Impatient for change
Oil-rich Angola has provided free public health care since its independence in 1975. But does the system favour the elite, asks Mayeni Jones. Many residents of the Angolan capital Luanda have assured me that the Multiperfil clinic is private, and
Australian schoolgirl raises alarm over flesh-eating disease
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Cases of a flesh-eating disease have rapidly increased in parts of Victoria (File photo) An Australian schoolgirl suffering from a flesh-eating ulcer is calling for better government funding for research into the infectious disease.Ella
Iran nuclear deal: US ‘issues remain’ – Tillerson
Image copyright Reuters Image caption All seven countries which negotiated the nuclear deal were at the talks US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said Washington continues to have "significant issues" with the Iran nuclear deal, after his first talks
North Korea says Trump speech is ‘a dog’s bark’
Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Mr Trump has taken to calling Kim Jong-un "rocket man" North Korea's top diplomat has called US President Donald Trump's speech to the UN "the sound of a barking dog".Speaking to the UN General
Myanmar VP ‘concern’ over Rakhine
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr Van Thio said the "great majority" of Muslims had stayed in Myanmar Myanmar's Vice-President Henry Van Thio has said his government is "deeply concerned" about the exodus of people from Rakhine state into
Mexico earthquake: Race to find survivors under collapsed school
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Workers dug through toppled buildings in Mexico City for a second night Rescuers are racing against the clock to reach survivors trapped under the rubble of a school in Mexico City which collapsed during Tuesday's
Sri Lankan baby farms: Minister admits illegal adoption trade
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Sri Lankan health minister said foreign adoptions were temporarily banned in the 1980s because of "baby farms" Sri Lankan authorities have admitted in a Dutch documentary that thousands of babies born there were
Hurricane Maria ‘Destroys’ Puerto Rico, 100% Without Power
(ABC News) — The island of Puerto Rico has been “destroyed” after Hurricane Maria made landfall there as a Category 4 storm Wednesday morning, according to emergency officials. Puerto Rico’s office of emergency management confirmed that 100 percent of the
Apostate Lesbian Church of Christ Ministers ‘Wed’ Each Other, Pentecostal Father Refuses to Attend
Photo Credit: Rivers of Living Water United Church of Christ/FacebookEAST ORANGE, N.J. — Two female ministers with the United Church of Christ recently “wed” each other despite being warned by the father of one of the women that doing so was
Shots fired
Image caption A police officer aims his gun at Scout Schultz, moments before the student died The shooting of a student at Georgia Tech has raised questions over when and why police resort to deadly force. In some cities, including