Workers at a UK fast food chain have become the latest allies in the fight against child exploitation thanks to a groundbreaking partnership with the Children’s Society. Chicken Cottage, which has 70 ...

No toilets, expensive food of dubious quality, crowded housing. This was the reality for many in 1840s Britain. And it was set to get worse: cholera had already claimed the lives of 50,000 people in ...

Drug trial a ‘milestone’ in leukaemia treatment A new drug pathway is “transforming” the lives of people with leukaemia and could revolutionise how the disease is treated, scientists said this week.

There are no lenses through which the situation in Gaza looks anything but desperate. But for young Palestinian refugees who fled to Egypt, a photography project has offered an outlet to express their ...

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With its expansive library of brightly coloured books, the Poetry Pharmacy is every poetry fan’s dream. Alma knows that lyrical writing alone won’t cure anyone of life’s greatest traumas. Instead, the ...

Mwa Namupopa shared what she had learned with her husband and encouraged him to attend a men’s discussion group. “There we learned that women were human beings just like men with the same rights,” ...

Meanwhile, in the US … Despite attempts by the Trump administration to stymie green energy projects, wind and solar are surging across the US. New data shows that renewables accounted for 98% of the ...

Uganda declared an end to its Ebola outbreak Health authorities in Uganda have declared an end to the country’s Ebola outbreak less than three months after the virus was confirmed in the capital ...

AI is boosting cancer detection rates in England An artificial intelligence tool that scans patients’ medical records for hidden signs of cancer has helped doctors detect significantly more cases of ...

EU emissions recorded a sharp decline Total net greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union fell by 8% last year, new figures reveal, meaning that greenhouse gas pollution in the 27-country bloc is ...

1) Renewables had a record year Demand for renewables was growing before the pandemic and has held steady during 2020. Advancements in green tech have rapidly brought down the costs of wind and solar, ...