A river near Mount Elgon, burst its banks on Thursday, sending mud and boulders down a mountainside, flattening the villages in its path. Landslides have become more frequent in Bududa, as the growing population's

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released from prison for organising what the government claims are illegal protests against the Kremlin. Navalny, 42, spent three weeks behind bars, his second spell in detention

This was a week of deadly storms across the globe and one of them made history. Hurricane Michael now ranks as the strongest storm to ever make landfall along the Florida Panhandle, and the

With the rise of online players, the old advertising model of supporting news media is largely a thing of the past. As a consequence, more and more media outlets are now boosting their balance

GAZA CITY: Palestinians in the Gaza Strip spoke of their despair on Saturday after Israel halted a deal to supply fuel to generate electricity. Thousands of liters of fuel had been trucked into Gaza

Flash floods and landslides have killed at least 27 people, mostly children, on Indonesia's Sumatra island, officials say. An Islamic school in Muara Saladi village saw the highest death toll after mud from the

Turkish security sources say they have proof that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. They say a smartwatch worn by Khashoggi transmitted audio from inside the building to a

Three years ago, the United Nations commissioned the world's top scientists to find out if global warming can be limited. This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published their report, saying that

Over the past few years, a number of proposals about some form of decentralisation in Syria have been circulated as part of possible peace settlement plans to end the raging Syrian civil war. Most

GAZA CITY: Palestinians in the Gaza Strip spoke of their despair on Saturday after Israel halted a deal to supply fuel to generate electricity. Thousands of liters of fuel had been trucked into Gaza