Malawi has one cancer specialist for 16 million people and no radiotherapy facility. In Africa, cancer rates are expected to grow 400% over the next 50 years and a survey across the continent found 45% of the countries had no hospice or palliative ...

People don't want to be seen using a foodbank. The story of Britain's hunger gap remains hidden behind closed doors, illustrated only by neat stacks of tins and pasta. This is the story about the foodbank supply lines to the homes and kitchens of ...

Seabirds are indicators of marine health, providing a window under the waves. Over the past 50 years, the world's sea bird populations have declined by 70%. One third of the EU's breeding sea birds are found in Scotland with over a million nesting on...

Syria's protracted crisis three years of debilitating ruin and elusive compromise has torn families from their homes, their country, and each other.The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has registered well over 2.5 million ...

Four years after the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake triggered a deadly tsunami leading to the Fukushima Dai-ichi power station disaster, hundreds of square miles remain off-limits for habitation due to radioactivity. Japan is currently undertaking ...

China's economy depends on coal - and it has vast quantities of the black stuff left underground to dig up and burn. The country combusts almost as much coal every year as the rest of the world combined and gets fully three quarters of its energy ...

Myanmar was once the world's largest supplier of heroin until it was unseated by a post-Taliban surge in production in Afghanistan. Yet recently, as the country has been welcomed back into the international community following years of pariah status ...

In recent years Burma, long a byword for political repression and brutal military rule, has emerged from its half century of isolation and become the playground of growing numbers of foreign tourists and companies from around the world sniffing ...

The subject of human trafficking in Southeast Asia has recently been highlighted by the tragic fate of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar trying to gain access to Thailand and other neighbouring countries to escape violence and discrimination in their ...

Founded in 1701, the city of Detroit lies on the banks of the Detroit River which links Lake Erie and Lake Huron and divides the USA from Canada on the other bank of the stream. Its central location on a major waterway in the Great Lakes region ...

From the time of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC, when a Persian empire stretched from modern day Greece to the Indus, to the present cautious engagement of the West with a more moderate government in Tehran, Iran has attracted the attention of...

The Second Amendment is one of the most fiercely contested parts of the Bill of Rights, and indeed the entire United States Constitution on which America is founded. It reads, in its entirety: 'A well regulated militia, being necessary to the ...

Since the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014 by a local policeman the reports of police violence, often of the lethal kind, directed against predominantly black men keep on hogging the headlines. Not ...

Spending money on buying a dog, taking it to the vet and for walks belonged to white culture and was not the African way'President Jacob Zuma Middle class South Africans people I know as family and friends, but also the strangers I see at the ...

As the world's population shifts from the countryside to the cities, the urban areas need to expand in order to hold the influx of people. One could go to the empty pueblos in the countryside to explore this shift. Another way to document this ...

Sierra Leone is about to overtake Liberia as the country worst affected by West Africa's devastating Ebola epidemic that has claimed close to 6,000 lives across the region according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Almost a fifth of the ...