El Niño: Australian Ski Resorts set for early closure
Several of Australia’s major ski resorts are preparing to end their 2026 winter operations weeks earlier than usual, with unusually high temperatures, limited snowfall...
Nepal disaster relief fund crosses ₹4 billion as donations surge
Nepal’s Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund has received more than ₹2.29 billion in fresh contributions within three days of the devastating flash floods that...
Negotiation skills can help young women improve economic prospects: Study
Young women can significantly improve their educational and economic prospects by learning negotiation skills at an early age, according to findings from a long-running...
Sudan: El Obeid struggles to keep thousands of war-displaced civilians
The humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s El Obeid has intensified sharply as thousands of civilians displaced by the country’s ongoing civil war continue to arrive...
UK PM tightens early prison release scheme
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has revised the government’s controversial early prison release programme following mounting public and political criticism over the possibility that...
Bhutan hosts first ‘conscious food summit’ as climate crisis threatens global food security
Bhutan is hosting the world’s first “conscious food summit” in an effort to address growing threats to global food systems from climate change, biodiversity...
UK faces uphill task to regain momentum after difficult summer
Reform UK is heading into its annual conference facing questions over whether it can recover from a troubled summer marked by political miscalculations, internal...
South African researchers turn polluted river water into resource for food security
Researchers in South Africa have developed a nature-based water treatment system that is helping transform heavily polluted river water into a resource suitable for...
Sony, Warner sue Anthropic over alleged use of thousands of copyrighted songs to train Claude
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has been sued by two of the world’s major music publishers, which accuse the company of using tens of thousands...