A global calamity the world forgot
The flu pandemic of 1918-19 claimed at least 50 million lives, yet only recently has its devastation and aftermath been studied. Guy Beiner examines a strange case of worldwide amnesia In 1918 and...
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Commission's 20 October update on avian influenza
Brussels, 24 October 2006 Full text of Document 14307/06 Suite of documents 14307/06 Brussels, 23 October NOTE from Commission to Council Subject: Written Information from the Commission on Avian...
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Many small wars that made a global conflict
Fateful Choices
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OU goes for global presence
The Open University is seeking to become a global online university by building new partnerships at home and abroad. In a major document called OU Futures , the university, which already has 40,000...
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Avian influenza: expectations surpassed as international community pledges US$1.9 bn in Beijing (plus links to other Rapid items)
Brussels, 18 January 2006 The international community has pledged a total amount of $1.9 billion dollars to fight avian influenza and prepare for a possible human influenza pandemic, EU Health and...
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Who do they think we are?
What does 'Britishness' mean to people living in former colonies and to migrants newly arrived in the UK? Vron Ware decided to find out. The concept of national identity is in crisis. Despite Gordon...
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Shiny happy people
Men and women have used cosmetics to beautify themselves since Neolithic times. But now, as Virginia Smith outlines, the production and sale of body-care products is a high-tech global business Local...
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Transgressors with their amps turned up to 11
Extreme Metal
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Staking claims on the landscape
Nature in the Global South
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A free-floating captain salvaging sunken past
Michael North meets the underwater archaeologist who discovered the legendary lost Egyptian city of Heracleion. It was an almost 2m-high stele, black granite, absolutely intact," says Franck Goddio,...
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Trading partners
To build collaborative links with India, UK institutions must avoid treating the country as a cash cow, discovers Esther Oxford
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Cheese parties, without the wine
Negotiate the minefield of local customs and you can gain personal and professional benefits from teaching abroad, finds Anthea Lipsett. When Diana Leonard signed up to teach at Fatima Jinnah Women...
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Why revel in birth of imperial monster?
Celebrating 'America's 400th Birthday' ignores the genocide of the continent's native people, argues Taiaiake Alfred "America's 400th Birthday", the year-long staging of the mythologies of...
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Today's news
Female students outnumber men across the board Female university students now outnumber men across all subject areas, from engineering to medicine and law to physical sciences. New figures from...
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Soas disrupted by protest over loss of two librarians
London's School of Oriental and African Studies faced severe disruption this week after the escalation of a protest about the redundancies of two specialist librarians. The school confirmed that 18...