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Gases which help to heat the atmosphere and contribute to climate change are a by-product of the dairy industry. They include direct emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from cows, and carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide from the likes of packaging, transportation and fertilisers. But one farmer in the US state of Georgia believes […]

Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi will defend her country against genocide accusations at an international court hearing in The Hague. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has heard allegations Myanmar committed atrocities against Muslim Rohingya. People at a rally in Yangon have been defending the leader. But Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh hope they will soon

Sydney is cloaked in a thick haze as smoke from bushfires burning across New South Wales drifts into Australia’s most populated city. Landmarks like the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House have disappeared into the smog and people are being warned to say indoors. The BBC’s Phil Mercer says the smoke in the air

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi used to be seen as a symbol of human rights, and spent years under house arrest for promoting democracy. Now, as Myanmar’s civilian leader, she is at the International Court of Justice to defend her country against charges of genocide committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority. She

Several people are unaccounted for after a volcanic eruption hit a New Zealand tourist destination, local police have said. Tourists were seen walking inside the rim of the White Island crater just moments before the eruption. “At this stage, we believe around 100 people were on or around the island at the time and some

Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have again taken to the streets of Hong Kong. It’s the first time that police have allowed a rally by the Civil Human Rights Front, one of the territory’s largest pro-democracy groups, since August. The protests started in June over a controversial extradition bill, but evolved into broader anti-government demonstrations which

Teenage protesters have become an increasingly common feature of Hong Kong’s demonstrations, with hundreds found on campus during the recent siege of Polytechnic University. Psychologists warn that the protests have had a damaging effect on some teenagers. They say they are part of a new generation of Hongkongers who will be very different from other

You might remember the uprisings in the Middle East in 2011. As dictators were toppled hundreds of thousands of protesters called for change, for freedom and a new start. Their high hopes came to very little and the region lurched back towards war and repression. But the grievances that drove the 2011 uprisings – the

Two British pilots have touched down on home soil, after flying around the world in a restored Spitfire, with the paintwork stripped to a shining aluminium finish. Steve Brooks, 58, from Burford, Oxfordshire, and Matt Jones, 45, from Exeter, took four months to circumnavigate the globe in the first trip of its kind in a

France’s nationwide strike has disrupted schools and transport. Many union workers, including teachers, transport workers, hospital staff and some police are unhappy about the planned reforms that would see them retiring later or facing reduced payouts. President Emmanuel Macron wants to introduce a universal points-based pension system which made some union leaders vow to strike