Strict water restrictions come into force for millions of people in California as the US west coast continues to experience a crippling drought. Many predict…

(TW: Themes of self-harm and suicide) Kush – a cheap, new illegal drug high is taking the youth of Sierra Leone to a dark place….

The Black Axe are one of the most feared and powerful organised crime groups in the world. The highly secretive mafia – referred to as…

Taliban leaders, who’ve never been seen in public before, have been making their first statements on Afghan soil, to a world shocked by their lightning…

The need to maintain a social distance of 2 metres in England is being actively reviewed, the government has announced. Boris Johnson said it is…

The Bank of England has warned that the UK is heading for an unprecedented recession. It says the economy is on course for the sharpest…

The human preoccupation with sex is nothing new – but the internet has made it so much easier to explore and exploit every shade of…

In 2017, mobile footage of a plain-clothed policeman gunning down two apparently unarmed men went viral in Kenya. But who is this cop and what…

Hurricane Irma has destroyed buildings and caused major flooding on several French island territories in the Caribbean. The four “most solid” buildings on Saint Martin,…

Nearly three years ago, so-called Islamic State fighters swept through northern Iraq, where the country’s oldest ethnic minority were living – the Yazidis. Many of…