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  • People stand amid brick dust next to a ruined building

    Israel-Gaza war
    Israeli forces raid Gaza hospital after staff reported killed in strike

    Staff arrested, injured and killed as Israeli forces burn departments and attack buildings surrounding one of the area’s last remaining hospitals, says director
  • A group of older people in swimming caps in a swimming pool

    Poverty
    ‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico City

    A visionary mayor has harnessed her imagination to promote health, wellbeing and culture in one of the Mexican capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods
  • A woman wearing a floral skirt over pink petticoats and boots with crampons uses ice axes to climb a steep snowy mountainside

    2024 in review
    We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2024 – part one

    From an exuberant mountaineering woman to a boy representing unheard refugees, here are some of the brave individuals that gave us hope
  • Thelma Cabrera standing in a crop field of cane

    2024 in review
    We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2024 – part two

    From those performing extraordinary acts in times of war to the woman changing views of children with disabilities, these people gave us hope in a tumultuous year
    • A person wrapped in a blue banner with the Somali flag walks past a group of protesters

      BBC
      For more than 50 years the BBC’s Somali service has been broadcasting an anti-colonial message – without realising it

      Mohammed Hirmoge
    • A man in a suit jacket and striped shirt stands in front of a window

      Syria
      Syrian family left in limbo over Christmas as UK halts asylum claims

    • People sit in small groups in the shade of some trees with rocky outcrops in the background.

      Hiking
      ‘Each step we take is an escape’: the intrepid hikers exploring war-torn Yemen

    • A camp that has been set up near Goma, in the DRC, for those fleeing the M23 militia

      Children executed and women raped in front of their families as M23 militia unleashes fresh terror on DRC

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Explore

  • An image of a man printed on a banana leaf held up in the hand of the Nigerian-Canadian artist Kosisochukwu Nnebe, who created it.

    ‘An underlying stillness’: the Yinka Shonibare retreat where artists have space to grow and thrive

    The earth-brick barn house nestled among cassava and yam fields in southern Nigeria is one of two artists’ residences established by the British-Nigerian artist
  • A street protest with women waving green scarves with the slogan #JusticeforBeatriz, a picture of a woman and lines in Spanish that translate as “Beatriz wanted to live and be happy. Her strength is her right to decide.”

    Beatriz v El Salvador: the abortion case that could set a precedent across Latin America

  • Young Rwandans stand together holding candles

    I escaped the Rwanda genocide as a baby. I returned to find many of my generation have buried their pain

    Ornella Mutoni
  • A Bolivian Indigenous woman wearing purple is reflected in the wing mirror of a car

    Women at the wheel: the female taxi services bringing safety and independence to Bolivian travel

  • A group of smiling women in colourful hijabs gather round a phone

    Shamed into silence online: the sexualised, personal hate reserved for Somali women

    Sahra Ahmed Koshin
  • A man weeps among the ruins of a building razed by gunmen in Mamfe, south-west Cameroon, 6 November 2023.

    ‘What were you expecting? A bloodless war?’: how Cameroon became trapped in a forgotten standoff

  • Multilateralism faces a toxic brew of debt, climate crisis and war. It’s time for a reboot

    Mo Ibrahim

  • Ten years ago Ebola tore through Sierra Leone. Can a vaccine drive stop history repeating itself?

  • ‘Education is survival’: parents of Rohingya refugee children fight for their right to go to school in India

  • Cutting-edge labs, a rainforest gallery and guesthouse: Nigeria to open art museum for 21st century

  • Revealed: the truth behind the Taliban’s brutal Kabul ‘regeneration’ programme

  • Kidnappers took his staff, then his son. But this Haiti doctor is refusing to flee

  • Colombia outlaws child marriage after 17-year campaign

  • RFK Jr could have disastrous global impact on public health, experts fear

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Rights and freedom

  • A bucket of grapes with a vine-cutting tool on top

    Champagne’s sordid secret: the homeless and hungry migrants picking grapes for France’s luxury winemakers

  • In an outdoor courtyard there are wheelbarrows loaded with belongings including suitcases and bedding. People stand around the edge of the courtyard

    Militia aligned with Sudanese army accused of executing men in Khartoum

  • Jabaliyah - 1

    ‘Everything is gone’: how Israeli forces destroyed Jabaliya refugee camp

  • A line of women wearing hijabs and veils, many carrying young children, in a line across a road.

