Monday, January 19, 2026
Atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region are spreading from town to town in an organized campaign of violence that includes mass executions, rape and ethnic targeting, amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court told the UN Security Council on Monday.
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Monday, January 19, 2026
Despite a downward trend in the use of the death penalty globally, 2025 saw an ‘alarming’ increase in the number of executions in a small number of retentionist countries, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) warned on Monday.
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By Donald Heflin, Executive Director of the Edward R. Murrow Center and Senior Fellow of Diplomatic Practice, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
How the US treats its allies has been a crucial question for every president. What evolved over the centuries into an official embrace of friendly nations is now being reversed by Donald Trump.
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By Wouter Poortinga, Professor of Environmental Psychology, Cardiff University
Dimitrios Xenias, Research Affiliate of the Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University
Dimitris Potoglou, Professor of Transport and Applied Choice Analysis, Cardiff University
Cities across the UK are investing in new cycle lanes and traffic restrictions to cut congestion, improve air quality and promote active travel for better health. Yet, if recent debates are anything to go by, you might think such measures were deeply unpopular.
The introduction of protected cycle lanes and low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) often sparks vocal opposition from local groups, who call for schemes…
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By Ipshita Basu, Associate professor (Reader) in Global Development and Politics, University of Westminster
Sudheesh R.C., Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, National Law School of India University
In the early hours of July 30 2024, a landslide in the Wayanad district of Kerala state, India, killed 400 people. The Punjirimattom, Mundakkai, Vellarimala and Chooralmala villages in the Western Ghats mountain range turned into a dystopian rubble of uprooted trees and debris.
A coalition of scientists that quantifies the links between climate change and extreme weather, known as World Weather Attribution, highlighted that human-induced climate change caused 10%…
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By Daniel Zhou Hao, Lecturer in AI and Robotics, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester
Nvidia’s new AI system, Alpamayo, could prove a major step to making autonomous cars a common sight on our roads.
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By Teresa Garrido-Tamayo, Visiting Researcher in Speech and Language Sciences, Newcastle University
Carolyn Letts, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University
Laurence White, Reader in Speech Science, Newcastle University
Six-year-old Antoni, born in the UK to Polish parents, speaks only a few English words in class and often looks confused when the teacher gives instructions. He could simply be adjusting to English – or the problem could be developmental language disorder (DLD), a condition that severely impairs a child’s ability to learn, use and understand spoken language.
Such challenges are increasingly common for parents and teachers. In England, for example, around 21% of schoolchildren are growing up with
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By Emrah Atasoy, Associate Fellow of English and Comparative Literary Studies & Honorary Research Fellow of IAS, the University of Warwick and Upcoming IASH Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the University of Edinburgh, University of Warwick
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of Chinese and World History, University of California, Irvine
Orwell is feted for the farsightedness of his geopolitical vision as long ago as the 1940s. But a lot of writers were thinking along similar lines.
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By Gregory Frame, Teaching Associate in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham
It seems apt then that two films concerned with the failures of leftwing revolutionary politics should emerge almost simultaneously with Donald Trump’s resurgence.
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By Ellie Buxton, Doctoral researcher in Social Policy , Loughborough University
Almost half (45%) of teachers across primary and secondary schools in the UK describe misogynistic attitudes and behaviour among boys as being a problem, according to a YouGov survey in 2025. Additionally, 54% of secondary school teachers indicate that boys very or fairly often openly express misogynistic attitudes or behaviour in school.
This gives a sense of why the government is calling for a “whole of society” approach in its strategy…
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