Millions scattered across Johannesburg, London, Sydney, Toronto, New York and beyond have not abandoned their homeland; instead, they have sustained it
Meet the Central African Republic’s only practising clinical psychologist
Clockwise from top left: Maurice T Nyagumbo, Ruth Nomonde Chinamano, Josiah Tongogara, Jason Ziyaphapha Manyika, Johanna Nkomo and Robson Manyika. The stamps appear in the book…
Masai Ujiri, a Nigerian sports executive, has put the continent on the basketball map
Mayor Rob Ford says the city’s council had no business stripping him of his powers after he admitted taking drugs and abusing alcohol.
The decision to deliver coal deposits to either the Indian or Atlantic ocean has international implications, writes Roman Grynberg.
Roger Federer celebrated his 29th birthday last week, but the cagey Swiss said he was not too old to learn a few new tricks.
World leaders aimed for a common target on Thursday of securing the economic recovery, but disagreed over how best to reach it.
This thuggish petro-state is now to climate what Japan is to whaling.
Sometimes it pays to have your own wheels. Two teenage suspects in a convenience store robbery in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto, may have made a clean escape had they thought…
Malaria continues to cut a swathe through Africa, which accounts for most cases of the disease and of malaria-related deaths. A study by Burkina Faso’s Health Sciences Research…
A new law meant to help crack down on young Canadian street racers in their souped up cars has nabbed an octogenarian in his Oldsmobile. The 85-year-old man is one of 2 300…
A Ghanaian conservation research centre will assist a Canadian company in harvesting underwater trees in one of the world’s largest tropical hardwood forests. Ghana’s Volta Lake…
It took gay Indian filmmaker Parvez Sharma six years to make Jihad for Love, a documentary film about gay men and women trying to live Muslim lives in Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt and…
A mummified infant discovered wrapped in a newspaper older than 80 years in the ceiling of a Toronto home was likely stillborn and displayed no obvious signs of foul play,…
People eat more when they are glued to the television, and the more entertaining the programme, the more they eat. It seems that distracted brains do not notice what the mouth is…
Real men don’t pose for the cover of a Harlequin romance. And that’s something the publisher wants to change. Representatives of Harlequin Enterprises, the biggest publisher of…
Cellphones that contain toxic chemicals are still being sold in Latin America and other developing regions. But thanks to strict European regulations, there are progressively…
Mixing a cocktail is no minor undertaking for a new breed of bartenders — it’s a matter of science. In kitchens and bars across North America, bartenders, or ”molecular…
A Canadian teacher who lived a frugal life but gave large, anonymous donations to people in need, has left a C,3-million (,8-million) fortune to an environmental charity. Roberta…
