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  • Two small children look on as people gather round a coffin lying on the ground outside next to a house.

    Football
    ‘Many migrant workers will die’: the likely human cost of awarding the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia

    Millions of migrants will build stadiums, transport networks and hotels. But testimonies from Bangladeshis who have worked there suggest abuse is deeply entrenched in the Gulf kingdom
  • Women in the process of covering their heads

    Hijab protests
    Iranian women could face death penalty for defying new morality laws

    Execution, long jail terms and big fines for ‘promoting’ nudity, unveiling or improper dressing come into force
  • A woman with braided hair and wearing a gold dress stands in front of a Veuve Clicquot display

    Theatre
    Walking Dead actor Danai Gurira inspires African playwrights with Zimbabwe workshops

    Television and film star, who wrote first play to premiere on Broadway with all female and black cast and creatives, hopes writers’ conference will bring on new talent
  • An African woman sits with a small child on her lap, holding a leaflet about malaria vaccines

    WHO
    Malaria cases rise for fifth year as disasters and resistance hamper control efforts

    • Battered shoes full of sand

      Migration
      Lonely graves, scattered bones: the stark reality of one of the most overlooked and fastest-growing routes for migrants

    • A man​ and a woman hold scraps of wood as they stand in front of a few brightly-coloured one-storey buildings.

      Global health
      Small island nations face climate-induced ‘catastrophe’, warn experts

    • A woman picks through waste at a huge landfill rubbish site

      Pollution
      ‘It is ambitious, but ambition builds the world’: can the Gambia’s bold plan to cut plastic pollution work?

    • Men pass bricks to each other in a chain, from a low pile on the ground to the top of a wall.

      Extreme heat
      ‘I feel dizzy but I can’t stop’: global heating is already making kiln workers’ lives unbearable. And it will only get worse

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Explore

  • A man weeps among the ruins of a building razed by gunmen in Mamfe, south-west Cameroon, 6 November 2023.

    ‘What were you expecting? A bloodless war?’: how Cameroon became trapped in a forgotten standoff

    The eight-year conflict between the country’s French and English-speaking populations has its roots in the colonial past and modern injustice
  • Children enjoy an IDA-funded play area in Beira, Mozambique. Africa is forecast to have the world’s largest, youngest workforce within 10 years.

    Multilateralism faces a toxic brew of debt, climate crisis and war. It’s time for a reboot

    Mo Ibrahim
  • Ebola survivor Daddy Hassan Kamara outside his home in Freetown, Sierra Leone

    Ten years ago Ebola tore through Sierra Leone. Can a vaccine drive stop history repeating itself?

  • Three children stand near a water barrel.

    ‘Education is survival’: parents of Rohingya refugee children fight for their right to go to school in India

  • MOWAA volunteer and guests arrive at the entrance to the MOWAA Institute at the hard hat opening. November 2024 (c) MOWAA.

    Cutting-edge labs, a rainforest gallery and guesthouse: Nigeria to open art museum for 21st century

  • Men working amid piles of rubble and half-demolished one-storey houses

    Revealed: the truth behind the Taliban’s brutal Kabul ‘regeneration’ programme

  • Kidnappers took his staff, then his son. But this Haiti doctor is refusing to flee

  • Colombia outlaws child marriage after 17-year campaign

  • RFK Jr could have disastrous global impact on public health, experts fear

  • Cattle, crops and ancient olive groves: Lebanon’s farmers ‘lose everything’ to Israeli bombs

  • ‘I went to war. It was a nightmare’: how children have become ‘cannon fodder’ in DRC’s endless conflict

  • Giant flowers, a buried chariot and temples in the sand: the art show in the shadow of Giza pyramids

  • No, Robert Jenrick, former colonies do not owe a ‘debt of gratitude’ for Britain’s legacy of brutality and exploitation

    Kenneth Mohammed

  • Rounded up, massacred and posted on social media: can Ethiopia bring justice for atrocities in Tigray?

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Rights and freedom

  • women in white t-shirts outside

    ‘Mother of all battles’: terror for Mexicans as war rages inside Sinaloa cartel

  • Head and shoulders of man in grey jumper

    Syrian activist whose suffering became symbol of Assad brutality found dead in Sednaya prison

  • Mohammed bin Salman and Gianni Infantino

    Saudi Arabia’s World Cup bid victory is a crushing defeat for migrant workers’ rights

    Pete Pattisson
  • A man in dark green scrubs stands in a wrecked room with a hospital bed and debris.

