French couple take dealer to court for share of African mask’s €4.2m sale price
Pensioners sold rare object found in attic for €150 – but campaigners say it must be returned to Gabon A retired French couple who sold...
Month : October 2023
Kenya to scrap visas for all African nationals
President William Ruto says change aims to boost trade and allow goods, services, people and ideas to move freely across continent Visas to visit Kenya...
Deforestation has big impact on regional temperatures, study of Brazilian Amazon shows
Research highlights benefits forests bring surrounding regions in terms of cooler air and more rainfall Deforestation has a far greater impact on regional temperatures than...
Venezuela primary results suspended in latest blow directed at opposition
María Corina Machado was overwhelmingly elected to take on Nicolás Maduro in presidential election expected next year Venezuela’s supreme court has suspended the results of...
Disabled man drags himself off plane after Air Canada fails to offer wheelchair
Airline was forced to apologize to Rodney Hodgins who flew to Las Vegas with his wife to celebrate their anniversary in August Air Canada has...
High interest rates help double HSBC profits
Bank to buyback $3bn in shares after quarterly profits double despite financial hit from China’s property crisis HSBC will hand more than $3bn (£2.5bn) to...
Why the rusting wreck of a second world war ship is so important to China
The Sierra Madre, deliberately marooned by the Philippines in 1999, is crumbling but repair is being made impossible by an effective blockade by Beijing It...
Sharp rise in bear attacks in Japan as they struggle to find food
Amid lack of acorns and beechnuts in natural habitats, bears have injured 158 people and killed two since April Experts in Japan have warned that...
‘There was no one better’: Peruvian singer finally takes her place among all-time greats
Lucha Reyes was compared to Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf. Now, fifty years after her death, her songs are released for a new audience On...
Death toll rises to 39 after Hurricane Otis strikes Mexican coast
Government says further 10 people unaccounted for in wake of storm that hit Acapulco with 165mph winds The death toll from a devastating hurricane that...
