A Patek Philippe timepiece that in 2016 became the most expensive wristwatch ever sold at auction fetched an even higher price this weekend, auctioneers Phillips ...
British-Hungarian writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize on Monday for his novel " Flesh", a tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune. ...
On a cool November morning, members of a local council in central Nigeria met religious leaders at the traditional ruler's palace to discuss religious harmony as ...
Sitting on the edge of a nearby well, Chapan Lolpusike recounted how his cows and oxen " all died" in the worst drought in four decades, caused by a succession of ...
Few places in the small African kingdom of Eswatini have a more feared reputation than the Matsapha Correctional Centre, a high-security sprawl of concrete and rust ...
Two months ago, the civil engineer, like thousands of others in the west African country, became a driver on the platform, which works similarly to Uber.
Two machines resembling robotic vacuum cleaners sped around a ring colliding, shooting sparks and catching fire, as Iranian engineering students watched from behind ...
Australia has turned to new technology to help stave off shark attacks
Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka may no longer travel to the US
Berlin, long hailed as one of the world's great party cities, is fighting to keep its famed techno clubs alive in the face of soaring prices, shifting tastes and ...
In the heat of a warehouse-like building in Conakry, five young men twirl, contort and juggle to the rhythm of percussions, defying the laws of gravity and distorting ...
A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400 000 years earlier than thought and in Asia ...
In Ivory Coast's biggest city Abidjan, vulnerable drug addicts say a secluded care and support centre in an upscale part of town has helped them to turn around their ...
Maria and Ana, victims of sex trafficking from Latin America, were lured to Albania under false promises of lucrative work, only to be forced into illegal sex work ...
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 ...