Kate Whitehead

Ian Wishart, chief executive of the Fred Hollows Foundation, discusses the global eye-health organisation’s work in China, which is home to the highest number of blind people in the world

Face-mask wearing during the pandemic affected young children in various ways, from stunting speech to emotional development, according to a psychologist Marco was an energetic and sociable three-year-old just starting kindergarten when the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020. He stayed at home with his one-year-old sister and mother, who had switched to working from home….

Former jockey turned triathlete and ultramarathon runner Jo Lodder, 50, broke his collarbone in a fall, and was frustrated at how slowly it was mending. He tried the Vasper System, based on Nasa spacesuit cooling, which applies liquid cooling and compression to your muscles, and was amazed with the results Jo Lodder was a professional…

The American filmmaker and explorer is featured in the new film Women of Impact The day the music died I was born in 1971. My three older siblings and I grew up in Florida. I was painfully shy, gawky and afraid of the world. When I was seven, my dad died. It was very sudden. There…

China could do with an image makeover, judging by the increasingly negative perceptions of the country revealed in a global public opinion poll

Bobby Lee, who co-founded a cryptocurrency trader, explains the very different ways they are viewed by Chinese, Hongkongers and Westerners, and why China’s clampdown on trading is only making bitcoin more resilient