‘Who do you trust?’ Election struggles to offer hope for food bank Britain
Pam is used to poverty and desperation, but shes never known it this bad. She runs the Rock Foundation Food Bank in Grimsby. We are feeding 800 people a week, it was 300 five years ago, she says. Th… [read more]
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How islanders are saving their Indian Ocean coral reef
By Alfred Lasteck, BBC News, Mnemba Island Looking out now over the Indian Ocean from Mnemba Island, it is hard to believe that just three years ago the stunning coral reef surrounding this part of … [read more]
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Nigerian star’s drowning forces Nollywood to look at safety
By Hannah Gelbart, BBC What in World, Lagos The last video that Nigerian actor Junior Pope made for his more than two million Instagram followers eerily foreshadowed his death. You see the risks, p… [read more]
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Gething tried to stop release of lobbying details
Gwyn Loader,Chief correspondent, Newyddion S4C Welsh Labour denied Mr Gething did not want the information released First Minister Vaughan Gething attempted to prevent the release of details that h… [read more]
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New York couple find safe containing $100k in lake
A couple of “magnet fishing” enthusiasts say they pulled up a safe containing an estimated $100,000 (£78,000) from a New York lake. James Kane and Barbie Agostini threw a rope with a magnet into a … [read more]
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Allman Brothers Band guitarist Betts dies at 80
Dickey Betts, a lynchpin of The Allman Brothers Band, one of the most popular and influential US rock groups of the 1970s, has died at the age of 80. The guitarist and vocalist also wrote classic so… [read more]
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‘I survived the ferry disaster – but lost 17 of my family’
“I don’t know how I managed to escape – I can’t swim,” says Muaziza Ambaraje. She was on board as Mozambique’s worst sea disaster in recent memory unfolded on Monday. The 47-year-old is a regular o… [read more]
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‘Why I rewrote Huckleberry Finn to give slave Jim a voice’
Percival Everett, whose novel Erasure was turned into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, had the idea for his latest book, James, when he was playing tennis. The Booker Prize-nominated author … [read more]
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The Deaths of Effective Altruism
Onstage with Ord that day was a former director of Christian Aid whod written a massive book called Does Foreign Aid Really Work? This expert tried to persuade Ord that aid was much more complex than… [read more]
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On board HMS Diamond as it faces Houthi attacks
From the first shout of “fireball” the crew of HMS Diamond have just two minutes to react. In that time they have to work out whether the missile, travelling at more than three times the speed of sou… [read more]
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