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The water hyacinth -- nicknamed the "Nile flower" in Iraq -- is an invasive plant native to South America's Amazon basin that has ravaged ecosystems across the world, from Sri Lanka to Nigeria
World
20.08.2024
Water hyacinth pest chokes Iraq's vital waterways
Checkpoint Charlie was the site of various daring attempts by East Germans to escape to the West, since it was one of the only gaps in the mass of concrete and barbed wire that made up the Berlin Wall
World
20.08.2024
Tanks and trinkets: five things about Checkpoint Charlie
Sherri Azadi (R) said her husband Anoosheh Ashoori (L) 'went out one day to do some shopping and he never came back'
World
20.08.2024
Jailed UK-Iranian pleads with PM Johnson to help inmates
Smoke billows following an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on June 16, 2020
World
20.08.2024
Saudi downturn deepens Yemen's economic despair
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Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang will be Beijing's main representative at a video summit with the EU that faces a thicket of disagreements on trade, investment, human rights and national security
World 20.08.2024
With ties in the balance, EU and China hold tense summit
Analysts suspect the United States is running out the clock on the New START nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia
World 20.08.2024
US, Russia arms talks start with little hope of accord
Springbok Kobus Wiese (C) loses the ball as he falls between All Blacks Jonah Lomu (behind) and Robin Brooke (R) during the 1995 Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg
World 20.08.2024
Mysterious 'Suzie' and other 1995 Rugby World Cup headline makers
President Nelson Mandela (L) hands the Rugby World Cup trophy to South Africa captain Francois Pienaar after the 1995 final in Johannesburg
World 20.08.2024
How Mandela inspired Pienaar and Springboks to conquer the world
In Belgrade last week, (from left to right) Dusan Lajovic, Viktor Troicki, Grigor Dimitrov, Filip Krajinovic, Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev and Novak Djokovic
Kenya sports more 20.08.2024
'I'm so sorry': Dimitrov tests positive for coronavirus after playing in Djokovic event
North Korea has been conducting a series of staged provocations aimed at forcing concessions from Seoul and Washington; pictured June 18, 2020 in Seoul are plastic bottles filled with rice and face masks, loaded on a truck of NKorean defector Park Jung...
World 20.08.2024
N. Korea says millions of leaflets readied against South
Juan Manuel Ballestero (R), with his father Carlos in Mar del Plata, Argentina, after sailing home from Portugal due to pandemic travel restrictions to see his parents
World 20.08.2024
With no flights, Argentine sails across Atlantic to see parents
Algerians have been staging weeky anti-government protests despite a ban on large gatherings as part of measures to contain the coronavirus
World 20.08.2024
Algeria sentences prominent activist to prison
The upper section of the arena is seen partially empty as US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BOK Center on June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma
World 20.08.2024
Trump campaign seeks to reset after flubbed rally
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