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Eight in 10 students have issues with literacy, the lowest performance in a study of 57 countries.

Somalia's only official boxing club offers a haven for a group of young people in Mogadishu.

By Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK Thailand's influential former premier Thaksin Shinawatra on Tuesday hailed the election-winning Move Forward Party

Detectives are following potential leads after launching a campaign to identify 22 victims in Europe.

Laura Millar told the inquest her brother James Millar, 21, had been planning to buy a house with his fiancee.

By Sam Jabri-Pickett Canada's oil hub of Alberta will hold an election on May 29, which is expected

It might sound more like the kind of idle daydream billionaires like Elon Musk would have, but could flooding the Sahara actually be the best way of tackling climate change in the future? The idea of creating a new “sea” in Africa is being discussed, and it’s not the first time that the notion of a great oasis in the Sahara has been discussed among the scientific community. As the ongoing climate crisis continues to worsen, the notion of flooding vast areas of the desert is being returned to once again [via IFL Science]. A new “sea” was first proposed following the study of the Messinian salinity crisis – which saw a dried-out area of the Mediterranean rejuvenated by the Zanclean flood, reconnecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean around 5.33 million years ago. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Given how the Mediterranean was transformed by the flood, the idea of flooding the Sahara to achieve similar results has been thrown around in the scientific community as far back as 1877, the Scottish engineer Donald McKenzie suggested flooding the El Djouf basin in Western Africa. The idea is now returning to popularity as the world looks for solutions to the climate crisis. One proposal centres on the Middle East’s Dead Sea and flooding the area using water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea Depression. A vast sea in Africa could represent a hugely innovative step towards tackling climate change and fostering a new hub of life – but even the people suggesting work such a project acknowledge just how expensive and dangerous it is. Even Y Combinator is a US startup accelerator who has described “desert flooding” as “risky, unproven, even unlikely to work”. Only time will tell whether the notion of a new sea in the Sahara coud ever work, or whether it’ll remain the stuff of dreams. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

Wellington fire commander Nick Pyatt says the blaze is the city's "worst nightmare".

The opposition Congress party is ahead in the Karnataka state election, according to trends.

Brandon Guffey was at home last July when he heard a gunshot and found his 17-year-old son Gavin bleeding from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He soon learned Gavin had been blackmailed by scammers who tricked him into sending nude photos. Guffey, a South Carolina state lawmaker, has successfully pushed a bill that would criminalize sextortion.

Brienz's 100 residents, as well as the village's dairy cows, were given 48 hours to evacuate.

By Chayut Setboonsarng and Napat Wesshasartar BANGKOK Surrounded by adoring crowds packed inside stadiums and halls, the main