health

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt was a hot afternoon in October 2019, and 22-year-old Joan* had just been crying in a ward of a private hospital…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAround 3.9 million working days have been lost to industrial action in the past year, more than at any point since the…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe chief of staff to the president of Madagascar has been charged with bribery over an alleged attempt to secure bribes worth…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe clean-up of legionella bacteria on the Bibby Stockholm barge could take around a week, an expert has said, after asylum seekers were…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt took nearly three hours of queueing in Ikorodu general hospital in Lagos state, Nigeria, before Hadijat Hassan, a retired civil servant,…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt-home smear tests should be introduced in Wales, campaigners say. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA woman sliced off her ex-boyfriend’s penis with a knife after he tried to rape her in Italy, according to reports.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Kenyan government has launched an inquiry into allegations of abuse by the British army, which MPs say could have implications for…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA group of Uyghur friends are having a late-night chat. “I wish the Chinese would just conquer the world,” one says suddenly….

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMessages encouraging smokers to quit could be added to the inside of cigarette packs under draft proposals being considered by the Government. Read…