Last month, the Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement set up shadow administrations in key areas it has conquered in the ...

Tom Lowenstein, the poet and ethnographer, died on 21 March. His fieldwork in an Iñupiaq village in north-west Alaska began in the 1970s and resulted in seven books. Some were orthodox monographs; ...

Entire families in Gaza have been killed together in their homes in unprecedented numbers; experts have found that, during ...

Dr Lennox Johnston, a Merseyside GP, took the train to London, intending to pluck ...

The anthropologist Margaret Mead was just over five feet tall and had to stand on a suitcase to be seen above ...

Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was ...

Nigeria already struggles with inadequate healthcare funding. This year’s budget allocates only 5.18 per cent of ...

In the spring of 1942 Dr Lennox Johnston, a Merseyside GP, took the train to London, intending to pluck Winston Churchill’s cigar from his lips and stamp it out. The anti-smoking campaigner, ...

On 1 November 2024, a concrete canopy collapsed at the renovated railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second city, killing fifteen people and severely injuring two more. Three weeks later, as ...