Indian yoga expert and teacher Varun Veer said that its Western form is often reduced to the physical dimension, but the millennia-old practice is also mental and spiritual.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty met with Senior Advisor to the US President for Arab and African Affairs, Massad Boulos, in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the situation in Libya.

As Uganda battles a deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus, conservationists are increasing efforts to protect the country’s mountain gorillas. The authorities say they need tourists to continue to visit the endangered primates or th

A Kenyan family’s search for opportunity has ended in tragedy and sparked serious allegations against Labour Minister Alfred Mutua.

For fans of Cape Verde’s World Cup football team, the party is just getting started. The team’s equalising goal against Uruguay on Sunday brought jubilation to this watch party in Brockton, Massachusetts – home to one of the largest Cape Verdean communities in the United States.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his resignation on Monday after less than two years in office in a term characterised by policy U-turns and deep public unpopularity

More than 3000 Malawian nationals have been deported in South Africa after thousands protested earlier this year in Johannesburg and other parts of the country against illegal immigration that has fueled tensions between locals and foreign nationals.

Much of Europe was preparing Monday for an already fierce heatwave to intensify even further in the coming days, with some countries taking special measures to mitigate its effects.

World Cup jerseys are doing more than helping fans identify their teams. Across the tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico, national kits are telling stories of history, culture, art and identity.

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has risen to 1003, including 254 deaths, authorities in the country said on Sunday.

Negotiators from the U.S. and Iran were set to engage in a second day of talks Monday to solidify a permanent end to the war between the countries, after a first day of mediation began with a rocky start

Team Melli’s dream of advancing to a World Cup knockout round for the first time is still very much alive, thanks to an afternoon of brilliance from goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand in a 0-0 draw with Belgium on Sunday

Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party (PP) won a landslide victory in legislative polls held June 1, the election commission said Sunday, giving it almost 90 percent of the seats

The nine goals conceded in games against Sweden and Japan means it is impossible to advance to the next round.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Barham Salih, decribed the Makatet programme as an “important ambitious roadmap”.

The talks come amid regional efforts to support the implementation of a ceasefire deal signed earlier this week between the United States and Iran.

The Elephants are, however, still in with a chance to make it to the next round for the first time in their history.

José May, known as ‘Joe Skilz’ spent a week in heat and rain painting the picture on a wall in the city’s Deep Ellum district.

High-level talks in Cotonou over the weekend focused on reopening their shared border and resolving the crisis.

Tehran said deadly Israeli strikes in Lebanon are a breach of its agreement with the United States to end the war.

US president Donald Trump unveiled the new Airforce One, a jumbo jet formerly owned by Qatar. It features a navy blue and red exterior, a break from the traditional robin’s egg blue.

Football fans from Japan and Tunisia partied in Monterrey, Mexico ahead of the match Saturday where their national squads face each other to keep their hopes of reaching the Round of 32 alive.

African and Caribbean leaders marked Juneteenth on Friday with a call for reparations from former slave-trading nations.

Africa’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) chief said Friday the continent needs to invest its own funds in Ebola response.

Fans of Brazil and Haiti’s national soccer teams celebrated together as they left Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Friday evening.

Morocco fans celebrated in Massachusetts on Friday after their team’s 1-0 victory over Scotland in their second match of the 2026 World Cup.

A six-month-old girl was buried in Bunia on Friday, another victim of the DRC’s Ebola outbreak. Her tiny coffin serving as a reminder of the severity of the epidemic, which continues to spread in Ituri province.

Spreading violence and impunity for perpetrators is undermining religious freedom in Nigeria, a United Nations Special Rapporteur told a press conference in Abuja on Friday.

A string of west African countries have outlawed same-sex relations in recent months, further eroding LGBTQ rights on a continent where they were already under attack

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcomed his Madagascar counterpart, Alice N’Diaye, in Moscow on Friday

A Vietnamese national deported to South Sudan by the Trump administration under its controversial third-country deportation program was repatriated to Vietnam on Friday after spending more than a year in detention

France is enduring a widespread heatwave, with temperatures nearing 40C in parts of the country and forcing tourists and residents to change their routines.

Berlin Zoo uses “ice bombs” and water showers to help bears and elephants cool down as Europe faces an intense heatwave this weekend.

Kenya’s health authorities have intensified health screening for truck drivers whose movements span thousands of kilometres across multiple countries, as East Africa remains on heightened alert following the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Ivory Coast police said Friday they had arrested a man accused of using a fake court document to order the demolition of a large area of an Abidjan neighbourhood.

Khan had already been suspended by the ICC’s governing body over allegations of sexual misconduct with a female aide, in a scandal that has dragged on for more than two years

Anti-Western activist Kemi Seba will remain in a South African jail until an extradition hearing next month, a judge in Pretoria ruled on Thursday.

A formal signing ceremony and talks planned for Friday in Switzerland between Iran and the United States were called off, as fighting between Israel and Hezbollah intensified in southern Lebanon.

On the front lines of the Ebola outbreak, healthcare workers are exposed not only to Ebola in health centers but also to rejection by their communities

Religious leaders, scholars and students gathered in Kuala Lumpur for the Third International Summit of Religious Leaders, focusing on empowering youth in an era of rapid technological and social change.