Nylah Lee/BBC: On a 2010 state visit to Indonesia, former US president Barack Obama delivered an unforgettable comment during his dinner speech: "Bakso, nasi goreng... semuanya enak!", or "Meatball soup, fried rice... it's all delicious!" A staple in the country where Ob ...বিস্তারিত
Rachel Fobar/National Geographic: For years, industry critics have argued that South Africa’s captive lions are inbred—but a new study shows that may not be the case. Between 8,000 and 10,000 captive lions live on about 300 farms across the country. The multimillion- ...বিস্তারিত
Krupa Padhy/ BBC: "It's all in your mind."Helene Cederroth has lost count of the number of times doctors have said this to her. Yet she knew, soon after her son Wilhelm was born in 1983, that something wasn't quite right with her second child. "He looked like a perfect b ...বিস্তারিত
Erin Blakemore/National Geographic: Chemist Jim Schlatter had been putting in long hours at the lab. It was 1965, and the young scientist was attempting to synthesize a drug to treat ulcers. He’d been isolating various compounds along the way, and one of them had built ...বিস্তারিত
Sophia Epstein/ BBC: Unless you work for a luxury fashion brand, it’s unlikely you’re going to get a handbag as a work perk. But London-based communications manager Jackie earned herself one through her company’s rewards system, which grants employees redeemable ‘ ...বিস্তারিত
Daniel Seifert/ BBC: When our iPhones alerted us that the temperature had crept past 37C, we paused. Every sun-drenched step outside felt like we were wagyu steaks sizzling on the grill. Was honeymooning in Japan in July – one of its hottest, most humid months – reall ...বিস্তারিত
Nesrine Malik/ The Guardian: An expiring Tory party lashing about for electoral resuscitation by doubling down on a small number of pugnacious policies. A Labour opposition that has straitjacketed its pledges and ambitions with its fears of blowing its strongest chance in ...বিস্তারিত
Katherine Latham/ BBC: The contrast is stark – where vast swathes of land were once rich with life, they are blackened and smouldering ruins, decimated by fire. In just 12 days, 135,000 hectares (521sq miles) of land were left burnt in southern Europe after fires broke ...বিস্তারিত
Katie Camero/National Geographic: Mounting evidence shows that more young adults are experiencing heart problems compared to decades past, and that worsening lifestyle habits—namely, poor diet and lack of exercise—are to blame. And some research suggests that COVID in ...বিস্তারিত
Daisy Woodward/ BBC: A night at the opera is not typically equated with restraint, instead conjuring images of chandelier-filled theatres and arias performed in exquisite costumes against transportative stage sets. Yet, recent years have seen opera companies across the gl ...বিস্তারিত