Tom Bennett BBC News Reporting fromTamra, northern Israel BBC Kasem Abu al-Hija lost his daughter, two granddaughters and their aunt, in Saturday’s missile strike “I am so angry,” says Kasem Abu al-Hija, 67. On Saturday, four of his family members were killed when an Iranian missile struck their home in northern Israel, collapsing the concrete...
Bea Swallow BBC News, Bristol Family Handout Jack Lees sent his mum pictures of the sun setting over the beach in the hours before his death A university student union says it has improved safety measures after a “heroic” student drowned while rescuing three women from the sea. Jack Lees was just days away from...
1. Building the Future Society There is an allegory about friends who were lost in the desert, hungry and thirsty. One of them had found a settlement filled abundantly with every delight. He remembered his poor brothers, but he had already drawn far off from them and did not know their place. What did he...
Introduction Our world is on fire. In a sense, it always has been—there hasn’t ever been a time when there weren’t some systems of oppression in place, causing harm to someone. But this is a personal essay, and I have to admit that, through the entirety of my adult life, things have typically felt like...
    You know the adage, “Don’t shoot yourself in the foot”? That’s exactly what New Yorkers are doing by pouring their tax dollars into the Legal Aid Society. It should be called the Illegal Aid Society. It’s 99% publicly funded — with your state and local tax dollars — and its chief...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Royal Society of Biology Alessandro Coatti worked for the Royal Society of Biology in London Tributes have been paid to a London-based scientist who formerly worked for the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) after he was found murdered in northern Colombia. Alessandro Coatti’s remains were discovered on the outskirts of Santa...