International

  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will not run for a second term as leader of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) next month following a...

A police officer accused of shooting a pregnant woman in Ohio has been charged with her murder. Ta'Kiya Young, 21, was around 25 weeks pregnant...

Banknotes with a face value of £78,430 have raised more than 11 times that amount for charity following a series of auctions.New £5, £10,...

NGO Open Arms rescued dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea after search and rescue operations in international waters south of Lampedusa, one of...

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to “kick the enemy out” of his country’s territory after it emerged that Ukrainian troops were in control of...

At least 17 people are now known to have died after a landslide at a massive rubbish dump in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.Rescuers are...

US President Joe Biden says he dropped out of his re-election bid because he feared that the intraparty battle over his candidacy would be...

A passenger plane carrying 61 people crashed outside São Paulo on Friday afternoon, killing everyone on board, according to a statement issued by air...

A massive African land snail, capable of wreaking havoc on ecosystems and human health, has been discovered in Brooklyn, New York, sparking urgent action...

Thousands of anti-racism protesters have taken to the streets across the United Kingdom to counter a spate of far-right rallies planned to target immigration...

A renowned British crocodile expert has been jailed for 10 years and five months in Australia, after admitting to sexually abusing dozens of dogs,...

US President, Joe Biden has said he is not confident there will be a peaceful transition of power if Donald Trump loses the presidential...

Two people have died and others remain trapped after a hotel collapsed in a village in the heart of Western Germany’s Mosel wine-growing region. There...

President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of launching "another major provocation," after defence officials said around 300 Ukrainian troops crossed into Russia's Kursk region...

Democracy and Development Fellow in Public Health at the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Kwame Sarpong Asiedu has highlighted the underlying issues fueling racial...

An American woman who was found chained to a tree "screaming" in a forest in the western Indian state of Maharashtra had blamed her...

Ghanaians in the United Kingdom are stranded and unable to leave their homes for fear of being attacked by anti-immigration protesters demonstrating across the...

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, choosing a progressive policy champion and a plain speaker...

Stock markets in Europe remained unsettled on Tuesday despite a rebound in Japan which almost reversed record falls at the start of the week.London's...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country on Monday after hundreds of people were killed in a crackdown on demonstrations that began as protests against job...

A curfew has been imposed in Nigeria's second-biggest state, Kano, after protests against the high cost of living were "hijacked by thugs" who engaged...

At least three protesters were killed in Nigeria's Kaduna state on Thursday, Reuters reporters and eyewitnesses said, as demonstrators rallied across the West African...

The number of unlawful crossings by migrants at the US southern border has dropped for the fifth consecutive month, according to official data. US Border...

A tense standoff between angry youths and Police officers has erupted at the Kurudu Axis in Abuja, with protesters blocking the road using burning...

Iran has threatened “harsh punishment” for Israel, which it says was responsible for assassinating Hamas’s leader on Wednesday. Israel has not commented directly on the...

An American woman has been found chained to a tree in an Indian forest where she had been for 40 days, triggering a manhunt...

Three of the men accused of plotting the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks have entered into a pre-trial agreement, the US Department of Defence...

Donald Trump has questioned Kamala Harris' racial identity during a heated exchange at a convention for black journalists. Trump falsely claimed the vice-president and presumptive...

“We are protesting because we are hungry,” Nigerian activist Banwo Olagokun tells the BBC.He is part of the Take It Back Movement, one of...

The U.S. Embassy in Accra has announced a significant update regarding its visa services.Effective August 26, 2024, the Embassy will transition to a new...

A 53-year-old farmer, Bashiru Gambo, who attempted to offer his son for sale, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour by the...

Dozens of staff at the Singapore office of TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, have been hospitalised in an apparent food poisoning outbreak.Health and food safety...

Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to a statement from the group that governs Gaza, which blamed...

Fresh protests have broken out in the Venezuelan capital Caracas after the disputed result of the country's presidential election. Thousands gathered in the city centre...

A nine-year-old girl has become the third child to die after the Southport stabbings, Merseyside Police say.She died from her injuries in the early...

At least 56 people have been killed and dozens are feared trapped after heavy rains triggered massive landslides in the southern Indian state of...

The African Union (AU) has endorsed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s proposal for mobile money interoperability across Africa.The proposal, considered a crucial step toward...

Two children have been killed and nine injured in a knife attack targeting a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in a town in northern England...

Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of its investigation into the assassination attempt at his rally in Pennsylvania...

Fuel queues lengthened across major Nigerian cities on Monday after state oil company Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. faced problems supplying gasoline to local traders...