Agenda

Rubbish school furniture; Solar power going cheap; Nutritious tents

Report from China

Report from Norway

Report from Japan

Report from Malawi

Ecuadorians replaced one Leftist president with another

Report from Romania

Report from the EU and around the world

Report from Spain

Report from Indonesia

Youth services un-axed; Metal-mines out!; Exhausting ink

Nine-year-old Ridhima Pandey is fed up with inaction on climate change, writes Amy Hall.

Campaigners have begun legal proceedings to gain possession of a ‘living memorial’ to Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, Celestine AkpoBari reports.

Protests in southern Italy have delayed plans for construction of a vast natural-gas pipeline into Europe, writes Sarah Shoraka.

What would a city without consumerism look like?

Nguli Mchewa is not exactly sure when he was born, Maina Waruru writes.

Hong Kong has its first woman leader and her ‘election’ is shrouded in controversy, writes Richard Swift.

An all-woman band is using music to challenge China’s rum treatment of women migrant workers, writes Lydia Noon.

The rules of the game changed in the United States last month on 1 May when people experienced a taste of what life was like on ‘a Day without Immigrants’, Marienna Pope-Weidemann writes.

The people of Cajamarca have won an important battle against mining giant AngloGold Ashanti, writes Tatiana Garavito.