Farouk Chothia,BBC News, Johannesburg South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has approved a controversial new law that will lead to the biggest shake-up in the health sector since the end of the racist system of apartheid 30 years ago.  It promises universal health care for all, but has faced fierce resistance from the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), which has accused ...

Fan Wang,BBC News “I don’t want anyone to think that I ever said these horrible things in my life. Using a Ukrainian girl for a face promoting Russia. It’s crazy.” Olga Loiek has seen her face appear in various videos on Chinese social media – a result of easy-to-use generative AI tools available online. “I could see my face and ...

Priti Gupta,Technology Reporter, Mumbai Every day, with bare hands, Rukmini Baburao Kumbhar, collects around 50kg (eight stone) of fresh cow dung. She is part of a spiritual group that runs a small ashram (a religious retreat) in a village in the north-western Indian state of Maharashtra. Collecting cow dung is not, primarily, an effort to keep the place tidy. Instead, ...

Hafsa Khalil,BBC News The first man to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the operation, the hospital which carried out the procedure has said. Richard “Rick” Slayman, 62, was suffering with end-stage kidney disease before undergoing the operation in March. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) said on Sunday there was no indication his death was ...

In a small community nestled in the Volta region of Ghana, three students from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology embarked on a mission to bring clean water to the residents of Aveme Beme. Nana Kwabena Addo, Constant Titus Amentor, and Prince Makafui Nanewortor, all MSc Development Management students, worked tirelessly on a borehole rehabilitation as part of their Social Entrepreneurship and ...

Sanjana Idnani,Wales Live International students in Wales have been sleeping rough on campuses after struggling to find housing. Students have reportedly struggled to find affordable accommodation near to universities, meaning they travel to campus for lectures and sleep in university buildings overnight. Nida Ambreen of Bangor University’s Students’ Union said some regularly slept in the university’s 24-hour study space to ...

A five-story building collapsed in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday night leading to a major rescue operation, led by the Kenya Red Cross.  The building collapsed in Uthiru – on the outskirts of the city – with initial reports suggesting dozens of people were trapped beneath the rubble.  But on Wednesday morning the Kenya Red Cross said all tenants of ...

By Vicky Wong,BBC News Israel’s government has moved to shut down the operations of the Al Jazeera television network in the country, branding it a mouthpiece for Hamas.  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the cabinet agreed to the closure while the war in Gaza is ongoing. Police raided the Qatari broadcaster’s office at the Ambassador hotel in Jerusalem on Sunday. ...

By Vanessa Buschschlüter,BBC News At least 10 people have died and more than 20 are missing after storms caused flooding in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.  Helicopters are flying over the region searching for people who have been left stranded. In some areas, the flooding is so severe that helicopters have been unable to land and ...

By:Nutifafa Bequine The Ghana Police Service have arrested one Benlord Ababio in connection to the shooting incident that happened on 30th April, 2024 at Millennium City, Kasoa in the Central Region of Ghana. The incident reportedly happened around 4:20pm where the suspect, Benlord Ababio according to police preliminary investigation shot at the military officer in his car killing him behind ...