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During warm ENSO episodes, the normal patterns of tropical precipitation and atmospheric circulation become disrupted. Related image: Image: La Nina regional impacts  BY FRANCIS GHESQUIERE & NICHOLAS JONES It was recorded by the Spanish conquistadors and triggered famines that have been linked to...

By Gregory Viscusi #ParisAttack was carefully planned  Unlike the killings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo — that often made the Prophet Muhammad a cartoon subject — and at a kosher grocery store, the attacks on Friday were meticulously prepared, were...

By Staff Reporter Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Alleged Ringleader of Paris Attacks, Is Dead, Prosecutor Says Abaaoud identified with fingerprints taken from the body Insight into the background of 28-year-old Belgian citizen Abdelhamid Abaaoud who is suspected by French authorities of...

By Elise Wicker, BBC World Service Image copyright AFP The quest to conquer the other North Pole What’s it like to answer angry tweets about trains? 10 things we didn’t know last week Europe has been so transfixed by tragedies in the...

Juliáo Chiburre, chief secretary of Magude town council, wears a neat stripy shirt, a khaki jacket, and a mournful air: the 36-year-old Mozambican bureaucrat is at his wit's end. Surrounded by files, he goes over the dilemmas familiar to...

  English: Kariba Dam, Zimbabwe. Photo converted from 35mm slide film to digital. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Workers at Sino-Zimbabwe are sure that poor workmanship by the Chinese has led to the current electricity woes currently affecting the country. Some Zimbabwe Electricity Supply...

By Melanie Hall Germans gathered by the hundred at train stations on Sunday to welcome refugees arriving in their cities as if they were long-lost friends or returning war heroes. An estimated 10,000 refugees were expected to arrive in Germany by...

By  Owen Gagare/Fidelity Mhlanga PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe, who will travel to Japan next month begging bowl in hand seeking a financial rescue package and investment in a bid to prevent a looming economic implosion, will once again come back empty-handed...

By Sudarsan Raghavan  Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre gesturing as he leaves a Dakar courthouse after a hearing on June 3. An official truth commission report in 1992 accused his regime of committing some 40,000 political murders — although only...

World Travel Market claims $6.5bn in sales as 2014 event opens. The World Travel Market Portfolio facilitates more than $6.5 billion in travel and tourism industry deals, according to organisers Reed Travel Exhibitions. The WTM Portfolio consists of the four leading...