Small, brightly coloured and full of song, the yellowhammer splits opinion in the ornithological world. The RSPB, Britain’s foremost bird protection group, says the fluorescent flyer is ‘at risk’ and in need of urgent action. But ask the IUCN, a...
It’s a hideously efficient disease, Ebola. Once entrenched in the body, it kills within days. In many cases, the agony it induces outstrips its speed. But treat it quickly – as Esperance Nabintu and her infant son did – and...
The Hague, August 9. The protesters march silently, a sizzling intensity surrounding them. No beating drums, no blaring megaphones. Just signs. I want to speak, reads a fluttering banner; I am robbed, states another. Police officers flank the noiseless procession...
“We say this about the east of Euphrates; either we will clear the region of the terrorists together, [or] Turkey will enter there and clear by ourselves” – the strident words of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. Those with a...
The situation in Kashmir needs to be addressed, few could argue against that. Three decades of grinding conflict have scarred the disputed state, claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan. Friction in the mountainous region has brought the...
It’s not an obvious destination for those seeking closure from combat. Waterloo’s rolling hills and patchwork fields have known carnage on a continental scale, playing host to a battle that altered history. But on the hallowed ground of Napoleon Bonaparte’s...
Each of their sickening crimes was different – one decapitated his victims, another molested a child before committing murder, a third indulged in torture – but the five men all have something in common: they’ll soon be dead. For the...
“Do not put your life in danger,” crackles a seaman’s voice over the radio. A sobering soundbite to any who doubt the gravity of the situation in the Persian Gulf. Part warning, part threat, it was the message from Iran’s...
“The people who bet against Britain are going to lose their shirts” – a warning shot from Boris Johnson, Britain’s new top man, on the steps of Downing Street. Or was the obscure idiom totally innocent? It’s hard to tell...
“Those who did this have to be punished,” utters Mevlid Halilovic, standing at the site of Europe’s worst mass killing since World War II. His grief – and that of his fellow mourners – is the enduring legacy of the...
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