halls. They still have exams to pass. Students study at a private reading hall in Srinagar. (Credit: Mohammad Aatif Ammad Kanth) This article was produced exclusively for News...
by Alexander Nicoll | 21 May 2025 | Decoder Replay, Economy, Europe, Great Britain, Politics
The Labour government wants to renew trade with Europe. The Tories had failed to do that after Brexit. We take a look back at that last attempt. Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, and European...