Wed 15 April 2026: A Frenchman won a Picasso painting worth 1 million euros ($1.18 million) in a non-profit raffle on Tuesday. The winner, Ari Hodara, a 59-year-old software engineer from Paris, was selected at random at Christie’s auction house in Paris from 120,000 tickets sold at 100 euros apiece. The raffle’s proceeds will fund […]
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Tue 14 April 2026: The UK government has announced plans to eliminate high-sugar and deep-fried foods from school menus as part of a comprehensive reform aimed at combating childhood obesity and enhancing nutrition. The reforms, announced by the Department for Education on Monday, would update school food standards for the first time in more than a decade. Schools would […]
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Tue 14 April 2026: Introduced by Pablo Escobar in the 1990s, the hippos are a tourist attraction but a headache for authorities and locals. Colombia has approved plans to cull dozens of hippos roaming across a region in the centre of the country. Environment Minister Irene Velez announced the decision on Monday, with up to […]
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Mon 13 April 2026: It’s a simple thing we encounter many times every single week – often while in a hurry. You pull up at a parking spot, scan a QR code and pay within seconds. Or you sit down at a cafe, scan a code to view the menu and order your meal. […]
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Sat 11 April 2026: My earliest memories are of Methodist Mission quarters in the diocese of Dilkusha, Fiji. Dilkusha, the name of a minor Indian principality, was mentioned in E.M. Forster’s classic novel A Passage to India: its name literally means “Heart’s Delight” in Hindi–Urdu. Dilkusha was the Indian wing of the much larger Fijian diocese […]
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Fri 10 April 2026: We’ve all done it. You scroll past a 30-second video claiming a simple home remedy cures anxiety, or a “citizen expert” on social media declares that a new government policy is a conspiracy. It feels right. It matches what you already suspected. You like it, share it, and suddenly it’s in […]
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Fri 10 April 2026: The US fertility rate fell to a new record low in 2025, continuing a nearly two-decade downward trend, according to new official data released Thursday. The fertility rate fell to 53.1 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age, down from 53.8 in 2024, the National Center for Health Statistics said. Total births also […]
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Thu 09 April 2026: In early March, a week after the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the White House posted a video of real American attacks mixed with clips from popular movies, television series, video games and anime. Iran and its sympathisers responded to the strikes by flooding social media with outdated war footage allegedly from the current conflict […]
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Thu 09 April 2026: Proposals include stricter obligations on platforms to verify users’ ages, as well as new legislation targeting spread of non-consensual AI-generated content A growing number of European countries are moving to limit minor’s access to social media amid rising concern over the impact of online platforms on young people’s mental health and […]
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Thu 09 April 2026: A study gives clues to cosmic origin of gold and heavy elements, and they were created earlier than we thought. The origins of heavy elements such as gold have been one of the biggest mysteries of astrophysics. A study has now provided a clue about the precious metal’s cosmic origins. Scientists […]
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