As a sans-papiers -- an immigrant without papers -- Mamadou Gassama should have been condemned to a life in the shadows, dodging immigration officials and living in bad social housing -- but for his superhuman feat of climbing four balconies to save a little boy from certain death.

Fifty-one years ago, a political decision changed the course of my life and I wasn't even born when it was made.

Zimbabwe will hold its national elections on July 30, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on Wednesday.

What if there was a place where you could camp beside ancient pyramids from a forgotten civilization without another tourist in sight?