A new, financially independent life for former child brides in Mozambique
In Mozambique, more than 20 per cent of girls aged between 13 and 17 have been married or live with someone as if they...
The UN Secretary-General issued a statement on Saturday expressing grave concern over the escalation of fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, where Government...
The role of Mohammed bin Zayed in calming the Russian-Ukrainian war
The summit between the presidents of the UAE and Russia, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Vladimir Putin, held on Tuesday in St. Petersburg,...
From devastating floods in Pakistan, to wildfires in Siberia, the effects of the climate emergency are being felt across the world, and the United...
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) expressed growing concern on Friday over the adoption by Turkiye’s Parliament of a package of amendments to various...
‘Catastrophic’ hunger recorded in Haiti recorded for first time, UN warns
An unrelenting series of crises has trapped vulnerable Haitians in a cycle of growing desperation, without access to food, fuel, markets, jobs and public...
Global food crisis: Let’s move from ‘despair to hope and action’, urges Guterres
In the face of the growing hunger crisis, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization stressed on Friday, ahead of World Food...
Farmers in Bhutan Turn To Asparagus and Strawberries To Boost Incomes
PARO, Bhutan, Oct 14 (IPS) – Zam, 57, sits at her kitchen table looking out the window at her orchard of four dozen apple...
50 years ago, scientists found a new way to clean up oil spills
Oil on the waters — Science News, October 14, 1972 [In the late 1960s], about the best means of cleaning up oil was to...
A 3-D model of the Cat’s Eye nebula shows rings sculpted by jets
Roughly 3,000 light-years from Earth sits one of the most complex and least understood nebulae, a whirling landscape of gas and dust left in...
Ebola Spread Raises Fresh Urgency for Africa’s Domestic Health Funding 
Crossword: Time lines 
If the UN COP17 Is Serious About Biodiversity, It Needs to Follow the Money 
‘Prioritize Social Inclusion as Rapid Transformations Risk Leaving Millions Behind’