The removal of distinctive ‘Arabian-style’ features at the entrance to one of China’s biggest mosques is the latest move in a campaign of forcible assimilation of China’s Muslim minorities.
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Despite international travel restrictions, the pandemic hasn’t raised levels of domestic tourism. But it has changed what people do in the UK.
The details of Ms A’s case reinforce what campaigners and midwives have been saying for years.
All is not well in Brighton, where Keir Starmer is hosting his first in-person conference since becoming leader.
After beating the formerly biggest party to top the poll, the social democrats will enter complex coalition talks with potential partners, including the Greens and the liberal FDP.
The underlying behaviour in the former doctor’s near-poisoning of his partner is more common than might be assumed.
The image of a post-Brexit Britain with a strong international presence is being lost to the so-called special relationship.
Childcare is central to families being able to sustain working lives. But insufficient government funding and a complex web of for-profit companies means many are losing out
Keir Starmer has clashed with unions over leadership election rules – was it really worth it?
Despite the emancipation of women in China in 1949, sexual harassment and inequality in the workplace are still the norm.
Grand coalitions and fragile alliances have become standard procedure in the Bundestag.
Support for Alternative for Germany continues in the former East Germany in particular. It’s worth really asking why.
The European court of human rights has found the Russian state responsible for Litvinenko’s death by poisoning.
Some areas of Merseyside have more children at risk from gangs than in London. So why isn’t it studied more?
Across the world, people have become less likely to take part in elections in recent decades.
The Taliban faces a huge struggle to impose its rule on a country that has always proved difficult to govern.
A look at the many systems of measurement that have been lost and changed throughout history.
It took nearly two years for the Royal Navy to tell the story of the heroic voyage of the crippled submarine HMS Triumph.
How many other world leaders can claim to have become a verb?
What a COVID inquiry will probably look like and what it should really look like.
The most prolific goal scorer in the history of top-flight English football, Greaves slid into alcoholism but fought his way back to become a household name on television.
Going vegan has been found to bring health benefits, but it can also impact your friendships.
Observers have been comparing Xi Jinping to Mao Zedong. But the country was very different in Mao’s day.
Diplomacy is needed to head off an arms race between North and South Korea.
After Brexit, COVID, Afghanistan and more, a look at where the EU stands on key issues.