Australia’s largest city Sydney put on its biggest-ever fireworks display in a spectacular welcome to the New Year, kicking off a wave of celebrations for billions around the world. A record amount of pyrotechnics as well as new fireworks effects and colors lit up the city’s skyline for 12 minutes ...
Police fired tear gas at protesters in Sudan’s capital on Monday ahead of a planned march on President Omar al-Bashir’s palace calling on him to “step down” following deadly anti-government protests. Crowds of men and women chanting “freedom, peace and justice” and “revolution is the people’s choice” gathered in downtown ...