Africa

Libya's UN-brokered national unity government announced its formation on Jan. 19 under a disputed deal aimed at ending years of bloodshed.

At least 29 people, including at least 11 foreigners, were killed in an Al-Qaeda attack on a top hotel in Burkina Faso, an unprecedented strike in the capital illustrating the expanding reach of regional jihadists.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has appointed four women to top positions in the 47-year-old organization with the aim of bolstering the pan-Islamic group's social role.

Thousands of South Sudanese have fled fighting and extreme hunger in recent weeks, the United Nations says in a report, as leaders struggle to honor a peace deal on the ground.

At least 65 people were killed on Jan. 7 when one of Libya's worst truck bombs in years exploded at a police training centre in the town of Zliten, local officials and hospital sources said.

Famous actress Charlize Theron is one of 31 stars who posed for the W magazine’s annual Movie Issue.

In the photo which was shot by Peter Lindbergh, Theron looks amazingly beautiful sitting naked on a bed, wrapped up in white sheets.

With almost no makeup and her blond hair pushed back and messy, she proves that natural beauty is the always the best.

Novinite is publishing the last of three articles about Morocco, where a group of journalists was invited to spend more than a week in November and get to know a country which is not far from Europe, looks fantastic on tourist billboards and draws millions of visitors every year, but Europeans don't know about it as much as one would expect.

Guinea was declared free of Ebola on Dec. 29 after more than 2,500 people died from the virus in the West African nation, leaving Liberia as the only country still awaiting a countdown for the end of the epidemic.

Naukratis, a small town on the Nile Delta in Egypt, is emerging as a major Greek trading hub following excavations by the British Museum. Dr. Ross Thomas told British newspaper, Guardian, that the ancient city of Naukratis (meaning “mistress of ship”) was the “Hong Kong of its era”.

An Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya early on Dec. 19 after a suspected bomb was found on board, police said.

Navy and police bomb experts were called in to determine if there were any explosives on board the plane, which had 459 passengers and 14 crew members aboard.