Europe's heatwave consistent with climate change, more to come - UN
It is too soon to definitely attribute the current blistering heatwave to climate change but it is "absolutely consistent" with extremes linked to the impact of greenhouse gas emissions
One migrant child dies each day worldwide, U.N. data shows
At least 32,000 migrants globally, including 1,600 children, have died on dangerous journeys in search of better lives since 2014 says U.N.
West must be in 'driver's seat' for Syria reconstruction - HRW
Syrian government has kept tight controls on the aid flow into the country throughout its eight-year civil war, often depriving civilians in opposition areas of supplies
Attorneys ask court to intervene against U.S. over migrant kids' detention conditions
Visitors to the facilities found children held for weeks without access to soap, clean water, showers or even a change of clothes
Baby wipes, tents and private jets: festivals vow to go green
Glastonbury festival has banned plastic bottles for the first time this year to prevent more than 1 million bottles going into landfill
African abortions rose under U.S. policy to stop them, study says
When the policy was in place in the Bush era, modern contraception use declined by 14% and pregnancy rates rose 12% in countries most reliant on U.S. family planning aid
Nepalese mum tells how unfair citizenship laws squander children's futures
Twenty-five countries - including Nepal, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Sudan - do not let women hand their nationality to their children, placing them at risk of becoming stateless
U.S. Congress headed for border funding compromise as migrants kept in squalor
A photo of drowned migrants, and reports of horrendous conditions for detained children, have spurred efforts to craft compromise legislation
With ball gowns and dance, LGBT+ refugees in Kenya cast aside woes to celebrate
Many of the more than 750 LGBT+ refugees in Kenya are forced to live in the shadows and often lack protection, safe housing and employment
One dead, at least 24 wounded as bombs hit buses in Iraq's Kirkuk
On Tuesday, four Iraqi federal policemen were killed after a bomb went off southwest of Kirkuk