On January 14, prominent activist and former president of Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission, Sihem Bensedrine, began a ...

GENEVA (Switzerland) - WHO launches its 2025 health emergency appeal (1400 GMT) VIDEO. LIVE VIDEO. GENEVA (Switzerland) - WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and other experts host a press conference ...

The certificate for `Moidams - The mound burial system of Ahom dynasty` was given by UNESCO`s Assistant Director General for ...

Benin's Ouidah has celebrated its annual Voodoo Festival which has made the town a mecca for Voodoo worshippers as well as a ...

A group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution were canonised by Pope ...

Sharp differences between the ANC and its alliance partner, the South African Communist Party, over the formation of the government of national unity were again evident on Monday. The issue of ...

They grew up from elementary school and everything.” He said the New Year’s Day shooting only made it worse. “It’s unfortunate because Jan. 1 is also her mother’s birthday,” the father ...

That's because the 12th holiday — Inauguration Day — falls on the same day as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 20. Since 1965, federal employees in the Washington, D.C., area have been ...

Ten people were wounded in a shooting Wednesday night outside a nightclub in New York City that was holding a memorial for a teenager who had been previously been killed in the city. NEW YORK ...

Commonsense commerce such as this should not be news but it definitely is, marking a change from 2024 when Woolworths made clear it did not want anything to do with the national day because ...

Commemorations for New Year’s Eve follow similar patterns around the world – from Kiribati in the Pacific which is among the first places to bring in the New Year, to American Samoa, among the last ...

Some, including the former RAF sergeant Bernard Morgan, who celebrated his 100th birthday last year (2024), appeared at the D-Day commemorations in Normandy in June. He landed on Gold Beach in ...