Objects of Desire: Summer in the City

Read More Feel Free, Let’s Talk Never has a shoe been so simultaneously unremarkable and bold as the Nike Air Force 1. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, The  Nike Air Force 1 Low “Feel Free, Let’s Talk” is a call to join forces and celebrate the people and places that make us. Mismatched swooshes paired with […]

Kenyans are dying to work in Saudi Arabia

Read More Mary Wanjiru uses a wheelchair for mobility. That wasn’t the case a year ago when she boarded a flight from Nairobi to Riyadh, excited and optimistic. The mother of three got a job as a domestic worker in Saudi Arabia and with that the promise of greener pastures and a means to lift […]

‘There were clear warnings before deadly KZN floods’

Read More The flooding that struck KwaZulu-Natal in April this year has been described as South Africa’s “deadliest storm on record” and the country’s leaders blamed climate change. But a top climatologist has questioned whether this is strictly accurate. Francois Engelbrecht, the director of climatology at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Global Change Institute, was […]

A happy schoolchild trumps (almost) everything else

Read More Is your child happy at school? That is quite possibly the most important question for you to consider. As a deputy head with over a decade in senior management at two schools, and thirty years in the classroom, I believe that a happy girl or boy is what parents and educators should focus […]

In Ian’s Wake, Florida Residents Brave a Slow Wait for Power

Nearly a week after Hurricane Ian smashed into Florida and carved a path of destruction that reached into the Carolinas, more than half a million Florida residents faced another day without electricity Tuesday as rescuers continued their search for those trapped inside…

Police: 6 California Killings May Be Work of Serial Killer

Ballistics tests have linked the fatal shootings of six men and the wounding of one woman in California – all potentially at the hands of a serial killer – in crimes going back more than a year, police said. Authorities last week announced that five men in Stockton had been…