Philippe Coutinho scores a hat-trick as Liverpool thump Spartak Moscow to reach the knockout stage of the Champions League for the first time since 2009.

Algeria midfielder Saphir Taider says the players must accept responsibility for the country's failure to reach the 2018 World Cup finals.

The end of the era of throwaway plastic has been signalled by UN environment ministers meeting in Kenya.

The UK singer is in Kenya as part of her new role as an environmental champion for the UN.

The boss of Steinhoff, which owns Poundland and Harveys, quits amid probe into accounting irregularities.

One of the oldest and most complete skeletons of our ancestors has been unveiled in South Africa.

Conflict has forced some 1.7 million people to flee their homes this year, aid agencies say.

An intact mummy, excavated a century ago, is the first to be scanned by an advanced X-ray system.

Instead of shouting to be heard, Nigerian soldiers are being told to learn more languages.

The ritual forces women to have sex for three days, often with strangers, after their husbands die.