The statement follows the reported death in a camp of a prominent musician from the Uighur minority.

It has been a tradition in the US for decades - but recent events have highlighted their dark side.

At first the distant icy object Ultima Thule looked like a snowman. Now it's a "gingerbread man".

Each week, we publish a gallery of readers' pictures on a set theme. This week it is "wheels".

Kemoy Campbell is taken to hospital after collapsing during the 3,000m at the Millrose Games in New York.

Jewish women have used the mikve for centuries, but in Israel there's been a push to change the tradition.

Veganism is definitely having a moment, and for Rebecca Hills, 20, it was a way of hiding in plain sight.

The joint visual effects supervisor behind the Bafta-nominated film explains how the images were made.

Merebeth Veit has invented a job for herself that satisfies the two loves of her life, animals and travel.

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#MeToo is yet to touch the lives of millions of vulnerable women who work in informal jobs in India.

Camera-laden towers and underground sensors plug the gaps in the existing US-Mexico border fence.

How is the world's biggest trade fair for sweets adapting to a growing backlash against sugar?

A proposed gas pipeline has divided opinion among Canada's indigenous peoples.

The presidential election is the first with a group of voters who did not grow up under military rule.

Some of the week's most-Googled questions in the UK (including footballers and flamingos).

Victims of these scams lost an average of £11,145 each last year, Action Fraud says.

Thousands of people are evacuated as the blaze rages near Nelson in the country's South Island.

US-backed guerrillas target what they say is the last pocket of IS resistance near the Iraqi border.

But Labour is demanding a decisive vote on Theresa May's deal this month and accuses her of running down the clock.

Ben Stokes says England's batsmen have not approached the third Test against West Indies any differently, despite defeats in the first two.