By Human Rights Watch
On the afternoon of October 25, Cheick Oumar Diallo chatted with companions on a street in Mali’s capital, Bamako. Suddenly, four gendarmes arrived in a pickup truck and motorbikes, arrested him, and drove off. Click to expand Image Cheick Oumar Diallo, Bamako, Mali, 2025. © Private A week later, Diallo—a 43-year-old former trade union member and prominent critic of Mali’s military junta—has not been seen and his whereabouts remain unknown.Witnesses said that the gendarmes told Diallo they had orders to arrest him. When he asked why he was being detained, they refused to explain.…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Cambodian military personnel and international observers inspect damage from shelling at Preah Vihear Temple in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia, August 20, 2025. © 2025 AKP via AP Photo On October 25, 10-year-old Sern Sovann died from an explosion after reportedly bringing home an item from a nearby field in Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province near the border with Thailand. The blast also seriously injured his father. The Cambodian Mine Action Centre found that the explosion was caused by an unexploded M-85 artillery-delivered submunition fired into Cambodia…
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By Gabriela Radulescu, Guggenheim Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution
Radio astronomy opened up the universe for scientists. They could map new elements across galaxies and also search for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.
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By Huma Tariq Malik, Ph.D. Student in Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University
Thomas Borch, Professor of Environmental and Agricultural Chemistry, Colorado State University
Consumer choices about what to eat and how much of it can affect how much water farmers need to use.
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By Emery Petchauer, Visiting Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Oklahoma announced in October 2025 it would no longer assess out-of-state teachers with a controversial test developed by a conservative media company.
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By Jeff Kruth, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Miami University
Tammy Schwartz, Director of the Urban Cohort, Miami University
With teacher shortages mounting and housing costs soaring, school districts from California to Ohio are experimenting with a new solution: building homes for educators on school-owned land.
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By Allison Anna Tait, Professor of Law, University of Richmond
Taking good care of your pets can include leaving clear directions to ensure their needs are met once you’re gone.
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By Peter McGraw, Professor of Marketing and Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder
On Nov. 11 each year, a curious holiday takes over China. What began among Nanjing University students in the 1990s as a tongue-in-cheek counter to Valentine’s Day has exploded into the world’s largest shopping event: Singles’ Day.
The date, 11/11, was chosen because the four ones resemble “bare sticks,” Chinese slang for singles. Today, the holiday generates more than US$150 billion in annual sales, exceeding those on Black…
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By Alexandra Fanghanel, Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Greenwich
Rape, as a crime, is widely deplored. Society and media condemn rapists, and rape and other sexually-related crimes carry potentially heavy prison sentences when perpetrators are convicted. So why, given this apparent intolerance for rape, do criminologists like me (and many others) still say that we live in a “rape culture”?
Rape culture is a term used to describe societies that accept rape and sexual violence. It is defined as a “set of beliefs that encourage male sexual aggression and support
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By Jenni Ramone, Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
Salman Rushdie’s new collection of short stories urgently recollects his literary legacy. It’s as though time is increasingly uncertain so the need to tell stories is great.
Its title, The Eleventh Hour, says as much, and the book succeeds Knife (2024), written about his attack on stage in 2022. The central story portrays students and writers in the libraries of
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