Scholar by day, street-sweeper by night, one Black man navigates Rio's racial divide
For months, Felipe Luther read at night by candlelight. He charged his phone and laptop at work to study until his street-sweeping shift from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.
EU launches green bond framework to help it meet climate goals
The framework aims to help stop 'greenwashing', where issuers post lofty environmental claims without justification
Spain says non-consensual sex is rape, toughens sexual violence laws
Based on a "yes means yes" model, which qualifies any non-consenting sex as rape, the law brings Spain into line with 11 other European countries using similar definitions
EU bets on energy savings, greener buildings to meet climate target -draft
A draft document seen by Reuters shows that the EU will require countries to renovate buildings faster to meet its climate targets
For transgender Turks, discrimination said to loom larger
Advocates say crackdowns on Pride events and curbs on free speech reflect the government's heavier hand including open denunciations of the LGBT+ community
Promise vs practice: Police body-cam delays in Texas capital frustrate reformers
Delays in releasing body-cam footage to the public is testing enthusiasm for the practice as a solution to excessive force and unjust policing
OPINION: Greenwashing, just like climate delay, is not a victimless crime
Offsetting - the underbelly of net-zero goals - allows climate polluters to carry on pumping into the atmosphere while paying someone else to cut carbon emissions
Sizzling house prices put the squeeze on farmland in Canada
Canada is the world's second-biggest country but most of its best arable land lies near big cities such as Toronto, where COVID-19 has intensified demand for suburban homes
OPINION: We moved to Canada for a cooler climate. Now extreme heat is here
We left Melbourne for Vancouver to escape the heat. But in our 18 months in Canada, we've seen higher temperatures than we ever thought possible in this part of the world
Overwhelmed Indonesian coffin maker issues COVID-19 warning
Indonesia is battling one of Asia's worst coronavirus outbreaks, fuelled by the rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant first identified in India