The country’s ‘mother river’ has suffered a series of environmental problems and this year a 10-year fishing ban was instituted to conserve stocks  New legislation comes into force in March…

Around 1,000 people were stuck in the cold, with no facilities or heat, eating meager food parcels from aid groups after a destructive fire. BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Hundreds of migrants…

Indiana hospital system has vowed to conduct a ‘full external review’ into Dr Susan Moore’s treatment A Black doctor who died battling Covid-19 described racist medical care in widely shared…

Lizzy Pesch, an occupational therapist, has been treating patients with COVID-19 for the past nine months, working long hours and dealing with the unpredictable and devastating toll of the disease.…

New Zealanders of all stripes are signing up to learn te reo Māori as the country wrestles with its colonial history Kenny Williams began to study the Māori language during…

"It should be a four-alarm fire," says one expert, given the high hunger rates among families. Millions of low-income schoolchildren have gone almost an entire semester without receiving federal payments…

Observers say a brutal drug war has empowered the police to act without accountability. A Philippine police officer gunned down an unarmed mother and son in a horrific shooting caught…

It will be replaced by a statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a civil rights leader. A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that represented the state of Virginia in…

AT THE END of August, activists in Detroit, like those in dozens of U.S. cities, sued their local government for its police department’s reaction to this year’s Black Lives Matter mobilization.…

The culture sector, which employs more than 30 million people globally, has been hit much harder than expected by the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural…