Gunfire is reported to have stopped in southern Syria after days of sectarian violence which has led to more than a thousand ...

The Gaza Health Ministry has said that more than 70 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid – most of them near a UN convoy in the North of the strip. The Israeli military now controls around ...

We speak to Professor Becky Malby, who’s chair of the Ilkley Clean River Group and founder of the Sewage Campaign Network.

That D came to stand not just for decline, but also disappearance as local people were forced to leave their homes and some villages were demolished. But the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage and his band ...

The Environment Secretary Steve Reed will set out plans for “root and branch reform” of the water sector tomorrow. They’re strongly rumoured to include the abolition of the industry’s beleaguered ...

The Syrian government has declared that a ceasefire will be enforced to end clashes between Bedouin and Sunni tribal fighters – and Druze militias. But today the violence continued. Syria’s president ...

Things are going to get worse, so this is the new normal, as I think the Met Office said today. But what we know is, if we ...

The current minimum age limit for voting in UK elections is 18, but the government has announced that those aged 16 and 17 ...

Nick Maynard is a British gastrointestinal surgeon, who is currently in Gaza, working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. We began by asking him what he can tell us about the shootings near the aid ...

More than 30 people have been killed near aid distribution points in southern Gaza after Israeli troops opened fire. Dozens more were injured as they tried to get food. The Israel Defence Forces said ...

In one corner is the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk who has beaten Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, twice. In the other, the south Londoner Daniel Dubois who lost to Usyk in 2023 and who is very much the ...

We spoke to Dr Haid Haid, who’s Syrian and a senior research fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative and the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the Chatham House think tank in London.