UK housing crisis: Homelessness rises 10% in London and reflects 'desperate state of rented sector'
Rise reflected nationally with 5% without homes as charity hands out night bus passes to rough sleepers.
Starbucks to give loans to help UK staff with rent deposits
Starbucks to give interest-free loans to its UK employees to help with increasing living costs.
Yemen's bloody war: World maintains shameful silence as innocent civilians are bombed
Children in Yemen have paid a high price as Saudi-led air strikes batter Yemen.
George Osborne's austerity cuts trigger surge in evictions
Government figures show there were more than 10,300 rental repossessions between April and June 2015.
Uganda: LGBT pride parade in country that tried to impose long jail terms for gay sex [Photos]
Homosexuality is illegal in 37 African countries, and Uganda has some of the strictest anti-gay laws.
80% of beggars in England and Wales in 2014 not living on streets
More than a thousand people were arrested for begging in 2014.
UK vs Isis: David Cameron warns of Islamic State poisoning minds of young British Muslims
Prime minister to launch review into how to boost 'integration' in Muslim communities.
London rents crisis: Structural inequality and misogyny is fuelling sex-for-rent exploitation
Poorest women at risk of sexual exploitation in London's expensive housing and rental market.
Only rent controls will help to solve London's housing crisis
Even rapid building programmes will not be enough to end the vicious cycle of rising house prices and rents
Greek crisis: Thriving sex industry shows austerity has violated women's rights
Women are turning to prostitution during Greek economic crisis as Greece misses IMF payment
Rabina Khan: Lutfur Rahman is not bankrolling my Tower Hamlets mayor campaign
Tower Hamlets election overshadowed by ongoing presence of corrupt ex-mayor.
Tower Hamlets: Rabina Khan campaign tainted by Lutfur Rahman corruption shadow in troubled East End borough
Ex-Tower Hamlets mayor Rahman endorsing and campaigning for his old colleague Khan.
Greece crisis: Troika demands led to blatant violations of human rights in healthcare
The negative impact of austerity and economic recession in Greece ahead of a deal with IMF and eurozone
A third of Londoners cannot afford to live in the capital says new research
Food, travel and rent cost a single person £410 a week - £130 more than the national average.
What the internet is reading on 15 May: BB King, Chuka Umunna and One Direction
Your daily guide to the stories and subjects trending across the web.
Question Time special: David Cameron beats Ed Miliband in final TV showdown
The Tory leader came out on top of the BBC event, according to a snap ICM poll for The Guardian.
Public outrage at 'anti-homeless' spikes outside McDonalds in Leeds, West Yorkshire
More than 75,000 people have signed a petition demanding the 'inhumane' spikes installed outside a Leeds branch are removed.
UK children living in 'Victorian conditions' because of austerity, say teachers
Teachers warn children are living in 'Victorian conditions' and are 'blighted and degraded by poverty and homelessness'.
London housing crisis: Families pushed out of the capital 35 times quicker than 5 years ago
Families are being forced to move from the UK capital city 35 times more than compared to five years ago.
Male suicide scandal: UK men are paying for a system that drives thousands of them to death
The government has created a system that appears to place huge health risk on British men.
Birmingham Spider-Man: Meet the anonymous Marvel character who uses Spidey sense to feed homeless
@BrumSpiderman has been fighting homelessness in his home town.
Labour and Liberal Democrats pledge to review help for homeless in election manifesto
Following the Crisis conference both parties announce plans to tackle homelessness.
Communities minister Stephen Williams: Homelessness is due to immigration rather than housing shortage
Minister was laughed at during Crisis conference after boasting about the number of affordable homes being built in decade.
Charities warn UK government data doesn't reflect rising risk of homelessness
Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's study said that certain methods mask the growing problem
Greece austerity measures linked with 'sharp and sustained' increase in suicides
Suicides in Greece reached a 30-year high in 2012 following further austerity measures.
Greek election: Anti-austerity Syriza party tipped for historic win
Greek leftists Syriza party are favourites to win, but claim they want to remain in Euro.
James Bond masters diversity as MI5 hailed as LGBT friendly employer
Armed Forces also make top 100 most gay-friendly employers.
Britain's LGBTI fighters have made huge strides - but bullying, suicides and drug abuse show our work isn't done
Homophobia has been pushed back since 1999 but we must keep up the fight.
France: Mayor criticised for 'anti-homeless cages' installed around city benches
Xavier Bonnefont has been accused of being anti-homeless after the cages were installed on Christmas eve.
Labour warns of 'illegally housed' children in B&Bs this Christmas
Shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds said almost 90,000 children will spend Christmas in crisis housing.