Central World

Oksana Bitinieva has not seen her husband and her cat since leaving Kyiv in January to visit a friend in Denmark, unaware a war was about to break out.

The Ukraine teenager hoping to be given a temporary home in Solihull has been left stranded, as the Home Office won't give visas to 'unaccompanied minors'.

A new project from the University of Leicester is helping a group of Afghan women who fled the Taliban learn English.