In a system designed to kill you, invisibility is survival: How silence saved German girl assigned to serve Nazi murders
They settled in Queens. Flora worked multiple jobs – seamstress, whatever she could find – long hours at immigrant wages that barely covered rent. But she had a purpose beyond survival: her son would have the freedom, opportunity and voice stolen from her.
Dismissed and ostracised: Intriguing story of America’s trailblazing Back Dr Margaret Morgan Lawrence who revolutionised child psychiatry and psychoanalysis
Psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the 1940s were overwhelmingly white, male and oriented toward treating wealthy private patients in Manhattan consulting rooms. The dominant theoretical frameworks were Freudian, focused on individual psychosexual development, with little consideration of social context, racism, or structural oppression.
How in a tiny rented in 1896 in Detroit, US, Henry Ford built the first gasoline-powered car and changed the way the world travels
Seven years later, on June 16, 1903, Ford launched the Ford Motor Company in a small converted carriage factory in Detroit. The company’s first year brought in $37,000 in profit against $28,000 in investment.
Kwale sets own source revenue target of $6.5 million in 2026-27 financial year as it rolls out CFSP public hearings
For the 2026/2027 financial year, the county has prioritised agriculture, health, education, infrastructure development particularly water and roads and economic empowerment programmes targeting women, youth and persons living with disabilities.
How philosopher John Dewey’s ‘school of chaos’ similar to Competency-Based Education in Kenya catapulted America to industrial giant
There were no rigid lessons. Children learned math by running a store, science by cooking, history by building tools. They moved. They spoke. They failed in public. Dewey treated mistakes as data, not disobedience. Knowledge came from experience, not recitation.
How South African teenage girl who spoke English, French, Arabic, Swahili and Kikuyu was instrumental in Britain’s WWII victory over Germany
Over the course of her mission, Pippa Latour sent 135 coded messages. Each one directed RAF precision bombing runs. Each one armed French Resistance cells. Each one brought D-Day closer to success.
Prices in steep fall as drought decimates livestock, people forced to depend on alms in Kenya’s Wajir County
The drought has also disrupted livestock markets, which are a key source of income for households in the arid and semi-arid region. At the Orahey livestock market, traders report a drastic reduction in the number of animals brought for sale as well as a sharp fall in prices due to poor body condition.
IOM launches $91 million funding appeal to support migrants in Africa
IOM Director General Amy Pope stressed in a video message that sustainable financing is key to tackling the migration crisis in the Greater Horn of Africa and southern Africa regions, fuelled by climate change, instability, and poverty.
Striking staff at Kenya’s main airport end two-day boycott after return-to-work agreement was reached
Kenya Airways, in a statement, said it was in the process of normalizing the schedule and that “normal operations will resume within the next 24 hours.”
Transition: America’s prime Black civil rights activist, Rev Jesse Jackson, waves world last goodbye as he ‘returns to the Pavilion’ aged 84
Jesse Jackson famously marched with the Rev Martin Luther King Jr in civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s and was with King the morning he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
