The donation of branded desks by McDonald’s and MiDesk to two Cape Town schools has ignited a heated debate in South Africa. While the desks aim to tackle the country’s chronic shortage of classroom ...

Reassurances that state clinics will pick up the lost services are empty. The scale and immense urgency of this oncoming emergency needs to be understood. We need a plan and a budget, and fast.

A short explainer about the five cryptocurrencies US President Donald Trump wants to include in a new US strategic reserve.

TOKYO, March 4 (Reuters) – Stocks slumped and bond yields slid on Tuesday in Asia as investors braced for an imminent escalation in a global trade war with new US tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China ...

Britain's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office, on Monday launched an investigation into how TikTok, Reddit RDDT.N and online image sharing website Imgur safeguard children's ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has paused military aid to Ukraine following his clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy last week, a White House official, deepening the fissure that has opened ...

Britain said on Monday that several proposals had been made for a truce in fighting between Ukraine and Russia, after France floated a plan for a one-month pause leading to peace talks, but US ...

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past three days.

Discrimination in any form is an affront to human dignity and human rights. No scripture, no doctrine and no belief system should ever justify the violation of another’s humanity.

Security sector reforms that began well before the country’s two coups still suffer from a lack of effective civil society participation.

Thailand is studying the idea of building a wall on part of its border with Cambodia to prevent illegal crossings, its government said on Monday, as a multi-national effort to dismantle a sprawling ...

Do the progressive white people who call out injustices see the shouting down of black people? If they do witness it, what is their responsibility as ‘allies’? How do they choose to ‘wield their ...