By Victoria Minson, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, Australian Catholic University
Amanda Telford, Professor of Educational Leadership, Australian Catholic University
The winter school holidays can be a tricky time. Parents are juggling work and chilly conditions make it easy for kids to end up on the couch with multiple devices.
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By Kathryn Shine, Associate Professor, Journalism, Curtin University
Barbara Demick’s report on the links between China’s stolen children and international adoptions started a life-changing chain of extraordinary events.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image An interior view of a hospital in the Amhara region, Ethiopia, December 14, 2021. © 2021 Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images On the afternoon of June 25, police in the regional capital of Ethiopia’s conflict-affected Amhara region arrested Dr. Daniel Fentaneh, a gynecologist and obstetric resident at Bahir Dar University Teaching Hospital, confiscating his phone and laptop.Daniel had been a key figure in recent nationwide protests by Ethiopian healthcare professionals demanding better working conditions, adequate pay, and legal protections against…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Residents look out at the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, amid a drought in Humaita, Brazil, September 7, 2024. © 2024 Edmar Barros/AP Photo The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued an opinion on July 3, 2025, that countries must protect the climate system as part of their human rights obligations under the American Convention on Human Rights and other human rights law. It said that the climate crisis affects numerous human rights of individuals and communities, including Indigenous peoples, afro descendant, rural communities, and children,…
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By Human Rights Watch
On July 4, a court in Niger’s capital, Niamey, rejected an appeal filed by prominent human rights activist and government critic Moussa Tiangari. Held in detention since December 2024, the appeal was Tiangari’s third attempt to get the politically motivated case against him tossed out. Click to expand Image Moussa Tiangari, Niamey, Niger, June 2024. © 2024 Amnesty International Tiangari, 55, is the secretary general of the civil society organization Citizens Alternative Spaces (Alternative Espaces Citoyens, AEC). He was arrested at his home in Niamey on December 3, 2024, and his…
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By Elena Merenda, Associate Head of Early Childhood Studies, University of Guelph-Humber
This story contains spoilers about Lilo & Stitch.
At first glance, Disney’s Lilo & Stitch, set in Hawaii, seems like a playful, heartwarming film about an alien’s misadventures and a young girl’s search for connection and friendship. But there’s a deeper story — one about childhood grief in the life of the main character, Lilo, and…
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By Diane Watt, Professor of English, University of Surrey
Liz Herbert McAvoy, Professor Emerita of Medieval Studies, Swansea University
Amy Louise Morgan, Lecturer in Medieval Literature, University of Surrey
Over the course of three nights in 1422, the woman had visions of aggressive pets and insatiable worms tormenting a beloved friend.
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By Andrea Hammel, Professor of German, Aberystwyth University
Abschied (Parting) by Sebastian Haffner (1907-1999) is dominating the bestseller charts in Germany. It has been published posthumously, over 25 years after his death, after the manuscript was found in a drawer.
The novel is a love story between Raimund, a young non-Jewish German student of law from Berlin, and Teddy, a young Jewish woman from Vienna. Raimund and Teddy meet on August 31 1930 in Berlin and the novel covers the time they spend in Berlin and Paris…
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By Primrose Freestone, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester
Your bed is a buffet for bacteria, dust mites and fungi. Here’s how to clean it properly and why it matters for your health
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By John Aitken, Associate, RAND Europe, RAND Europe
Countries have come to rely on a network of cables and pipes under the sea for their energy and communications. So it has been worrying to read headlines about communications cables being cut and, in one case, an undersea gas pipeline being blown up..
Critical…
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