Free Men (99 mins, 12A)

More new homes must be built to tackle "the country's burgeoning housing crisis", a new report has said.

Officials say a fire that swept through a sprawling squatters' colony on Manila Bay's rim has left two people missing and some 10,000 others homeless.

A child stands on top of the rubble where his house used to be at a slum settlement in Kathmandu, near the bank of the Bagmati River, yesterday.

Kevin Rawlinson meets Newham locals who say empty homes are being wasted

A family of travellers forced some of the most vulnerable men in society to work for them on a site "like a concentration camp", Luton Crown Court has heard.

Touching street-life film brings a big issue to a screen near you

A mother and daughter folk duo, a hip-hop collective and a poetry group from Aldershot are to perform at the Royal Opera House in a show with a difference: every performer has lived rough on the streets. The show, With One Voice, also marks the first time the homeless have been officially recognised at the Olympics.

Twenty years after the siege of Sarajevo began, thousands of survivors remain displaced

Sandwich chain Pret A Manger is to create 550 jobs in the UK as it steps up its expansion plans after a year of record sales and store openings.

Japan fell silent yesterday to remember last year's 11 March earthquake and tsunami, which killed 19,000 people, triggered a still unresolved nuclear crisis and drove hundreds of thousands of refugees from their homes.

The number of households classed as homeless increased by 14 per cent last year, Government figures revealed yesterday.

New data has revealed the number of people sleeping rough in England has risen by 23 per cent in a year.

When I heard yesterday that another court had ruled against the Occupy London protest outside St Paul's cathedral, I had to think for a moment. After dominating headlines for weeks last autumn, the camp hasn't been in the news much lately and I'd almost forgotten it was still there.