Another 55,000 people have been evacuated from six cities in France, as wildfires that have caused devastation across the country accelerate. The latest evacuations took place in towns south of Bordeaux, in the Gironde region. Forest fires have devastated Europe over the past week, mainly France and Spain, where more than 330,000 people have been
Obesity is a “growing global epidemic,” says the WHO. More than one billion people worldwide are obese and childhood obesity has quadrupled since 1990. In 2025, Italy became the first country to pass a national law recognizing obesity as a chronic, progressive and recurring disease. Rather than treating obesity simply as a result of poor
On a Saturday afternoon in Michigan, with the sky still cloudy from smoke from the Canadian wildfires, hundreds of voters packed the opulent 104-year-old Detroit Opera House, rising from their seats to cheer loudly as Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez took the stage. As two of the leading figures on the American
On the fourth series of Love Island UK in 2018, Megan Barton-Hanson invited fellow islander Wes Nelson for a chat. Moments earlier, she had ended her relationship with Eyal Booker after admitting the pair had little more than physical chemistry. Now, sitting across from Wes, who had been paired with Laura Anderson since the beginning
When New York design firm Studio Sofield was hired to reimagine the building’s interior, it had to address the issue of the building’s previous life as office space, said co-founder William Sofield. Another big obstacle came with the shape of the building. How can you subdivide a triangle (just 1.8 m (6 ft) wide at
New Bell, a famous prison in Douala, Cameroon, is a city within a city. The facility has its own “taxis” (inmates who walk through congested yards to hand-deliver messages), its own law enforcement (burly prisoners who help uptight guards keep an eye on the facility), and market (a series of stalls where convicts sell and
