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US President Donald Trump was greeted with great pomp and festivities when he landed in Ahmedabad city in Gujarat, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state. PM Modi put on a grand show for his “good friend”, complete with songs, dances and a mega reception at a brand new cricket stadium. Around 100,000 people are […]

A drone has captured footage of hundreds of South Koreans queuing for masks in Daegu, one of the epicentres of the coronavirus outbreak in the country. The Emart supermarket in the Chilseong district of the city is offering discounted masks for Daegu residents. South Korea has the largest number of Covid-19 cases outside of China,

It is estimated that around 50 million couples worldwide experience infertility issues. In many cultures women are held responsible when a couple experiences difficulties to conceive. This social pressure can often lead to women being shunned, their husbands taking additional wives or even result in divorce. Childless women, often seen as a burden, are stigmatised

Strong winds carrying sand from the Sahara have affected airports in the Canary Islands. Poor visibility led to AENA, Spain’s airport operator, cancelling, suspending or diverting flights. The country’s national weather service has warned that winds of up to 120km/h (75mph) could hit the Canaries until Monday. The winds have also affected ferry services, and

Lake Kivu in Rwanda contains 300 billion cubic metres of carbon dioxide and 60 billion cubic metres of methane. The gases are now being removed from the lake through the KivaWatt project with the methane being pumped to a nearby power plant. At present only 51% of Rwandans have access to electricity. By 2024, the

A wild bear has been sedated and captured after it was seen roaming in a residential area in Monrovia, California. The 28.3 stone (180kg) elderly female walked through residential areas close to Angeles National Forest. A mild California winter could be a possible reason for the sighting, as warmer weather causes bears to leave their

When Nic Bonne was a child his face would be pressed against the television screen staring at images from space. He now works as an astronomer at the University of Portsmouth, where being blind doesn’t stop him from following his life-long interest. He uses 3D-printed models to represent the light being emitted by far off

Kalio Keturah Nicholas remembers the time she could eat fresh fish from the river behind her house in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Those times are now a distant memory as oil spills onto the shore and everything in sight is covered in a thick layer of black soot. Residents blame illegal refining of crude oil as

For Angus Thomas and his wife, a holiday to Dubai has become a mission to help Nigerian women who are the victims of sex trafficking. The couple, from Reading in Berkshire, have paid for one woman’s flight back home and are now crowd funding to free others. The United Nations says thousands of women in

At Kennedy Catholic High School in Washington State, crowds gathered after two recently engaged LGBT teachers left their jobs. The school says English teacher Paul Danforth and gym teacher Michelle Beattie “voluntarily resigned” but parents and students there believed it was due to their sexual orientation. The school has declined to give any further comment