Human urine has been used to create environmentally friendly bricks by university students in South Africa.
They combined urine with sand and bacteria in a...
President Mulatu Teshome of Ethiopia filed resignation request to the Ethiopian parliament.
Teshome, who has been the East African country’s head of state since October 2013, submitted...
South Africa's newly appointed Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has promised additional funds to ensure female students have access to sanitary pads.
There have been growing...
Former U.S. President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were among the targets of suspected package bombs delivered to several high-profile...
US President Donald Trump has called Saudi Arabia's response to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi "the worst cover-up ever".
He added that whoever organised...
The killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was planned days in advance, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told MPs from his ruling party.
He said...
South African judge Mandela Makaula has dismissed an application by the Nigerian pastor, Timothy Omotoso, who is accused of rape to recuse himself from...
Saudi Arabia says that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, blaming a "rogue operation" for a killing that has sparked an international outcry.
Foreign Minister Adel...
A US-based Kenyan pastor has been accused of fraud for holding three Pre-wedding fundraisers with two different women within a few months.
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Barely two days after becoming the first industrialised nation to legalise marijuana, Canadian stores are already running low on stock.
According to the Daily Mail,...
Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Malaysia's former deputy prime minister, appeared in court in Kuala Lumpur on Friday charged with 45 counts of corruption, the latest...
An Australian woman has been charged for allegedly gaining A$55,000 (£30,000) from a fundraising website after faking a cancer diagnosis.
Lucy Wieland, 27, used social...
An Ohio woman has been arrested and returned to Pennsylvania to face charges after she created pornographic images of her 3-year-old daughter.
Pennsylvania Attorney General...
United States President Donald Trump has insisted that immigrants entering the country illegally will be arrested and detained.
US authorities have, for months, been separating...
Major companies registered for a business conference in Saudi Arabia next week still plan to attend, despite growing pressure for a boycott.
Senior executives from...
The US has asked Turkey for a recording said to provide strong evidence that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at Istanbul's Saudi consulate.
"We...
A court in South Africa has found two South African white farmers guilty of killing 16-year-old black boy Matlhomola Moshoeu in 2017.
Judge Ronald Hendricks...
Police are investigating reports that a US schoolgirl gave cookies containing her grandmother's ashes to classmates.
She reportedly handed the baked goods to fellow students...
That's the conclusion of the celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking, whose final book was published on Tuesday.
The book, which was completed by his family after...
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has appointed women to half of his government's ministerial posts, including the job of defence minister.
Explaining his decision in...
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on Monday afternoon.
Allen's Vulcan Inc. announced that he died in Seattle at 65 years old.
It...
Australia will consider recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moving its embassy there from Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says.
If acted upon, the...
The family of Tanzanian billionaire Mohammed Dewji, who was kidnapped on Thursday, has offered a 1bn Tanzania shilling ($440,000; £330,000) reward for information that...
Twenty-two migrants were killed and 13 others were injured Sunday when a truck carrying them overturned, Turkey's state-run news agency Anadolu reported.
The accident occurred...
