Palestinians are living under a system of apartheid – major new report
Amnesty International accused Israel of subjecting Palestinians to a system of apartheid founded on policies of "segregation, dispossession and exclusion" that it said amounted...
2021 joins top seven warmest years on record
Last year joined the list of the seven warmest years on record, the UN weather agency said on Wednesday, and was also the seventh...
The world is strapped to a Domesday device says Johnson as he opens COP26
Boris Johnson has opened a global climate summit, saying the world is strapped to a “doomsday device.”
Johnson likened the Earth’s position to that of...
Manchester United Foundation donates £33,000 to Sir Bobby Charlton Foundation’s first ‘Safe Play’ project...
During Manchester United Foundation’s Covid-19 response*, £33,000 was donated to The Sir Bobby Charlton Foundation’s ‘Safe Play’ project in Battambang Province, Cambodia.
The donation...
Women in many poor households excluded from education– report
One in six of the world’s poor (215 million) live in households where no female has completed six years of school, but at least...
Remembering 9/11 – Manchester professor launches new work to mark 20th anniversary
A professor from The University of Manchester is launching a new music composition on Saturday to mark the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the day...
Amidst turmoil, displacement and plunging economy, Afghanistan’s future ‘very difficult…to see’
A crisis of incredible proportions is unfolding in Afghanistan as conflict, combined with drought and COVID-19, is pushing Afghans into a humanitarian catastrophe, the...
One billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of the impacts of the climate crisis...
Young people living in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are the most at risk of the impacts of climate change,...
Code Red for Humanity-IPCC says world is dangerously close to runaway warming
The U.N. panel on climate change sounded a dire warning on Monday, saying the world is dangerously close to runaway warming – and that...
British Firefighters flying out to Greece to help fight wildfires
A team of British firefighters including some from the North West are flying out to Greece as wildfires continue to devastate parts of the...