Arsenal bag Sambi Lokonga from Anderlecht, Locatelli getting closer to Emirates
Arsenal have completed a £17 million ($23.3 million) deal to land Anderlecht midfielder Albert Sambi Lokonga. The 21-year-old has put pen to paper on a long-term contract and becomes the Gunners’ second signing of the summer transfer window following the recent £8 million ($11 million) arrival of Benfica left-back Nuno...
Journalists from all the world condemn the use of Spyware Pegasus to monitor them
At least 180 journalists across the world have been spied on using Pegasus software, a tool developed by the Israeli cybersurveillance company NSO and sold to a number of clients, including states across the world, a report by Forbidden Stories – a worldwide collaborative journalism investigation- revealed on 18 July. ...
EPL big guns set to elbow Arsenal, Spurs out of race for Lyon midfielder Aouar
Manchester United and Liverpool have reportedly joined Tottenham and Arsenal in the race to sign Lyon playmaker Houssem Aouar this summer. Aouar has two years remaining on his Lyon contract but sources have told ESPN Football that the Ligue 1 club want to offload the player. Liverpool held an interest...
Decolonising journalism: Is objectivity really possible or it is only to people who don’t have to fight to be seen fully?
Dear readers, Since last year, institutions the world over have been exploring how to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in their work. The New Humanitarian is no exception. We have, of course, been a leading voice in examining this issue within the humanitarian sector – namely through our Rethinking Humanitarianism...
Drug makers working on super-antibodies to curb Covid and future pandemics
Companies are designing next-generation antibodies modelled on those taken from unique individuals whose immune systems can neutralise any Covid-19 variant – and related coronaviruses, too. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) in late May to sotrovimab, providing a new therapeutic weapon in the fight...
Rare sight of rowers cutting through mucilage on Marmara Sea in Turkey
Rowers near the Caddebostan shore of Turkey’s Marmara Sea cut through a layer of marine mucilage, a green-grey sludge that develops on the water’s surface owing to the proliferation of microorganisms. The substance, informally dubbed sea snot, was first documented in Turkish waters in 2007. Researchers warn that the mucilage...
Man United ignore plea for winger Pellistri to stay, ships him out to Alaves
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has revealed that one of the club’s talented crop of youngsters will definitely be loaned out again this season. Facundo Pellistri, 19, joined United in a £9 million ($12.4 million) deal from Uruguayan side Penarol last summer. But he did not make his first-team debut before he...
Bangladeshi police arrest landgrabbers who assaulted journalist investigating the theft
Police have arrested three people in connection with an attack on Bahannor Alo correspondent Selim Shamrat, who was attacked while investigating an illegal land seizure on July 11. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemned the attack on the journalist and called on police to ensure the investigation is followed...
We don’t know how late people today will marry, we’ll know after everybody is dead and gone
Steven Ruggles, a historical demographer at the University of Minnesota who has built a career deciphering census says his team is currently working on linking people who were children in 1940 to lead in the water to Medicare records, in an effort to see if there is an association between...
Q&A: Demographers trying to link census data say people marry early, ‘corporate families’ thriving
They may lack the sweep of a novel, the pathos of a play or the beauty of a poem, but the facts and figures collected through the census tell us a great deal about ourselves, and about the generations who came before us. Just ask Steven Ruggles, a historical demographer...
