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Programme spent £2.3bn between 2016 and 2021 but is fragmented and lacks a clear rationale, report says

More than a million people have demanded Fifa compensates migrant workers who were abused while working on the World Cup in Qatar

Queensland parliament is set to debate new youth justice laws which advocates warn will put more girls behind bars.

In attacking the new asylum policy, Gary Lineker has left a stricken BBC floundering and shown the Tory right how it is misjudging Britain

Campaigners say it’s taken years of ‘persistent and relentless lobbying’ to secure call from UN for credible investigation

Ugandan middle-distance runner Annet Negesa was preparing for the London Olympics when she was told she had high testosterone levels. What followed effectively ended her career and up-ended her life. Now she's speaking out.

The Republican chairman of a special House committee dedicated to countering China is pulling no punches in his criticism of its communist government

A Thai court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to two years in jail for selling satirical calendars featuring rubber ducks, which authorities said insulted the king. Inflatable yellow ducks were used as a symbol during pro-democracy protests in 2020. The sentencing comes as two women were rushed to hospital after…

Lawmakers in the former Soviet republic voted Friday to drop their "foreign agents" bill, which critics view as a threat to democracy as well as the country's push to join the European Union.