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South Africa has tripled its black science PhD graduates over the last decade
South Africa has tripled its black science PhD graduates over the last decade, and since 2013 has been graduating more black PhDs than...

RCS Ottawa
Nov 13, 2017
Lasting Impact of the 2017 Invictus Games
Invictus Games research shows a fundamental shift in Canadians’ positive perceptions towards ill, wounded and injured veterans and...

RCS Ottawa
Nov 8, 2017
Canadian Veteran Business Directory
A program of Prince’s Charities Canada (PCC), Prince's Operation Entrepreneur (POE) delivers education, training, tools and resources to...

RCS Ottawa
Nov 8, 2017


Tangier’s Jazzmen — and their phantom producer
He rode on Tito Puente’s float during the Puerto Rican Day Parade of 1969, when the mambo king was given a key to the city by Mayor John...

RCS Ottawa
Nov 5, 2017


Art fairs may be nearing peak globally but in Africa they’re just getting started
Last year, with just a few days to go before the first Art X Lagos fair, only 800 people had registered to attend what was to become West...

RCS Ottawa
Nov 5, 2017
This Is What You Eat When Everyone Is Struggling For Food
The death of four US soldiers in Niger last month put the spotlight on the west African country in a way that it has never experienced...

RCS Ottawa
Nov 3, 2017


Prince Harry and the fallen Danish soldier who inspired the Invictus Games
The family of a soldier whose coffin was loaded onto the plane which flew Prince Harry back from Afghanistan has met the Prince for the...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 29, 2017


The day drab post-war Britain burst into joy: ROBERT HARDMAN on the amazing story behind The Queen a
Of all the royal records she has broken — and she has smashed almost all of them — there is one that surely means most to the Queen. She...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 29, 2017


The Cambridges and Prince Harry trademark Twitter Hashtag
The Royal trio is set to have their first trademarked hashtag as the Royal Foundation has applied for #stopspeaksupport. The Duke and...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 29, 2017


African orphans learn Mandarin, Buddhism and kung fu
Nhlangano, Swaziland - Amitofo Care Centres, founded by Venerable Master Hui Li, a Buddhist monk from Taiwan, is taking in orphans and...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 29, 2017


The world’s first floating wind farm could be a game changer for renewable power
Wind turbines are impressive structures, towering higher than some of the world’s tallest buildings. When installed offshore, the extent...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 19, 2017


Millennials’ search for experiences over luxury is driving Airbnb’s growth in Africa
In the last five years, more than 2 million people have found holiday accommodation in Africa through Airbnb which now has over 100,000...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 19, 2017


The future of farming in Africa is not agriculture but agribusiness
Africa is a farm lover’s dream: abundant uncultivated arable land, roughly over half the global total; tropical climates that permit long...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 15, 2017


There’s a strong chance a third of all people on earth will be African by 2100
The population of Africa is increasing rapidly. From an estimated 140 million in 1900, it had grown to a billion by 2010. According to...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 15, 2017
Prince Harry collects posthumous honour on behalf of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales
Prince Harry has collected a posthumous Attitude Legacy Award on behalf of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, at an awards...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 13, 2017


Africa’s “reverse missionaries” are bringing Christianity back to the United Kingdom
York, United Kingdom Fourteen years ago, Reuben Ekeme Inwe’s wife, Roselyn, had a dream. In it Inwe is preaching to a large crowd—not...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 13, 2017


Join the celebration on World Mental Health Day
It’s World Mental Health Day! Today we are at St James’ Palace celebrating all you have done to help change the conversation on mental...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 10, 2017


World Mental Health Day 2017
We speak to Rod Eldridge, former senior officer and Clinical Lead at Walking With The Wounded about the importance of mental health and...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 10, 2017
Now Robots Are Coming After India’s Low-Cost Labour
Butler, a stubby, orange robot, crawls along the aisles to fetch everything from smartphones to shampoos from warehouse shelves. It takes...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 4, 2017


ANCIENT TOMB OF SANTA CLAUS DISCOVERED BENEATH TURKISH CHURCH
Archaeologists in Turkey may be on the cusp of solving a mystery thousands of years in the making after they stumbled on a tomb beneath...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 4, 2017
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