The Scottish government has passed the Hunting With Dogs (Scotland) Act. It’s a new anti-hunting law that seeks to fix...

Evidence is emerging that climate-related disasters are becoming a cause of human trafficking as criminal gangs exploit a growing number...

This article was updated on Wednesday 25 January to clarify additional raids beyond 18 January. Officers from Kent Police executed...

Nurses' strikes are taking place across England today, 18 January, following the government's ongoing refusal to discuss pay. A second...

Industrial action looks set to intensify after Britain's largest teaching union announced walkouts over pay. Meanwhile, the government is seeking...

Westminster will introduce a ban on most single-use plastic items from October. The government said it has made this move...

Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth said on 16 January that is has launched a legal bid to stop...

Brazilian authorities have issued arrest warrants for two former senior government officials, Anderson Torres and Fabio Augusto. Torres used to...

Iran will execute four more people involved in civil unrest following the murder of Mahsa Amini by the nation's police....

Kurdish people from across Europe travelled to the suburbs of Paris, France, on 3 January for the funeral of three...

Over a dozen countries have introduced new coronavirus (Covid-19) measures for travellers from China. This comes after cases of infection...

A record number of people face execution after allegations of their involvement with ongoing protests in Iran. Meanwhile, the country's...

The Christmas period means many things to many people, but for some of Britain’s wildlife it is a time of...

On Tuesday 6 December, US judge John Bates dismissed a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for...

A New York jury found Donald Trump's family business guilty of tax fraud on 6 December, dealing a blow to...

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has slammed multinational corporations for turning the world's ecosystems into "playthings of profit". He warned that...

Iran sentenced five people to hang for killing a paramilitary member, its judiciary said on 6 November. The ruling was...