Workers at a UK fast food chain have become the latest allies in the fight against child exploitation thanks to a groundbreaking partnership with the Children’s Society. Chicken Cottage, which has 70 ...

No toilets, expensive food of dubious quality, crowded housing. This was the reality for many in 1840s Britain. And it was set to get worse: cholera had already claimed the lives of 50,000 people in ...

Drug trial a ‘milestone’ in leukaemia treatment A new drug pathway is “transforming” the lives of people with leukaemia and could revolutionise how the disease is treated, scientists said this week.

There are no lenses through which the situation in Gaza looks anything but desperate. But for young Palestinian refugees who fled to Egypt, a photography project has offered an outlet to express their ...

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Hattie Hasan, founder of the National Register of Tradeswomen A digger operator in Yorkshire, a tree surgeon in the Midlands and a stonemason in Scotland are among the experts to feature on a national ...

1. EU emissions shrank (and China’s ‘may have peaked’) While the climate crisis came into ever sharper focus in 2024, emissions continued to rise – but not everywhere. Data published in October ...

Mwa Namupopa shared what she had learned with her husband and encouraged him to attend a men’s discussion group. “There we learned that women were human beings just like men with the same rights,” ...

Deloitte introduced equal parental leave In a win for equality, the accounting giant Deloitte is to introduce equal parental leave for UK employees. From 2025, fathers working at the firm will get 26 ...

Meanwhile, in the US … Despite attempts by the Trump administration to stymie green energy projects, wind and solar are surging across the US. New data shows that renewables accounted for 98% of the ...

Uganda declared an end to its Ebola outbreak Health authorities in Uganda have declared an end to the country’s Ebola outbreak less than three months after the virus was confirmed in the capital ...

3. Basic money skills From budgeting and managing debt, to interest rates and saving, many of us leave school pretty clueless on matters of the wallet. In England, some financial education is now ...