Hera Women’s Health Appoints Dr. Andy Wagner as Chief Executive Officer
"We are thrilled to welcome Andy as Hera's...
In the Dock: Woman steals £25,000 and goes on spending spree
Swindon: Sam Hassan, 21, of Ash Grove, Pinehurst, has been sentenced for serious drug charges.
On Sunday, October 6, 2024, Hassan was...
Tech industry tried reducing AI’s pervasive bias. Now Trump wants to...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- After retreating from their workplace diversity, equity and inclusion programs, tech companies could now face a second reckoning over their DEI...
More changes to Honda site and new hotel ownership among...
The following are planning applications sent to Swindon Borough Council this week
Westlea: The Campanile Hotel in the Delta Business Park...
African Giving Practices: Understanding a Tradition of Generosity and Community Support
Development & Aid, Headlines, Human Rights, Inequality, Poverty & SDGs Opinion
African giving practices are an integral part of the continent’s rich cultural tapestry. They...
FNB Partners With South Africans to Build a More Water-Secure Future
Earth Day is a timely reminder of the environmental challenges we face, and one of the most pressing is water. Water is under pressure...
GARVEE.com Consumer Report Reveals Washable Rugs Top Consumer Preferences In Rug...
GARVEE.com Consumer Report Reveals Washable Rugs Top Consumer Preferences In Rug Materials And Designs For Spring 2025
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Reclaiming Equity: Why G20 Must Center Women, Children & Adolescents in...
Development & Aid, Featured, Global, Headlines, Health, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
Parents and caregivers line up with...
US Plans at Restructuring May Include World Bank, IMF & UN...
Democracy, Featured, Global Governance, Headlines, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, North America, TerraViva United Nations
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 25 2025 (IPS)...
Climate TRACE Releases February 2025 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
Global greenhouse gas emissions for the month of February 2025 totaled 5.04 billion tonnes CO2e. For all updates to Climate TRACE country-, state-, city-,...
Trump Signs Executive Order to Advance ‘Deeply Dangerous’ Deep-Sea Mining
Amid global calls for a ban on deep-sea mining to protect marine ecosystems, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to...
Pope Francis focused on ‘this world.’ He angered some, and inspired...
Beatriz Sanabria was on her way to a Buenos Aires soup kitchen when she saw the words painted under a highway overpass in a...
Girls’ Education Bridges the Digital Divide
Education, Education Cannot Wait. Future of Education is here, Gender, Global, Human Rights
International Girls in Information & Communication Technologies Day Statement by Education...
Royal Coffee Opens New Sourcing & Logistics Office in Addis Ababa,...
"Ethiopia is one of the most important and...
Study Estimates Fossil Fuel Giants Have Inflicted $28 Trillion in Climate...
As planetary heating has fueled increasingly damaging hurricanes, wildfires, and dangerous heatwaves, fossil fuel giants have long been shielded by plausible deniability: Despite scientists'...
Financing for Whom? The Financing for Development Summit Must Address Social...
Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Education, Financial Crisis, Gender, Global, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Inequality, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
NEW YORK, Apr 24 2025...
FoodForward South Africa Highlights Food Banking for Earth Day
This Earth Day, FoodForward South Africa (FFSA) has highlighted the crucial role that surplus food recovery plays in combating this often-ignored driver of global...
‘An Attempt to Silence the Public’s Voice’: Trump Moves to Accelerate...
The Trump administration announced late Wednesday that it is moving to implement new permitting procedures designed to speed up reviews and approvals of oil...
UN Warns of an Imminent Collapse in Haiti
Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Economy & Trade, Gender Violence, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Latin America & the Caribbean, Migration & Refugees, TerraViva United...
A Nation Bleeds While the World Watches: The Tragedy in Sudan...
Africa, Armed Conflicts, Global Governance, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, International Justice, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
View of destruction at...
African Countries Still Underfunding Health by as Much as 50 Percent
Africa, Aid, Civil Society, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Featured, Financial Crisis, Gender, Health, Humanitarian Emergencies, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations, Women's Health Health ...
In postwar Ethiopia, a stand on higher ground
Nations prone to split over ethnic or religious divides often find ways to bond by embracing a higher civic identity. Ethiopia just set a...
This Ghanaian software engineer is working to raise women’s financial literacy
Photo of Gideon Kombian. Provided by Gideon Kombian, used with permission.Harvard College predicts that technology will shape the future of money, with trends like...
