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'Tell me who your source pots are': Liam on the warpath as Oasis tour line-up leaked

After months of speculation, the names of those who will join the Gallagher brothers on their reunion tour later this year have finally been revealed

Evening Standard · Mar 12, 2025

Five years on from the Covid-19 pandemic, what legacy has the virus left?

11 March marks five years since the World Health Organization declared the spread of Covid-19 a pandemic. The virus caused 7 million deaths, according to the UN body.

Radio France Internationale · Mar 11, 2025

Most of the world’s population is breathing dirty air: Report

IQAir study finds that Chad, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and the Democratic Republic of Congo have the dirtiest air.

Al Jazeera · Mar 11, 2025

Only 17% of global cities had safe air in 2024, air quality report finds

Global study finds 126 of the 138 countries analysed – 91.3 per cent – exceeded safe air quality limits

The Independent UK · Mar 11, 2025

Only THESE seven countries in the world have clean air

Only seven countries in the world have good air quality and most of the world breathes in dirty air, a report has found.

The Times of India · Mar 11, 2025

The seven countries worldwide with the cleanest air – and those with the dirtiest

Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17 per cent of global cities meeting WHO air pollution guidelines

The Independent UK · Mar 11, 2025

5 years since COVID was declared a pandemic, we’re still poorly prepared for the next one

On March 11 2020, as COVID continued to spread rapidly around the globe, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared a pandemic.

The Conversation · Mar 10, 2025

How the pandemic’s narratives are still unfolding, five years on

Do you clearly remember the choices you made a few years ago during the early days of the COVID pandemic? Did you painstakingly wipe down your groceries before putting them away, quarantine your mail three days before opening it, or hoard toilet paper while others were unable to find a…

The Conversation · Mar 10, 2025

‘Everyone knew who he was’: James Hamilton, the ‘eccentric aristo’ who catalysed British club culture

He outed Norman Cook as Fatboy Slim, imported turntablism and made BPM a staple of dance journalism. Pete Tong and Gilles Peterson remember a pivotal figure

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2025

USAid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’

Projects to detect, treat and research new ways to fight TB among those disrupted by sudden funding freeze

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2025