Scientists at Belgium’s University of Ghent say they’ve created a machine that turns urine into potable water, and fertilizer, using solar energy. The scientists have since crafted small batches...
Over 32 people dead and 60 more injured today by a terror attack on Istanbul's main airport, one of the busiest airports in on Istanbul's main airport.
Three attackers were involved, with one...
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali is reportedly "close to death" after being hospitalized in the Phoenix area Thursday with respiratory issues.
Both the L.A. Times and Reuters reported sources close to the...
Snapchat Inc. has 150 million people using the service each day, said people familiar with the matter. That makes the company which is just four-year-old more popular than Twitter Inc. which is over...
A crocodile in Australia snatched a woman taking a late-night swim in a national park and is believed to have killed her, media reported on Monday.
The 46-year-old woman was swimming with a friend...
An armed Muslim mob stripped an elderly Christian woman and paraded her naked on the streets amid rumors she had an affair, the local church, witnesses and security officials said. Seven Christian...
Two Yemeni prisoners held at the US base in Cuba have been released and sent to the West African nation for resettlement. Ghanaians fear a security risk despite government reassurances.
Mahmud Umar...
This week, the world’s deadliest terror group wrought extraordinary carnage on crowds of people going about their daily lives.
The fruit and vegetable market in the northern Nigerian city of Yola...
A Russian passenger plane carrying 224 passengers and crew operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia has crashed in a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai peninsula, with medics at the site reporting...
Soldiers fired warning shots to disperse hundreds of protesters outside Burkina Faso's presidential palace on Wednesday after the presidential guard burst into a cabinet meeting and arrested the...
Nigerian President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, a 72-year-old former military general, has traveled a long road to electoral victory. On Tuesday, Buhari defeated incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in...
South Africa has denied a visa to his Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, for the third time in five years, one of his representatives said on Thursday, intensifying speculation about...
The second American missionary doctor, Nancy Writebol, who was medically evacuated from Liberia on August 4th to Emory University’s Hospital in Atlanta, is making great strides on a strong road to...
The wife of Cameroon's vice prime minister, Amadou Ali, has been kidnapped and at least three other people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram fighters on Ali's home in the northern town of...
Officials in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, are appealing for help to help find a woman who left a hospital with the help of her family after testing positive for the deadly Ebola virus. The...
PayPal has signed up "tens of thousand" of Nigerians in its first week of operating in Africa's biggest economy, with consumers already purchasing items from Britain, China and the United States via...
Air Algerie’s Flight AH 5017, which took off from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso en route to Algeria’s Houari Boumedene Airport has disappeared. The flight that had 116 people on board comprising 110...
