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As soon as the barrier broke, a flood of poison brought death to the river. Gushing through the fragile wall built to hold back mining waste…

New estimates predict at least 1.6 million people in the UK will be living with glaucoma, the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, by 2060.The figure…

When Bright Ansah, a nursing officer in Accra, goes searching for colleagues who have failed to show up for a shift at the overstretched hospital where…

The government will take over full responsibility for special educational needs spending from local councils, it was revealed at the budget, prompting warnings that the Department…

The surge in the use of disposable face masks during the Covid pandemic has left a chemical timebomb that could harm humans, animals and the environment,…

Eight police officers linger with their backs to the two-hectare (five-acre) site known as Stocamine. The place is nondescript in the morning drizzle: two mine shafts,…