Large numbers of teenage refugees are still being routinely locked up, two years after the Coalition Government promised to end the detention of asylum-seeking children, a report today discloses.

A voice of conscience that still resounds

"It wasn't until after I did The Lion King that I decided maybe straight acting could be fun". Happily for the theatre, Bennett-Warner was just 11 at the time.

Ros Wynne-Jones hears the incredible tale behind the staging of 'Cymbeline' in the Juba Arabic language

Refugees are left stranded by hostilities on the Sudanese border

Sudan has "declared war" on its new neighbour, the President of South Sudan announced on a trade trip to China this week. The truth is that the two countries have effectively been at war almost since the South voted for independence from the North last year. Now China, which buys oil from both countries, must consider its options as peacemaker.

To modern readers, many 1930s writers might as well be using Shakespearian English, such is the grace and complexity of their language. Is this why Elizabeth Jenkins has disappeared from bookshops?

Britain is to provide an additional £4 million in aid for refugees displaced by the fighting in Syria, it was announced today.

After a decade of promoting refugee causes around the world, Angelina Jolie herself has been promoted.

A casualty of the 1941 blitz on Belfast was the Third Presbyterian Church in Rosemary Street. Uncovered from the rubble was a slate inscribed by the church's architect, John Millar, who wanted posterity to know that his pristine design (completed in his 18th year) was nearly wrecked in his absence by a couple of local architects, Duff and Jackson (his foremost pair of bugbears), and only rescued on his return from abroad. Glenn Patterson includes Millar's declaration as an appendage to his resonant new novel. Its underlying theme is the making (and unmaking) of the city - though most of the action takes place in the 1830s, when Belfast was still little more than a Georgian country town.

Witnesses say the fighting is so close that bullets are landing in Turkey

Thousands flee to neighbouring Lebanon as regime cracks down ahead of ceasefire

Starring: André Wilms, Kati Outinen

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