The Age of Dinosaurs may have been dominated by dinosaurs, but they certainly weren’t the only fearsome creatures around. A series of remarkable discoveries by a team led by Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, has made it clear that another, less celebrated group of animals lived alongside the dinos, and sometimes even dined on those better-known cousins. To follow this and other international stories click here
Rape, beatings and humiliation were the childhood experiences for many of the 170,000 boys and girls who were taken into care by the Irish state throughout the 20th century and placed in residential schools, run by the Catholic church.
This summer, after decades of denial, their memories were finally acknowledged in a set of reports which have made headlines all over the world. Read more here
ECONOMIC NEWS
AFTER 32 years of rapacious dictatorship under Mobutu Sese Seko and nearly a decade of chaos following his demise in 1997, Congo’s elections in 2006 marked the first time the people of the former Belgian colony had gone to the polls in a free and fair vote for four decades. Yet there are concerns that President Joseph Kabila is leaning towards a dictatorship. Read more here
