Camels with passports, yes it's really true: Mansour Almushaiti, Deputy Minister of Environment, Water Resources and Agriculture, has launched the Camel Passport to regulate the market of these iconic desert animals.
Seasonal rains drag tons of waste from illegal dumping sites into the Drina River, where the debris accumulates against the dam of a hydropower plant in Višegrad, eastern Bosnia.
January 14 marked a date that, although it passed almost unnoticed, says a lot about the world we live in today. After all, for 8 years, 4 months and 29 days, no nuclear weapon has been detonated on Earth. It's the longest period without a nuclear detonation since the beginning of the atomic age, an absolute record unmatched since 1945.
The crisis affecting Israeli agricultural exports is unprecedented.
The collapse of a coltan mine, the second in just a few months, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is not just another news story from a country ravaged by war and misery: it's a deep wound that cuts across entire communities and - whether we like it or not - affects our lifestyles, too.
27 January 1945 officially marked the end of the largest mass murder in history. But that was not the only major massacre that took place. Indeed, according to the WOIR, 180 million Native Americans died at the hands of settlers and as a result of wars of conquest they witnessed the loss of their habitat and forced change in their way of life...
Ever since Donald Trump declared that he wanted to take control of Greenland (like it or not, those are his exact words), Denmark's autonomous Arctic territory, the Scandinavian country's reaction has been one of 'anti-American boycott'.The seriousness of the situation was such that the Danish Foreign Affairs Committee called an emergency meeting.
The 16th-century French prophet, better known as Nostradamus, continues to exert a magnetic fascination on our times, just as he did on his contemporaries.
Without sending troops or becoming openly involved in the conflict, Moscow is bolstering Tehran's repressive regime with a mix of weaponry, technology and authoritarian know-how.
France is preparing to adopt one of Europe's strictest regulations on the use of social media networks by young people.