Egypt deployed three tugboats Sunday to tow away an oil tanker that had broken down and caused brief delays in the Suez Canal, authorities in charge of the vital waterway said. Traffic in both directions returned to normal after a brief disruption when the Malta-flagged Seavigour experienced a "machinery malfunction" while en route from Russia…

Twelve people have died from asphyxiation in a shuttered gold mine in southeastern Venezuela, a local official told AFP on Saturday. "We have 12 dead today," the secretary of security in El Callao, General Edgar Colina Reyes, said in a telephone interview. "They entered a mine that had been closed a long time." The deaths…

Three Chinese astronauts working at the country's space station have returned safely to Earth, state media reported Sunday, hailing the mission as a "complete success". The return capsule of the Shenzhou-15 spaceship touched down at a landing site in northern China's Inner Mongolia region, according to state news agency Xinhua. Astronauts Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming…

Gill Quarcoopome is the managing director/creative director at Sole Inspiration, a leather accessory company based in Ghana. In this interview, she talks about her journey in the African leather industry, how the Lagos Leather Fair impacts players and what more can be done in terms of opportunities for players. Leather artwork is a unique space…

Kyiv said Sunday that Russian missiles had struck an airfield near the city of Kropyvnytskyi in central Ukraine. "Six missiles and five attack drones" were launched by Russia, Ukrainian air force spokesman Yuriy Ignat said on television. "Unfortunately not all of them were destroyed. Of the six, four were destroyed by air defence and two…