Metro • 28th April 2026

I asked a psychiatrist why Americans are becoming 'numb' to violence

A 1960s activist once said, ‘Violence is as American as cherry pie.’
He has a point. The political violence Americans like myself have witnessed in the past few years isn’t new.

Metro • 22nd February 2026

The bleak reality of living in -20°C temperatures without heat or electricity

Iryna begins each morning with a flashlight, making her way through her apartment in Kyiv without heating or electricity.

Metro • 13th January 2026

Is the US government using 'Nazi-inspired' slogans?

Americans are raising the alarm over increasingly concerning posts from government agencies, reminiscent of Nazi Germany slogans.

Metro • 8th January 2026

US 'facing widespread trouble' after Renee Good was shot dead by ICE agent

Discontent with ICE in cities across the US is reaching a boiling point after the shooting of an woman by an officer in Minneapolis.

Metro • 3rd January 2026

How will Trump's attack on Venezuela impact the wider world?

Donald Trump heralded the capture of Venezuelan leader, Nicolas Maduro, as ‘extremely successful’, but for the global stage, this could mark the start of major implications for international stability.

Metro • 1st December 2025

Rosa Parks changed the course of history 70 years ago - what have we learned sin

Rosa Parks became the face of a movement in Montgomery, Alabama. after refusing to give up her seat to a white man 70 years ago today.

Metro • 28th October 2025

One man's mission to prove Manchester's wheelie bins are anything but dull

When the average Brit goes shopping each year for a new calendar, photos of pylons and wheelie bins aren’t normally the top choice.

Metro • 24th September 2025

The New York 'sim-farm' plot reveals a troubling trend

A clandestine network of SIM servers and cards was positioned to knock out cell service and target protective missions near the United Nations.

Metro • 14th September 2025

Inside the villages living in limbo on the border between Russia and Finland

The late afternoon sun is beating down as I stand near the tall, ornate black iron gates. Above me, the word ‘Zsar’, emboldened in golden letters with a crown above it, is hard to miss.

Metro • 11th September 2025

Inside the Finnish army base where young conscripts prepare for war

Imagine if the sound of gunfire from a shooting range was audible from the Thames – or if leafy Chiswick was a military base training the UK’s top urban warfare soldiers to defend cities from foreign armies.

Metro • 31st August 2025

The role that stunts and political protests have played in history

The world looks back on the actions of suffragettes, civil rights leaders and other protesters as a necessary good – even when the actions they took for change were illegal at the time.

Metro • 29th August 2025

20 years after Katrina, the story of what happened is still being twisted

Hours before sunrise on August 29, 2005, the concrete levees surrounding the most populated wards in New Orleans began to crack.

Metro • 13th August 2025

What is AI psychosis? The rise in people thinking chatbots are real or godlike

The rapidly advancing technology, while exciting, is not without its dangers. Some AI users have become so reliant on the technology for advice and emotional support that they claim they’re in a virtual relationship with the tech.

Metro • 25th July 2025

Young people are falling through the cracks when it comes to sexual abuse

Gaia Pope was just a teenager when she died. A ‘loving and intelligent’ girl, the 19-year-old enjoyed painting and drawing, and was described by friends as someone who ‘hated injustice’.

Metro • 9th July 2025

Thoughts and prayers - the truth about politicians and natural disasters

While some families have yet to recover the bodies of their missing loved ones, many of whom just days ago were having the time of their lives at Camp Mystic, the tragedy is already being manipulated by those in power.

Metro • 19th May 2025

Man says cafe staff refused to serve him because of his face tumours

A man with a rare genetic condition who said he was refused service in a north London cafe after customers stared at him said he shared his story to empower others.

Metro • 20th March 2025

I own a cat cafe - by staying open we are giving them a better life

Owners and customers of cat cafes in London have dismissed new suggestions from the RSPCA which suggested the popular establishments be ‘phased out’ because of stress on the felines.

Metro • 2nd March 2025

'The British public is in the dark over the threat they face from Russia'

‘We’re no longer in a Cold War, we’re in a hot war, we’re no longer fighting the Soviet Union, we’re fighting Russia.’

Metro • 27th January 2025

'I'd rather shake hands with an SS officer than a Holocaust denier'

When Ivor Perl was a child, he would walk to school every day in the small, southeastern Hungarian town of Mako.
The route was familiar to children in the area, and often their journeys were unremarkable.
But for Ivor and his siblings, it was a source of pain. As young Jews, they were subjected to Antisemitism – even as children.

Metro • 17th January 2025

Russia's shadow fleet of tankers threaten ‘catastrophic disaster’ off UK coast

Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ of oil tankers designed to avoid sanctions poses a serious threat to the UK and other international waters, it has been warned.

Metro • 14th December 2024

How years of sexual violence in Syria have impacted civilians

Throughout the 13 years of civil war in Syria, nerve agents, chlorine barrel bombs and mustard gas were used to torment civilians who disagreed with Bashar al-Assad’s Government.

Metro • 2nd December 2024

A British man has been kept in a Dubai jail for 16 years and we need answers

Millions of people will be celebrating Eid Al Etihad today, the National Day of the United Arab Emirates that celebrates the formation of the country.   But sitting alone in Al Awir Jail on the outskirts of Dubai, one man will not be celebrating.

Metro • 7th November 2024

Appalachian locals say JD Vance's career is built on 'wild claims'

In 2016, as Americans questioned why so many had voted for Donald Trump to become America’s 45th president – and again, how he was re-elected this week, JD Vance’s book appeared to have all the answers.

Metro • 1st September 2024

20 years since the Beslan siege - has Russia learned nothing?

There’s an event that’s been haunting Vladimir Putin for the past two decades. It’s not his past in the KGB, nor the multiple ‘mysterious deaths’ that seem to afflict those who go against him.