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AFP reports that the 'world's heaviest woman', Eman Ahmed from Egypt, has shed half her weight -- around a quarter…

As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinteh, immortalized in print and on screen in the series "Roots",…

Hundreds of frightened Syrian evacuees were on the move again Friday after being blocked for 48 hours at a transit…

The epilepsy medication valproate is responsible for "severe malformations" in 2,15

Journalists are increasingly resorting to self-censorship to avoid falling foul of the authorities in the face of physical and psychological…

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was given a reprieve Thursday when the Supreme Court ordered he be investigated for corruption,…

Uganda has been praised for its warm welcome of refugees, but as civil war in neighbouring South Sudan continues to…

United States authorities launched a nationwide manhunt Monday for a gunman who shot and killed an elderly man, and then…

Every morning, hundreds of men converge on a dry lakebed in a remote corner of Ethiopia, where they cleave the…

Eight Pakistanis involved in the mob lynching of a fellow university student over his liberal views were charged with murder…