Category: 4. World

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 said that it had taken control of the strategic city of Uvira in eastern Congo on Wednesday afternoon, following a rapid offensive since the start of…

Archaeologists wrote in the journal Nature this week that they have unearthed the oldest-known evidence of deliberate fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk. 

The hearth was discovered in Barnham in the UK, near a…

Ukraine struck an oil tanker belonging to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet in the Black Sea on Wednesday, according to an official in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

A Ukrainian…

Italian cooking has been awarded special cultural heritage status by the United Nations’ cultural agency Unesco.

National favourites including pizza are already on Unesco’s list of “intangible cultural heritage”, but now Italian cooking…

Ukrainian forces used naval drones packed with explosives to attack an oil tanker identified as part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” in the Black Sea on Wednesday, a security source told Business Insider.

The naval drone…

Humans may have made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists say.

Scientists have uncovered the oldest-known evidence of deliberate fire-making…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was absent Wednesday from the ceremony in Norway in which she was to receive this year’s Nobel Peace Prize award, but…