By Alyssa Rusonik, PhD student in Finance, HEC Paris Business School
Uncertainty over whether the seat of the papacy would remain in the city explains why Rome was a late developer when it came to palace-building, lagging behind Florence and Venice.
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By Walaa-Eldeen Bakry, Director of Executive Education, University of Westminster
The trade conflict between Canada and the United States is heating up and has moved beyond rhetoric. After the latest round of negotiations failed, the US imposed 50% tariffs on around C$27.6 billion (£14.68 billion) of Canadian goods on August 22. Canada is responding swiftly with dollar-for-dollar retaliation to take effect on September 8.
Two other events in September give this confrontation wider significance. The first is that from September 1 Britain and Canada can trade with each other under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
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By Jonathan Webb, Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has promised the largest council house building programme since the immediate post-war period, pledging more than £9 billion of investment.
While the commitment is substantial and will deliver much-needed social housing, it is unlikely to push the government much closer to its promise of delivering 1.5 million homes during the period of this government. Achieving those ambitions will require more than just additional subsidy.
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By Grant Macdonald, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography, Durham University
Freely available satellite radar imaging is being used for the first time to help track colonies of endangered emperor penguins in Antarctica throughout the winter months.
Typically satellite images need sunlight to be useful, and Antarctica is dark in the winter. This has meant that colonies have been hidden at a critical time in the emperor penguin breeding cycle, when eggs are laid, chicks hatch and adults take part in those iconic huddles.
Almost 70 colonies of emperor penguins, many of which have never been visited by humans, occupy the sea…
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By Eric Cadesky, Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
As uncertain as Donald Trump’s new world order is, science can explain the effects of his aggression and how to respond.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People light candles in memory of the newborn victims outside the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, in Islamabad, Pakistan, August 27, 2026. © 2026 M.A. Sheik/AP Photo Fourteen newborns died in a fire on August 26 at one of Pakistan’s largest public hospitals, and their shattered families are asking how this could have happened.The preliminary inquiry report found that the neonatal ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, had no fire alarm or sprinkler system, and that emergency procedures were inadequate. The…
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By Amnesty International
Ahead of the final appeal hearing at Tunisia’s Court of Cassation on 3 September in the unjust “conspiracy case”, which is a chance to overturn the convictions of opposition figures jailed solely because of their peaceful political opposition, Sara Hashash, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International said: “Tunisia’s authorities must seize this opportunity to rectify a travesty of justice that has upturned the lives of 34 prominent opposition figures, […] The post Tunisia: Final judicial avenue to overturn convictions in unjust ‘conspiracy’…
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By Laura Alfers, Research Associate, Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit, Rhodes University
Imraan Valodia, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
Martha Alter Chen, Emeritus Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
Mike Rogan, Associate Professor, Rhodes University
Rising inequality is, at its core, a political and policy choice. This is the central message of the Global Justice Report authored by experts based at the World Inequality Lab, led by economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel.
As economists and experts on labour, inequality and the informal economy, we believe there…
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By Nadjib Mohamed Mokraoui, Médecin épidémiologiste, doctorant au Centre de recherche en Épidémiologie et Santé des Populations (CESP), équipe Épidémiologie Gynécologique (EpiGyn), Inserm. Travaux de recherche portant sur l’endométriose, Inserm; Université Paris-Saclay
Endometriosis is an age-old condition and yet until recently, the complex disorder remained largely overlooked due to medical and social perceptions of women’s pain.
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By Claudia Metzler-Baddeley, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience & Applied Brain Imaging, Cardiff University
A new technique can reveal cellular changes linked to the disease that were previously visible only in brain tissue after death.
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