Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, will be sworn in as president for a record third term on January 10, four months after being declared the winner of the country’s highly contentious election.

Responding to the fatal shooting of Cambodian-French former opposition MP Lim Kimya in Bangkok, Thailand, Amnesty International’s Interim Regional Deputy Director for Research Kate Schuetze said: “The ...

Amid the rise of vegetarianism in late 19th-century London, George Gissing used meat-free characters to probe themes of poverty, morality and social contradiction.

In a groundbreaking medical achievement in the UK, a 32-year-old woman from Manchester has undergone the country’s first liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer. Bianca Perea was diagnosed with ...

You know the story of Dracula. A Transylvanian count wants to buy land in the west, a young real estate agent visits him to finalise the sale and has a bad time. The count travels to the west to wreak ...

Click to expand Image Afşin Elbistan A plant seen from Çoğulhan village square, Afşin, Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye. © 2024 Katharina Rall/Human Rights Watch Amid growing concerns about its existing air ...

Click to expand Image Former US President Jimmy Carter. © 2014 LBJ Library and Museum The late US President Jimmy Carter’s human rights legacy includes his role long after leaving office in 1981. His ...

The study of (mostly white) residents and (mostly black) workers in an old age home in South Africa took place over seven years and it upended stereotypes.

In 2024, critical discussions began that could reshape internet governance, with debates extending into 2025. At stake is the shift from a multi stakeholder model ... to a government-dominated ...

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has urged restraint in Syria, amid reports that some individuals from the country’s Alawite community and other minority groups have been targeted and killed.

Beach shacks have long been isolated and precarious. What we find charming today was once considered ‘fringe-dwelling’, separated from cities along racial and economic lines.

A variety of species across the animal kingdom can reproduce both sexually and asexually, including some types of starfish, water fleas, hammerhead sharks and Komodo dragons.