Zawia Oil Refining Company announced today that, following the completion and approval of designs and engineering specifications for the Oil Blending...

OMV announced yesterday that following the completion of technical and economic evaluations, the OMV operated “Essar” well in Libya’s Sirte Basin has...

Leopardus tilcayo is the first new living cat species named and described in more than a century.

Bank of Japan raises benchmark interest rate from 1 to 1.25 percent, pledging to help counter inflation risks.

Many Nigerians buy their first ever shares - in the oil refinery owned by Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote.

The mother of two young children was kidnapped last week in the middle of the day in the main city, Blantyre.

The US has not acknowledged carrying out February's deadly strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd.

BBC Verify tracks down the location of a Houthi video showing the wreckage of an F-15 they claim to have shot down.

US President Donald Trump said that Washington and Warsaw were making 'major progress' toward establishing a US military base in Poland, potentially giving the United States a permanent military foothold on NATO's eastern flank even as his administration reviews its broader troop presence in Europe.

Nigerian authorities launched an investigation Thursday after 37 suspected illegal miners died in a civil defence detention facility in central Niger state, with conflicting accounts blaming either a disease outbreak or overcrowding and poor ventilation.

The Iranian-American community in the US has experienced divisions since the war on Iran began, with some finding themselves ostracized based on their views. Many feel conflicted between their disdain for the regime and opposition to war.

Israeli settlers set fire to olive groves in the town of Burqa in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday according to local residents. Residents said the settlers came early at 8 AM and set fire to the groves, while the Israeli army prevented the residents from going close to the fire. Weeks before the start of the annual olive harvest, Mahmoud Ribhi who owns the land the olive groves are in, said the settlers burned trees that are "thousands of years" old and called them "terrorists". T

The discovery of the bodies of nine women in the same area on the outskirts of South Africa's biggest city, Johannesburg, in the last two months have prompted police to investigate if the killings are linked and being carried out by the same person. Women say they're living in fear.

Displaced Yemenis who fled to Djibouti have been describing the fighting that forced them to leave. At least 100,000 people have left Yemen since the start of September as Iran-backed Houthi rebels advanced on the coast, seizing control of the strategic Bab el-Mandeb strait.