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Sound, color and special effects transformed the moviegoing experience. These inventions decidedly did not.
In 2005, almost 46,000 children were adopted across borders. Ten years later, just 12,000 were. The foreign adoption system is imploding, potentially putting children’s lives in danger.
The Indonesian military recently announced that foreign researchers must request a permit to visit the museums it runs.
Several factors play a part when determining what kind of risk high levels of mould exposure can pose to human health.
Using baited cameras scientists have captured some of the first underwater video footage of the elusive Greenland shark.
Any naive hopes for a peaceful evolution to democracy in China are shattered against the reality that it’s now a one-man dictatorship. What does it mean for the West?
Renewed attention is being given to the issue of child marriage in Lebanon as increasing numbers of young refugee girls are being married off as a response to the conflict and forced displacement.
Through abstraction, the underlying essence of a mathematical concept can be extracted.
The beetle and the fungus have devastated trees in California in the US as well as in Israel. Now they’re in South Africa.
He’s barred from public office but this former prime minister isn’t going to be held back by the small matter of a conviction for tax evasion.
Xi Jinping is now ruling without term limits. That’s bad news for corrupt officials – and perhaps for the Chinese people.
With all eyes on China’s intentions in the Arctic, Singapore is flying under the radar. But the tiny Asian nation is also pursuing its own interests in the Arctic.
Teen sexting is on the rise. Boys and girls are equally likely to share sexually explicit imagery but girls report feeling more pressure to sext and more judgement about how they do it.
For athletes returning home – especially those who are on the cusp of retirement – the transition can be daunting.
Eritreans in Israel aren’t all fleeing persecution, but many have risked everything for a better life in Israel. Now they’re at risk of being ‘sold’ back to Africa.
In China, like in other parts of the world, Africa is routinely treated as a single unit, erasing its linguistic, racial and cultural diversity.
A massive rural on-grid electrification programme in Rwanda has delivered considerable benefits. But is it the most sensible way to deliver power to remote areas?
South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress, poses a danger to democracy by continuiing to blur the lines between the state and the party.
A number of women who once wore and defended the full Islamic veil known as the niqab later chose to renounce it. Here two of them tell their stories.
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