The Interceptor, a solution to the world’s plastic crisis?

Malaysian police say a chemical on a U.N. list of weapons of mass destruction called VX nerve agent was used to kill the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

For the past four years, South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, has been torn apart by civil war. Two tribes are fighting each other, and their soldiers burn and steal any crops they come across. Famine is being used as a weapon of war.

Civil war has left South Sudan in shambles. Food is scarce and efforts by the United Nations to provide supplies are scarcely enough to feed an undernourished population. Villagers walk many miles for food, hoping to avoid soldiers who steal their food, including government troops.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Saturday the United States believed it was Russia's responsibility to curb Syria's use of chemical weapons. Speaking at a news conference in Poland, Tillerson stood by his earlier comments that the Russia-backed Syrian government may still be using chemical weapons against its own people following a suspected chlorine attack in a rebel enclave in Eastern Ghouta.

Philip Murphy, US governor for New Jersey and former ambassador to Germany, is concerned that a trade war could harm the trans-Atlantic relationship. But he’s certain that institutions will be stronger than individuals.

Former minority leader and Senator representing Akwa Ibom North West, Godswill Akpabio has advised the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki to honorably resign rather than been forced out of office.

Can music really change the world? One young activist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo certainly hopes so. He's bringing together the best local musical talent to show what his city has to offer.

Nigerian Senate passes chemical, biological weapon prohibition Bill

Pyongyang tested an unspecified "guided weapon" with a "powerful warhead," North Korea's official news agency KCNA has reported. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un oversaw the operation.

Rape as a weapon of war: Sexual violence on the rise in Cameroon’s Anglophone region.

A strange illness affecting Canadian and US diplomats in Havana may have been caused by exposure to pesticides, a study has said. US authorities had suspected the use of a secret sonic weapon.

Cameroon’s rubber business: A weapon of mass deforestation