Kara Fox

Pakistan is home to more glaciers than anywhere in the world outside the polar regions, but as the climate warms, it’s becoming more vulnerable to sudden outbursts of melting glacier water that have the power to bring widespread destruction to its people.

When she first started to shed some weight, Yvonne DeBurgo quipped that she could afford to lose it. But her weight loss, driven by the need to economize, is a sobering manifestation of a cost-of-living crisis which is impacting many older people.

Thousands of people are stuck in a tense standoff on the Belarus-Poland border, as the humanitarian and geopolitical crisis worsens. Follow here for the latest news updates.

Police failures exposed by Sarah Everard murder underpin culture of misogyny in the force, activists say

Niamh Burns is organizing a special 20-year reunion for her schoolmates this year. But while the accomplishments of the “Courageous Classes of 2001” are worth celebrating, the date they are commemorating is not.

Thousands of babies and children died in 18 of Ireland’s mother and baby homes – church-run institutions where unmarried women were sent to deliver their babies in secret, often against their will – over eight decades, according to a landmark report.

The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej, died in a Belgrade hospital on Friday after contracting coronavirus, according to a statement from the church.

The day after Michael O’Flaherty was born, his mother tried to see him. But, she told him, she was stopped by a nun who told her, “Go mind your own business, your baby is gone.”

The world’s rivers are widely contaminated with antibiotics, according to a new global study, the first of its kind.

As the spire of Notre Dame collapsed onto its burning roof, Parisians recoiled in horror. The fire which ravaged their beloved cathedral felt like a dagger stuck in the city’s heart.