Christine Ro

Urban Dictionary is a valuable source of information on new words—but are linguists getting pranked?

She tweeted: “#Voluntourism is one of drivers of family break up in very poor countries. It incentivises ‘orphanages’ that are run as businesses.”

Migrating without papers can be dangerous.

Back in 2014, my partner and I marked a date in our shared online calendar.

Almost half of all people in Somalia don’t have enough food, according to Save the Children.

“Our children should not suffer for one extra day because of lack of technology that already exists,” declared Bangladeshi microbiologist Senjuti Saha.

“As Arabs we have to make sure we have three things when we pack: our passports, a bunch of cash, and a handheld portable bidet,” joked Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef during his debut UK performance in June.

"There is really a war going on in children's play."

Flying should be uncomfortable, inconvenient, and unglamorous.

If you’ve ever been romantically rejected by someone who just wanted to be friends, you may have delivered a version of this line: “I’ve got enough friends already.”

“At night there are so many mosquitoes, we can’t stay outside,” says young, smiling Madhavi Sharma.