‘We Need Urgent Global Action’: Study Warns Humanity on Path to...
Scientists on Wednesday
released yet another study warning that humankind is at risk of triggering various climate "tipping points" absent urgent action to dramatically...
Fossil Fuels Blamed as 84% of World’s Coral Reefs Hit by...
A year after scientists warned the world was seeing its fourth mass coral bleaching event, rising ocean temperatures fueled by greenhouse gas emissions have...
The world looked away from Congo’s rape crisis. She did not.
When a woman comes to Jeanne Nacatche Banyere after being raped, “Maman Jeanne” doesn’t start by asking about what happened. Instead, she draws the...
Australia 2025 Election Questionnaire
Below is a question-by-question compilation of responses by the Australian Labor Party (ALP), the Liberal National Coalition and the Australian Greens. The Liberal National...
Music-lovers rejoice as festival returns with ‘battle of the bands’
The decade-spanning 'Festival on the Farm' is offering the amazing opportunity for local, original bands to battle it out for a centre...
Good Hope FM Hosts Meet and Greet
Good Hope FM has held a Meet and Greet event on Wednesday, 16 April at Cattle Baron, Riverlands Mall in Observatory. The afternoon was...
Nearly Half of Americans Breathe Unsafe Air. Trump’s Climate Rampage Is...
U.S. President Donald Trump pledged following his 2024 election victory to deliver the "cleanest air" on the planet, but a report published Wednesday warns...
Global coral bleaching has now hit 84% of ocean’s reefs in...
Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its kind in...
Climate Groups Report 2025 Is Unlikely To Be Hotter Than 2024
Climate Action, Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Global, Headlines, TerraViva United Nations
A...
As cities fight to retain ‘sanctuary’ status, some immigrants question the...
Chelsea, Massachusetts, a municipality just outside Boston, calls itself a “sanctuary city,” meaning it limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities.But now, the Trump administration’s...
Google Releases 2024 Ads Safety Report
Google has released its 2024 Ads Safety Report, showing how advanced artificial intelligence is transforming the fight against bad ads, scams and misinformation online....
Dialysis patients struggle to get treatment in blockaded Gaza. Officials say...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- Twice a week, Mohamed Attiya’s wheelchair rattles over Gaza’s scarred roads so he can visit the machine that is...
US Considering Nuclear Power for Saudi Arabia in Grand Bargain
Armed Conflicts, Editors' Choice, Featured, Headlines, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Middle East & North Africa, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons, TerraViva...
Lebanon: Indiscriminate Israeli Attacks on Civilians
Two unlawful Israeli strikes on the northeastern Lebanese town of Younine between September and November 2024 were apparent indiscriminate attacks on civilians.More and more...
Nearly 50 UM employees laid off following loss of funding for...
The University of Montana laid off 47 employees after money for a program previously funded by the Department of Defense wasn’t included in Congress’...
Rubio unveils a massive overhaul of the State Department by reducing...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a massive overhaul of the State Department on Tuesday, with plans to reduce staff in the...
‘Sick’: Trump Marks Earth Day With Layoff Notice for Hundreds of...
As defenders of the planet marked Earth Day with pledges to fight the destructive agenda of U.S. President Donald Trump, some green groups on...
On Earth Day, Dems Push Bills to Ban Offshore Drilling ‘Once...
On Tuesday, to coincide with Earth Day, multiple Democratic senators renewed their effort to pass bills to protect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans from...
How to reuse exhaust from jets and store energy in sand
A Texas airport is harnessing the wind power of jets at takeoffThe American company JetWind Power uses giant turbines to capture forceful air from...
Pratesi Continues Its Retail Expansion With A New Store In Boston...
"Our new store on Newbury Street is designed...
SA’s PR agencies show their excellence in Sabre Awards Africa 2025...
The Sabre Awards Africa finalists have been announced, with local agency, Flow Communications, announced as the outright winner in the industry sectors: associations category...
How Science Solutions Are Saving Africa’s Livestock and Livelihoods
Africa, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Featured, Food and Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition, Food Sustainability, Food Systems, Global, Headlines, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva...
FoodForward SA Calls Corporates To Join the Volunteer Movement
As South Africa celebrates Volunteer Month, a time to honour the critical role volunteers play in driving positive social change, FoodForward SA (FFSA) has...
Slave Trade: Gorée Island and the ‘Fragility of Freedom’
Africa, Civil Society, Democracy, Featured, Global Governance, Headlines, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
The Maison des Esclave or Slave...
