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It’s a cool spring day in Robertson, in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. As I walk along the rows of trees, even though the sun is shining I’m glad to be wearing extra layers. My friend Jet, the Blue Heeler, …

Kenya has hit it rich. In May this year multinational oil and gas exploration company Tullow Oil discovered additional oil reserves worth US $10 billion in the South Lokichar basin of arid Turkana land northwest of Nairobi. A World Bank interest free …

Every year thousands of people around the world migrate to other countries searching for a better future. Some of them have gone through unthinkable atrocities and being at home is not an option anymore. Their stories have a common trait: sorrow. Migration Officer …

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” (Mahatma Ghandi). Dehumanisation and demonisation are natural outcomes of perpetual violence. An Israeli child whose school friends have been murdered on a bus by a faceless suicide bomber or …

After a day of voting on Thursday, Scotland rejected the opportunity to become independent from the United Kingdom. A strong majority of ‘No’ votes in response to the question “Should Scotland become an independent country?” meant months of tireless campaigning by the …

Thousands of students are on the streets yelling and holding banners that scream “Censura es dictadura” (censorship is dictatorship), “Prefiero morir de pie que morir de rodillas” (I’d rather die standing on my feet than live on my knees) “Si los medios …

Everyone’s nervous their first time. Will it hurt? Will it be embarrassing? How long will it take? You know, the usual suspects. The world is divided into those who “have” and those who “haven’t” and you’re still one of the “haven’t yets”! …

Roberta is a classic A type personality. Hitting the kitchen with the jitters after a nauseating day, she opens the fridge desperate for anything that will raise her blood sugar levels. “Hello Roberta, how was work”? “Ghastly,” she replies. “There’s that last …

On Thursday, September 18, Scottish residents will fill the polling stations to have their say on whether Scotland should become an independent country, breaking away from the United Kingdom and a unification it’s had with England since the 18th Century. As the …

There has been a complication in scientists’ attempts to persuade the world about the importance of acting on climate change: how to explain why global warming seems to have paused. Indeed, warming since the turn of the century has not been at …