Reykjavik unveils plan to limit urban sprawl to become carbon neutral by 2040
Climate policy blueprint puts Reykjavik at the forefront of global attempts to curb carbon emissions and combat climate change
Indian girls attacked with acid days after landmark death sentence verdict
Attack in eastern India happened days after a court handed down a landmark death sentence verdict to a man found guilty of murdering a nurse in an acid attack
INTERVIEW-Men are "allies to the cause" of equality for women, says campaigner
Men involved in caring for their children from an early age are more likely to be involved fathers later and are less likely to act violently towards their children and partners
"What they took with them": Cate Blanchett in plea for refugees ahead of summit
Launched by the U.N. refugee agency, the film shows Hollywood actors performing a poem listing items refugees took with them as they fled into exile
Extreme flooding predicted to hit Mali's Inner Niger Delta
Flooding in 2016 could be the highest in 50 years, but a web-based forecasting system is alerting people in advance
Communities take charge in Scotland's land reform 'revolution'
Scotland has the least equitable property ownership in western Europe, with half of the country's land owned by fewer than 500 people
Syrian refugee crisis is changing women's roles - aid agency
Increasing numbers of Syrian women becoming heads of households and the main breadwinners
After Boko Haram, Nigerians return home to perilous northeast - U.N.
Families will return to find their homes and farmland destroyed, with basic services wiped out, says the United Nations
Asian nations plan fund to better prepare for health emergencies, says WHO
Southeast Asia is threatened by a range of emerging diseases such as SARS, pandemic influenza and Zika, say experts, adding that countries remain ill-prepared to effectively contain an outbreak should it occur.
Get Bangladesh women in unions to improve worker rights - campaigner
Head of 100,000-strong garment workers' union urges Bangladesh women to speak out about factory conditions