Sometimes it can be difficult to understand what someone means in a phone message. And when you throw emoji into the mix, things get even more complicated. A " " or " ️" are easy to ...

The W Edinburgh is widely derided as resembling a poop emoji - but it has just been named Scottish Hotel of the Year 2025 at the Hotels of the Year Scotland Awards. The walnut-shaped, 199-room ...

Carrie Weisman is a seasoned journalist who has a deep love of words and helping the widest audience possible. Her ...

The World Bank is launching Education Business Plan 2030 for Eastern and Southern Africa, to prepare over 200 million children and youth to transform Africa's future. The goal is for all children and ...

The U.S. government has shut down Power Africa, a program launched in 2013 by former President Barack Obama to expand electricity access across Africa, Bloomberg reports. Most of Power Africa’s ...

After the German and Ottoman empires fell following World War I, a map closer to what we now know as Africa would emerge. Historians point out that unlike what is widely believed, the Berlin ...

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New research suggests that all five subregions of Africa will breach the 1.5 C climate change threshold -- the limit stipulated by the Paris Agreement -- by 2040 even under low emission scenarios.

Francisca Mutapi is the Deputy Director of the Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) Partnership and Deputy Board Chair of Uniting to Combat NTDS. She sits on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Africa's health systems heavily depend on foreign aid, which has been declining since 2018 due to shifting donor priorities. This reliance leaves the continent ...

Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. At this moment in history, that is fact, but it wasn’t always the case. Hundreds of millions ...

Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...