By Steve Williams Nigeria’s President has just secretly signed a bill into law that will jail gay people for up to 14 years if they attempt or actually marry. The bill has drawn heavy critic... Read more
Interpretation: At its best giving the greatest mutual pleasure humans know….this activity also has risks, both direct and indirect. The direct risks are heart attacks or strokes (main... Read more
By Ogunjimi James Taiwo President Goodluck Jonathan The Jonathan Presidency will go down in Nigeria’s history as the most corrupt this nation has seen in a long, long time and perhaps the mo... Read more
By Sophia Jones Mohammed Morsi CAIRO — Amid massive troop deployment Tuesday, Egyptians lined up outside polling stations around the country to cast their votes at the start of a two-d... Read more
By Ilya Gridneff and Rodney Muhumuza In this image released by the United Nations Mission Juba, civilians sit after arriving at the compound of the United Nations Mission in the Republ... Read more
By Ilya Gridneff A young South Sudanese government soldier stands outside a military headquarters in the town, after government forces on Friday retook from rebel forces the provincial... Read more
Men brandish machetes and knives to threaten Muslim people in Bangui, Central Africa Republic on January 12, 2014. Reports of cannibalism emerged in the desperately poor country after a Musl... Read more
A South African preacher, Lesego Daniel, of Rabboni Centre Ministries in Garankuwa, north Pretoria allegedly ordered his followers to eat grass in order to be “closer to God” and to prove th... Read more
By Margaret Looney 2013 was a busy year for The New York Times social media team. The Times’ Twitter account, @nytimes, increased its follower count by 5 million, and the team hi... Read more
By: Keli Goff Lupita Nyong’o, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Steve McQueen, Sarah Paulson and Michael Fassbender. Kevin Winter/Getty Images The film’s best picture win at the Golden Globes wa... Read more