Mattha Busby

United States taxpayers continue to fund a destructive and deadly drug war in low- and middle-income countries across the world, ...

Since 1971, the U.S. has spent more than $1 trillion on the War on Drugs, through a law enforcement-focused approach that has continued despite evidence it doesn't work.

The marketing of illegal drugs on open platforms is “gaining prominence,” authorities note, while the number of drug transactions on the darkweb has decreased in recent years.

Pope Francis has urged people not to be drawn towards “pessimism and resignation” despite wars and social injustices throughout the world, but to retain a “gentle gaze of hope”.

Hope and kindness ‘touch the very heart of gospel’ and show people how to behave amid war and social injustice

In the message, Francis said: “Hope and kindness touch the very heart of the gospel and show us the path to follow in our behaviour"

More than 1,300 tiny, critically endangered snails have been set free to roam on an island off the coast of Morocco after a breeding programme rescued two obscure species from the brink of extinction.

A 33-year-old woman has been charged with murder after the death of a man on Christmas Day in Staffordshire.

The outlaw filmmaker—and VICE's long-time correspondent from inside a federal prison—has been caught with 400 lbs of weed in his truck.

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