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A leading research-intensive university, the University of Birmingham is a vibrant, global community and an internationally-renowned institution, in the top 20 in the UK and 100 globally. With approximately 28,000 students and 6,000 members of staff, its work brings people from more than 150 countries to Birmingham.

The University of Birmingham has been challenging and developing great minds for more than a century. Characterised by a tradition of innovation, research at Birmingham has broken new ground, pushed forward the boundaries of knowledge and made an impact on people’s lives.

We continue this tradition today and have ambitions for a future that will embed our work and recognition of the Birmingham name on the international stage.

Universities are never complete. They develop as new challenges and opportunities occur. At the University of Birmingham we innovate, we push the frontiers of understanding; we ask new research questions, we turn theory through experiment into practice – because that’s what great universities do.

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Ursula von der Leyen is struggling to hold together an EU that is increasingly divided over Ukraine. Nicolas Landemard/Le Pictorium/Alamy Live News

EU agrees €90 billion loan to Ukraine, but squabbles over frozen Russian assets expose the bloc’s deep divisions

To placate pro-Moscow governments in Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia, the EU had to include an ‘opt-out’ clause for its support for Ukraine.
Lindsay Zanno, associate research professor at North Carolina State University, with the Dueling Dinosaurs fossil. N.C. State University

The best dinosaur discoveries of 2025

We’re in a golden era for dinosaur science.
The new US national security strategy appears to prioritise commercial advantage over stability or security for Europe. Yau Ming Low/Shutterstock

Donald Trump’s national security strategy puts America first and leaves its allies to fend for themselves

America’s new vision of its place in the world has left its European allies wondering whether Nato can survive in its current form.
Des personnes réfugiées, essentiellement des femmes, attendent de recevoir une aide financière lors d’une distribution d’argent liquide organisée par le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) dans un ancien enclos à bétail du secteur 5 du camp de personnes déplacées de Bentiu, dans l’État d’Unity, au Soudan du Sud, le 4 novembre 2025. Rian Cope/AFP

Terreur, viols, meurtres… Le quotidien épouvantable des femmes qui migrent du Soudan vers le Soudan du Sud

La guerre civile au Soudan provoque des migrations massives vers le Soudan du Sud. Les migrants et surtout les migrantes subissent régulièrement attaques et viols de masse.
A Sudanese woman rests while fleeing the ongoing conflict between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in North Darfur, in April 2025. EPA/MARWAN MOHAMED

‘I have to talk about it so that the world can know what happened to women and girls in Sudan’ – rape and terror sparks mass migration

Hundreds of returnees and forced migrants reported being terrorised by soldiers and armed militias on both sides of the Sudan civil war.

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