FIFA, World Athletics review transgender rules after swimming's change
FIFA said it was taking guidance from medical, legal, scientific, performance and human rights experts and also the position of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
How will swimming's new transgender rules work?
Swimming's world governing body FINA has voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women's competitions, so what is the policy and what is FINA's reasoning behind the change?
New York's historic Stonewall Monument holds U.S. naturalization ceremony
The monument remembers the Stonewall riots of June 1969, seen as the protests that birthed the international gay rights movement.
Forests or business - who wins when companies pay to protect trees?
A rise in companies sponsoring small Amazon conservation projects has some climate experts warning about a wave of greenwashing
Besides Britain, which nations send asylum seekers overseas?
The UK’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is not the first of its kind. From Israel to Australia, several countries have used offshoring policies for refugees and migrants
U.N. nature summit set for Montreal as COVID-hit China steps aside
The COP15 conference, which is due to agree a new global deal to protect biodiversity, has been postponed several times as host nation China grapples with the pandemic
OPINION: Confronting the new carbon bomb in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia has chosen its path away from coal but that was not the end of the story
Australia's Seebohm backs FINA decision on transgender swimmers
Five-times world champion Seebohm, who won a medley relay gold medal for Australia at last year's Tokyo Games, said the decision would encourage swimmers to stay in the sport.
Swim federation restricts transgender participation in women's competition
The debate over transgender participation intensified after University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender NCAA champion in Division I history earlier this year.
British Olympic champion Kelly Holmes comes out as gay
Olympic champion Kelly Holmes, who won gold in the 800 and 1,500 metres at the 2004 Games in Athens, said on Saturday she had known she was gay since she was 17.