Brazil's top court set to rule on outlawing homophobia
Homophobia is common in Brazil, but like many Latin American countries Brazil is home to a growing population of liberals eager to stand up for gay and trans rights
U.N. declares Algeria and Argentina free of deadly malaria
Algeria is the third African country to eliminate one of the world's leading killer diseases
Former UK army officer jailed for online child sex abuse
Cybersex trafficking is considered a form of modern-day slavery and the Philippines has become a global epicentre for the crime
LGBT+ activists fear far-right rise in EU elections
An alliance of far-right parties is forecast to become the fourth-biggest in the European Parliament
Breathing walls to rooftop farms: Cities get creative for a greener future
Winning teams of architects and entrepreneurs will redevelop sites such as an abandoned market building in Madrid and historic stables in Milan into green areas
Dying for space, Oxford proposes shared graves
With space for new graves set to run out by 2021, Oxford council has announced it is looking at the "reclamation" of graves where people could be buried on shared plots
Surfing the Green wave? Climate party hopes ride high in EU vote
A groundswell of concern has prompted many parties to step up their green rhetoric on the campaign trail, but the alliance of more than 30 national parties who field lawmakers to the Green group in the European Parliament hopes to reap the biggest rewards
British lawmakers demand their pension fund divests fossil fuels
"The climate emergency demands that all pension funds divest from fossil fuels and invest in positive solutions to the climate crisis," says British Green Party MP Caroline Lucas
Charities fear for children separated from parents in cyclone-hit Mozambique
An assessment in Sofala province after cyclone Idai found more than 400 children were without parents two months after the disaster
Amid land crunch, U.S. state legalises human composting
Backers of the bill say 'natural organic reduction' is an eco-friendly alternative to burial or cremation, and has obvious benefits in urban areas with dwindling land availability