Football faces up to homophobia in Mexico
'Activists and the LGBT+ community can insist, but it is up to them (football community) for people to stop doing it. They have more authority and influence'
Greta, Merkel, big oil and a tax truce - Davos Thursday highlights
France and the United States agreed how to press ahead with a global rewrite of cross-border tax rules for the digital era, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said
Greta rejects U.S. Treasury chief's degree dig in latest climate clash
"So either you tell us how to achieve this mitigation or explain to future generations...why we should abandon our climate commitments," Thunberg said
Tree planting extends an olive branch across the climate divide
"Trees are a bipartisan issue. I haven't met any anti-tree people yet," says Salesforce CEO, as U.S. president signs up to one trillion trees initiative in Davos
Merkel urges dialogue between skeptics and believers to tackle climate change
"Time is pressing, so we - the older ones, I am 65 years old - must make sure that we take the impatience of young people positively and constructively," Merkel said
OPINION - The peril of ignoring indigenous voices: the urgent lessons from Australia's bushfires
Listening to and acting on indigenous voices is the only way to stop the fires raging in Australia and elsewhere
Zimbabwe says grain stocks running out after drought
More than half the country's population faces food shortages after maize harvests halved last year
Equality won't happen by itself, says Finnish PM
Sanna Marin, the world's youngest prime minister at the age of 34, says it is not 'that big a deal' for women to be in power in Finland but she welcomes the debate her election has triggered
Greenpeace loses Norway Arctic oil lawsuit appeal
The lawsuit is seen as part of an emerging branch of law worldwide where plaintiffs seek to use a nation's founding principles to make the case for curbing climate-heating emissions
Out of court: Ugandans turn to 'barefoot lawyers' to settle land disputes
The legal group was founded by Ugandan law students as a Facebook page and now reaches 350,000 people a month through social media and public meetings