Demo turns violent as Taliban fires shots to break up womens’ protest

Islamist gunmen disperse a crowd of female protestors demanding right for Afghan girls to return to school Demo turns violent

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28 Up: Millennium Generation, review: who knew millennials are actually a hardworking bunch?

This spin-off from Michael Apted’s Seven Up! series was heartening, but the programme-makers might have hidden their agendas better 28

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Taliban ‘rolling back’ rights for Afghan women and girls in 32 areas, say human rights experts

Education, employment and access to healthcare are among the areas of concern, according to Human Rights Watch Taliban ‘rolling back’

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‘Heartbroken and horrified’: WHO staff offered women jobs in exchange for sex

Health chief vows to take action over sexual abuse that took place during long-running Ebola outbreak in Congo ‘Heartbroken and

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‘People are going to die very soon’: food scarcity in Afghanistan as economic free fall intensfies

Conflict, Covid and the withdrawal of international aid hastens the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan ‘People are going to die very

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‘Blah, blah, blah’: Greta Thunberg mocks world leaders over empty climate change pledges

Climate activist parodies Boris Johnson as she tells a summit in Milan that the words of our ‘so-called leaders’ have

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Jordan Peterson: The collapse of our values is a greater threat than climate change – YouTube

When society forgets its moral values nihilism and terror reign. The internationally best-selling author and clinical psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson

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Keir Starmer: It’s wrong to say ‘only women have a cervix’

Opposition leader condemns comments by fellow Labour MP Rosie Duffield who has been branded transphobic over her views on trans

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Angela Rayner declines to apologise after describing Tories as ‘bunch of scum’

Deputy Labour leader also reportedly described Conservatives as ‘homophobic, racist and misogynistic’ Angela Rayner declines to apologise after describing Tories

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Stop panic buying fuel, AA chief tells motorists amid chaotic scenes at petrol stations

Edmund King insists ‘there is plenty of fuel at source’ and says drivers are exacerbating shortages by filling up unnecessarily

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