As a young boy,Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford never suffered from a lack of love. There was,though,not much food or money.
Five million people will be pushed back below the poverty line as a result of lockdowns and the global recession.
As coronavirus creates financial hardship,healthy and nutritious food is getting out of reach for millions. In many countries obesity is on the rise.
Finance officials also vowed to resolve major differences over taxing big tech companies and reach a broad,consensus-based solution on international taxation this year.
At 14,Melburnian schoolboy Hugh Evans set himself a mission to end global poverty. Some 20 years later,his Global Citizen charity is attracting millions of people – including celebrities and politicians – to the cause.
West Coast ruckman Nic Naitanui has opened up about the heartbreak he felt during his recent trip to Kenya,saying it helped change him.
The past few weeks of lockdown,one of the strictest in Africa,have been catastrophic for the country's poorest,many of whom live hand-to-mouth in crowded slums.
There has been no quick fix for the Ebola crisis in DR Congo. But we can learn much in Australia from those who have learned to take outbreaks seriously.
Nearly a third of Thailand's workforce is in the agricultural sector,which sells commodities such as rice,natural rubber and sugar to global markets but earns little.
The man who wrote the most popular general economics history for decades is back with another piercing analysis of the state of the world.
130 million girls do not attend school,and this year about 12 million will likely be pulled out of school before puberty to enter an early marriage.