    Kenyan single mothers ‘trapped’ in Saudi Arabia as exit visas denied to children born outside marriage

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Sudan

  • Starbursts of thick brown smoke and projectiles explode in midairThe Galix System features up to 24 mortar-like launchers for decoys and less-lethal ammunition. Three variants of the control system are available. Lacroix Defense Vehicle Survivability Galix AOS Passive Countermeasures For light vehicles, - an autonomous GALIX system with a manual launch option. For combat vehicles - when a threat emerges unexpectedly, a fully automated variant of the system comprising a variety of sensors, including laser warning sensors, will take action . For "group protection" - launchers may also be utilized to provide protection to vehicules operating nearby.

    French military systems in Sudan may break UN arms embargo, says Amnesty

  • Sudanese refugees displaced by the civil war receive food and water from aid agencies at a camp in eastern Chad.

    UK aid budget to Sudan set to double amid famine fears

  • Women hugging each other

    Women’s rights groups fear FGM is rife among Sudanese refugees in Chad

  • Newly arrived Sudanese refugees arrive at a relocation camp near Adre in Chad

    ‘We will make you have Arab babies’: fears of genocide amid rape and torture in Sudan’s Darfur

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A common condition

  • A twisted worm, stained purple, on a slide

    Growth the size of a melon: a scrotum-swelling disease threatening thousands

  • A doctor places a stethoscope on the back of a small boy

    Millions of teenagers in Africa have undiagnosed asthma – study

  • A woman wearing a face mask and a white laboratory coat holds up two pipettes as another researcher looks on

    Healthier rice variety could counter rise in diabetes, Philippine scientists say

  • A man seen from above, eating a bowl of instant noodles at a rough table covered with sackcloth

    Time for a noodle tax? Doctor who sounded alarm on ultra-processed food urges tougher action

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In pictures

  • A girl stands in the foreground; behind her is a line of women in bright clothing and headscarves

    The world’s most ignored displacement crisis: Burkina Faso – in pictures

    For the second year in a row, the Norwegian Refugee Council named Burkina Faso the world’s most neglected displacement crisis in 2023. The photographer Emre Çaylak has documented the lives of those affected by the crisis living at camps near the capital, Ouagadougou
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Southern frontlines

  • A man’s back can just been seen through thick forest.

    Brazil’s mysterious ‘man of the hole’ is dead. Should his land remain protected?

  • A picture of a man walking though dense tree cover

    ‘They knew that we were here’: following in the footsteps of the uncontacted Pardo River Kawahiva people

  • A group of naked men in dense forest, one seated at teh base of a tree, the others standing holding poles.

    New images show Brazil’s uncontacted people are thriving – but with success comes a new threat

  • A group of naked Indigenous men, some carrying implements, in thick rainforest.

    Photographs reveal first glimpse of uncontacted Amazon community

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Explainers

  • A pest control worker fumigates a street with insecticides in Jakarta in May 2024 to try to wipe out the mosquitoes that spread dengue fever.

    Dengue fever: with a record 12.4m cases in 2024 so far, what is driving the world’s largest outbreak?

  • 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 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?

  • A collection of colourful pills

    Drug-resistant infections are on the rise – so why aren’t we getting any new antibiotics?

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Multimedia

Multimedia

  • Smoke rises after Israeli attacks during the sunset in Gaza City, with yellow sound wave form graphic
  • Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips on a boat
  • Shireen Abu Akleh
  • Still of a migrant labourer The Great Abandonment documentary
  • Still image from documentary, The 'Spider-Man' of Sudan
  • Chris is a reproductive health advocate in the Phillippines

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