LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Orchids are not often called ugly, but that is how the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, described a new species of the
Read MoreLONDON, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost 400 global religious leaders, including anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu and Britain’s Bish
Read MoreKANKARA, Nigeria (AP) — Anger, fear and exhaustion. Anxiety has overwhelmed many parents in Nigeria’s northern village of Kankara who await word on th
Read MoreLAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of Nigerian students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state,
Read MoreOn the night of Jan. 4, about 50 unarmed cadets ― many of them teenagers ― were practicing drills at a military academy in the Libyan capital of Tripo
Read MoreCAIRO, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Several years ago, a young Egyptian man abandoned his degree in archaeology to hunt scorpions in the country’s deserts and sh
Read MoreNEW YORK, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a “st
Read MoreThis year has been absolutely maddening for John Boyega. “I never knew the plot twist could be so mad. I feel like God just maybe went to the toilet f
Read MoreNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed again ruled out dialogue with the leaders of the defiant Tigray region Friday but said he is
Read MoreKNESSELARE, Belgium, Nov 15 (Reuters) - A two-year-old Belgian racing pigeon called New Kim set a world record of 1.6 million euros ($1.89 million) at
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