On the frontline in Nepal as aid finally begins to arrive
With Nepalis in villages becoming ever more desperate for help, relief agencies have defended themselves against criticism that the international response has been sluggish.
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In 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok. Most of them have still not been found and the abductions have continued. Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson has visited a camp in Maiduguri, where Unicef has helped support some of those abducted.
Women and children now outnumber men among people trying to get into Europe, according to a charity. Fact or fiction?
A medical team is on its way to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, where 32 people are reported to have died of starvation in the last month and children are suffering from severe malnutrition.
George Osborne says the Conservatives abolished the slave trade, stopped children working in factories and invented chocolate. OK, we made that last one up.
Jamal Osman reports on the boom in Somaliland attracting migrants seeking jobs and opportunities from Yemen, Ethiopia – and London.
Female genital mutilation could affect women in every part of England and Wales, according to a new study. What’s behind the numbers?
Some new mothers say the pressure to breastfeed – reinforced by the craze for breastfeeding selfies, or “brelfies” – is making those who feed their children by bottle feel like failures.
One month after Nepal was devastated by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake a UN official warns that international community’s response has been “disappointing” – as another threat approaches&
Holiday tour operator Thomas Cook is under fire for its muted response to the deaths of two children who died of carbon monoxide poisoning on holiday in Corfu in 2006.
Voters in the Republic of Ireland will take part in a historic vote next week allowing the public to decide if same sex marriage can be allowed in a traditionally Catholic country, Neil Markey writes.
With Nepalis in villages becoming ever more desperate for help, relief agencies have defended themselves against criticism that the international response has been sluggish.
At least 25 people are killed in a blast at a dairy factory in Yemen’s Hodaida port, medical sources say, as Saudi-led air strikes continue against Houthi rebels.
The impact from a devastating tropical storm will be “the very, very, very worst” in isolated outer islands but damage was still being assessed, Vanuatu’s president says.
Aid agencies say that a tropical cyclone could have wiped out entire villages in Vanuatu, in what could be one of the worst disasters in Pacific history.
West Africans are using a surprising weapon in the fight against the spread of the Ebola virus – catchy educational tunes.