Doing business in conflict zones: what companies can learn from Lafarge's exit from Syria

Doing business in conflict zones: what companies can learn from Lafarge's exit from Syria

The world experienced over 60 armed conflicts in 2024, a historically high number according to scholars in the Department of Peace...

Scandal has erupted over bestselling memoir The Salt Path. In the 'fake news' era, what's the standard for truth in memoir?

Scandal has erupted over bestselling memoir The Salt Path. In the 'fake news' era, what's the standard for truth in memoir?

Raynor Winn, author of bestselling memoir The Salt Path - also a film starring Gillian Anderson - has been accused of deception in...

Ice baths are booming in popularity - but they come with health risks

Ice baths are booming in popularity - but they come with health risks

Walk through any trendy suburb and you might find a new wellness studio offering ice baths or contrast therapy (a sauna and ice bath...

Galau sedikit, bilang depresi: Sembarangan pakai istilah kesehatan mental bahaya buat psikologis kita

Galau sedikit, bilang depresi: Sembarangan pakai istilah kesehatan mental bahaya buat psikologis kita

Istilah psikologi kerap digunakan sembarangan karena rendahnya literasi kesehatan mental masyarakat. Terminologi kesehatan mental...

Israel's Rafah camp - 'humanitarian city' or crime against humanity?

Israel's Rafah camp - 'humanitarian city' or crime against humanity?

Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz has announced a controversial plan to move up to 600,000 Palestinians in Gaza into a designated...

Can't fill your ADHD script? Here's why, and what to do while the shortage persists

Can't fill your ADHD script? Here's why, and what to do while the shortage persists

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses are rising across Australia. But after finally getting a diagnosis, many...

Medicinal cannabis is big business. But the latest clampdown won't curb unsafe prescribing

Medicinal cannabis is big business. But the latest clampdown won't curb unsafe prescribing

Australia's key regulator of health professionals has announced it's clamping down on unsafe prescribing of medicinal cannabis in the...

Are 'ghost stores' haunting your social media feed? How to spot and avoid them

Are 'ghost stores' haunting your social media feed? How to spot and avoid them

The offer pops up in your social media feed. The website is professional and the imagery illustrates an Australian coastal region,...

Teeth record the hidden history of your childhood climate and diet

Teeth record the hidden history of your childhood climate and diet

The climate we live in affects our lives in profound ways: hot summers, cold winters, dry spells and wet weather all leave their mark....

Ritual Sasana Kayau Suku Dayak, Kalimantan Tengah: Merawat ingatan melalui sastra lisan

Ritual Sasana Kayau Suku Dayak, Kalimantan Tengah: Merawat ingatan melalui sastra lisan

'Sasana Kayau' adalah sastra lisan yang menyimpan sejarah, nilai, dan pengetahuan leluhur Suku Dayak Katingan. Regenerasi 'Sasana...

NZ Post is the latest company to drop its climate targets - another sign business is struggling to decarbonise

NZ Post is the latest company to drop its climate targets - another sign business is struggling to decarbonise

NZ Post committed to cutting its emissions by 32% by 2030 (based on 2018 levels), but recently announced it would abandon its climate...

How do coronial inquests work? Here's what they can and can't do

How do coronial inquests work? Here's what they can and can't do

Northern Territory Coroner Elizabeth Armitage's inquest findings into the death of Kumanjayi Walker have sparked conversations across...

Netflix's Shark Whisperer wants us to think 'sexy conservation' is the way to save sharks - does it have a point?

Netflix's Shark Whisperer wants us to think 'sexy conservation' is the way to save sharks - does it have a point?

In the new Netflix documentary Shark Whisperer, the great white shark gets an image makeover - from Jaws villain to misunderstood friend...

Tubuh perempuan Muslim di Instagram jadi arena pergulatan kesalehan dan kecantikan

Tubuh perempuan Muslim di Instagram jadi arena pergulatan kesalehan dan kecantikan

Banyak Muslimah membangun citra diri yang memadukan kesalehan dan kecantikan. Tubuh perempuan di media sosial seakan menjadi arena...

