The Scottish Parliament voted unanimously to pass a measure that makes free period products available to anyone who needs them, the first country to do so.

The number of female solo travelers has skyrocketed, but amid Instagram-worthy escapades are tales of violence and death, raising questions about how the world is greeting women who travel alone.

The pandemic is a challenge not only for public health but also for messaging. Here’s how some world leaders have talked to their citizens about the outbreak.

Ireland this week began offering legalized abortion services, a historic shift in a country that had some of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws.

The United Kingdom kicked off a global effort to fight Covid-19. Doctors, nurses, certain people 80 or over and nursing home workers are among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Fifty people were killed when a gunman stormed two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and opened fire on worshippers. Among the dead were students, athletes, engineers and an aspiring pilot.

The Labour Party is pressuring the government to come to the aid of homeowners living in apartments wrapped in dangerous flammable material that was the cause of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017.

Violent confrontations in Leicester have prompted soul searching in an area long heralded as a success story of diversity and integration among its large Indian diaspora.

As some restrictions are lifted on who can enter, unmarried couples are calling on European countries to make it possible for them to be together again.

For countless Ukrainian children, the war has brought long-term physical and psychological injuries. Those who have suffered serious physical harm or the loss of a parent now face a challenging path...

Her killing, allegedly by a police officer, has energized a national effort to combat pervasive violence against women in Britain. For those closest to her, though, the loss is profoundly intimate.

Years after the Grenfell Tower fire in London killed 72 people, disabled residents of high-rises worry whether they would be able to evacuate if needed. “We’ve been an afterthought,” one activist...

Ms. Begum was one of three teenage girls from London who traveled to Syria in 2015 to join the Islamic State.

Women who were attacked in a village near Kyiv yearn for justice. “I want them to be punished,” said one victim. But Ukrainian officials face daunting challenges in prosecuting such crimes.

With 50,000 Ukrainians now finding sanctuary in Ireland, the largest number of refugees the country has ever accepted is merging with locals in homogeneous rural villages.

A sprawling expo center in the Polish capital has given some 25,000 refugees a safe place to recharge before journeying on.

Thousands of anonymous online accounts have shined a spotlight on sexual violence against young women and girls.

The guidance after the sentencing of Wayne Couzens, who abused his power as a police officer to falsely arrest and murder Sarah Everard, 33, provoked widespread criticism and mockery.

From ribald tokens from London’s Roman past to hints of the Mayflower’s fate, mudlarks discover the story of a constantly changing London — but only at low tide.

The finding of a circle of trenches at a nearby ancient village also makes the site the largest prehistoric structure in Britain and possibly in Europe, one archaeologist said.

The war with Russia compounds the struggles of pediatric cancer patients and their families, but it has also prompted positive changes in treatment in Ukraine.

Thirteen members of the Mariupol Drama Theater have reconvened in western Ukraine where they are rehearsing a new play about a Ukrainian dissident who died in a Russian prison camp in the 1980s.

The New Zealand organization does not engage in the sort of political lobbying the American group is known for and is not pushing back on a national ban on military-style semiautomatic weapons.

Women are reporting being injected with syringes at crowded clubs in a horrifying variation of dropping pills into drinks. “This is a new depth,’’ said a former chief of police.

The country’s teachers are doing their best to provide lessons for the millions of school-age children whose education has been interrupted.

Canada’s government once pressured Inuit women to travel south to give birth. Now, they can have their babies at a hometown maternity clinic led by Inuit midwives.

The strikes killed at least 14 people in Ukraine and disrupted electricity in some regions. Russia said they were in retaliation for a blast on a key bridge to Crimea. The United Nations General...

Buckingham Palace said the queen, who was 96, died peacefully at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands. Her son became Britain’s new monarch, King Charles III.

As the country’s economy restarts after months of closures, staffing shortages have emerged in some industries. The impact of leaving the European Union could be part of the problem.

The ruling puts Parliament back in session almost three weeks earlier than expected, and has consequences for Brexit.

The 5-year-old had been in Iran since 2016 when her mother, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, was arrested. Her mother remains in a Tehran prison.

The strike in Kramatorsk, which had been a main point of evacuation for thousands of people trying to flee eastern Ukraine, left “dozens” dead and injured, according to a local official.

The British-Iranian woman has been detained in Tehran for five years on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, accusations that her family and supporters say are baseless.

The attacks by the Iranian-made drones were the latest on Kyiv, where Russian strikes have increased. Five others died in a strike in the northeastern Sumy region, officials said.

Developers knocked down the Carlton Tavern six years ago to make way for luxury apartments. After a legal fight, they were ordered to rebuild it, brick by brick.