Stone tools were being used 3.3 million years ago by creatures that pre-dated the earliest known ancestors of modern humans, scientists have learnt.

Scientists in Kenya have found a vast underground water reservoir in one of Kenya’s driest region that could supply the region for the next 70 years.

THEY took the long way round but almost 50 new doctors have made history as the first to have come through medical school under a new entry method for graduates.

Fresh flooding has killed 20 people in southern Ethiopia, state television reported today, a week after at least 256 people died in the East following torrential rains.

MILLIONS of people living in Europe, Africa and Asia watched as the moon passed across the face of the sun, causing an annular eclipse in which only a fiery solar rim can be seen.