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  • A woman sitting outside holds a small child while another woman injects him

    Global health
    Sudan’s children face growing threat of deadly infectious diseases as vaccination rates halve

    The country, beset by war, has the world’s lowest rates of vaccination, says the World Health Organization, as global immunisation drive also stalls
  • A man in a suit. Other people in smart dress can be seen behind him

    Analysis
    Will Mike Waltz lead a ‘full-frontal assault’ on the UN?

    Some fear Donald Trump’s nominee for UN ambassador will damage global development in a bid to rehabilitate his image after the Signal chat scandal
  • South Korean FX reserves in June<br>epa11454005 A clerk sorts $100 dollar US banknotes at the headquarters of Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, 03 July 2024. South Korea's foreign reserves came to $412.21 billion dollars US as of end-June, down $620 million dollars from the previous month, according to the Bank of Korea. EPA/YONHAP SOUTH KOREA OUT

    Trust in the US is eroding. The question isn’t if the dollar will lose supremacy – it’s when

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • A woman in red dress looks up at a man wearing a turban as they stand in front of a lake surrounded by mountains.

    India-Pakistan tension
    Diljit Dosanjh is one of the biggest Asian stars in the world. So why can’t Indian cinemagoers see his latest film?

  • A hand points at fossilised bones of a very small hominin in a wooden tray

    Palaeoanthropology
    ‘It’s always been some white dude’: how Ethiopia became the world leader in uncovering the story of humankind

  • A huge Cubist-style statue of a soldier made of concrete and ridded with bullet holes, seen from below

    Ukraine in Depth
    Inside the ghost museums of Ukraine: exhibits replaced by fragments of war and occupation

  • A smiling Indian man in the cupola of the ISS

    Space exploration
    ‘I didn’t give much thought to the universe’: India’s first astronaut in 40 years inspires next generation of stargazers

  • Three divers hold a tangle of fishing gear underwater

    Colombia
    One wrong move could be fatal: the divers risking their lives to save whales from ‘ghost nets’

  • A woman dressed in a black abaya stand with a group of children outside a makeshift camp built with bits of cloth, rope and sticks

    Humanitarian crisis
    ‘We live on bread and tea. I’ve wished for death’: Yemen’s forgotten refugees

  • Logo pictured outside United Nations Aids agency (UNAids) building in Geneva

    Aids and HIV
    High-risk HIV groups facing record levels of criminalisation as countries bring in draconian laws

Explore

  • A woman balances a staghorn fern on her head as she walks through rows of plants.

    Meet Kerala’s ‘rainforest gardeners’ creating a Noah’s ark for endangered plants

    In one of the world’s ‘hottest hotspots’ of biodiversity, an all-female team have turned a patch of forest into a haven for orchids, ferns, succulents and carnivorous plants
  • Fatou Wurie, wearing a Harvard jacket, standing by the steps of a large building.

    What it’s really like … to know I’m going to miss my Harvard graduation because of Trump’s travel ban

  • DSC05799 Women survivors Tigray, Ethiopia X-ray image showing a nail clipper inserted inside a uterus, Mekele, Tigray, March 2025.

    Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women

  • The hill station of Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India, seen from Gun Hill.

    Traffic, crowds and construction: India’s hill stations swamped by tourists escaping Delhi heat

  • A woman's pregnant torso. She is holding her stomach. She has a canula in one hand and is wearing a white dress with sunflowers on it

    Too scared to go to hospital: the pregnant women in Dominican Republic dying because of deportation fears

  • Two smiling South Asian men, one with his arm around the other.

    Malala and Kiran faced violence, threats and shame. Now their fathers want ‘all men to stand with women’

  • Partial image of a women against Aids poster in South Africa

    South Africa is at the heart of the HIV pandemic. What happens now the money has been cut?

Rights and freedom

  • The green Saudi Arabian flag, featuring a sword and the Islamic creed, or shahada, in thuluth Arabic script

    Saudi Arabia executing ‘horrifying’ number of foreigners for drug crimes

  • Afghan refugees sit with their belongings at the Islam Qala border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran, their deportation from Iran, 28 June 2025.

