With spring in the air, April is an ideal time to dust off the cobwebs of winter and explore the world again. We've picked out some hotspots that come into their own this very month. Got those bags packed? Tamil Nadu, India The south Indian state of Tamil Nadu is ...
Part eco-documentary, part sociological examination, Mike Day’s The Islands and the Whales uses the controversial whale hunting tradition of the Faroese as a diving board to plunge headfirst into the isolated, North Atlantic community of the Faroe Islands. Through an intimate, fly on the wall approach, Day follows the everyday ...
Despite the atmosphere of fear created in the Brexit debate: European workers in general do NOT take British jobs. They do NOT drive down wages or undercut minimum wages. They are less inclined to come to the UK in the current climate. Our economy is set to suffer if fewer ...
Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new research shows. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that there were hundreds of villages in the rainforest away from major rivers, and they were home to different communities ...
The family of tragic Sandeep Sharma, 35, claim he asked police for protection
AN INTERNATIONAL charity is appealing for vital funding so their food programmes can reach more orphans living in poverty in Africa. Msizi Africa, a UK-registered charity based in London, is calling on members of the public to give generously and support their vital work feeding orphaned children in isolated villages ...
Humans are sleepwalking into a mass extinction of species not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs, British scientists warned. Man-made global change is threatening the diversity of different creatures that have taken millennia to evolve to live in niche habitats. Creatures that have moved into delicate ecosystems such as ...
By Annicée van Engeland, Senior Lecturer in International Security, Centre for International Security & Resilience, Cranfield University There was a murmur of agreement around the room when a Ministry of Defence expert, who’d come in to the University to discuss the UK’s counter-terrorism planning, outlined the basic challenge involved: “we ...
These pictures show the desolate remnants of five coastal homes which are on the brink of falling into the sea. The houses are perched on a cliff edge and at immediate risk of collapsing on to the beach below. The properties on the coast of Hemsby, Norfolk, have already spilt ...