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Nigerian experts are joining their University of Birmingham counterparts at a high-profile online event exploring how researchers can help to...

Most of the world's nations have signed up to a historic deal to ensure big companies pay a fairer share...

A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz has killed at least 50 people, officials...

Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for his writings on post-colonialism and the trauma of...

The Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Pope Francis on Thursday received the outgoing German...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has described malaria vaccine developed in Africa and by African scientists, recommended for children in...

The United Kingdom’s National Health Service on Tuesday announced what it described as a “life changing treatment” for sickle cell...

A jury in California on Monday ordered Tesla to pay a Black former employee $137 million in damages for turning...

Major social media services including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were hit by a massive outage on Monday, tracking sites showed,...

Grace Mugabe, the widow of Zimbabwe’s longtime former ruler Robert Mugabe, has challenged a court order to exhume her husband’s...

More than a dozen heads of state and government, including the King of Jordan and the Czech prime minister, have...

A major crackdown in western Libya has resulted in the detention of 4,000 migrants, including hundreds of women and children,...

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has been placed under police protection in response to fears of an attack by the...

Professor Eric A. Hanushek and Dr Rukmini Banerji have been awarded the 2021 Yidan Prize, the world’s highest education accolade,...