Two men who escaped one of the world's most secretive and repressive states have told how they were tortured, beaten and raped in Turkmenistan for the "crime" of ...
Three authors writing about love and loss have made the Booker Prize shortlist for the first time, among the six chosen as contenders for this year's prestigious ...
There is a mixed crowd lining up outside the ICE recruitment fair in Utah, where hundreds of people are eager to join US President Donald Trump's vast deportation ...
Decked out with fake crystal chandeliers and velvet sofas, cosmetic surgery clinics in Afghanistan's capital are a world away from the austerity of Taliban rule, ...
Paleontologists have identified the most complete and oldest known pachycephalosaur, a discovery that pushes back the origin of dome-headed dinosaurs by at least ...
In a world first, the government last year banned the import of petrol and diesel vehicles, partly for green reasons but also to help wean the country off increasingly ...
Guinness World Records on Monday gave official recognition to Nigerian chef Hilda Baci in recognising her rice jollof, concocted in Lagos last Friday, as the world's ...
Botswana and southern African peers that built much of their prosperity on diamonds are scrambling for alternatives as cheaper, lab-grown stones threaten their economies. ...
At 82 years old and after a six-decade career as a performer and playwright, the South African star had several stories to recount
"The Voice of Hind Rajab" shook audiences in its first press screenings in Venice on Wednesday, leaving some critics in tears over the dramatic portrayal of real ...
For more than a century, the fate of the dazzling Darya-e-Noor diamond has been sealed inside a bank vault - a mystery that haunts Khawaja Naim Murad, great-grandson ...
The annual Pacu Jalur race on Sumatra island ended Sunday, with officials estimating as many as 100 000 more spectators this year because of 11-year-old Rayyan Arkan ...
The legacy of Ethiopia's last emperor Haile Selassie remains contested in his increasingly polarised country half a century after his death
It was a priority for Zanele Muholi to get back to South Africa for last week's Black Women in Photography Conference, at the school in downtown Johannesburg where ...
Tunisian mother Mouna Jebali had long used a flat iron to straighten her thick hair, but with women everywhere challenging the stigma around natural looks, she has ...
Need a new gaming console? Just make one yourself with an old ventilator. Got an old payment terminal? Turn it into a camera.
Nestled among its sprawling boughs is a nest box designed for the yellow-crested cockatoo, of which only 1,200 to 2,000 remain in the world.
The annual "Mr and Ms Kibera" pageant in Nairobi, gleefully attended by hundreds, is about more than just the contestants' looks -- it provides a much-needed platform ...
Texas's most renowned makers of the southern US fashion staple source the ostrich leather they require exclusively from Oudtshoorn.
Cathy and Patrick relish describing how they found each other: through a message left on a Swiss mountaintop. "It was just a beautiful way to meet. "
An Indian restaurant in Dubai was awarded the maximum three Michelin stars last weekend - the first time the prestigious honour has been given to Indian cuisine ...
Swathed in vibrant woollen blankets against the biting winter chill, jockeys - some no more than boys - thundered down a dusty track carved between the undulating ...
Nemcha, Zina and Zouina, three North African Sloughi hounds, play on the beach in Tunisia where their ancestors have long roamed desert plains, seemingly unaware ...
Snout pressed to the ground, a border collie named Delta zigzagged through the shrubs on a private nature reserve near Cape Town, frantically sniffing for critically ...
Billionaire Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok came under fire Wednesday for anti-Semitic comments, praising Adolf Hitler and insulting Islam in separate ...