Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously close to direct conflict with Israel, after Israeli warplanes launched ...

Futrell Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University Tamara Tal, Mechanistic Toxicology Group Leader, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research ...

Is China’s supreme leader under pressure to give up some power to influential party leaders? Our writer looks at why he might be.

Cynthia Erivo, the award-winning actor and star of Wicked, will play Jesus Christ at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles between August 1 and 3 2025. Unsurprisingly perhaps, the casting of the Wicked ...

CLL can mean fatigue, fear and years of waiting but new research shows that staying active helps people feel better – and live better.

When a foreign power floods your media with false health alerts designed to create panic, isn’t that as threatening as a military blockade?

Responding to reports and Cambodian government announcements that a crackdown on scamming compounds in the country is under way, Amnesty International’s Regional Research Director Montse Ferrer said: ...

A case that first appeared in a medical journal several years ago has recently resurfaced in the media, highlighting an unexpected risk of hormone therapies: a baby girl in Sweden developed unusually ...

The UK government has announced planned changes to elections which it claims to be “the boldest and most ambitious change to our democracy for decades”. This includes extending the franchise to ...

Much of the pre-series attention on the 2025 British and Irish Lions tour of Australia has been on injuries, player omissions and personal rivalries.

Niels Kanstrup, Wildlife Biologist in the Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University Rhys Green, Professor of Conservation Science, University of Cambridge The UK’s environment minister Emma Hardy ...

This data breach, and the efforts to cover it up, raises serious questions about state secrecy, blame-shifting and accountability.