An award-winning innovation by two African students could help reduce the devastating impact of the life-threatening disease malaria, which is spread relentlessly by infected mosquitoes. The young men have used indigenous herbs to create a soap that repels the deadly bugs.
Now that the Ervebo vaccine has been approved by WHO and the European Commission, the vaccine can now be freely distributed on a more global basis.
Burundi's government and the country's last active rebel group have signed a ceasefire that has committed the sides to engage in serious discussions aimed at ending hostilities and to reach a comprehensive ceasefire within the period of two weeks.
Burundi's last holdout rebel group returned to the capital on Friday to begin implementing a delayed peace agreement, reported Reuters.
Burundi's government and last active rebel group, the National Liberation Forces (FNL), have signed a ceasefire.In the deal signed on Monday morning, both parties agreed to stop the fighting -- which has killed 100 people since April.
An 8-year old in Virginia asked a question in 1999 after her school created a mural together that made everyone so happy: "What if the whole world made a painting together?"
Since three different amputees have been fitted with the bionic legs, the developers are confident that the prosthetics will soon be commercially available.
A retired Serbian physics professor has built a house with plastic bottles in the place of bricks, using 14,000 containers his students collected as litter from the countryside. The plastic bottles offer great insulation!
Serbian President Boris Tadic apologized Thursday at the site where more than 200 Croats were massacred in wartime atrocities. Tadic said he came to bow down before the victims. His Croatian counterpart also laid a wreath at the graveyard of 18 Serbs killed by Croats.
During a walk with friends in Niš, Serbia, Zox Pavlovic spotted a dog stranded on an island underneath a bridge. That's when Sasha Pešić, who takes care of dozens of stray dogs, volunteered for the acrobatic rescue.
A blind toddler from a small village near the Slovakia capital is being hailed a "true little Mozart" for his keyboard renditions of classical musical, despite never having a piano lesson.
A tribute to Nicholas Winton, who quietly organized the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia during World War II, who died at age 106.