If all goes as planned on Wednesday, a fence that has shaped life on “the Rock” for more than a century will lose much of its power. Gibraltar and Spain are set to drop routine land-border checks under a post-Brexit deal that pulls the British territory into the EU’s Schengen free-travel zone and customs … Read more
Editor’s note: This is a developing story and is being updated. Explosions as a result of a terrorist attack shook Lviv, injuring 15 and killing a police officer, authorities reported overnight on Feb. 22. “This was a terrorist attack. At present, 14 victims have been hospitalized,” Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi reported. Afterwards, he said that … Read more
Powerful explosions rocked an industrial complex outside of Buenos Aires on Friday night, officials said, as the fire department battled the ensuing blaze. At least 15 people were injured as a result and taken to the hospital. “The explosions and fire breaking out in the different factories are huge,” French news agency AFP quoted Gaston … Read more
An advertising executive during the day and a heavy rocker by night, Ted celebrates the metal community rocking Nairobi. Nairobi’s heavy metal rock attracts a relatively small community of devotees, but they form a tight community. Ted Ngure works as an advertising executive during the day, but in his downtime, he switches to a microphone … Read more
Human faces sculpted into stone up to 2,000 years ago have appeared on a rocky outcropping along the Amazon River since water levels dropped to record lows in the region’s worst drought in more than a century. Some rock carvings had been sighted before but now there is a greater variety that will help researchers establish their … Read more