Poverty and hunger. These are pressing issues that remain in our country. Despite the strides in reducing poverty over the past two decades, poverty and hunger remain, and according to a recent SWS ...

A recent study used this book to explore if a combination of hope and fear in climate fiction can positively impact climate action intentions, with initial findings suggesting that it may have a small ...

A family's move from New Zealand to Australia went horribly wrong when they realised their cat had been left on the plane and flown back home. Mittens, an eight-year-old Maine coon cat, was booked ...

Podcaster Joe Rogan has stated that he "watched a guy die" during a previous wildfire in California while filming the hit TV show Fear Factor. During an episode of his podcast last week ...

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Forty-eight Uyghurs detained in Thailand for almost 11 years are on hunger strike to protest against imminent deportation to China, where they face imprisonment or execution. They were caught by ...

Hunger is an ancestral and evolutionary survival instinct; its importance is evident in the complex and redundant pathways involving all five senses that regulate it. 1,2 Historically, when humans ...

Childhood malnutrition is one target of an open letter published last week that calls for urgent action on food insecurity ... The good news is that solving hunger seems scientifically tractable ...

But Trump’s move amounts to more than fulfilling a campaign promise. Former prosecutors and legal experts fear it has far-reaching implications for the rule of law in the coming years ...

Concerns for the 48 men, who have been detained in Bangkok since 2014, are growing after a Uyghur activist shared a voice note from one of the detainees, who said the men had been on hunger strike ...

Some people are afraid of string. Seeing a ball of twine brings them out in a cold sweat. Don't believe me? Get knotted - it's a recognised medical condition, called linonophobia. The clinical ...