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South Asia is home to highest number of child brides in the world as increased financial pressures and school closures due to COVID-19 forced families to marry off their young daughters, according to new estimates released by UNICEF on Wednesday.

Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa face acute food insecurity in the coming months, a 10-year high spurred by insecurity, climate shocks, COVID-19 and high prices, United Nations' humanitarian agencies warned on Tuesday. West and Central Africa have faced increasing risks caused by higher temperatures and erratic rainfall.…

What will Thailand's future look like? Next year, the UN hosts its Summit of the Future, a chance to examine global progress in an age of technological, climatic and geopolitical upheaval.

Eidur Gudjohnsen has opened up on his gambling losses - estimated at around £6million - during his career and welcomed the Premier League's decision to stop gambling sponsors on the front of shirts

Fans of Liam Payne and Tommy Fury first thought the pair had confirmed they were set to face-off in the boxing ring – but it has since been revealed the pair will compete on the football field

Soccer Aid returns to the Manchester United football ground this June

Thomas Tumusifu Buregeya wishes he were studying for his final school exams. Instead, he scrapes a living doing odd jobs in a displaced people's camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a wave of rebel violence upended his life yet again.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has been in contact with Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, who is suspected of war crimes, as it works for the return of Ukrainian children who were deported to Russia

Partnerships with the private sector in hundreds of territories are vital to UNICEF's work for the protection children.