It's time for data to serve a higher social purpose
Will the enormous amount of data generated by nearly every human on the planet be used only to generate wealth, or for social good?
Healthy sustainable diets for all: A view from Ethiopia
Ethiopia, once a byword for hunger, has become a leader in the fight against malnutrition
Russia and China back nuclear as a clean-power fix for Africa
Impatient to boost electricity supplies for homes and businesses alike, Ethiopia and other African nations are doing deals paving the way to nuclear power plants
EXCLUSIVE-Uzbek teachers, nurses 'forced' to clean streets and harvest wheat
Although government has repeatedly denounced forced labour, local officials regard civil servants as constant source of labour to fulfil regional needs or centrally imposed state quotas
Elephants face 'time bomb' in Bangladesh land clash with Rohingya refugees
"We need to spread the message that the elephant is not an enemy and deserves space as, like the Rohingya, it has lost access to its own land"
Danone and Nestle-owned company could join Brazil's slavery 'dirty list' - officials
Danone and Dairy Partners America Brasil are accused of being complicit with an businessman who kept 28 people in debt bondage
LGBT+ groups dismiss Trump pledge to beat HIV by 2030 as empty rhetoric
Critics said the promise made in the State of the Union address was at odds with the Trump administration's actions
Bloody taboos: new emoji could help to end period 'shame'
The period emoji - a drop of blood - will be distributed across mobile devices in March, along with 58 other new symbols
'The corpses were lying on the streets': Nigerian refugees flee Boko Haram
Nigerians have been sheltering in Cameroon for years, on the run from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram
Last year was fourth hottest on record: outlook sizzling - UN
Average global surface temperatures were 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial times in 2018, the World Meteorological Organization said