‘The atmosphere was electric’ – the fall and rise of Morocco’s cinemas | Cinema
“You used to be able to smoke inside,” Omar Edressi recalls about Cinema Rif, the 86-year-old movie theatre that still stands on Tangier’s Grand Socco.…
TikTok gangsters armed with homemade ‘slam guns’ turn UK city into warzone where even funerals descend into bloodbaths
YOUNG teens brag of spilling blood “like vimto”, while criminals spray a funeral wake with bullets and cops discover a loaded weapon hanging from a…
Forgotten boyband hunks who quit fame for normal jobs – 90s icon who became ambulance driver to pin-up now pulling pints
THEY were the 90s heart-throbs that set teenage girls’ pulses racing across the globe thanks to their strong vocals, smooth moves... and toned bodies. And…
‘Stripped of our human dignity’: What it means to be hungry in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
Khan Younis, Gaza – What does it mean to be hungry for months? In Gaza, where more than 43,000 of us have been killed by…
Clanging pans: Why Mozambique’s election protesters refuse to go away | Politics
Maputo, Mozambique – At 7pm on November 4, Maputo’s streets fell into an eerie silence. Public transportation was at a standstill, adhering to opposition leader…
How hero dogs are on the front line in the fight against killer drug flooding into Britain
DAN and Jos frantically check parcels to see if they are filled with a terrifying killer drug flooding into the UK.They are being trained as…
‘Dante’s inferno’: Wildfires scorch New York amid historic drought | Climate Crisis News
Brooklyn, New York – An incinerated, rusty microwave, the charred skeleton of a lawn chair, a pile of melted clothes, and singed scraps of the…
Indian students give Canada cold shoulder as Ottawa, New Delhi butt heads | Migration News
Kolkata, India – For the past several years, Manpreet Singh has been dreaming of going abroad for higher studies. The 22-year-old Sikh, a resident of…
Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul: What’s behind the celebrity boxing craze? | Boxing News
Mike Tyson, the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion who has recently recovered from a stomach ulcer, is set to face 27-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a…
Israel’s maximalist demands unlikely to lead to ceasefire with Hezbollah | Israel attacks Lebanon News
Beirut, Lebanon – As Israel sends mixed messages about a ceasefire with the Lebanese group Hezbollah, analysts say the war is likely to intensify in…
Is Israel committing ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza? | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Beirut, Lebanon – Israeli and Palestinian commentators and foreign officials are using the term “ethnic cleansing” to describe what Israel is doing in Gaza. Israel…
Prison sex sessions, fake holidays and Spice busts… how love-bombing gangsters turn ordinary women into drug mules
WHEN Amy Hatfield started working as a prison nurse, she would never have thought she'd end up behind bars herself.The 39-year-old had become a mental…
Want status in Nigeria? An informal iPhone market offers dreams and despair | Technology News
Lagos, Nigeria – Kola Alawada shelters from the rain beneath the shade of a phone accessories kiosk in Computer Village in Lagos, his old Android…
The devastation brought by Spain’s floods of the century | Floods
Twelve days have passed since catastrophic flash floods carved a muddy scar through eastern Spain, killing more than 200 people and soiling the homes of thousands more.…
Skunk-addicted louts & crumbling homes… can UK’s ‘worst seaside town’ turn fortunes around as the ‘next Sandbanks’?
ON Skegness seafront a chilly wind blows in as dog walkers stroll along the golden sands.A motionless big wheel dominates the skyline next to an…
In Lebanon, ‘misleading’ and sporadic Israeli evacuation orders instil fear | Israel attacks Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon – Two-year-old Ayham Ali Mohammad sat on his grandfather’s lap eating a banana across the street from Rafik Hariri Hospital in Jnah, on…
Unseen paths: Young and visually impaired in Costa Rica | Health
About 18 percent of the population of Costa Rica, a country of about five million, lives with a disability. These individuals face difficulties when it…
Palestinian Christians despair as Gaza homeland destroyed by Israel’s war | US Election 2024 News
When Khalil Sayegh thinks back to his childhood in the Gaza Strip, the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius looms large in his memory. Sayegh,…
‘Yesssss!’: Israel reacts to Donald Trump’s return to power in US election | US Election 2024 News
Even before the US presidential election polls had closed on Tuesday night, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir had taken to Twitter, posting “Yesssss”…
‘When we first sang… I could hear magic,’ says David Rawlings on partnership with Gillian Welch
WHEN Gillian Welch and David Rawlings sing together, it feels as if our hectic world stops turning.Their sublime blend of voice and acoustic guitar belongs…