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  • Rows of brightly coloured vapes on a shop shelf next to sweets and lollipops

    Smoking
    Vapes threaten to undo gains in tackling dangers of tobacco, health leaders warn

    WHO calls for higher cigarette taxes, plus graphic warnings on vapes, heated tobacco products and nicotine pouches
  • Spanish Air Force and Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) personnel inside an aircraft ahead of a mission to drop humanitarian aid parcels over Gaza, in March 2024.

    How did Spain come to be one of the few nations holding firm on aid spending?

    Ana Carbajosa
    By refusing to slash funding to poorer nations, Spain became an outlier in the new world disorder. Next week it hosts a UN summit in Seville to prove it
  • The hill station of Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India, seen from Gun Hill.

    Heat and health
    Traffic, crowds and construction: India’s hill stations swamped by tourists escaping Delhi heat

  • A group of children, some of them displaced and seeking refuge, in Goma, DRC.

    Children and conflict
    Children suffered record levels of violence in conflict zones in 2024, UN report shows

  • Fatou Wurie, wearing a Harvard jacket, standing by the steps of a large building.

    What it's really like
    What it’s really like … to know I’m going to miss my Harvard graduation because of Trump’s travel ban

  • A woman wearing a sari sitting on the ground

    India
    India illegally deporting Muslim citizens at gunpoint to Bangladesh, say rights groups

  • A hand holds a small glass vial with a metal lid.

    Global health
    ‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers

    As regulator prepares to approve Lenacapavir in the US, campaigners are urging the manufacturer, Gilead, to make it ‘available and affordable for all who need it’
  • African protesters stage a mock funeral, carrying a model of a child's coffin. A sign says "Thabo, your ideas are toxic'

    Trump's aid cuts
    ‘I don’t want my boy to be positive’: pregnant women face sky-high viral loads as cuts hit HIV care in Africa

    As the withdrawal of US funding disrupts treatment and halts crucial research in South Africa, clinics fear the resurgence of mother-to-child transmission of the virus
  • A UN pickup truck mounted with a heavy machine gun carrying a unit of blue-helmeted peacekeepers follows UN trucks in a desert landscape

    Humanitarian aid
    Send in armed UN troops to protect aid convoys or risk ‘dystopia’, says expert

Explore

  • A smiling man and a woman jump in the air next to a lake on a sunny day

    Conversations with strangers: inviting people to join my daily walk has made my life fuller

    Jacqueline Asiimwe
    From Kampala to Bangkok, I’ve walked with young and old, students and politicians, artists and ambassadors. Everyone has a story to tell
  • Portrait of Oluwaseun Babalola sitting among plants in a park

    From New York to Sierra Leone: the search for a missing sister

  • HIV virus particles, illustration<br>Illustration of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) particles

    Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’

  • A woman in traditional clothing walks in front of a mural that shows an older person and a baby.

    Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report

  • Women in matching patterned dresses and purple scarves sing and dance, some holding instruments

    Can a 15th-century Indian singing tradition help stop wildfires?

  • ducks in a pond in front of a power station at sunset

    ‘We are just sitting here’: South African coal belt town split over green transition

  • An interior view of Pakistan's senate building, a large room with desks placed in concentric curves under a tiled and patterned central dome.

    Pakistan sends ‘important signal’ of hope in a gloomy world of pushbacks on women’s rights

Rights and freedom

  • Four men, two in red cross tracksuits carry a wooden coffin past graves.

    ‘We were sinking. I let her go’: how growing numbers of women are risking all to reach Europe by boat

  • A muzzled dog led by soldier wearing a helmet and face covering and carrying a gun.

    Attack dogs: how Europe supplies Israel with brutal canine weapons

  • How ordinary men became unpaid Taliban enforcers in their own homes

    How ordinary men became unpaid Taliban enforcers in their own homes

  • A veiled woman walks past a huge picture of a bearded imam in front of an Iranian flag

    BBC staff in London say their families are being ‘terrorised and punished’ by Iranian regime

Sudan

  • The burning and charred wreckage of an aid truck hit in the attack

    ‘Multiple casualties’ reported after attack on UN aid convoy in Darfur

  • Three sections of bright colour photographs of a tree and plants are superimposed on to a black and white photograph of a street full of rubble and rubbish

    Before and after: images by Sudan’s accidental war photographer show loss of everyday life

  • A man wearing camouflage patterned clothes and holding an automatic rifle walks past a burnt-out building.

    Dossier of alleged Sudan war crimes handed to Metropolitan police

  • A white coated female doctor wearing a hijab and a face mask sits at a desk in a modern-looking clinic with a patient sitting on a chair facing her.

    Gleaming labs turned to rubble: scientists mourn the loss of decades of medical progress in Sudan

Opinion

  • Packets of sweets on display in a shop in Colombia

    It’s time to stop the great food heist powered by big business. That means taxation, regulation and healthy school meals

    Stuart Gillespie
  • Hanifa Safia Adan

    Reduce immigration to the west? We don’t want to come anyway, Mr Starmer

    Hanifa Safia Adan
  • A woman walks past a mural of birds flying, and plants and flowers painted within the profile of a head

    I’m a woman of 48 – and as replaceable in the office as the swivel chair at my desk

    Nilanjana Bhowmick
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

    If illegal logging starts again, Liberia could lose more than its beloved pygmy hippos

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

In pictures

  • A woman in a huge canopy-like dress of stiff purple fabric decorated with gold moons and stars stands in front of a rose-red wall. To her right is a small fire; to her left a white snake.

    Women behind the lens: ‘The bridal dress is meant to present her as a queen … but to me it always felt like a cage’

    The work of the Moroccan photographer Sara Benabdallah explores ritual and repression in her country’s marriage traditions

Southern frontlines

  • A Quechua mother and her son in traditional dress during the Compadres festival in the Sacred Valley. The boy is holding a goose feather ornament.

    In the shadow of melting glaciers: life in the heartland of the Incas’ former empire – a photo essay

  • More than a dozen young Latino people digging holes and planting trees over a bare hillside

    One man, thousands of trees and heaps of determination: how regreening Guatemala transformed a village

  • A small lagoon with green grass and shrubs growing around it under a blue sky

    A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town

  • A white heron stands on a plank of wood above still water, surrounded by houses on stilts in Riosucio, Colombia.

    ‘When the river swells, it forces them to run backwards’: rising waters push Colombia’s farmers into hunger and despair

Explainers

  • 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 masked woman looks at her phone as she passes a billboard that shows multiple hands, each bearing a flag from a different nation, towards a floating vial and syringe

    Are we ready for another pandemic?

  • 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?

  • African child holding a UK aid flag in DRC

    How much does the UK spend on overseas aid – and where does the money go?

Multimedia

  2. Smoke rises after Israeli attacks during the sunset in Gaza City, with yellow sound wave form graphic

    ‘I hate the night’: Life in Gaza amid the incessant sounds of war

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