A decade ago, Egyptians followed their neighbours in Tunisia, Syria and Bahrain onto the streets to call for social, political and economic reforms. In Egypt, protestors asked for bread, increased freedom, and social justice. What remains of their hopes, ten years after the revolution?

Brexit is now a reality: since the start of this year, the United Kingdom is no longer part of the European Union. In Scotland, which voted against leaving the EU in 2016, there are intense debates about when and how the Scots can re-join the continental bloc. However, Scotland could only do that by becoming an independent country, a prospect that could be closer than we think.

The fate of tens of thousands of Uighur refugees in Turkey is threatening to become an embarrassing political controversy for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Two Indian women recently received one of the country’s highest civilian awards for their efforts to rescue women branded as witches. However, recent ritual killings eclipsed the Independence Day honours, which had been intended to send a powerful official message against the occult and wizardry.

Since the tenth anniversary of the 2011 Arab Spring, Tunisia has witnessed a wave of unrest in different parts of the country. Groups of youngsters across disadvantaged urban areas took to the streets for several consecutive nights.

Maintaining an invisible border is crucial to the Northern Ireland peace process. The biggest conundrum in the Brexit negotiations was how to keep people and trade flowing across that virtual barrier after the UK left Europe, without establishing infrastructure.

Thanks to imaginative cultivation methods, farmers in the western Indian state of Maharashtra have turned the corner after facing water scarcity and severe drought over the years.

A coronavirus variant from Manaus in northern Brazil, first detected in Japan earlier in January, is now the dominant form of the virus in the hard-hit South American city. As grave diggers struggle to keep pace with the soaring death toll, many residents are forced to fund their own supplies of vital oxygen.

Working under the slogan "With a women's pen in the pursuit of truth," JinNews is a groundbreaking women's news agency in Turkey. But Jin's future is increasingly in doubt, the agency becoming a target in the government's "war on terror".

The Robin Hood Army is a group of volunteers who collect excess food from restaurants and hotels and distribute it to those in need in India and 14 other countries. Every week volunteers meet in 159 cities across the world to provide food for the poor and needy, collecting and re-distributing the surplus that would otherwise go to waste.