When Innocent James completed his chores after school, he would light a kerosene lamp and lay down to read his books. There was no electricity in James’ part of Arusha, a region in northern Tanzania, and so his family was forced to burn expensive oil for him to learn after…
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have personally accepted US President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to his inauguration, but Beijing…
As the Gaza ceasefire takes hold, aid workers caution that the toughest challenges are yet to come, describing the…
An Indian court awarded a life sentence on Monday to a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder…
The death toll from a gasoline tanker explosion in north-central Nigeria has risen to 86, the country’s emergency response…
Eight people died and seven were injured in a fire at a nursing home outside Belgrade on Monday which…
A British teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to charges of murdering three young girls in a knife attack in…