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Plan to cut most standalone positions in favour of shorter fellowships will hurt international recruitment, critics say

Maria Ressa says rules-based order ‘can perhaps still exist’ but social media is being used to undermine democracy around the world

Last year, South Korea made headlines around the world for two reasons. The first was writer Han Kang’s celebrated Nobel prize for literature win in October; the second was far less positive. Late in the evening of December 3 2024, the country’s President Yoon Suk Yeol unexpectedly declared martial law…

An American biochemist whose research has helped scientists make inroads on treating coronavirus and HIV has won this year’s Wolf Prize, a major Israeli award in the arts and sciences

Yunus is facing a huge security challenge as some police refuse to return to their posts, gang crime is rife and tensions simmer with the country’s army chief

A mathematician who specialises in quantifying uncertainty has won a €2 million funding award from the Italian government

SCOTTISH Secretary Ian Murray is failing to keep to a pledge he signed to work towards the abolition of nuclear weapons, the chief executive of the…

A 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate has sent a message to Keir Starmer on nuclear weaponry – warning that victims of the weapons are being abandoned…