Maeve Cullinan

Andy Burnham is planning to reverse the cuts to Britain's aid budget made by his predecessors Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak, according to reports.

Africa is significantly better prepared for a pandemic than it was five years ago, a major review of the continent’s health security has found.

Four men are about to be voluntarily infected with one of mankind’s oldest killers

New cases have doubled in some hotspots over the past week, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns

The African island is currently battling its largest-ever outbreak of the virus formerly known as monkeypox

Ben Farmer, Maeve Cullinan Congo's runaway Ebola outbreak is doubling in size every 20 days, according to the United Nations humanitarian chief, putting it on track to soon be the largest ever seen.

H5N1 bird flu has reached Australia's shores and is threatening to infect some of the country's most unique wildlife.

“It's been relentless, an immense number of calls,” says Yvonne Woodhams, control room commander at the London Fire Brigade's headquarters on the morning of what turned out to be the hottest day of the year so far.

“It’s been relentless, an immense number of calls,” says Yvonne Woodhams, control room commander at the London Fire Brigade’s headquarters on the morning of what turned out to be the hottest day of th...

As the risk of ‘fire weather’ increases, humans are learning to adapt to an ominous new normal