England has a housing crisis – more than one million families and individuals are on the waiting list for a social home. Experts think 90,000 of these homes need to be built every year for a decade to house everyone – but less than 5,000 were completed in the past year. And there are fears…
When Taylor Swift is making $2bn in ticket sales, and Coldplay can sell out 10 nights at Wembley Stadium, it’s easy to conjure an image of touring musicians swimming in sweet piles of cash, like guitar-wielding Scrooge McDucks. But for many artists, touring is becoming less and less viable. The cost of putting a show…
“Our people respect the Russian and Ukrainian people,” says Savvo Dobrovic. “I simply haven’t noticed any bad relations.” It sounds like a recipe for tension and confrontation: tens of thousands of people from opposing sides in a bitter, protracted war descending on a small Balkan nation with its own very recent memories of conflict. But…
BBC Judy Aleksalza bought her terrace house back in the 1970s for just $1 It was a regeneration idea that started half a century ago in the US, and has spread to other parts of the world. But can selling off empty, derelict properties for a nominal amount help solve urban blight? And who are…
US Supreme Court cases to watch A new nine-month term begins for the US Supreme Court on Monday with major cases that will shape many aspects of American life. The court’s nine justices are back after last year’s blockbuster term, which saw rulings that protected a widely used abortion pill or granting former President Donald…
Getty Images Millions of people in the Middle East dream of safe, quiet lives without drama and violent death. The last year of war, as bad as any in the region in modern times, has shown yet again that dreams of peace cannot come true while deep political, strategic and religious fault lines remain unbridged….
Maya Meshel / BBC A few metres from a charred home in Kibbutz Be’eri, Simon King tends to a patch of ground in the sunshine. The streets around him are eerily quiet, the silence punctuated only by the sound of air strikes that ring in the near distance. In this community almost a year ago,…
Embrace the fusion of tradition and modernity with our exclusive collection of latest Arabic and simple Mehndi designs. Mehndi, a timeless art form symbolizing joy and prosperity, has gracefully evolved to meet the preferences of today’s brides and fashion enthusiasts. While elaborate, full-hand designs hold a special place, there’s a noticeable shift towards minimalist and…
Luanda Peddie remembers the day her world shattered. In 2011, her 14-year-old son Jovanni fell to his death from the sixth floor of their family home in the Missenden block of London’s Aylesbury Estate. “It’s a place of horror, it’s a place of hell, it’s a place of trauma,” health worker Luanda says, describing the…