    Health services across Idlib ‘no longer functioning’, say Syrian doctors

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Sudan

  • Starbursts of thick brown smoke and projectiles explode in midairThe Galix System features up to 24 mortar-like launchers for decoys and less-lethal ammunition. Three variants of the control system are available. Lacroix Defense Vehicle Survivability Galix AOS Passive Countermeasures For light vehicles, - an autonomous GALIX system with a manual launch option. For combat vehicles - when a threat emerges unexpectedly, a fully automated variant of the system comprising a variety of sensors, including laser warning sensors, will take action . For "group protection" - launchers may also be utilized to provide protection to vehicules operating nearby.

    French military systems in Sudan may break UN arms embargo, says Amnesty

  • Sudanese refugees displaced by the civil war receive food and water from aid agencies at a camp in eastern Chad.

    UK aid budget to Sudan set to double amid famine fears

  • Women hugging each other

    Women’s rights groups fear FGM is rife among Sudanese refugees in Chad

  • Newly arrived Sudanese refugees arrive at a relocation camp near Adre in Chad

    ‘We will make you have Arab babies’: fears of genocide amid rape and torture in Sudan’s Darfur

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A common condition

  • A twisted worm, stained purple, on a slide

    Growth the size of a melon: a scrotum-swelling disease threatening thousands

  • A doctor places a stethoscope on the back of a small boy

    Millions of teenagers in Africa have undiagnosed asthma – study

  • A woman wearing a face mask and a white laboratory coat holds up two pipettes as another researcher looks on

    Healthier rice variety could counter rise in diabetes, Philippine scientists say

  • A man seen from above, eating a bowl of instant noodles at a rough table covered with sackcloth

    Time for a noodle tax? Doctor who sounded alarm on ultra-processed food urges tougher action

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In pictures

  • A girl stands in the foreground; behind her is a line of women in bright clothing and headscarves

    The world’s most ignored displacement crisis: Burkina Faso – in pictures

    For the second year in a row, the Norwegian Refugee Council named Burkina Faso the world’s most neglected displacement crisis in 2023. The photographer Emre Çaylak has documented the lives of those affected by the crisis living at camps near the capital, Ouagadougou
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Southern frontlines

  • A huge, blue glacier with one edge sheared off.

    ‘Making Argentina great again’? What a year under a climate-change denying president has done for the country

  • The Matanza-Riachuelo Basin seen from the air

    ‘The smell hurts’: why has the supreme court washed its hands of Argentina’s ‘rotten river’?

  • Children wait around a large tree on a riverbank for the arrival of other villagers for the general assembly of Munduruku people, at the Waro Apompu village in High Tapajós, Brazil.

    What’s behind the alarming rise in birth defects in Brazil’s illegal gold mining capital?

  • 8 A herd of cows under a smokeA herd of cows under a smoky sky on the Alta Vista ranch in Bolivia.

    ‘You’ve got the grass; you put a cow in it, and Bob’s your uncle’: the ranchers trying to halt the devastation caused by Bolivia’s cattle farms

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Explainers

  • A pest control worker fumigates a street with insecticides in Jakarta in May 2024 to try to wipe out the mosquitoes that spread dengue fever.

    Dengue fever: with a record 12.4m cases in 2024 so far, what is driving the world’s largest outbreak?

  • A man in a balaclava holding a rifle looks back at the camera while walking along a dirt street

    Sudan’s civil war: how did it begin, what is the human cost, and what is happening now?

  • A woman on a street walks past a black and white mural of a woman covering her face with her arms, with the words 'Stop killing women' written across them in red

    What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it?

  • A collection of colourful pills

    Drug-resistant infections are on the rise – so why aren’t we getting any new antibiotics?

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Multimedia

Multimedia

  • Smoke rises after Israeli attacks during the sunset in Gaza City, with yellow sound wave form graphic
  • Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips on a boat
  • Shireen Abu Akleh
  • Still of a migrant labourer The Great Abandonment documentary
  • Still image from documentary, The 'Spider-Man' of Sudan
  • Chris is a reproductive health advocate in the Phillippines

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