By Katie Edwards, Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation
Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol
Sharp, solid stones form inside the human body more often than you might think. Watch and listen to episode two of The Conversation’s Strange Health podcast to find out how, where, and why.
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By Mong Palatino
"This program was not cancelled because it was unlawful, but because an environment was created in which reckless rhetoric, misinformation and fear-mongering made it unsafe for people to gather."
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Relatives of a person who went missing after a migrant boat sank on February 26 on the beach near where the shipwreck took place off the coast of Steccato di Cutro, near Crotone, in Calabria in southern Italy. March 7, 2023. © 2023 Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images (Milan, January 27, 2026) – The trial, due to start this week, of 6 Italian officers for a 2023 shipwreck in which at least 94 people died is an important opportunity for justice for deaths of migrants and asylum seekers at sea, Human Rights Watch said today. The trial, following…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
A week out from the resumption of parliament, the federal opposition is in a state of paralysis.
The Liberals have a full-blown leadership crisis. A majority of the party believe Sussan Ley can’t survive for long.
But leadership contenders Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie, both from the right of the party, don’t want to run against each other, dividing their factional support. They’re in a wrestle, each wanting the other to pull back.
Taylor trails his coat while keeping formally within the rules. He won’t confirm he is after Ley’s job, pleading shadow cabinet…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People protest against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in downtown Minneapolis, January 25, 2026. © 2026 AP Photo/Adam Gray (Washington, DC) – Federal immigration enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, Minnesota this weekend, marking the second killing by immigration enforcement agents in the city this month. Federal officials reportedly blocked state officials from accessing the scene, raising concerns that the federal government is not acting in good faith to ensure an independent and comprehensive investigation, Human Rights Watch said…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the withdrawal of the United States of America from the Paris Climate Agreement, Marta Schaaf, Amnesty International’s Programme Director for Climate, ESJ and Corporate Accountability, said: “The US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement sets a disturbing precedent that seeks to instigate a race to the bottom, and, along with its withdrawal from other […] The post Global: US withdrawal from landmark Paris Climate Agreement threatens “a race to the bottom” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Thousands of people who recently escaped or were released from scamming compounds in Cambodia where they were subjected to grave abuses including rape and torture are now stranded and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said after gathering harrowing testimony from survivors. Interviews with recently enslaved people – almost all foreign nationals – […] The post Cambodia: Growing humanitarian crisis as escaped scamming compound survivors tell of murder, rape and torture appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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Monday, January 26, 2026
On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on the global community to “not only to look at our past, but to reflect on our present, and to safeguard our future.”
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By Pankhuri Agarwal, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Bath; King's College London
A new trade agreement between India and the UK is due to come into force this year. The deal is expected to completely remove tariffs from nearly 99% of Indian goods, including clothing and footwear, that are headed for the UK.
In both countries, this has been widely celebrated as a win for economic growth and competitiveness. And for Indian garment workers in particular, the trade agreement carries real promise.
This is because in recent years, clothing exports from India have declined…
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By Timothy Hearn, Lecturer, University of Cambridge; Anglia Ruskin University
An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops from roughly 36 pulses a minute to nearer 30, and the animal slips into a state that, despite its lack of a brain, resembles sleep.
Field cameras show it even takes a brief siesta around noon, to “catch up” after a disturbed night.
A new Nature Communications study has tracked these lulls in cassiopea…
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