Armed police may be assigned to protect India’s holy River Ganges from pollution and misuse, under new government proposals to save the river from further degradation. A draft bill has proposed the creation of a…
Seventy-nine school pupils abducted by gunmen this week in a troubled English-speaking region of Cameroon have been freed, the country’s communications minister told AFP on Wednesday. The kidnappings on Monday were the first such mass…
Rare’s done it – Sea of Thieves has topped the UK games chart in a busy week for new releases. Impressively, the PC and Xbox One pirate simulator hit number one just on Xbox One…
An oppressive heat seeped through the ward, the languid ceiling fans providing little relief to the patients lying listlessly on their beds. Anatole Belndoko, chief doctor on the therapeutic nutritional unit of the Mother and…
Before his election, Emmanuel Macron famously likened the role of French president to Jupiter, the lofty Roman god of Gods. France, he theorised, expects a touch of majesty from its head of state and never really…
The new father stared at his premature baby lying in the incubator, which flickered on and off with al-Hawbani hospital’s waning electricity. Being born in Hodeidah – the epicentre of the raging war in Yemen…
Not Tonight starts at the end, with the London Eye snapped and bobbing in the Thames, and political party Albion First in control. You are a bouncer taking tickets at the British Museum of History…
Just the idea of Minit is enough to make me squirm. It’s the time limit that does it; an ever-marching expiry date that’s impervious to pleads or procrastination, a silent but ever-present threat that’ll see…
Dutch motivational speaker Emile Ratelband may feel like a 49-year-old but according to Dutch law he is still 69. A Dutch court on Monday rejected Mr Ratelband’s request to shave 20 years off his age in a case that drew…
A British teenager has been arrested in Egypt on suspicion of spying, his family has said. Muhammad Abul-Kasem, 19, was detained at Alexandria airport after he was searched and a picture of a military plane was…