Plus de 6.000 personnes ont déplacées en près d’un mois à Haïti, en raison de la violence des gangs, qui entrave les efforts d’aide des agences humanitaires, ont alerté mardi les Nations Unies.

Plus de 547.000 enfants de moins de 10 ans ont été vaccinés contre le poliovirus dans la bande de Gaza depuis le début de la campagne, le 22 février, a annoncé mardi l’Agence sanitaire mondiale de l’O ...

International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, where UN human rights chief Volker Türk decried a substantial increase in global ...

An 11-year-old at a school in Essex was recently reported to have been given a detention for not achieving 90% on his maths homework (he got 81%). This measure by his school comes in an environment ...

~ Land reform in South Africa doesn’t need a new law: the state should release property it owns – economists ...

South Africa’s land reform minister should be distributing land owned by the government to black farmers rather than fussing about new laws.

Fuel tanker accidents in Nigeria can be prevented by restructuring the built environment, providing parking spaces for the tankers, and constructing good roads.

Humans may not be the only animals that ingest alcohol, research is suggesting. Studies on animals are showing they may be eating natural ethanol for its medicinal or nutritional properties. Humans ...

Technological solutions and environmental incentives rarely recognise that the way we heat our homes is often a way of life.

The idea is that if two sides have nuclear weapons, the consequences of actually using them mean the button never gets pressed. But the strategy goes beyond the countries which own the weapons. In ...

Demi Moore won the Golden Globe for best actress in January for her performance in the horror sci-fi film, The Substance. In her acceptance speech, she shared that, 30 years ago, a producer told her ...

In Indonesia, Islamist groups have long misused the country’s blasphemy law as a political weapon to target perceived critics of Islam, discriminate against religious minorities, and carry out ...