American science is in crisis. It's a great opportunity for Australia to snap up top scientists

American science is in crisis. It's a great opportunity for Australia to snap up top scientists

Science in the United States in in trouble. The National Science Foundation, a key research funding agency, has suffered devastating...

Some young people sexually abuse. Here's how to reduce reoffending by up to 90%

Some young people sexually abuse. Here's how to reduce reoffending by up to 90%

When we think about who's responsible for sexual abuse in Australia, we usually picture adults. But young people are responsible...

XFG could become the next dominant COVID variant. Here's what to know about 'Stratus'

XFG could become the next dominant COVID variant. Here's what to know about 'Stratus'

Given the number of times this has happened already, it should come as little surprise that we're now faced with yet another new subvariant...

Greek and Roman nymphs weren't just sexy nature spirits. They had other important jobs too

Greek and Roman nymphs weren't just sexy nature spirits. They had other important jobs too

Could you ever be truly alone in the woods of ancient Greece or Rome? According to myth, the ancient world was filled with wild animals,...

Can a pizza box go in the yellow bin - or not? An expert answers this and other messy recycling questions

Can a pizza box go in the yellow bin - or not? An expert answers this and other messy recycling questions

Have you ever gone to toss something into the recycling bin - a jam jar, a pizza box, a takeaway container encrusted with yesterday's...

How Philadelphia's current sanitation strike differs from past labor disputes in the city

How Philadelphia's current sanitation strike differs from past labor disputes in the city

As the Philadelphia municipal worker strike enters its second week, so-called Parker piles - large collections of garbage that some...

AI is driving down the price of knowledge - universities have to rethink what they offer

AI is driving down the price of knowledge - universities have to rethink what they offer

For a long time, universities worked off a simple idea: knowledge was scarce. You paid for tuition, showed up to lectures, completed...

Scindia met Cisco global head; calls for innovations and investments in India

Scindia met Cisco global head; calls for innovations and investments in India

New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): Union Minister for Communications and Development of the North Eastern Region Jyotiraditya M. Scindia...

As Netanyahu meets Trump in Washington, what hope for peace in Gaza? Expert Q&A

As Netanyahu meets Trump in Washington, what hope for peace in Gaza? Expert Q&A

The US government remains upbeat about the prospects for at least a ceasefire in Gaza, according to the latest reports from Washington,...

How to support someone who is grieving: five research-backed strategies

How to support someone who is grieving: five research-backed strategies

When someone we care about is grieving the loss of a loved one, our natural instinct is to ease their pain. But when words feel clumsy...

Brics is sliding towards irrelevance - the Rio summit made that clear

Brics is sliding towards irrelevance - the Rio summit made that clear

The Brics group of nations has just concluded its 17th annual summit in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. But, despite member states...

Norman Tebbit, Conservative minister known as Thatcher's enforcer, dies at 94

Norman Tebbit, Conservative minister known as Thatcher's enforcer, dies at 94

No man more embodied Thatcherism in the eyes of the public in the 1980s than Norman Tebbit, who died on July 7, aged 94. Though...

Why many kidney patients are still choosing hospital dialysis - and how the NHS can help more people access care at home

Why many kidney patients are still choosing hospital dialysis - and how the NHS can help more people access care at home

Every week, thousands of people with kidney disease in the UK spend long hours in hospital receiving life-saving dialysis. For many,...

I rode the Tour de France to study its impact on the human body -here's what I learned

I rode the Tour de France to study its impact on the human body -here's what I learned

The Tour de France is often called the world's biggest annual sporting event. Each July up to 12 million people line the roadside,...

Four reasons why many of us feel the global economy is not on our side

Four reasons why many of us feel the global economy is not on our side

During my adult life, I have never experienced what it's like to live in a good economy. Starting with the global financial crash in...

Golden eagles were reintroduced to Ireland, but without prey they're now struggling to thrive

Golden eagles were reintroduced to Ireland, but without prey they're now struggling to thrive

In the early 2000s, golden eagles soared once again over the hills of Donegal in northwest Ireland, for the first time in nearly a...

The Shrouds: new Cronenberg film is an elusive meditation on death, grief and environmental ethics

The Shrouds: new Cronenberg film is an elusive meditation on death, grief and environmental ethics

American filmmaker David Cronenberg is a leading figure in body horror, a film genre that explores disturbing and often grotesque aspects...

The Edwardians: Age of Elegance - a glimpse into royal patronage of the arts in the early 20th century

The Edwardians: Age of Elegance - a glimpse into royal patronage of the arts in the early 20th century

King Edward VII, the son of Queen Victoria, ascended the throne upon her death in 1901, but unlike his mother, he ruled for a very...

Alcohol sales changed subtly after Canada legalized cannabis

Alcohol sales changed subtly after Canada legalized cannabis

Before Canada legalized recreational cannabis in October 2018, it was unclear how the change might affect beverage alcohol consumption....

New therapy teplizumab could delay type 1 diabetes by years - if caught early

New therapy teplizumab could delay type 1 diabetes by years - if caught early

For more than a century, type 1 diabetes has meant one thing: a lifetime administering insulin. But for the first time, science is...

Cancellations at Canadian film festivals raise questions about accountability

Cancellations at Canadian film festivals raise questions about accountability

Film festivals are unique cultural institutions, spaces to see diverse films by local and global filmmakers and an important market...

Nearly two-thirds of voters think Starmer doesn't respect them - new poll

Nearly two-thirds of voters think Starmer doesn't respect them - new poll

Exhausted from a long campaign but buoyed by an extraordinary victory, Keir Starmer stood on the steps of Downing Street just over...

Can you trust climate information? How and why powerful players are misleading the public

Can you trust climate information? How and why powerful players are misleading the public

Ten years ago, the world committed itself to keeping global warming well below 2C (and preferably below 1.5C) above the pre-industrial...

Accs aux soins en Afrique : pourquoi cartographier les etablissements de sante peut sauver des vies

Accs aux soins en Afrique : pourquoi cartographier les etablissements de sante peut sauver des vies

Le manque d'informations fiables sur les etablissements de sante en Afrique subsaharienne etait trs manisfeste pendant la pandemie...

Calls to designate the Bishnoi gang a terrorist group shine a spotlight on Canada's security laws

Calls to designate the Bishnoi gang a terrorist group shine a spotlight on Canada's security laws

British Columbia Premier David Eby recently called on Prime Minister Mark Carney to designate the India-based Bishnoi gang a terrorist...

Northern B.C. shows how big resource projects can strain rural health care

Northern B.C. shows how big resource projects can strain rural health care

American tariffs and fears of a prolonged recession have increased calls to expand resource development and infrastructure projects...

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BP appoints ex-Shell finance chief Simon Henry to board
BP appoints ex-Shell finance chief Simon Henry to board

LONDON, U.K.: This week, BP appointed Simon Henry, former Shell finance chief, to its board as a non-executive director effective September...


FedEx, UPS step up as Canada Post loses market share in strikes
FedEx, UPS step up as Canada Post loses market share in strikes

OTTAWA, Canada: With Canada Post struggling to maintain operations amid labour unrest, rivals like FedEx and UPS are stepping in to...


U.S. stocks steady Tuesday despite tariffs turmoil
U.S. stocks steady Tuesday despite tariffs turmoil

NEW YORK, New York - U.S. and global markets showed a mixed performance in Tuesday's trading session, with some indices edging higher...


Beijing blamed for covert disinformation on French fighter jet Rafale
Beijing blamed for covert disinformation on French fighter jet Rafale

PARIS, France: French military and intelligence officials have accused China of orchestrating a covert campaign to damage the reputation...


Birkenstock steps up legal battle over fakes in India
Birkenstock steps up legal battle over fakes in India

NEW DELHI, India: Birkenstock is stepping up its efforts to protect its iconic sandals in India, as local legal representatives conducted...


Beijing hits back at EU with medical device import curbs
Beijing hits back at EU with medical device import curbs

HONG KONG: China has fired back at the European Union in an escalating trade dispute by imposing new restrictions on medical device...


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