Opinion

Doctors and displaced families in Gaza say the highly contagious disease has surged in recent months as war has forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into cramped tent camps with no clean water for hygiene.

France's parliament is weighing a social media ban for under-15s, following in the footsteps of Australia and Indonesia, although enforcement authorities are facing a puzzle on how to manage age checks.

With fewer than 100 days to local elections, the ANC is set to unveil the candidates it hopes will keep control of the country’s biggest metros.

Two hours from the tourist beaches of Bali, slavery is alive and well on the Indonesian island of Sumba, where people are still born into bondage.

In many countries, "mistaken belief" and "implied consent" -- whereby permission is not expressly granted through words or writing but implicitly through actions or circumstances -- are not legally valid defences in sexual offence trials.