Reading Time: < 1 minutePope Francis made an urgent plea for a halt to the conflict in Gaza on Sunday, calling for humanitarian aid and help…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEnough young people sought help for homelessness in the UK last year to fill the Albert Hall 25 times, but tens of…

Reading Time: < 1 minutePregnant women are being forced to wait days longer than expected for “urgent” inductions of labour as NHS staff shortages and a lack…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOpium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world’s top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban administration banned the cultivation of narcotics last…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfghans fleeing Pakistan to avoid arrest and deportation are sleeping in the open, without proper shelter, food, drinking water and toilets once they cross…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMedicine shortages in the UK are “as bad as they have ever been”, say health experts, as a new report warns that Brexit…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Alabama mayor and pastor has died by suicide shortly after a rightwing site published images of him wearing women’s clothes and makeup. …

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe City of Birmingham’s first Black police officer, Leroy Stover, has died. He was 90. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minutePatient safety will be put at risk due to “alarming and unsafe” plans over how physician associates are regulated, frontline medics have…