The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

‘Taking photos here wasn’t easy. Stand still for too long and you’d get barged out of the way by busy shoppers – or whacked by a fin or a tail’

Kabul (AFP) - A top UN official warned Wednesday that a Taliban government order banning Afghan women from working for its mission in the country "is going to violate" the world body's charter, which rejects gender segregation.

Seven-year-old Saad Umer joined a crowd in a poor neighbourhood in the Pakistani city of Karachi rushing to get a handout of flour and a little cash from a charity trying to help the most vulnerable cope with runaway prices.

Kabul (AFP) - The United Nations mission in Afghanistan will hold talks Wednesday with Taliban officials in Kabul "to seek clarity" on a new government ban that blocks women from working for the world body across the country.

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The Taliban have extended a ban on women working for NGOs to the United Nations' mission throughout the country, a UN spokesman announced Tuesday, calling such an order "unacceptable."

The troubling survey of more than 17,800 National Education Union (NEU) members laid bare the extent to which schools are being forced to intervene to help families bucking under cost of living pressures

Paying for resources has become ‘part and parcel of the job’ London teacher claims

David Bowie enjoys an affectionate interview with ex-The Tube presenter Paula Yates backstage at Wembley Stadium in this archive footage from 1985's legendary Live Aid gig

The Egyptian government issued a lengthy report detailing the social protection measures it has taken in recent months to limit the consequences of high prices and the global economic crisis on citizens, especially the most disadvantaged groups. The cabinet reviewed all the measures and steps, including expanding the scope of…