Healthcare organisations have called on the BBC to reverse its “stigmatising” decision to not provide information about abortion. After an episode of Call the Midwife, in which a character died as a result of complications from an illegal abortion,...
Once every other month, journalist Hassan Dahir, 28, leaves his hostel in central Mogadishu under the cover of darkness to visit his mother in Yaqshid district, north-east of the capital. He will spend the night with her and return to his rented roo...
Facebook and its new head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, stand accused by Brussels of taking a “patchy, opaque, and self-selecting” approach to tackling disinformation. The description was said to apply to a number of internet companies by the EU co...
A court in Montengro has sentenced an investigative journalist to 18 months in prison, on charges that press freedom advocates have described as bogus and intended as a warning to others in the Balkan country. The court in Podgorica handed down the...
Opposition seeks changes from government, including independent judiciary Viktor Orbán’s rightwing government in Hungary has faced a rare and sustained bout of protest in the capital, Budapest, culminating in a group of opposition MPs spend...
Philippine prosecutors have said they will file charges of tax evasion against a news website that has been critical of the president, Rodrigo Duterte. The justice department said on Sunday it found probable cause to indict Rappler Holdings Corp. an...
The ‘tireless’ artificial news readers simulate the voice, facial movements, and gestures of real-life broadcasters China’s state news agency Xinhua this week introduced the newest members of its newsroom: AI anchors who will report “tirele...
Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, refused to identify which media outlets Trump and his administration have referred to as 'the enemy of the people' despite repeated questions from CNN's Jim Acosta. Sanders said: 'The president is not...
11.49am EDT11:49 NY1 is reporting the suspect is Cesar Sayoc Jr., 56, of Aventura, Florida. Spectrum News NY1 (@NY1) BREAKING: Senior law enforcement sources identify suspect in suspicious package investigation as Cesar Sayoc Jr., 56, of Aventura...
The fiancee of the killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi has said he was worried about visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul for his fateful appointment, but told her he did not think the authorities would dare to interrogate or arrest him in a forei...
Alam is an internationally recognised and award-winning photojournalist, teacher and activist, and has been imprisoned after speaking out on recent student protests in Bangladesh. His work focuses on exposing abuses of power Shahidul Alam Main i...
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces a second allegation of sexual misconduct after another woman came forward accusing him of inappropriate sexual behaviour during his college years at Yale University. The New Yorker magazine reported on Sun...
Privacy policies from companies including Facebook, Google and Amazon don’t fully meet the requirements of GDPR, according to the pan-European consumer group BEUC. An analysis of policies from 14 of the largest internet companies shows they use uncl...
The Spanish newspaper El País has appointed its first female editor in its 42-year history at the end of a week that has also seen a record number of women chosen to serve in the new government’s cabinet. Soledad Gallego-Díaz, 67, joined the paper s...
Morgan Freeman has been accused of sexual and verbal harassment by eight different women. According to CNN, the women, who say Freeman subjected them to inappropriate remarks about their bodies, allege that he harassed them on the set of his films,...