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

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

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

Saudi dissident Prince Khalid Bin Farhan Al Saud says he expects a coup to be orchestrated against King Salman and his heir, Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. “The coming period will witness a coup against the king and the crown prince,” he said while commenting on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi’s is known

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday backed a U.S. call for a cessation of hostilities in the Yemen war, a conflict that has killed at least 10,000 people and brought on the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Yemen’s plight and the role of Saudi Arabia in the war have taken centre stage

European lawyers, human rights activists, academics and journalist have launched an international campaign to demand trial of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for anti-human rights crimes in Yemen and his country. The Arabic-language Khaleej Online news website reported on Wednesday that the activists have recently held a meeting in the Hague to form the