17 soldiers killed in Niger suicide attacks
Two suicide bombers have struck a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in two towns in north western Niger, officials say. A bomb at the military barracks in Agadez killed at least 17 soldiers, Niger’s defence minister MahamadouKaridjo told the BBC. French nuclear firm Areva said that 13 people at its Somair plant in the town of Arlit were More...
North Korea says willing to take China’s advice to start talks
North Korea is willing to take China’s advice and enter into talks, Chinese state television cited an envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as saying, following weeks of tension on the Korean peninsula More...
Death toll rises in Lebanon clashes
Seven people have been killed and more than 50 wounded in overnight clashes in Tripoli between Lebanese fighters backing rival factions in Syria’s civil war, according to doctors and security sources. Tripoli More...
Environmentalist builds floating island with 100,000 plastic bottles
Eco-pioneer Richard “Rishi” Sowa designed and built an artificial island kept afloat by 100,000 plastic bottles. Spiral Island II is actually Rishi Sowa’s second artificial island. He built the More...
London attacker British, of Nigerian origin – police
British authorities have established that one and possibly both of the men who hacked a soldier to death on a London street was born in Britain of Nigerian descent, a source with knowledge of the investigation said More...
Chinese human snail carries his home on his back wherever he goes
38-year-old Liu Lingchao is a real-life human snail who carries his 60-kg-heavy house on his back wherever he goes. Made of bamboo poles and plastic sheets, the portable home provides shelter on Liu’s long More...
Malawi: How to save a fish . . . a lake and a people
By Mabvuto Banda Lloyd Phiri, a fisherman from Senga Bay on Lake Malawi’s shores in Malawi’s central region, knows that the lake’s water levels are dropping. He can see it in his catch, which has More...
Mugabe signs Zimbabwe constitution into law
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signed a new constitution into law on Wednesday, replacing a 33-year-old document forged in the dying days of British colonial rule and paving the way for elections later this year. The More...
Egyptian security men abducted in Sinai freed
Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard abducted on the Sinai peninsula last week have been released, the Egyptian army has said in a statement. ”The seven kidnapped soldiers are now on their way to Cairo More...
Iran’s Ahmadinejad to contest poll bar on ally
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will contest the disqualification of his ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from next month’s presidential poll. Mr Mashaei and ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani More...
