British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's hardline Brexit strategy stood in tatters on Thursday after a humiliating week left him without a working majority but unable to call an election.
Wildfires raging in Bolivia's forests and grasslands since May have destroyed 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres), officials said Wednesday, amid an $11 million effort by the government to contain them.
African business leaders and officials have gathered in Cape Town for a three-day regional meeting of the World Economic Forum. The main focus of the Sept. 4-6 meeting is an Africa-wide free-trade zone set to take effect in 2020.
