In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for…

Move comes as Donald Trump calls for imprisonment of Brandon Johnson, Chicago’s mayor, and JB Pritzker, the Illinois governor

Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals increased 30.2 percent from a year ago to 158,971 in September 2025, data from the island’s tourism promotion office showed.

“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.

Blistering attack at Labour conference comes after tech billionaire has used X to hit out at British government

In a speech, the British prime minister will contrast his political project with that of Nigel Farage, whose Reform party promises mass deportations.

Leaders unveil new targets to cut planet-heating pollution after Trump called climate crisis a ‘con job’ World leaders have unveiled new targets to cut planet-heating pollution at the United Nations, in a bid to spur fresh impetus to the beleaguered climate effort a day after Donald Trump called the crisis “the greatest con job ever perpetrated upon the world”. A total of 120 countries and the European Union announced new goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New York on Wednesday. The pledges most notably include one from China, the world’s leading emitter, which said it would cut emissions by 7-10% from its peak level by 2035. Continue reading...

In Manchester and beyond creative responses to the unwelcome message of ‘raise the colours’ are appearing * ‘Scary’ and ‘I loved it’: the ‘unite the kingdom’ march Artists in Britain have customised St George’s flags with messages celebrating diversity, in response to a campaign in which national banners have been flown from lamp-posts, outside homes and painted on roundabouts. While for many, flying the flag is a genuine expression of national pride, some flags have been graffitied on businesses and places of worship belonging to minority ethnic Britons, in some cases with slurs, after the launch of the operation “raise the colours”. Continue reading...

Last weekend saw the biggest ever march by the far right in London

In desperate villages in southwestern Uganda, not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but the death toll is accelerating.

Nazis used the 1933 Reichstag blaze to justify snuffing out civil liberties. In the US, the calls for a crackdown have already begun