Faced with the only chance to save a child's life, doctors in South Africa have performed a medical first -- transplanting part of the liver from a HIV-positive mother into her HIV-negative child, it was announced Thursday. The doctors at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg revealed that one year after the operation, the child may no ...

Authorities in Guinea Bissau have confirmed to the BBC that about sixty people are missing after a boat they were travelling on sunk. The incident happened after the wooden boat was hit by a storm off the coast of the West African country. The boat has since been recovered as the search for its occupants believed to be migrants continue. H ...