Percival Everett's “James” is up for another literary award — the PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction. Other nominees include Louise Erdrich's “The Mighty Red,” Rachel Kushner's “Creation Lake” and Garth ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

New Zealand is reconsidering all development funding to the aid-dependent island nation of Kiribati, following a diplomatic ...