African nations are fighting to contain the coronavirus amid fears that widespread poverty and weak health systems could result in devastating losses across the continent. Follow the latest ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed the discovery of unapproved, genetically modified (GM) wheat plants growing in an un-planted agricultural field in Washington state. There was no ...

R. Kelly was convicted by a federal jury on Monday in his sex trafficking trial, where prosecutors accused the R&B singer of exploiting his stardom over a quarter-century to lure women and underage ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. While we must scale up the immediate health response to curb the spread of COVID-19, the ...

Anti-abortion violence has grown in America in the years since the Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade in 1973 made abortion legal. The first clinic arson was reported in 1976, a series of bombings took ...

Across Africa, governments keen to modernise booming cities often view poor people making a living sifting through rubbish or hawking on the streets as a hindrance. This has been an ongoing battle for ...

What we choose to eat, how we move around and how these activities contribute to climate change is receiving a lot of media attention. In this context, greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and ...

Women only hosted or co-hosted about a third of the top 100 podcasts on the Apple podcast chart in 2017 LONDON, Nov 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Looking for a podcast where Asian women chat about ...

About a quarter of the world's population faces severe water shortages exacerbated by climate change - and with that is coming conflict, social unrest and migration BOGOTA, Sept 2 (Thomson Reuters ...

Fashion is responsible for about 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, sucks up scarce water and creates vast amounts of pollution and waste LONDON, Feb 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ...

BANGKOK, July 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Phatsanee Phutkaew lost nearly everything she owned 10 years ago when her modest canalside home in Bangkok was damaged by Thailand's worst floods in ...

Sept 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Protests have broken out across Iran over the death of a woman held by morality police for "unsuitable attire", with activists warning of worse to come as the ...