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  • Kennedy speaking in Arizona on stage with his face also on the big screen

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

    Concerns anti-vaccine pick for US health secretary could pursue ‘anti-science positions’ on life-saving interventions
  • Mazyouna, left, before her home was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, and right, in hospital in Gaza.

    Israel-Gaza war
    Mazyouna’s face was ‘ripped off’ when a rocket hit her home. Israel has refused to allow her evacuation

    The 12-year-old is one of 2,500 children in Gaza that need to be evacuated urgently yet humanitarian agencies say few are being allowed to leave by the Israeli authorities
  • 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.

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

    Group says it has identified the Galix defence system on armoured vehicles imported from the UAE and calls for government to investigate
  • Portrait of Dr Jean William ‘Bill’ Pape

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

    Dr Jean William ‘Bill’ Pape runs free health services and says people’s needs cannot wait for an end to the gang warfare that is tearing the country apart
    • TOPSHOT-KENYA-HEALTH-VACCINE-MALARIA<br>TOPSHOT - Ruth Kavere (L), 65, demonstrates to use a mosquito net with her granddaughter Faith, 3, who completed doses through the worlds first malaria vaccine (RTS, S) pilot program, at home in Mukuli on March 7, 2023. - The pilot program coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) has provided malaria vaccines in three countries, Ghana, Malawi and Kenya, since 2019. More than 1.2 million children under five years old have received at least one dose of the four-dose vaccine in Africa. According to the WHO, the vaccine has been estimated to save one childs life for every 200 children vaccinated. Around 90 percent of the world's malaria cases are recorded in Africa, where 260,000 children die from the disease each year. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

      Global health
      Fears for spread of malaria in Africa as study finds resistance to frontline drug

    • Young girls stand with their backs to to the camera and their arms around each others' shoulders.

      Women and girls
      Colombia outlaws child marriage after 17-year campaign

    • A woman in her underwear walks in front of women dressed in costumes from The Handmaid's Tale carrying sighns that read 'Woman, Life, Freedom'

      Women's rights
      Iran announces ‘treatment clinic’ for women who defy strict hijab laws

    • A torn poster shows the heads of two veiled women and Arabic script

      Photography
      How the Taliban are erasing Afghanistan’s women – photo essay

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Explore

  • Michael Blebo, photo by Emmanuel Osika Wiafe

    ‘I’m a creative military’: London embraces Ghanaian artist who chose to paint, not fight

    On the verge of giving up on his artistic ambitions and under pressure to join the army, Michael Blebo was saved by an agency dedicated to bringing the art of Africa to collectors worldwide
  • A series of illuminated screens in a row above a street at night show a sketch of a head and torso

    ‘I was asked to find a volunteer for an air pollution campaign in Lahore – I couldn’t find anyone’

  • Portrait of Prof Kelly Chibale

    ‘People didn’t believe Africa could be a source of innovation’: how the continent holds the key to future drug research

  • An MSF nurse talks to Bibi Amina whilst she waits to see a doctor at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) hospital in Kandahar city, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.

    How can we help stop deadly drug-resistant infections spreading? Debt relief

    Glenda Gray
  • Nyombi Morris

    ‘I can’t stop now’: Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ law forces climate activist into exile

  • Cezar Mahumane diving

    ‘People did not go quietly’: divers explore wreck of 18th-century slave ship where mutiny took place

  • The essential ingredient of any vaccination programme? Women

    Sania Nishtar and Svenja Schulze

  • ‘One-man anti-abortion army’: shadow of US global gag rule looms over Nepal’s family planning services

  • Africa’s small-scale revolution against big agriculture: five farmers talk greener, better food

  • ‘I don’t want to hide my son’: the Nigerian singer helping mothers find pride in their children with special needs

  • Musical journey: lessons begin after piano finally arrives in Ethiopia

  • The best fashion statement you can make this season? Buy pre-loved

    Halima Begum

  • ‘Many are obliged to sleep with the foreman’: Bolivia’s female builders square up to an abusive system

  • I was forced to have sex or I would not eat. Then I found a way to escape my traffickers

