By AFP/Joseph Boyle with Abhaya Srivastava and Isabel KuaApps infused with AI are being marketed to schools across the world and governments are rushing to embrace the technology, despite experts raising serious doubts.The sector known as Ed Tech exp...

By AFP/Sheikh Sabiha ALAMFew in the Jahan family's remote Bangladeshi village had seen a jackal up close before the morning one stalked Musqan through the paddy fields, pounced on her, and maimed the four-year-old for life.Violent and unprovoked atta...

By AFP/Dave ClarkA former prisoner spearheading a private effort to help find captive US journalist Austin Tice is concerned that deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad may be hiding him to use as leverage in securing his own future.Nizar Zakka, who w...

By AFPMine-clearing organisation The Halo Trust on Sunday called for a global effort to remove landmines and explosive ordnance from Syria, warning that thousands heading home after Bashar al-Assad's ouster were particularly vulnerable.After more tha...

By AFP/Laure Al KhouryThis time he was there by choice. Mohammed Darwish was back in a jail that was run by Syria's feared intelligence services -- and Bashar al-Assad was no longer president.Cell number nine reeks of putrefaction. It is an undergrou...

By AFPA Japanese textile company, ordered by Ecuadoran courts to pay $41 million to compensate its workers for keeping them in slave-like conditions, claimed Saturday it lacks the money to pay up.Ecuador's Constitutional Court last week ordered the c...

By AFP/Kaouthar OUDRHIRIFrantz Fanon's revolutionary ideas, shaped in North Africa's colonial battlegrounds, take centre stage in a new biopic exploring his pivotal years as a psychiatrist in French-ruled Algeria.Premiering at the Marrakesh Internati...

By UN News/Daniel DickinsonFarmers in Saudi Arabia are being encouraged to adopt new irrigation techniques as water and land resources are put under increasing pressure.Mohamed Alnwairan stands in front of a verdant citrus tree which four months henc...

By AFPAustralia's opposition said Friday its plan to launch nuclear power in the sun-baked country will be cheaper than a renewables-only strategy -- a claim blasted by the government as "fiction".With elections looming by May 2025, the conservative...

By AFPThe Council of Europe rights body on Friday criticised Italy's treatment of migrants in detention centres, citing police violence and the use of psychotropic drugs on detainees.The COE's anti-torture committee made the comments after a visit in...

By AFPMore than two-thirds of displaced families in eastern Sudan are unable to secure enough food, as war has pushed millions to the brink of famine, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Friday.The number of displaced in eastern Sudan has sur...

By AFP/Tomohiro OSAKIPeople with missing teeth may be able to grow new ones, say Japanese dentists testing a pioneering drug they hope will offer an alternative to dentures and implants.Unlike reptiles and fish, which usually replace their fangs on a...