Officials say Nigeria has more than 10 million children who are missing out on education. So how can they find their way back into classrooms? DW discovered how dance is helping some of them find the focus they need to keep learning.

French kissing culture: The ins and outs of 'la bise'

Entertainers in Nigeria are calling for more strategic roles for women in the entertainment industry to help build a peaceful society and the nation at large.

A culture of collecting: The hidden museums of Paris

Nobel literature laureate Peter Handke says he's "astonished" at being picked for the 2019 award. He tells reporters at his home outside Paris that "I need to carry on as if none of this had happened."

In some paintings, the wounds are plain to see: an arm or leg lost to war. In others, the injuries that US veterans suffered are hidden from view. But all of the works by former president George W.Bush reflect some of the human toll of his decisions as commander-in-chief.

James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz and have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their research on exoplanets and cosmology.

Serbian make-up artist Mirjana Kika Milosevic turns herself into a human fork with an extraordinary bodypaint illusion.

Thousands of people massed outside Paris's Moulin Rouge caberet on Sunday night for a fireworks and can-can extravaganza to mark the 130th anniversary of the Montmartre institution.

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97 year-old John Goodenough, who has been co-awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry, says it's 'very nice to receive' such recognition. Of his role in inventing lithium-ion batteries that power modern mobile devices he says 'the lawyers always end up with the money', and on a more serious note he warns that humanity must wean itself off fossil fuels.

As The Gambia's tourist season begins, hotel owners are still trying to 'cut down on losses' after the bankruptcy of British tour operator Thomas Cook on 23 September 2019. The British holidaymaker was one of the largest tourist outfitters in the small West African country, with 45% of tourists entering The Gambia through Thomas Cook according to The Gambia's government. Two emergency meetings have been organised by the government to find an emergency solution before the country's touristic season begins in November. from hotel owners in Banjul