    Gift*
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Rights and freedom

  • A woman with three small children huddle by a fire in a metal container amid rubble in a refugee camp

    ‘Almost unparalleled suffering’ in Gaza as UN says nearly 70% of those killed are women and children

  • Three pictures of a woman walking down a street in her underwear as others, including veiled women, look on

    Fears grow that woman arrested for undressing in Iran could be tortured in psychiatric unit

  • Construction workers in UAE

    Migrant workers exposed to deadly 45C temperatures in Gulf – report

  • An image of a young woman is held

    A ninth woman has died reporting on the Ukraine conflict. Russia’s war on journalists must end

    Kiran Nazish
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Sudan

  • El Fasher refugees at the Adré camp

    Despair in Chad camps as violence and hunger in Sudan drive 25,000 across border in a week

  • SUDAN-CONFLICT-POLITICS<br>Members of Sudan's armed forces take part in a military parade held on Army Day in Gadaref on August 14, 2024. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

    Sudan needs an exceptional humanitarian endeavour to end its horrific civil war

    Mukesh Kapila
  • A young child partly covered with a blanket gazes upwards in a displacement camp

    Sudan peace talks
    Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says

  • Recurring Floods In South Sudan Displace Refugees And Host Communities<br>BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN - NOVEMBER 28: A group of women walk along a dyke protecting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and their host community, from further flooding on November 28, 2023 in Bentiu, South Sudan. Climate change has divided South Sudan into land that is experiencing unprecedented flooding or drought, with record flooding creating widespread displacement, the destruction of livelihoods and the loss of arable land which all contribute to rising hunger and cases of malnutrition. The ongoing war in Sudan has caused displacement of over 3.3 million people, some redirected refugees travelling back to South Sudan. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)

    Climate crisis
    A drowning town: are Bentiu’s dykes high enough to save it from disaster?

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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 black man in a black suit, tie and sunglasses, and with a serious demeanour, stands at a gate on the outskirts of an airport

    Forced into exile: the Chagossians scattered in Mauritius and Britain

    Decades after it forced out the inhabitants, the UK is relinquishing sovereignty over the remote Chagos Islands. After years of protest over a displacement described as a crime against humanity, the UK will cede the islands to Mauritius. Here are some of the exiled Chagossians in Mauritius and Britain, photographed over several years by Morgan Fache
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Southern frontlines

  • Two men in a small boat move along a flooded street

    Can southern Brazil’s deadly floods spur the shift to green energy?

  • CUENCA APAGONES Cuenca, Ecuador September 27, 2024 Empresa ElA ctrica Centrosur, which supplies the cantons of Azuay, Canar and Morona Santiago, announced the hours of the outages that extend until Sunday, September 29 These are six keys that explain the blackouts that Ecuador is experiencing photo Boris Romoleroux API SOI CUENCA APAGONES 81984c2264ca937a816f20d20f0b64b9 Copyright: xBORISxROMOLEROUXx<br>2Y722WE CUENCA APAGONES Cuenca, Ecuador September 27, 2024 Empresa ElA ctrica Centrosur, which supplies the cantons of Azuay, Canar and Morona Santiago, announced the hours of the outages that extend until Sunday, September 29 These are six keys that explain the blackouts that Ecuador is experiencing photo Boris Romoleroux API SOI CUENCA APAGONES 81984c2264ca937a816f20d20f0b64b9 Copyright: xBORISxROMOLEROUXx

    ‘I’m switched off’: frustration and fatigue as power cuts keep Ecuador in the dark

  • Ships can be seen waiting to cross the Panama Canal on the Pacific side of the canal.

    How the climate crisis threatens the Panama Canal – and the country’s future

  • A man trudges through a flooded street in Gardi Sugdub. After surviving the Spanish colonisation, the Guna people face another existential challenge as the climate crisis threatens their homeland. Rising sea levels have already forced the relocation of around 300 families from the island of Gardi Sugdub to a new mainland community called Isberyala.

    Vanishing act: Panama’s Guna people forced to move as the sea swallows their island – in pictures

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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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