An estimated 185,000 babies were taken from unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976. I was one of them, says Guardian news editor and writer David Batty

Thirty years after my parents were pressured into placing me with an adoption agency, I finally reconnected with them. But it was nothing like the neat stories you see on TV

Thirty years after my parents were pressured into placing me with an adoption agency, I finally reconnected with them. But it was nothing like the neat stories you see on TV

At least 3,000 Herero and Nama people died in a German concentration camp at Shark Island, Namibia. A new forensic exhibition in Berlin is using digital technology to unearth how colonisers scarred a ...

Hours before the world learned that a US missile had hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, parents were already searching the rubble for their sons and daughters. In this exclusive report, four families descr...

Some inside Iran believe threat was designed to divert attention from desire to seize islands in strait of Hormuz

Many Iranians were determined to mark the Persian new year despite the bombing entering its fourth week

Tehran residents try to stay safe from bombing and cling to their livelihoods as war stretches into third week

Pressure is mounting on the Trump administration after a video appears to show a US Tomahawk missile was used in a deadly strike on a girls' school in Iran.  The New York Times is reporting an ongoin...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among more than 100 signatories to letter urging PM not to get drawn further into the conflict

Relatives call on institutions to help them find remains of ancestors who led fight against British colonisers in 1890s

Grieving, bruised and divided on the wisdom of foreign-backed revolt, how can the Iranian people achieve change?

Jafar Panahi, director of Palme d’Or winner It Was Just An Accident, says Iranian leaders want to destroy country

Doctors in Tehran tell of overwhelmed medical staff as violent crackdown intensifies

Demonstrations initially focused on economic issues but as they have grown and become political the regime has responded with deadly force

Despite internet blackout, a small number of Iranians are risking their lives to share messages as protests continue

Actors, doctors and human rights leaders sign letter calling for restoration of medical care to ‘collapsed’ system

US president claims ‘Iran wants to negotiate’ as rights groups report that regime’s crackdown on protest has killed hundreds

US president says he ‘may have to act’ before talks amid crackdown that rights group says has led to at least 538 deaths

Over four years have passed since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Claudia Janke’s photographic series features seven Afghan women who have found safety in the UK after escaping at great ...

Rubina Aminian, 23, struck by bullet from behind after joining Tehran protest from college, says human rights group

As synthetic personas become an increasingly normal part of life, meet the people falling for their chatbot lovers

Heidi Alexander calls for end to violence while Tory leader says she would ‘not have an issue’ with regime change

Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof and Golshifteh Farahani among those to join outpouring of support for protesters

Demonstrator seen putting up pre-Islamic revolution lion and sun flag in support of rallies challenging Tehran regime

Videos emerging despite internet and mobile phone blackout show demonstrations continuing despite reports of escalating crackdown

Experts note the blackout is unprecedented in its extent but also selective, allowing some government communications

Doctors and nurses blame inaction by police and the NHS for mounting toll of physical and sexual abuse

Nearly 300,000 violent and sexual assaults recorded by NHS trusts in England over three years, Guardian analysis shows

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is bringing about a new era in education — and perhaps the end of public schools as we know them.

In Tehran this week, young adults told the Guardian about collapsing living standards, the mass anti-government protests and their hopes for the future

Despite significant support for the shah, Iranian society may be looking for any ‘escape from a dead end’

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls protesters ‘vandals’ and ‘saboteurs’ and blames the US for instigating the unrest

Keir Starmer’s announcement comes seven decades after end of British mandate in Palestine and creation of state of Israel