1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (492+ words) A fire and stampede at a school in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 26 children, the UN children's agency said on Friday, with some pupils leaping from windows on high floors to escape the carnage. The blaze…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (604+ words) At least 24 people, all schoolchildren, have died and 29 others have been injured after a fire tore through a densely populated neighbourhood in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday morning. The blaze began in a home in Cimpunda, in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (208+ words) Days of rescue efforts ended in tragedy on Saturday after Algerian emergency workers recovered the body of a young boy trapped in a well. Ten-year-old Ayoub Hadaf fell into the dry well at a farm in Ghassoul, in El Bayadh…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (377+ words) Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide for orchestrating the Srebrenica massacre during the Balkans wars of the 1990s has died in prison aged 84. Mladic oversaw the killing of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in a UN-designated “safe…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (183+ words) The founder of Chinese property giant Evergrande, Hui Ka Yan, has been sentenced to life in prison for large-scale financial fraud. A court in the southern city of Shenzhen also fined Evergrande and its property unit a combined $2.35 billion. Hui,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (172+ words) Prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have requested 15-years of hard labour for former justice minister Constant Mutamba and his co-defendant Chançard Bolukola. They accuse Mutamba of being the mastermind behind the fraudulent disbursement of some $20 million from the…...