All 157 people on board an Ethiopian Airlines plane which crashed this morning are confirmed to have been killed in the tragedy. Seven of those killed were reportedly British nationals although this has not been verified by the Foreign Office.
Paraglider`s lucky escape after being attacked by KANGAROO upon landing.
This is the moment a paraglider's landing goes unexpectedly wrong when's attacked by a kangaroo. Jonathan Bishop was touching down after two hours in the air above Namadgi National Park's Orroral Valley, just outside Canberra, Australia when he saw two kangaroos approaching him.
Rejected from Maths class for being a woman, Ugandan Sarah Nyendwoha Nitro became the first female graduate in East and Central Africa.
Her rise to become a mentor and an inspiration to many girls and women came out of a rather unfortunate incident, which occurred while she was growing up. Sarah Nyendwoha Nitro had just excelled in Mathematics, then a male-dominated field from King’s College Budo in Uganda and had become one of the first six girls to be admitted to Makerere College (now Makerere University). While most of her female colleagues were offered “non-core courses” that were thought to be suitable for women, she chooses to study Mathematics. In a class of 32, she was the only woman. But the worst happened.
All-female crew to fly Ethiopian Airlines on Women’s Day.
March 8 is International Women’s Day, and Ethiopian Airlines, the Ethiopian national flag carrier, will be marking the day with an all-women flight crew from Addis Ababa to Stockholm and Oslo.
26-yr-old is poised to open a black supermarket chain that sells black-owned products.
$1.2 million is all that the 26-year-old Atlanta-based entrepreneur, Shareef Abdul-Malik, needs to open America’s first black-owned supermarket chain that will sell black-owned products sourced directly from black farmers and entrepreneurs.
Conjoined twins return home after lifesaving surgery in Australia
Two Bhutanese conjoined twins who travelled to Australia to be separated have returned home this week, completing a nearly 12,000-mile round trip to receive the life-saving surgery. Nima and Dawa Pelden, along with their mother, Bhumchu, arrived in Bhutan on Thursday, according to the Children First Foundation (CFF), a charity which funded their medical treatment.
Dad taking knives off streets by swapping them for JD sports vouchers.
A dad is doing his bit to take knives off the streets by swapping them for JD Sports vouchers. Faron Paul runs an informal knife amnesty, offering people vouchers if they hand their weapons into him to give to the police.
Meet Hard-working 11-year-old African Girl Who Services and Repairs Generators for a Living
An 11-year-old has gone viral on social media after it was discovered that she has been working to make a living since she was nine years old.
Belinda Bennet, the first black woman to captain a cruise ship
She has always had a passion for the sea. Growing up in one of the most remote islands in the world, St. Helena a part of the British Overseas Territory, Belinda Bennett loved the ocean and wanted to be a marine biologist. Right from the age that she could walk, she was already in the water, having found herself on a small island.
Bus engulfed in flames after hitting height restricted bridge in Stockholm
A huge fireball engulfed a bus in Stockholm city centre after it crashed into the entrance to a tunnel this morning. The vehicle was travelling towards a height restricted bridge when it crashed into warning barriers hanging from the top.
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