Can Dubai’s luxe image survive the war with Iran?
As the summer holiday season draws to a close, foreigners travelling to and from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates are facing delays, cancellations and severe travel warnings. The disruption comes as ...
8 Sep 27min
Was Saudi Arabia involved in 9/11?
Twenty-five years on from the deadliest terror attack in history, thousands of grieving families are still fighting for answers. In early 2000, two young Saudis arrived in San Diego. They had never...
7 Sep 27min
How the world sees Lindsay Clancy
Lindsay Clancy faces first-degree murder charges over the deaths of her three young children. But if her case had happened elsewhere, the charges might have looked very different.Clancy’s trial in Mas...
4 Sep 26min
Is the AI backlash actually a Chinese psy-op?
Accusations of foreign interference have been making headlines this week.Elon Musk’s X alleges that China has been stirring up a backlash against American data centres. Israel and Russia have denied a...
3 Sep 26min
Is the world giving up on the US dollar?
America’s national debt recently hit a new milestone of $40 trillion. It is estimated that interest payments on the national debt are now the second largest expense in the US government budget, traili...
2 Sep 27min
Nepal: Covering a disaster in your own country
As the world watches the aftermath of devastating floods in Nepal, journalist Anup Kaphle has been asking a difficult question: When does coverage of a natural disaster cross from rightful global conc...
1 Sep 27min
Inside Afghanistan’s secret schools for girls
Five years after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban’s near-total crackdown on the rights of women and girls has made the country ‘a global outlier with no parallel in the modern...
31 Aug 26min
Did Emily ruin Paris?
The Netflix show Emily in Paris has been lauded by French President Emmanuel Macron, who presented its creator, Darren Star, with the prestigious Légion d’Honneur last year. “You make France shine acr...
28 Aug 27min
