Invasive trees targeted by new South Africa anti-drought fund

By Reuters,

Big business is backing a fund for South Africa to eradicate invasive trees around Cape Town and yield billions of liters of water as the city emerges...

Capetown , Greater Cape Town Water Fund , Nature Conservancy

Abuse and ‘vilification’ of migrants on the rise as borders close

By Reuters,

Vilification of migrants as criminals, rather than people needing protection, by politicians and the media is making them more vulnerable to abuse, sa...

Donald Trump , E.U , Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui , Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban , libya , Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) , migrants , slavery , Trust Conference , UNHCR

Factbox: Most children in orphanages are not orphans

By Reuters,

Millions of children around the world live in orphanages, but child rights experts say most are not orphans. Orphanages have become a lucrative bus...

Cambodia , Forget Me Not , Haiti , Lumos , Nepal , Orphanages , orphans , uganda

Three men found guilty of plotting 2016 attacks on Melbourne

By Reuters,

Three men have been found guilty of plotting bomb attacks in the Australian city of Melbourne in 2016, according to a court ruling made public on Wedn...

Australia , Flinders Street Station , Melbourne attacks , Somali-born

Rare pink diamond sells for record-breaking $50M

By CNN,

An unusually large pink diamond sold for a record-breaking $50 million (about 50.3 million Swiss francs) Tuesday at Christie's auction house in Geneva...

Eddie LeVian , Pink diamond , Pink Legacy diamond , Rahul Kadakia , Rare Diamond

Strawberry needle scare: Woman allegedly spiked punnets for revenge

By CNN,

A 50-year-old woman sabotaged Australian supermarket strawberries with sewing needles in an alleged act of workplace revenge, prosecutors told a Brisb...

Australian supermarket , Berrylicious and Berry Obsession farm , My Ut Trinh , Queensland Police , Queensland Strawberry Growers Association , Strawberries

EACC raids Governor Obado’s homes

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Detectives from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) have raided the homes of Governor Okoth Obado in Migori and Nairobi. The detective...

governor okoth obado , Migori

Homeless man hailed for trying to stop attack

By CNN,

A homeless man who intervened in a terror attack in the Australian city of Melbourne Friday has been hailed a hero, with over $80,000 (AUD 116,000) do...

attack , Australian city of Melbourne

Woman charged with contaminating strawberries with needles

By Reuters,

A 50-year-old woman will face court on Monday after police charged her with contaminating strawberries with needles, an episode that spurred one of Au...

Australia , Needle contaminated strawberry , strawberry

Alibaba Singles Day sales hit over $1 billion in 85 seconds

By Reuters,

The biggest shopping day on the planet has started with a bang. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said Sunday that sales soared past $1 billion afte...

Alibaba , eCommerce

Hamilton on pole in Brazil, Vettel alongside

By Reuters,

Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton gave Mercedes their 100th pole position at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Saturday with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel,...

Brazilian Grand Prix , champion Lewis Hamilton , Formula One

Political leader in Australia replaced after harassment allegations

By Reuters,

The leader of the opposition in Australia’s most populous state was replaced on Saturday after he resigned over a #MeToo row sparked by alleged inap...

Luke Foley , New South Wales (NSW) , New South Wales (NSW) state Labor party , NSW Labor deputy leader Michael Daley

Facebook refuses Singapore request to remove post after critical website blocked

By Reuters,

Facebook has rejected a Singapore government request to remove a post of an online article that the government said was “false and malicious”, pro...

facebook , Infocommm Media Development Authority (IMDA) , Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) , Najib Razak , Phil Robertson , Singapore , Singapore central bank , States Times Review (STR)

Melbourne police see Islamic State ‘inspiration’ behind stabbings

By Reuters,

An Australian man who set fire to a truck laden with gas cylinders in the center of Melbourne and stabbed one person to death was inspired by Islamic ...

Acting Deputy Commissioner Ian McCartney , Australian Federal Police , Hassan Khalif Shire Ali , Melbourne , national terrorism advisory , Prime Minister Scott Morrison

Melbourne attack: Stabbing spree in city center was terrorism, police say

By CNN,

The driver of a pickup truck loaded with gas canisters stabbed three people in a Melbourne street on Friday, killing one of them in what Australian po...

Australian Police , ISIS , Melbourne , Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton , Victoria State Premier Daniel Andrews

Truck full of gas cylinders set on fire, three stabbed in Australia terror attack

By Reuters,

A Somali-born man set fire to a pickup truck laden with gas cylinders in the center of the Australian city of Melbourne on Friday and stabbed three pe...

Islamic state , Melbourne , Scott Morrison , Sydney

The Chinese phone giant that beat Apple to Africa

By CNN,

One of China's biggest smartphone makers has never sold a handset in the country. Yet thousands of miles away, it dominates markets across Africa. Unk...

apple , Tecno mobile

Three stabbed, one dead in Australia terror attack

By Reuters,

A Somali-born man set fire to a pickup truck laden with gas cylinders in the center of the Australian city of Melbourne on Friday and stabbed three pe...

Australia , Bourke Street , David Clayton , Melbourne

French Bishops launch ‘independent’ commission on sex abuse in Catholic Church

By CNN,

French Bishops have announced plans to establish an "independent" commission to look into the sexual abuse of minors within the Catholic Church dating...

Catholic churches , French bishops , Pope Francis , sex abuse , Vatican news

Family found dead in Australian outback

By Citizen Reporter,

A young family of three has been found dead next to a broken-down vehicle in a remote part of Australia's Northern Territory, according to police, who...