The Guardian/George Monbiot:It’s an experiment with 8 billion test subjects, no controls and no endpoint. What happens when you release thousands of novel chemicals, most of which have not been tested for their impacts on human health or ecosystems, into a living planet? W ...বিস্তারিত
Arab News/LUKE COFFEY:The European Commission, the executive branch of the EU, has recommended that accession talks for EU membership should start for Ukraine and Moldova, and that Georgia should receive its long awaited EU candidate status. The European Council is expected ...বিস্তারিত
Arab News/ALISTAIR BURT:Occasionally domestic politics pulls a surprise that no smart commentator expects, and the UK has just experienced one with global implications: the country has a new foreign secretary. Confounding Westminster watchers and alarming even some in his ow ...বিস্তারিত
Know thine enemy – and know thine ally, too. Too many of those pushing for one outcome or another in the war between Israel and Hamas misjudge the parties involved. They make mistaken assumptions about one side or the other – or both – that lead them to draw flawed, ev ...বিস্তারিত
bLeonard Bernstein and John F. Kennedy: One was a maestro, the other a president, and both were titans of 20th-century America. They were also unexpected friends whose relationship represented the union of American arts and politics during the Kennedy administration. When K ...বিস্তারিত
Bbc/Kate Schoenbach: From its famous skyline to its bustling streets, New York City is a visual medley that has captivated photographers for decades. Continually ranked as the most photographed city on the planet, you could spend a lifetime documenting the cultural capital o ...বিস্তারিত
Danny Altmann/The Guardian: Among the more sobering moments at the UK Covid-19 inquiry over the past few weeks was the palpable dismay and affront shown by the mild-mannered NHS respiratory consultant Prof Chris Brightling, when he noted that Boris Johnson’s response to ...বিস্তারিত
Holly Williams/ BBC: "Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us." So wrote Virginia Woolf in her 1928 novel Orlando, about a young nobleman who lives ...বিস্তারিত
Chris Baraniuk/ BBC: It's the huge tower in his back yard that gives Todd Baker's hobby away. Bristling with antennae, the 30m (100ft) structure is taller than many of the mature trees nearby. Baker, an industrial conveyor belt salesman from Indiana, goes not just by his ...বিস্তারিত
Faisal J. Abbas/ Arab News: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made four things crystal clear about the Palestinian-Israeli issue during his recent interview on Fox News: One: Yes, it is true that there are ongoing talks relating to a potential solution that will imp ...বিস্তারিত