FireAid, featuring Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers and others in a fundraiser for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief efforts, is ...

The cowrie shells have been long revered in Black and African cultures, symbolizing community, protection, resistance, and ...

(Jan. 5, 2025) Summer resident David Rubenstein, philanthropist, owner of the Baltimore Orioles and co-founder of the global private-equity firm The Carlyle Group, was honored at the White House ...

Thousands of civilians in a remote part of northeastern Ethiopia are being evacuated after potentially dangerous volcanic activity, officials said Friday. The evacuations come after steam ...

Gustavo Hamer then slipped in Brooks only for Bachmann to smother his shot. Sheffield United's greater potency was rewarded in the 13th minute. Referee David Webb made a significant contribution ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the East Room of the White House on a particularly frigid Saturday afternoon, President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 of the most famous names ...

President Joe Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including Denzel Washington and Magic Johnson. (Photo: AP) ...

Ethiopia’s government said it is evacuating approximately 80,000 people following a series of small-scale earthquakes in the Afar, Oromia and Amhara regions. At least 10 earthquakes were ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck Ethiopia, the U.S. Geological Survey and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (USGS) said on Saturday. The quake's epicentre was located 42km east of ...

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Aksum was a wealthy and influential monarchy that at its height spanned what is now northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, southern Saudi Arabia and western Yemen. It lasted almost 1,000 years ...