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Live parasitic worm plucked from Australian woman’s brain

Shawdesh desk: Scientists this week published information on an unprecedented case in Australia, where they found and extracted a live parasitic worm from the brain of a woman in Canberra.

Putin and Wagner boss Prigozhin: How a long friendship turned ugly

Shawdesh desk: Theirs was a relationship borne out of the murky world where Russia’s state security services mingled with the criminal underworld. While Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner military company grew into

The indiscriminate devastation of Canada’s raging wildfires

Shawdesh Desk: Joanna Kelly is a barrister in the Kelowna law courts – this week she’s been given permission to appear in legal cases by video-link partly because she has

The science behind the Fukushima waste water release

Shawdesh Desk: Japan has begun releasing treated radioactive water from its damaged Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Ocean – 12 years after a nuclear meltdown. That’s despite China slapping

Fukushima: What are the concerns over waste water release?

Shawdesh Desk; Japan’s controversial plan to release treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean has sparked anxiety and anger at home and abroad. Since the

British Museum: How easy is it to steal from a museum?

Shawdesh desk: News that artefacts were stolen from the British Museum has led to interest in what barriers exist to stop people from taking some of the world’s greatest treasures.

British Museum: How easy is it to steal from a museum?

Shawdesh desk: News that artefacts were stolen from the British Museum has led to interest in what barriers exist to stop people from taking some of the world’s greatest treasures.

Niger coup: Is France to blame for instability in West Africa?

Niger has become the latest country in West Africa where the army has seized control, following Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Chad – all former French colonies. Since 1990, a