There are already animation studios in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, but only a very limited number of good schools teach art and animation techniques on the African continent.

LJ Rich looks at how one artist is using computer code to turn internet radio from across the globe into a unique piece of music.

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have disrupted a speech by a Beijing official who was explaining how new voting procedures will be introduced for the city.

India's new prime minister, Narendra Modi, meets Japan's Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on his first major foreign visit since taking office.

Germany's newest party, the Eurosceptic "Alternative for Germany" (AfD), has won its first seats in the state parliament of Saxony, according to preliminary results.

Global consumption of meat needs to fall to ensure future demand for food can be met and to help protect the environment, a study says.

Iraqi forces have reached the besieged town of Amerli in northern Iraq, where thousands have been trapped by jihadists, military officials say.

Why Chinese couples are queuing up to put on waterproof make-up and get their wedding pictures taken underwater.

From 1 September, companies in the EU will be banned from making or importing vacuum cleaners above 1600 watts and it has led to a sharp rise in sales.

Four people have been killed and eleven others injured after an explosion rocked a four-storey building in Rosny-sous-Bois, Paris on Sunday morning.

China rules out open nominations for the next Hong Kong leadership election, in a move that has dismayed pro-democracy activists.

Continuing clashes in Pakistan between police and protesters demanding the toppling of PM Nawaz Sharif leave two dead and hundreds injured.

Inside Out goes to the lab to investigate what is in e-cigarettes while we unwrap the arguments surrounding them.

Some 230 members of an Orthodox Jewish group begin leaving a village in western Guatemala after a bitter row with the local indigenous community.

An Ebola vaccine, which has been tested on primates, will now be trialled on humans.

Nato has accused Russia of blatantly violating Ukraine's sovereignty by sending troops and weapons over the border.

In a camp for Yazidi refugees, near what was the Iraqi-Syrian border, the father who had to abandon his disabled child has learned that his son has died.

Flights may resume as alert over Iceland volcano is lowered from red to orange.

The United Nations Refugee Agency says Syria is the "the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era", with almost half of all Syrians forced to flee their homes.

The Icelandic Met Office raises its aviation warning level near the Bardarbunga volcano to red after an eruption began overnight.