Donald Trump, Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin join Emmanuel Macron and other world leaders in a Paris ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the armistice that brought an end to the first world war Trump joins Macron and world leaders at armisti...
Following a sharp increase in cannabis poisoning among young people, Canadian health professionals are calling for tighter controls to keep edible marijuana products away from minors. Canada last month became the second country in the world to legal...
The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to more than 200. The health ministry said it had recorded 201 deaths from the virus and that 291 cases have been confirmed since the outbreak began in August. A...
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O'Rourke's bid to unseat Ted Cruz in the US midterms narrowly failed – but his audacious grassroots campaign sprinkled seeds of Democratic rebirth and has drawn whispers of a presidential run. What is it that makes people think the Texas congressman...
An investigation has been launched following reports that four unarmed men were shot dead at close range by peacekeeping troops in Somalia. Burundian troops serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) are alleged to have opened fire...
In my first year at university in Nigeria, my roommate Kathy found out she had become pregnant by accident. She was 18, a promising student with her whole life ahead of her. But she wasn’t ready to become a mum and feared her family’s reaction. She...
In a quiet corner of Kabul, a dozen young women welcome their friend back from the summit of Afghanistan’s highest mountain. Like many Afghan women, Hanifa Yousoufi had always been made to believe, growing up, that she shouldn’t go to school or play...
On the evening of 13 November 1985, Luz Estrella ArÃas was at home with her young daughter in Rio Claro, a hamlet in Caldas in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region. When she heard the roar, at first she thought it was a truck overturning. Then she...
It is not the large-eyed dentex’s lucky day. But it is Yelli Diop’s. The Senegalese fisherman has had a very successful haul, and arrives back on Dakar’s shores with several boxes of fish in the hull. His brightly painted pirogue – a long, narrow ca...
Think of your favourite gadgets and appliances, and it’s likely some of them started life in a rundown, mosquito-infested dormitory complex an hour’s drive from Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. In each block there is a makeshift kitchen, a small, g...
The Chinese megacity of 12 million people is crowded, polluted, and vulnerable to flooding. A rooftop garden is using plants to make stormwater work for the city, and to improve the livelihoods of residents Main image: The green rooftop project wa...