South Korea's three opposition parties have agreed to submit a motion to impeach President Park Geun-hye, saying they want a vote to take place on December 9. Accused of colluding with a close friend...
The pilot of a charter plane that crashed in Colombia on Monday had been warned before taking off from an airport in Bolivia that he might not have enough fuel, a report says. An airport official...
Colombian authorities say evidence is growing that a plane carrying a Brazilian football team crashed because it ran out of fuel as it tried to land. The plane had no fuel on impact, an official...
Four independent newspaper publications have been confiscated by Sudanese security services and a private television channel ordered to close down after coverage of opposition protest. Sudan’s...
South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye has said she has asked parliament to help her find a way to stand down. Ms Park faced growing calls to resign amid an investigation into whether she allowed a...
Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated as wildfires rage through parts of Israel's third largest city of Haifa. The fires follow a two-month drought and are being fanned by strong winds in...
South Korean prosecutors raided the offices of Samsung Group following media reports of alleged links with a confidante of President Park Geun-hye who has been indicted in an influence-peddling...
Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans are expected to rally in South Korea during an upcoming weekend to demand President Park Geun-hye’s resignation over scandal involving her longtime confidante...
play videoA man accused of killing his wife and injuring his daughter crashed into a Brooklyn gas station Dramatic new video shows the Long Island man accused of killing his wife and injuring his...
Thousands of South Koreans rallied in Seoul Saturday, demanding the resignation of President Park Geun-hye. Police estimated that around 12,000 demonstrators attended the night-time protest,...
Tabei died of peritoneal cancer on Thursday at a hospital in Saitama (North of Tokyo, Japan) The first woman to conquer Mount Everest, Junko Tabei of Japan, has died aged 77, media reported Saturday....
The inconvenient conversation UPSA and other African Universities must have By Prosper Yao Tsikata, Ph. D. and A .Kobla Dotse, Ph.D. The ongoing discourse on the credibility of some doctoral degrees...
The ongoing discourse on the credibility of some doctoral degrees and the credibility of the institutions that confer them has exposed the vulnerability of our institutions—especially our...
Two US carriers have stopped replacing or selling the Samsung Note 7 following new reports that replacement devices still have critical battery issues. The South Korean firm issued a recall of the...
Eight local firms have been shortlisted after a tender process to print all textbooks needed by schools in the country locally. The move is part of a policy by the government to end the current...
The blast happened in a cafe in the town of Velez-Malaga during a local festival More than 70 people have been injured, four seriously, in an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak near the...
Dozens of world leaders are gathering in Israel to pay tributes to Shimon Peres, one of the country's founding fathers, who died on Wednesday aged 93. Mr Peres' state funeral will be held in...
Thousands of people in Brazil have attended the funeral of soap opera star Domingos Montagner who died in tragic circumstances on Thursday. Montagner drowned in the river where the crew had been...
One of Brazil's best-loved television actors, Domingos Montagner, has drowned in a river where the crew had been recording scenes for the country's most popular soap opera. Montagner played the...
Gold was discovered, (circa) ca. BC/BCE 6,000 in Egypt (Cramb, Alan W, A Short History of Metals, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University). It was the first and by...
