A Nepali mother of two, Parwati Sunar, finds herself attending the same school as her son after returning to an education system she fled at the age of 15 when she eloped with a man seven years elder.

“I enjoy

Gaza City – Israeli air raids levelled homes in Gaza and Palestinian rockets targeted southern Israel for a second day, stoking fears of another major escalation 14 months after the last war.

Warplanes stepped up attacks with direct hits on

Israeli air raids on Friday killed at least 10 people, including a commander of the Islamic Jihad group, as fears of an all-out war on Gaza again gripped the besieged Palestinian territory.

Multiple blasts could be heard and seen throughout

What’s for dinner? Lego sushi, credit card burgers, or a well-done piece of PVC pipe?

These examples may sound extreme, but can easily represent over time the cumulative amount of microscopic pieces of plastic people consume every day.

People could

Amid the long-raging strife in Indian-administered Kashmir, another conflict is silently taking its toll on the Muslim-majority region’s residents: the conflict between man and wild animals.

According to official data, at least 67 people have been killed and 940 others

Jackline Bosibori wept when she found out she was pregnant. The 17-year-old’s mother, who is raising six children alone, collapsed in their one-room home. They had been repeatedly threatened with eviction and couldn’t afford another mouth to feed.

“If I

At work, Morgan Philpott cares for sick children.

In his off-hours, the Australian paediatric nurse turns his attention to an equally defenceless group: unwell koalas.

“They really run the risk of becoming extinct inside our lifetime,” Philpott said of the

Soaking up the sun in their garden, Sergei Abramov and his wife Tatiana are playing with their furry pet, Plombir, who wags his tail and vies for treats by obeying his owners’ commands.

But Plombir is not “man’s best friend”.

Two decades into a severe drought on the Navajo reservation, the open range around Maybelle Sloan’s sheep farm stretches out in a brown expanse of earth and sagebrush.

A dry wind blows dust across the high-desert plateau, smoke from wildfires