Latest posts

Scientists have discovered a hidden passage inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid, the authorities announced on Thursday, part of a seven-year international research project. 

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will hold confidential talks on Friday in Washington with US President Joe Biden about the war in Ukraine amid growing concerns that China may… Read More »🔴 Live: Biden, Scholz to weigh next steps for Ukraine amid growing China concerns

Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music,… Read More »Pioneering jazz saxophist Wayne Shorter dies at 89

The train tragedy that unfolded in Greece this week, claiming dozens of lives in the country’s worst rail disaster, has exposed chronic failures by successive… Read More »Greek train tragedy reveals chronic state failures

Prominent Cambodian opposition figure Kem Sokha was on Friday sentenced to 27 years in detention under house arrest after being found guilty of treason, in a case… Read More »Cambodia: Prominent opposition figure sentenced to 27 years for treason

Canadian biosciences company Sunshine Earth Labs announced Thursday it has been licensed to produce and sell cocaine, reflecting the federal health agency’s bid to improve… Read More »Canadian companies can now produce, sell cocaine and other drugs

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.

Israeli troops shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian and critically wounded another child in the occupied West Bank Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, with the… Read More »Israeli forces kill teen in West Bank, says Palestinian ministry

The Paris Opera Ballet named New Zealand’s Hannah O’Neill and France’s Marc Moreau on Thursday as their two new star dancers, the former a rare… Read More »Paris Opera Ballet names New Zealand dancer among two new ‘stars’

Tunisian authorities said Thursday they had banned a protest by the country’s main opposition coalition, arguing that senior members are suspected of crimes against the… Read More »Tunisian authorities ban opposition protest over alleged ‘plots’