Orangutan

When I stood as an independent candidate in the Tower Hamlets Mayoral elections of 2015, a white man asked me what colour my hair was under my veil. I said it was pink. He smiled, so then I added, Not really, its green. It was a small moment, but it…

A Holiday Inn has been evacuated after the building went up in flames. Emergency services were called at around 4.30pm to the hotel in Walsall, West Midlands, and more than 50 firefighters were at the scene to put it out. Footage of the two-storey building …

Primates aren't doing well. Well, let's rephrase that: Some primates on this planet humans are doing extraordinarily, record-breakingly well, and the rest of them are only doing so-so. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), ab…

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres says that "the world will lose an invaluable brake on nuclear war" as a landmark treaty between Moscow and Washington expired on Friday.  In February, the US began withdrawing from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear For…

Love Nature offers titles such as Orangutan Jungle School Love Nature 4K, the wildlife channel owned by Canada’s Blue Ant Media, has been added to five platforms across Vietnam, Hong Kong and Indonesia. In Vietnam, Love Nature 4K has agreed three carriage d…

The worlds deepest lake is under threat from toxic mudflows following widespread flooding in Siberia, according to environmentalists. Alongside wildfires that continue to consume its forests, the remote region in eastern Russia has been hit by severe floods …

Poverty in the United States is so bad that some people have no choice but to riot, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said. The firebrand Democratic congresswoman argued when a community is so marginalised it has no hope for the future the only option is to take …

A man has confessed to the murder of an Instagram influencer whose body was found in a suitcase, Russian police have said. Ekaterina Karaglanova, who had recently graduated as a doctor, was found dead by her parents in her rented apartment in Moscow last wee…

An Indian politician and more than 20 of his aides are under suspicion of murder, attempted murder and criminal conspiracy after a woman who accused the legislator of rape was hit by a truck. Detectives have lodged a case naming Kuldeep Singh Sengar and his …

A prominent investigative journalist has been arrested in Tanzania, prompting an outcry of concerns about press freedom in the country. Erick Kabendera was arrested by six plainclothes police officers on Monday night at his home in the east African nations c…