South African researchers say they have made bricks using human urine in a natural process involving colonies of bacteria, which could one day help reduce global warming emissions by finding a productive use for the ultimate waste product. The grey bricks are produced in a lab over eight days using urine, calcium, sand and bacteria.

At least seven Coptic Christians were killed Friday in a shooting attack by unknown assailants in Egypt’s central Minya province, local officials have said. Egyptian media outlets quoted Minya Governor Qassem Hussein as saying that at least seven people were killed — and another 13 injured — in an attack on a bus carrying Christian

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey lent her star power on Thursday to Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is vying to become the first female black governor in the United States, while saying she has no political aspirations of her own. “I am here today because Stacey Abrams cares about the things that matter,” Winfrey told a

Bosaso- Somali Times . The Protest against Governor of Puntland Abdiwali Gas in Bosaso.The provincial capital of Bari region on Friday. Clan leader Abdikadir Ahmed Xarago, in the Bari region, was arrested today in the town of Bosaso, where Puntland authorities have not yet commented . The protesters are demanding that freedom of movement be

Washington-The remains of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi should be located and returned to his family for burial as soon as possible, the U.S. said Thursday. State Department spokesman Robert Palladino told reporters Washington will “hold accountable not only those who executed the murder, but also those who led, were involved and were connected

Two Florida high school students were so furious to find out their science teacher was sleeping with both of them that they told the man’s wife he was having the affairs, district officials said. Both teens are now former students at Fletcher High School in Neptune Beach, where they told police they had sex with

JAKARTA — Indonesia has protested to Saudi Arabia over the execution of an Indonesian maid, convicted of murdering her employer who a workers’ rights group said was trying to rape her at the time. President Joko Widodo said he called Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, to lodge a protest and demand to know why

Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed  has  reproach the regional states over what he termed as usurpation amid escalating political tension worsening relations between Somalia’s two levels of government. Speaking at a ceremony organized by Somali nationals in South Sudan, President Mohamed criticized the leaders of the federal member states in Somalia, saying their mandate is

The United Nations refugee agency is asking Canada to resettle more refugees from the Horn of Africa, emphasizing the needs of particularly vulnerable Somalis displaced by a decades-long conflict in the war-torn country. Mohamed Abdi Affey, the special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Horn of Africa, is in Ottawa

The new United Nations envoy to Somalia today continued his round of introductory meetings with state Governor a visit to South west region, meetings with state Governor , where he flagged the need for of introductory it hold “credible and acceptable” Governors elections next month and renewed his call for collaboration to solve ongoing tensions