Caribbean leaders and citizens recognise Pope Francis’ groundbreaking work
Photo of Pope Francis © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk, via the Flickr account of the Catholic Church England and Wales (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).On Easter Monday — a...
UAE: Dissidents, Relatives Designated ‘Terrorists’
Emirati authorities have designated as “terrorist” 11 dissidents and their relatives and 8 companies, reflecting the country’s indiscriminate use of overbroad counterterrorism laws and...
Swindon care home residents enjoy visit from farm animals
White Lodge care home in Braydon, Swindon, welcomed alpacas, pygmy goats, lambs, and guinea pigs during the farm day.
The animals...
‘Alarming’ Report Shows Billions at Risk From Historically Low Snow Melt...
A report released Monday found that snow persistence in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, sometimes called the "third pole" because of its water resources,...
Children at the Center
Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Climate Change, Crime & Justice, Education, Education Cannot Wait. Future of Education is here, Global, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies,...
Essential Supplies Run Critically Low in Gaza While Displacement Soars
Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Middle East & North Africa, Migration & Refugees, TerraViva United Nations
The ruins...
Panama accepted asylum-seekers the US didn’t want. Then its troubles began.
Mellona Takie can barely make it through a game of Uno these days, though on a recent afternoon she tries. Anything to keep her...
The 89%: New Media Collaboration Calls Attention to ‘Climate Change’s Silent...
According to a global survey, 89% of people worldwide want their government to do more to address the climate crisis, yet current national policies...
She survived Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Now she promotes peace through education.
When Theoneste Mutabazi started teaching at Umuco Mwiza School in Kigali in 2008, he marveled at everything its students had. There was an art...
Scammers Are Ruining the World: A Growing Global Crisis
Scammers Are Ruining the World: A Growing Global Crisisby Shayne Heffernan
The world is grappling with an unprecedented surge in cybercrime, as scammers exploit...
A horse therapy program in Namibia brings joy to children with...
WINDHOEK, Namibia -- Susan de Meyer's horses have different effects on different children. Hyperactive kids learn to be a little quieter around them while...
Thomas ends 3-year drought with playoff victory in RBC Heritage
DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
HILTON HEAD...
Happinest Brands Closes Strong Q1 With Strategic Growth, System-Wide Enhancements
With new franchisees, a rebranded business model and operational upgrades across its portfolio, the multi-brand franchisor is poised for continued success throughout 2025.
HOLMDEL, N.J.,...
As Reps endorse major property tax bill, Busse lobbies lawmakers for...
Just as the House Taxation Committee passed a major property tax package and celebrated the win Friday, a group of former government officials were...
Hooves Vs. Habitats: Striking a Sustainable Balance Between Livestock and the...
Africa, Biodiversity, Climate Action, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition, Food Sustainability, Headlines, TerraViva United Nations Opinion ...
Bringing Resilience to the Table to Achieve Development Goals
Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Featured, Global, Headlines, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
WASHINGTON DC, Apr 18...
Zambia: Three entrepreneurs building agriculture and food businesses
Monica Musonda, founder of Java Foods
From producing instant noodles to exporting honey to the United States, these three entrepreneurs are building ventures in Zambia’s...
Sappi Southern Africa Launches 2024 Corporate Citizenship Report
Sappi Southern Africa has unveiled its latest Corporate Citizenship Report, themed 'Gaining Momentum,' reflecting the strides made in its sustainability journey. The report showcases...
Smallholder Farmers Are Not ‘Beneficiaries’, but the ‘Co-Creators of Change’
Active Citizens, Africa, Civil Society, Climate Change, COP29, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Featured, Food and Agriculture, Food Systems, Headlines, Humanitarian...
Amputated Limbs, Enduring Pain: The Suffering of Syria’s War Wounded
Aid, Armed Conflicts, Development & Aid, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Middle East & North Africa, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Armed Conflicts ...
The Westin Cape Town Achieves Green Key Certification
The Westin Cape Town has received the Green Key certification, becoming the first hotel in Marriott International's South African portfolio to achieve the eco-label...
The Last Supper
The Last Supper: A Pivotal Moment in Christian HistoryBy Shayne Heffernan
The Last Supper stands as one of the most significant events in Christian history,...
The ‘Plastic Man’: Turning Trash into Treasure
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Global, Headlines, Natural Resources, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
Modou Fall educates young people...