    ‘They threw us out like garbage’: Iran rushes deportation of 4 million Afghans before deadline

  • Friends and relatives mourn after Dr Marwan al-Sultan was killed along with seven members of his family in an Israeli attack

    ‘No other explanation’: children of Gaza doctor killed in airstrike believe he was deliberately targeted

  • Relatives and friends surround the shrouded body of Doctor Marwan al-Sultan at a hospital bed

    ‘Shock and grief’ as senior doctor killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Sudan

  • People surrounded by belongings sit on the ground, some under flimsy sunshades make of sheets and sticks, others in the sun.

    Women and girls ‘not safe anywhere’ as Darfur suffers surge in sexual violence

  • The burning and charred wreckage of an aid truck hit in the attack

    ‘Multiple casualties’ reported after attack on UN aid convoy in Darfur

  • Three sections of bright colour photographs of a tree and plants are superimposed on to a black and white photograph of a street full of rubble and rubbish

    Before and after: images by Sudan’s accidental war photographer show loss of everyday life

  • A man wearing camouflage patterned clothes and holding an automatic rifle walks past a burnt-out building.

    Dossier of alleged Sudan war crimes handed to Metropolitan police

Opinion

  • A woman walks in the street amongst tuk-tuks

    Women in India don’t want ‘safe zones’ – they want to enjoy public spaces as equals

    Nilanjana Bhowmick
  • Spanish Air Force and Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) personnel inside an aircraft ahead of a mission to drop humanitarian aid parcels over Gaza, in March 2024.

    How did Spain come to be one of the few nations holding firm on aid spending?

    Ana Carbajosa
  • Cuthbert Gudza, a street money trader, repairs damaged US banknotes, outside a shopping centre, in Kuwadzana township, Harare, Zimbabwe

    The global south needs more than tinkering at a conference: debt forgiveness is the only fair way

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • A nurse wearing protective clothing speaks to a HIV-positive patient in a gazebo used as a mobile clinic

    ‘We remember the silence, the denial, the deaths. We cannot go back to the dark days of gaslighting us on Aids’

    Yvette Raphael and Sibongile Tshabalala

In pictures

  • A girl in her bedroom bending over backwards on her bed. She is wearing shorts, socks and a sleeveless top. Her face is obscured. The walls are covered in mostly postcard-sized images she's printed out from the internet.

    Women behind the lens: bending over backwards for luck

    Colombian artist and photographer Isabella Madrid explores the ‘click to be saved’ economy of hope in her project, Lucky Girl Syndrome

Southern frontlines

  • Two pipes run through a desert

    Mining companies are pumping seawater into the driest place on Earth. But has the damage been done?

  • Members of the Mashco Piro Indigenous community, a reclusive tribe, gather on the banks of the Las Piedras River

    ‘We don’t want contact because you are bad’: loggers close in on uncontacted people in Peruvian Amazon

  • Aerial view of a the grey exposed earth of a mine on the right next to a small town on the left, with hills in the background

    Brazil’s last asbestos miners are switching to rare earth minerals. Can they offer a brighter future?

  • Two hands full of seeds of different shapes and sizes

    Ancient maize v agribusiness: why Colombia’s ‘seed guardians’ are fighting the use of GM crops

Explainers

  • 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 masked woman looks at her phone as she passes a billboard that shows multiple hands, each bearing a flag from a different nation, towards a floating vial and syringe

    Are we ready for another pandemic?

  • 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?

  • African child holding a UK aid flag in DRC

    How much does the UK spend on overseas aid – and where does the money go?

Multimedia

  1. 3 photographs of places in Gaza City and its citizens overlayed on a map

    A street in Gaza, a map of dreams, and the people desperate to live

  3. Smoke rises after Israeli attacks during the sunset in Gaza City, with yellow sound wave form graphic

    ‘I hate the night’: Life in Gaza amid the incessant sounds of war

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