The number of children seeking help for anxiety has risen sharply, data from the NSPCC’s Childline service has suggested. The helpline, which offers support and counseling…

In 1992, when the first submarine armed with Trident nuclear missiles arrived on the Clyde near Glasgow, John Ainslie was in a canoe. Along with…

Children using devices such as smartphones and tablets at bedtime have over double the risk of a disrupted night's sleep compared to children without access…

Hackers could use open data such as the information that powers transport apps to create chaos, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide…

While Europe rushes to steel its external borders against an oncoming wave of migration, its internal political union is dissolving under a storm of populist…

These are people in Calais now. People who wanted to find new lives. Instead they lie like cocooned caterpillars, desperately hoping to wake up to…

UN General Assembly (UNGA) members have defied the British government by voting to ban nuclear weapons. The UNGA’s First Committee passed an historic resolution last…

A new law designed to cut the high rate of sex-selective abortions in Armenia is inadequate, limiting women’s reproductive choices and putting lives at risk,…

Descendants of the tens of thousands of German Jews who fled the Nazis and found refuge in Britain are making use of their legal right…

Since a 2009 military coup against the democratic government of President Mel Zelaya, Honduras has become the most dangerous country in the world for environmental…

LONDON, 28 October, 2016 – The world’s cities are growing even faster than the human population. Within the last 40 years, the global population has increased…

Apparently, a richer diet is associated with an increase in the middle class, which tends towards economic and political independence and democracy-fostering values. Andrey Shcherbak,…