In January 2022, a volcanic eruption ripped apart the underwater cables that connect the Pacific island of Tonga to the world. At a stroke, the country was plunged into the kind of isolation it hadn’t experienced in more than a century.

At St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, the bodies of hundreds of infants born to unmarried mothers were dumped in a disused sewer. Now, thanks to the heroic efforts of one woman, they will be given a proper burial.

During a highly charged presidential campaign, a bomb explodes, unleashing panic and a wave of recriminations. Then a Chinese Y-8 reconnaissance aircraft vanishes in Taiwan’s eastern waters. Under the

MICHELE RUSPOLI felt a little less agitated, now that he was inside the library, but all around was evidence of the flood. Books had been laid out haphazardly on pieces of matting, all leather-bound,

SOLOMON ISLANDS NATIVE CYNTHIA Houniuhi spearheaded a yearslong campaign that culminated in 2025 in a landmark advisory opinion from the U.N.’s International Court of Justice. Thanks to her leadership

WHEN A TRADITIONAL COOKING STOVE LEFT HER toddler with life-threatening burns, Charlot Magayi turned grief into resolve. From Nairobi’s Mukuru slum, she set out to reinvent the stove, and in doing so