US$11 billion. Lebanon’s reconstruction will require not only a huge amount of money, but also a real political commitment ...

Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on prison toilet paper while being held by Kenyan authorities.

The body of a man and a dog were found in the rubble after a powerful explosion leveled a home in a Kansas City, Missouri, ...

If there ever were a Mount Rushmore of African literature, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who died on Wednesday at 87, would be one of ...

Well, Mother Nature’s not messing around. The Swiss village of Blatten just took a direct hit after a hulking slab of the Birch glacier decided to call it quits and crash into the valley below.