Negotiators have agreed to a global phase-out of chemicals that run some air conditioners and refrigerators, but are also big contributors to global warming. That has countries and researchers scrambling to come up with clean and affordable alternatives.
The country had defied its traumatic past, but an escalating political crisis is threatening its future.
Five years ago, Ivory Coast was in a civil war. Now residents of its economic capital can get a Whopper Jr. with fries (hold the pickle).
There's deep outrage over the thefts in a nation still healing from devastation caused by the deadly virus.
'To really understand khat you have to chew it.'
There's a lucrative trade in albino body parts, which are sold for use in witchcraft in Malawi, Tanzania and Mozambique.
Dyeing one's hair may no longer be the only option for keeping grey at bay, scientists said Tuesday in announcing the discovery of a gene that makes hair lose its luster.
Residents and environmentalists say the Oscar-lavished film crew damaged the fragile desert ecosystem in Namibia.
Yes, bees.
Kizza Besigye, detained repeatedly over the past week, says that recent elections were rigged.
The topics range from the war in Syria to the illegal ivory trade in many parts of Africa.