Fighting has resumed in South Sudan eight years after a fragile peace was agreed. The conflict has caused the displacement of 280,000 people and widespread civilian casualties in the past two months ...

To the first-time visitor, it would be easy to mistake Oyugis Town for the capital of Homa Bay County. Bustling with activity ...

For the first time, whole-genome analysis shows that the small Cape leopards are a genetically distinct population.

I’m floating in an infinity pool high up on Korek Mountain in the Kurdistan Region. A little more than 42 miles away through ...

A month after violent clashes in a Kurdish-majority neighborhood in Syria's Aleppo, tens of thousands of residents have returned. It's s swift turnaround in a country where conflict over the ...

An Islamist armed group has killed 30 civilians, including 4 children, and 5 captured combatants, in two attacks in western ...

Six organisations are in the running for the People’s Choice Award. Voting is open online ahead of the ceremony at the Everyman Theatre in June. ‘They put me on there to die’: Conservatives unleash on ...

Climate change is often viewed as an issue that’s too big for individual action to matter. But calculations show that when personal choices add up, the impact can be significant. The Associated Press ...

This Pew Research Center report describes levels of religious diversity in 201 countries and territories. We measure how evenly each country’s population is distributed among seven groups: Christians, ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli military strikes on Monday killed three people west of Gaza City, according to the hospital where the casualties arrived. Shifa Hospital reported the deaths ...

Study of over 540,000 people suggests people with obesity are 70% more likely to be hospitalised or die from an infectious disease; people with the most severe obesity face three times the risk.