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Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Joel Gray, Associate Dean, Sheffield Hallam University There can be no doubt that any conversation about British girlbands of the last 30 years would be dominated by Spice Girls. In whichever corner of the globe you are, they were the defacto pop force of the late…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sarah Singer, Professor of Refugee Law, School of Advanced Study, University of London macondofotografcisi/Shutterstock A convicted sex offender has been deported from Britain to Ethiopia after being accidentally released from prison. Following a national manhunt, home secretary Shabana Mahmood confirmed that Hadush Kebatu – an asylum…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a century. But there’s a developing twist: an emerging competition between American companies…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Damian Bailey, Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales European Space Agency, CC BY-NC-ND On January 14 2004, the United States announced a new “Vision for Space Exploration”, promising that humans would not only visit space but live there. Two decades later, Nasa’s Artemis…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jane Wright, Commissioning Editor, Arts & Culture, The Conversation The more I see Benedict Cumberbatch on screen the more I marvel at his talent as an actor. Recently I have watched him in Eric on Netflix, as an unravelling Sesame Street-style puppeteer looking for his abducted…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sophie Heywood, Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Cultures, University of Reading The Children’s Booker hopes to get more kids reading. PeopleImages/Shutterstock The buzz around the newly announced Children’s Booker has focused on its potential to “tell kids they matter”, as they get their…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura Elin Pigott, Senior Lecturer in Neurosciences and Neurorehabilitation, Course Leader in the College of Health and Life Sciences, London South Bank University Our brain’s perception of beauty can be re-trained. bigbambe/ Shutterstock Beauty standards have always evolved, but in today’s social media age, they shift…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Robert Muggah, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University A man rides past a poster of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and an anti-tank barricade in Caracas on Oct. 28, 2025. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. military buildup…