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A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest ever approach to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is plunging into our star's...

Honda and Nissan plan to merge as the two Japanese firms seek to fight back against competition from the Chinese car industry. Joining forces would...

A man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a woman who was set on fire on a subway train...

Russian scientists have unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in the remote Yakutia region of Siberia during the...

US President, Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, switching their penalty to life in prison...

Kenyan business student, Nelson Amenya has been hailed as a hero by those campaigning for greater transparency in the deals his government makes with...

The number of dead from a crowd crush in the south-east town of Okija in Nigeria has risen to 22, police say.It is the...

A man has been arrested in New York in connection with the death of a woman who was set on fire on a subway...

Cyclone Chido has killed 94 people in Mozambique since it made landfall in the east African country last week, local authorities have said. The country's National...

Revered Ghanaian preacher, Apostle Ekatso, has declared that all believers must urgently pray for Liberia.Last Sunday, during a church service, Apostle Ekatso had a...

US immigration authorities last year deported the largest number of undocumented immigrants in nearly a decade, surpassing the record of Donald Trump's first term...

Getty Images A file picture of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 - similar to the one which operated flight MH370Getty ImagesThe Malaysian government says...

King Mohammed VI of Morocco has facilitated the release of four French nationals detained in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, since December 2023.The Ministry of Foreign...

An American citizen has pleaded guilty to helping run what has been described as the first known secret police station in the US on...

A plot to assassinate Pope Francis during a trip to Iraq was stopped following a tip-off from British intelligence, according to his upcoming autobiography.The...

A stampede at a religious event in Ibadan, the capital of Nigeria's southwest Oyo state, resulted in multiple deaths and injuries, Governor Seyi Makinde...

A river boat sank in the western Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 22 people after the overcrowded upper deck collapsed, a local...

Shell has received approval from Nigeria's oil Minister for the sale of $2.4 billion in onshore and shallow-water assets to Renaissance Group, Renaissance said...

US president-elect, Donald Trump has said that people who were his enemies in his first term, now want to be his friend.In his first...

A Nigerian man who has spent 10 years on death row for stealing some hens and eggs has been promised a pardon by the...

A driver who inhaled laughing gas at the wheel has been jailed for nine years and four months after he admitted killing his three...

A 54-year-old man identified as Eseni Chima, accused of killing his wife, Ugochukwu, was on Tuesday, December 17, charged with murder at an Abakaliki...

Nigeria's anti-graft agency said it had arrested 792 suspects in a raid on a building believed to be a hub for fraudsters who lured...

Bitcoin has surged to a new record high, extending a rally that has seen the cryptocurrency's price rise by more than 50% since Donald...

Last year, India nudged past China to become the world's most populous country, according to UN estimates. With nearly 1.45 billion people now, you'd think...

An American Judge in the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville, Thomas A. Varlan, has sentenced two Ghanaian nationals to prison for internet fraud...

High-profile Nigerian Pastor Tobi Adegboyega has dismissed claims that he was about to be deported from the UK, where his church is facing allegations...

The BBC has complained to Apple after the tech giant's new iPhone feature generated a false headline about a high-profile murder in the United...

A family in Zimbabwe is reeling from grief and confusion after mistakenly burying the body of a Malawian man, thinking it was their 23-year-old...

Nollywood actress Sarah Martins has taken to social media to express her distress after allegedly falling victim to theft at her home.She accused her...

Abiola Kayode, a 37-year-old Nigerian national listed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Most Wanted Cyber Criminal List, has been extradited from Ghana...

Elon Musk is nearly $200 billion richer than Jeff Bezos, and personally worth more than Costco, after adding $63 billion to his fortune in...

Three more men have accused Sean "Diddy" Combs of rape and sexual assault in a batch of new lawsuits alleging the rapper drugged and...

Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest-ever world chess champion after beating defending champion China's Ding Liren in a dramatic turn on Thursday. Dommaraju,...

A British hedge fund trader has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Denmark, after being found guilty of orchestrating a tax fraud...

US President Joe Biden has issued presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes, and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 others, including...

US President Joe Biden has issued presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes, and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 other people.The...

The richest person in the world just hit an even higher milestone. Elon Musk’s net worth has reached $400 billion, according to Bloomberg, making him...

Instagram and WhatsApp are now back online after a mass global outage affected several Meta-owned apps on Wednesday.Facebook has yet to confirm whether all...

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray has said he will resign before President-elect Donald Trump, who has indicated he would fire him, takes...