Brazilian favela ‘shack’ wins ‘house of the year’ award
A two-storey house in a Belo Horizonte favela has won an international architecture prize for its ingenious design.
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Photos: Nigeria holds presidential and parliamentary elections
Eighteen candidates are competing to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as president, but only four are frontrunners.
Villagers mourn mosque destroyed by Syria’s earthquake
'People's hearts are attached to this mosque,' says the imam of Maland's destroyed mosque.
After 102 children, Ugandan villager says enough is enough
Musa Hasahya Kasera says his vast family includes 12 wives, 102 children and as many as 578 grandchildren.
Conflict in Niger leaves children in limbo
Forty percent of Nigerien children are not registered with government after birth due to the cost and time of paperwork.
Musicians fleeing Russia find a new audience in Georgia
Tbilisi was a popular destination for Russians, many of them young men, who left the country to avoid being drafted.
UK cost-of-living crisis pushes mothers to the brink
In the midst of the biggest surge in prices in decades, food banks have become a feature of modern British life.
Photo: Nigeria’s female bouncers shatter stereotypes
The all-female Nigerian bouncers' team is honing skills and shattering stereotypes in a male-dominated industry.
Photos: Graves sink, fisheries shrink as climate change hits Fiji
The government estimates more than 600 communities could be forced to move, including 42 villages under urgent threat.
Celebrations kick off in Asia as world enters 2023
Asia celebrates a restriction-free New Year after two years of COVID disruptions, as the world enters 2023.
2022: The year Taliban cracked down on women’s rights
The year 2022 saw the Taliban imposing restrictions on women's rights, bringing back the memory of its past rule.
2022: A year in pictures
A visual timeline of key events defining the past 12 months.
Photos: Removing rebel-planted landmines in Senegal’s Casamance
Demining operations happen amid the still ongoing conflict in Senegal between the government and rebel groups.
Photos: A year of facing nature’s fury
A cascade of extreme weather exacerbated by climate change devastated communities across the globe this year.
Brazil’s haunting graveyard of ships risks environmental disaster
The Guanabara Bay by Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi, once a haven for wildlife, is now a cemetery for abandoned ships.
Photos: Climate crisis threatens centuries-old oases in Morocco
Hundreds of people from the oasis areas have fled to the cities, mainly because of frequent droughts.
Photos: The year in Ukraine, month by month
As the year end approaches, we look back on the events and images that marked Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Sri Lanka’s cancer patients struggle amid economic chaos
Hundreds of people have had their treatment upended by the country's major economic crisis.
Photos: How 2022 became a ‘pivot year’ for clean energy
The global energy crisis triggered by the Ukraine war and increasing climate threats have fuelled the transition.
Photos: After heavy combat, Ukrainians in east brace for cold
Villages in the Donetsk region have seen heavy fighting, and now residents are facing a new threat: a bitter winter.