On the 15th of January 2025, a ceasefire deal in Gaza was announced after months of negotiations led by the US, Qatar and Egypt. It promised an end to 15 months of fighting, the return of 73 Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, as well as the complete withdrawal...
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Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender women from the female sporting category, following on from his 2024 presidential campaign which promised a change in how the US has been handling transgender athletes. The order mostly covers high school and university-level sports, providing guidance and regulation for the...
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More and more universities are seeking to expand their campuses into India amid declining international student recruitment, despite employees and unions’ concerns over redundancies. Universities in the UK attracted over 125,000 students from India in the academic year 2022-2023, but study visa applications are declining, and experts warn that universities...
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The Kardashians have undone their body enhancement surgeries, Elon Musk is on ozempic, and the ‘ballet body’ is trendy again – what’s going on with body positivity? Was it all a trend? Was it just a commercial opportunity? Maybe body ‘positivity’ was rigged from the start, and we need to...
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Food in fashion is not new – take for example Elsa Schiaparelli’s 1937 lobster dress, or even the millennial obsession with avocados that got blamed for a generation’s worth of financial struggles. At the speed of the current trend cycle however, last year’s food trends have reached their sell-by dates, making...
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