Angola announced on Tuesday that it would attempt to broker the direct talks. The Southern African country has been trying to mediate a lasting ceasefire and de-escalate tensions between Congo ...

Angola, Africa’s top oil producer, is flush with money. Yet wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a very few, leaving the bulk of the population in poverty. In April 2008, Angola quietly ...

Direct peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels will begin in the Angolan capital on 18 March, Angola's presidency said in a statement on Wednesday. The Congolese presidency ...

When a woman’s partner dies, she is often forced to adjust to a new way of living. Some widows move in with their children, while others live alone. Though psychologists suggest that widowhood can be ...

At the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada’s red and white maple leaf flag was raised for the very first time on Parliament Hill. On the same day in 1996, National Flag of Canada Day was ...

Gov. Maura Healey announced that state and national flags will fly at half-staff in Massachusetts today, March 7 to honor United States Navy Ensign Oliver Cole of Beverly. A graduate of the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered flags in Texas immediately lowered to half-staff in honor of U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner, who unexpectedly died Wednesday morning due to health ...

President Donald Trump told lawmakers that U.S. astronauts will one day carry the American flag to Mars and beyond during a speech before the joint session of Congress late Tuesday (March 5).

Cuts to the Department of Education are hitting national student assessments even as sirens blare on student test scores. The 17-year-old long-term National Assessment of Educational Progress ...

Six Flags Great Adventures announced the demolition of the world's tallest rollercoaster in 2024. It will be replaced by North America's "first super boomerang coaster" After a nearly 20-year run ...

Six Flags’ iconic Kingda Ka roller coaster — once ranked the tallest and fastest in the world — has been reduced to mere rubble in a caught-on-camera implosion. Footage of the dramatic ...