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Aid workers on the Italian island of Lampedusa, which is one of Europe’s busiest landing points for asylum seekers, have condemned Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan as they prepare for another busy summer of bedraggled arrivals and deaths at sea.

Ghazal Alagh, the co-founder of Mamaearth, is well-known for her wellness posts on social media. Recently, she initiated a discussion on work-life balance and shared her strategy for following a ‘no digital distraction’ rule on April 28. She encouraged her followers to take up the #noscreenchallenge as well.

The Persian Gulf is a historical identity-building name for a historical and strategic body of water that has given a cultural, historical, and cognitive identity to this region through this name.

Israel's war on besieged Gaza, now in its 205th day, has killed at least 34,454 Palestinians — 70 percent of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 77,575 while some 8,400 people are feared buried under the rubble of bombed buildings.

"Thank you, American universities," was written on tents set up in Gaza's southern city of Rafah, where 1.4 million displaced people from other parts of the enclave have sought refuge.

The incoming head of Korea's leading doctors' lobby group reiterated on Sunday the call for the government to scrap the planned medical school quota hike to initiate dialogue with the medical community.

25 animals, including dogs and primates, were rescued from a research facility in Verona where serious mistreatment of animals was discovered. The facility, which carries out animal testing on behalf of international pharmaceutical companies, is being charged with the neglect and unlawful killing of animals including beagles, marmosets and macaques.

Professors from around 20 major medical schools nationwide will decide Friday whether to take a weekly day off while struggling to fill the void of trainee doctors who have walked off their jobs for more than two months, officials said.

Recent reports of sexual molestation of children by clerics and incriminating videos of corporal punishment of madrassa students are neither new discoveries, nor particular to Pakistan.

The news of the latest deaths of five asylum seekers, including a child, comes after controversial UK government plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda cleared a final hurdle in parliament.