With its moat, wall, barbed wire, armed guards and security cameras, the facility could be mistaken for a military base if it weren't for the pungent odor of marijuana in the air.
Dreams of fame and fortune turned into a nightmare for a once-renowned Italian surgeon who compared himself to Doctor Frankenstein and now stands accused of using patients as guinea pigs.
Nigerian Thelma West is a rare gem in the diamond world as a woman in a male-dominated sector with few Africans, despite the continent being the main source of the precious rocks.
Nigeria is sending a team to Cameroon on Monday to verify a would-be suicide bomber's claim that she is one of the 276 school girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram from the northern town of Chibok.
Syrian government forces backed by Russian airstrikes drove Islamic State fighters from Palmyra on Sunday, ending the group's reign of terror over a town whose famed 2,000-year-old ruins once drew tens of thousands of visitors each year.
Nicknamed "Duterte Harry," after a Clint Eastwood character with little regard for rules, Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte casually threatens to shoot criminals, hang them using laundry line or drown them in Manila Bay.
Belgians gathered on Sunday in solidarity and defiance in central Brussels to remember victims of the country's worst-ever terror attacks as prosecutors charged a second man over a foiled attack in France.
The legendary British rock band the Rolling Stones played its first ever concert in Cuba on Friday in front of half a million fans, widely touted as the island country's biggest rock show ever.
Bernie Sanders made a clean sweep of Democratic election contests in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington, although he barely dented the formidable lead enjoyed by front-runner Hillary Clinton in the battle for the party's presidential nomination.
Thousands of members of Ireland's armed forces marched through Dublin on Sunday to mark 100 years since the Easter 1916 uprising launched the country on the road to independence from Britain five years later.
A court in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday sentenced 11 defendants to life imprisonment over terror charges with two in absentia, UAE state news agency WAM reported.
I am delighted to be back for the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference and to meet with so many friends, both old and new.
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