KAMPALA: Ugandan IT student Andrew Njuki spent years hunched over English-language textbooks, often grappling with material that would have been easier to grasp...
KAMPALA: Ugandan IT student Andrew Njuki spent years hunched over English-language textbooks, often grappling with material that would have been easier to grasp...
LONDON: Raymond Briggs, illustrator of the classic children's Christmas book 'The Snowman', has died aged 88, the Press Association said on Wednesday, citing...
SUVA, Fiji: Karen Vusisa has been struggling to find a decent catch of a favourite Fijian edible seaweed, amid concerns that ocean temperatures...
LOS YUNGAS, Bolivia: Bolivia's decision to open an alternate route to its historic 'Death Road' - a serpentine dirt path across the towering...
LE POULIGUEN, France: Through blistering heatwaves and drought that have parched the French countryside in recent weeks, one group has emerged a reluctant...
AUDOMAROIS MARSHES, France: Charles Defoort is the only postman in mainland France to make his deliveries by boat. The 24-year-old goes door-to-door in...
BEIRUT: Mohamed Abu Khodr had been waiting for hours outside a Beirut bakery in hopes of buying two bags of subsidised bread he...
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin's flight jacket, which he wore on the historic mission to the moon in 1969, was sold for about...
Four hundred elephants and a herd of buffalo are among more than 2,000 animals that will traverse the length of Zimbabwe in the...
KEY WEST, Florida: Some came in wool fisherman's sweaters, and other contestants had sportsmen's attire. But it was the cream-colored sweater of attorney...
Extreme fires have swallowed up huge swathes of land, destroyed homes and threatened livelihoods across the world in the first half of 2022....
ISLAMABAD: A woman from Pakistan and another from Iran becomethe first from their countries to scale K2 on Friday, the world's second-highest mountain...
GENEVA: The migratory monarch butterfly, which has for millennia turned North American woodlands into kaleidoscopes of colour in one of nature's most spectacular...
NEW YORK: Michelle Obama will have a book out this fall, "The Light We Carry,” in which she reflects upon her experiences and...
KATHMANDU: A 47-year-old Nepali sherpa has set a climbing record by scaling all the world's 14 peaks that are higher than 8,000 metres...
LONDON: Hungry polar bears are turning to garbage dumps to fill their stomachs as their icy habitat disappears. On Wednesday, a team of...
TAMALE, Ghana: Hundreds of meters above the village of Jenakpeng in northern Ghana, a small drone locked its sights on six airplanes parked...
ROME: Giuseppe Paterno, who is 98, has become Italy's oldest graduate - again. Paterno has added a masters in history and philosophy from...
