As climate change brings stronger droughts and hotter temperatures, wildfires are becoming a bigger threat around the world - including in places they have not been seen previously ...

The winners of the British television singing contest show "The Voice" and seven finalists will go on an 11-date tour in Britain in September, the concert promoters said on Tuesday. The Voice, a show ...

Thai prisoners are being forced to make fishing nets for private companies under threat of punishment including beatings and delayed release, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has found.

One of the two men arrested on suspicion of the murder of a British soldier hacked to death in a London street was arrested in Kenya in 2010, Britain's Foreign Office said on Sunday. Michael Adebolajo ...

Food and beverage giant PepsiCo's affiliate in Indonesia has been linked to child labour, worker exploitation, unethically low wages and hazardous working conditions, activists said. A two-month ...

Oxfam, one of Britain's biggest charities, was thrown into crisis last year when it was reported that some former staff in Haiti paid for sex while on a mission. LONDON, June 11 ( ...

Context provides news and analysis on three of the world’s most critical issues: climate change, the impact of technology on society, and ...

Sept 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Protests have broken out across Iran over the death of a woman held by morality police for "unsuitable attire", with activists warning of worse to come as the ...

The inflation diaries: Rising prices are forcing many in Bangladesh to cut costs in the kitchen or seek out subsidised food DHAKA, July 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Unemployed Bangladeshi ...

JOHANNESBURG/ACCRA, June 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Alongside the food, clothing and nappies gifted to a shelter for South African flood victims, one donation proved especially popular - a ...

DHAKA, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Twelve-year-old Alamin's house rested on the bank of the Ilsha river in southern Bangladesh until last year, when the surging river eroded it and the family ...

DURBAN/KASUNGU, Malawi, April 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Stanley Ngwira was used to seeing mosquitoes throng the big sky over his village in Malawi, but a drone hovering above the swarms was a ...