Mobile phones and cancer

The HPV test looks for the virus (human papillomavirus) that can cause cell changes on the cervix. The Pap test (or Pap smear) looks for precancers, cell changes on the cervix that might become cervical cancer if they are not treated appropriately.

Each year, millions of people across the globe receive a cancer diagnosis. For many, this news is scary. Two patients from Germany talk about how psycho-oncology helped them cope.

In Rutshuru, DR Congo, the International Committee of the Red Cross has set up phone booths to help displaced families track down those left behind in combat zones. Also, a new film is out in France that focuses on the Senegalese tirailleurs, a corps of colonial infantry in the French armies of the First and Second World Wars.

Cancer diagnoses are on the rise in Kenya, but with less than a fifth of people enrolled in a national insurance scheme, getting a diagnosis can force families to make huge financial sacrifices. Stigma only makes things worse.

China's Realme has unveiled its new GT3 smartphone, which it says can be fully charged in just over nine minutes.

Phone snatching is a worrying trend in Nigeria's northern Kano state. One group of youths is helping people to hold on to their devices.

We take a look at French President Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to move past his pension reform now that it has become law. We also discuss feminism in Russia, Iran and North Africa. And we dive into multiple advances in the fight against cancer. Finally, the Washington Post wonders what the future of wild sex will be.

Britain's Prince Harry's lawsuit against the publisher of the tabloid Daily Mirror newspaper over allegations of phone hacking is set to begin at London's High Court.

We take a look at how the press is covering the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day as well as the first anniversary of a brutal killing in the Amazon, and how, on this anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square uprising, Hong Kong’s tributes were silent. We take a look at two breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer. Finally, two stories about ‘indecency’ – involving the Bible and nude beaches – are making headlines.

A court in southern Germany has sentenced a natural health practitioner and a man who supplied her with fake remedies for fraud. The pair were accused of exploiting patients suffering from terminal illnesses.

War reporting in the digital age: The flood of video footage from frontline trenches in Ukraine makes covering the war for journalists even more complex.

According to figures published by Public Health France, around 433,000 new cases of cancer are now detected in France each year. That number has doubled since 1990.