A Labour Court in South Africa has ruled as "unlawful" the suspension of a teacher from a school the North West province for allegedly seating pupils based on their race, local media reports.
Russia has condemned foreign powers for backing a Venezuelan opposition leader who declared himself interim president, calling it a bid to "usurp power".
Fake news is a topic we can’t seem to get away from, at the moment: ironically always making headlines, the phenomenon has been picked up as a talking point from commentators across the political spectrum and is also a favourite topic of everyone’s very least favourite politician, Donald Trump.
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has ordered that no new licences should be issued to sports betting companies nor renewing of permits for the existing ones.
A trial of four Kenyan policemen accused of killing the son of a British aristocrat began in a Mombasa court on Tuesday, with prosecutors saying they plan to bring 45 witnesses to testify.
The Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angela Merkel and the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron are signing today, in Aachen, a new French-German treaty of cooperation and integration.
WhatsApp restricts message-sharing to fight fake newsWhatsApp is limiting all its members to forwarding any single message up to five times in an effort to tackle the spread of false information on the platform.
Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Hong Kong were left stuck on the ground for more than 14 hours in frigid weather with a dwindling supply of food.
Beirut, Lebanon - The Arab Economic and Social Development Summit has kicked off in Lebanon's capital, overshadowed by political rifts and poor attendance among Arab heads of state, many of whom pulled out at the last minute.
![Sheikh Tamim met with Lebanon's President Aoun at the Arab Economic and Social Development summit in Beirut [Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]](/images/2019/jan/19/arab-leaders.jpg)