An international research team, which includes NYU anthropologists Scott Williams and Myra Laird, has discovered a new species of a human relative. Homo naledi, uncovered in a cave outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, sheds light on the diversity of our genus and possibly its origin. “This discovery is unprecedented in the sheer number of hominins […]
Aid agencies and the Irish Navy are reporting that a fishing vessel carrying about 600 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean and a distress call was issued, about 24 kilometers north of Libya. The navy reports say hundreds of people were in the sea and a rescue effort was under way. The Associated Press cited Irish […]
Ivory Coast’s former first lady Simone Gbagbo has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in 2011 post-election violence. A court in Abidjan on Tuesday found Gbagbo guilty of undermining state security and organizing armed gangs in violence that left 3,000 people dead. She and her husband, Laurent Gbagbo, disputed the 2010 […]
Italian authorities say at least 29 African migrants have died of hypothermia while crossing the Mediterranean in freezing weather and rough seas. The Italian coast guard says it found seven people dead when it answered a distress call from the migrants’ boat off Libya late Sunday. It says 22 others died on a vessel that […]