A small pharmaceuticals company, Turing, bought the exclusive rights to market the HIV drug Daraprim and then proceeded to increase the price of the live-saving drug by 5,000% almost immediately. Turing raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to $750.
First built in 2008, the Global Seed Vault sits on a remote island between mainland Norway and the North Pole and acts an insurance against any dramatic loss of worldwide crop diversity from natural or manmade disasters.
“Wake up, sheeple! That clock 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed built is a fraud, and his father has probably hoodwinked us all.”
The rugby World Cup has begun (here’s everything you need to know about the sport) and will be broadcast in 207 territories, including the US, which means a huge potential audience of NFL fans who could take an interest in rugby—if for no other reason than to follow the fortunes of the long-suffering US Eagles, who are ranked 15th in the world.
Researchers are one step closer to creating an invisibility cloak. While the latest model won’t allow you to get up to the same hijinks as Harry Potter, the ultra-thin cloth is a massive leap forward in the field of invisibility.
Hungary has erected a razor-wire fence along its border with Serbia, detained over a hundred refugees, and even fired water cannons and used pepper spray on young children. Just in case refugees didn’t get the message, a far-right Hungarian mayor has released a dramatic homemade video warning them against coming to Hungary.
Starting today (Sept. 18), 20 international teams battle it out to be named the world’s best rugby team as England hosts the 2015 World Cup.
Many European countries are teargassing and discouraging migrants, but Germany has been taking a different approach—around 450,000 migrants have arrived since January. Many more migrants have their hearts set on settling in Europe’s economic powerhouse, and this seems to make economic as well as humanitarian sense.
Want to know if the British and American government are spying on you? You don’t need to go through a lengthy court battle to find out—now you just need to fill out an online form.
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has weighed in on the refugee crisis and the results are, unsurprisingly, controversial.
Scientists have found young people taking common antidepressants are more at risk of committing violent crime.
It’s safe to say Tony Abbott is having a bad week. He’s joins an embarrassing list of Australian prime ministers deposed before serving their full term. For those not keeping count, Australia will now have five prime ministers in the last five years.
For countries, one of the thorniest aspects of Europe’s refugee crisis—in which a record-breaking 500,000 migrants have crossed into the EU this year—is determining whether those seeking asylum have a legitimate claim that they would face danger or persecution in their home countries. It’s easy enough to see that security is scarce in war-torn Syria, but many Balkan states are in a gray area, considered safe by some, and not safe by others.
Some of the world’s most repressive regimes are coming to London to go shopping—for military weapons.
The force is strong in the UK. The upcoming Star Wars movie has reportedly boosted the economy by £150 million ($231 million).
Nothing ruins a romantic moonlit stroll in Paris like streets strewn with cigarette butts and the telltale squelch of stepping in dog poop.
The UN general assembly has voted to fly the Palestinian flag.
Finland is expecting a ten-fold increase in the number of refugees arriving this year. To help cover the extra costs, the country’s richest will be expected to pay a “solidarity tax” under a new proposal.
Images of a drowned Kurdish boy washed ashore on a Turkish beach last week have been splayed across newspapers and shared online around the world. The distressing photos were a tipping point in the public discussion of Europe’s growing refugee crisis, and they ramped up the pressure on leaders to do something about it.
Twenty years ago, 189 countries signed a UN declaration pledging to promote “the advancement of women and the achievement of gender equality.” Today, a new report details how far we are from reaching that goal, particularly in the workplace.
The influx of refugees to Europe is forcing officials across the continent to say something—anything—about how they plan to address the crisis. Some might be better off keeping quiet.
Sorry Saudis, but you won’t get your copy of National Geographic this month. The magazine put Pope Francis on the cover, flagging a big story inside about his “silent revolution” at the Vatican. In Saudi Arabia, the issue has been banned for “cultural reasons.”
The EU announced plans today (Sep. 9) that could force member states to resettle 160,000 refugees currently stuck in Greece, Italy, and Hungary.
The migrant crisis has forced some European leaders to soften their stance on asylum. There have been a wave of commitments to take in more migrants from France and Britain, and Germany even said it was able take in around 500,000 refugees every year.
