A South African man who received the world’s first successful penis transplant is to become a father just months after undergoing surgery, his doctor said Friday. Urologist Andre van der Merwe, who led the team…
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#Conservation: Anti-poaching digital radio system launched in Kenya
French foreign trade minister Matthias Fekl on Wednesday attended the unveiling of a new digital radio system designed to help Kenya’s fight against poaching, a project partly funded by France. This marks the first time…
3,800-year-old statuettes found in Peru
Researchers in Peru have discovered a trio of statuettes they believe were created by the ancient Caral civilization some 3,800 years ago, the culture ministry said Tuesday. The mud statuettes were found inside a reed…
#Art: Exhibition plots rise of global fashion
Paris, Milan, New York and London may reign in world fashion, but Asian and South American cities are ones to watch, according to an exhibition at one of the world’s best design schools. Dubbed “Around…
A new African site on the World Heritage List?
Near the border with Botswana in the Shashi-Limpopo region lies Mapela, which is now an excavation site. The ruins of what is believed to have been a flourishing urban community for an astoundingly long period…
#Conservation: Protecting the ocean could boost economy by $900 bn
More than $920 billion could be generated by 2050 and 180,000 jobs created by expanding the ocean’s protected zones, according to a study published Thursday by conservation group WWF. “Every dollar invested to create marine…
Gourmet chimps show how we came to cook
Chimpanzees and humans share some of the basic brain skills needed for cooking, a finding that may explain a turning point in the story of mankind, a study said Wednesday. Experiments at a chimp sanctuary…
92-year-old sets record for oldest woman marathoner
A 92-year-old US grandmother has become the oldest woman to finish a marathon, when she crossed the finish line of a San Diego 26-miler on Sunday, race organizers said. A smiling Harriette Thompson, aged 92…
‘Lucy’ may not be our mum, say scientists
In 1974, anthropologists in Ethiopia found the astonishing fossilised remains of a human-like creature who last walked the planet some 3.2 million years ago. Was “Lucy,” as the hominid was called, the direct ancestor of…
#WeirdNews: Kenyan lawyer offers livestock to wed Obama’s daughter
A Kenyan lawyer has offered US president Barack Obama 50 cows and other assorted livestock in exchange for his 16-year old daughter Malia’s hand in marriage, a report said Tuesday. Felix Kiprono said he was…