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Manosphere messiahs: Mexico
It started in the West with influencers like Andrew Tate. Now the manosphere has gone global, with copycats from Africa to Latin America attracting h…
5 months ago
São Paulo's carnival competition
Every year during Brazil’s carnival celebrations, samba schools are tasked with creating elaborate parades based around a unique theme, from which th…
5 months ago
Sierra Leone: The Diamond that saved a thousand lives
In 2017, five men digging in an open pit found the third largest diamond ever unearthed in West Africa. It was dubbed the Peace Diamond, in memory of…
5 months ago
Sydney fireworks, the return
New Year’s Eve in Sydney is more than the 12 o’clock show. It is an event that takes over an entire city. Fireworks are launched from the Sydney Harb…
5 months ago
The Sarkozy affair
The story of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s rise and fall has been gripping France. There are allegations of a secret pact with a dictator…
5 months, 1 week ago
AI farewells for Russia’s dead soldiers
'Virtual farewells' have become a trend on Russian social media. AI generated videos, depicting soldiers who have been killed in the war and paid for…
5 months, 1 week ago
Life in a volcano danger zone
Earlier this month, a volcanic eruption, which sent a plume of ash some 10km into the sky, killed three people hiking up Mount Dukono in Indonesia. …
5 months, 1 week ago
Fighting for the children of Chernobyl
Forty years ago, the world’s worst nuclear accident took place at Chernobyl, in what was then the Soviet Union. When news of the disaster began to em…
5 months, 1 week ago
When Shiraz calls
A personal account of day-to-day life in Iran told through the conversations of two Iranian sisters – one in the UK, the other in the Iranian city of…
5 months, 1 week ago
Introducing: Focus on Africa - Electric vehicles: fixing Africa's fuel crisis?
Kenya is the latest African country to increase fuel prices citing the US-Israel war with Iran. While announcing one of the steepest pump price incre…
5 months, 1 week ago