International

A Tanzanian opposition MP has been handed a five-month prison sentence after being found guilty of defaming President John Magufuli, The Citizen news site...

Children in South Sudan have been forced to watch their mothers being raped and killed, the UN says. A report by UN human rights investigators says...

Poor women in a southern Indian state have been offered free breast surgeries, including implants, for both aesthetic or medical reasons. The Tamil Nadu state...

An armed officer who was at the Florida school where a gunman killed 17 people last week stood outside the building during the shooting...

The people of Ovahimba and Ovazimba tribes in the Kunene and Omusati regions in Northern Namibia have an upheld culture that has defied western...

US evangelist Billy Graham - one of the most influential preachers of the 20th Century - has died aged 99. Graham became one of the...

US President Donald Trump has signed an order to ban bump-stock devices, which were used by a gunman who killed 58 Las Vegas concert-goers...

All Singapore citizens aged 21 and above will get a one-off “SG Bonus” of up to S$300 each as the 2017 budget came in...

A Nigerian bishop whom Pope Francis had fiercely defended has resigned after a five-year, sometimes violent, standoff with rebel priests and faithful who rejected...

Mensah, 28, was mourned Saturday at a funeral mass which recalled the characteristic selflessness that cost the young soldier his life. Our Lady of Mount...

Russia's foreign minister has dismissed as "blather" the charges levelled by the FBI special counsel against 13 Russians for election meddling. Sergei Lavrov said at...

New York police have arrested a former teacher and his twin brother after stockpiles of explosive materials were found at their home. Christian Toro, 27,...

A prominent Philippine evangelist who claims to be the “Appointed Son of God” was reportedly arrested in Hawaii with US$350,000 in cash and gun...

An Indian woman has died in an amusement park in the northern state of Haryana, after her hair got tangled in the wheels of...

Retired archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu announced Thursday that he had quit his role as an ambassador for Oxfam after the British charity...

At least 17 people are dead after a 19-year-old man opened fire at a high school campus in Parkland, Florida, police have said. The suspect...

An Israeli military court on Tuesday ordered the extension of a Palestine teenager’s detention by one month for slapping an Israeli soldier. In the court...

A mother has spoken of her relief after a private clinic in Gabon finally released her baby, who was held for months over an...

Pakistan has again banned Valentine's Day events and media coverage of them, after a court ruled the holiday un-Islamic for a second consecutive year. The...

The Chinese government says it is ready to support a plan by the African Union (AU) to establish a representational office in its capital,...

The Commonwealth has confirmed the successful readmission of Gambia into the global bloc. The West African country becomes the 53rd nation but fourth to rejoin. The...

One of US President Donald Trump's top aides has resigned amid abuse claims from his two ex-wives. White House staff secretary Rob Porter said "these...

Kenya has deported opposition supporter and lawyer, Miguna Miguna, following his role in the unofficial swearing-in of opposition leader Raila Odinga as "the people's...

Efforts by the ANC to unseat President Jacob Zuma tilted towards the end game on Wednesday as the speaker of parliament Baleka Mbete said...

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is to attend Friday’s opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, which are being held in...

At least 40 people have been tested HIV positive in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where an unqualified doctor had allegedly used a single syringe to...

Leading rights group Amnesty International has condemned Ghana's authorities for carrying out medical tests on the private parts of two male students accused of...

Israel on Sunday began warning thousands of African migrants that they must leave by the end of March, officials said, under a plan that...

Senior Democrats have warned President Donald Trump not to use a controversial memo as a "pretext" to fire the special counsel investigating alleged Russian...

The 68-year-old son of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro, Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart, has died in Havana after taking his own life, according to state...

Eleven people have been killed after a fire at a Japanese residential facility for people in financial difficulty. TV footage on the country's public broadcaster...

First Lady Melania Trump broke with long-standing tradition when she arrived at her husband's State of the Union address alone. Her office told reporters it...

A school district in Southern California says it's looking into allegations that a teacher told his history class that military service members are "the...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to keep the detention centre open at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Trump’s decision, which was announced shortly before...

Kenyan authorities shut down TV stations to prevent live coverage of a swearing-in event by opposition leader Raila Odinga, who boycotted last year's disputed...

An eight-month-old baby girl has been raped allegedly by her cousin in the Indian capital, Delhi. The girl is reportedly in a critical condition at...

The director of the CIA expects that Russia will target the US mid-term elections later this year. Mike Pompeo told the BBC there had been...

Kenya’s main opposition coalition the National Super Alliance (NASA) says it will press on with a planned inauguration banned by the authorities. There is tension...

Six of the BBC’s leading male presenters have agreed to take pay cuts after revelations over equal salaries. The BBC said Huw Edwards, Nicky Campbell,...

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has said he is ‘not afraid of sanctions’ ahead of his ‘swearing-in ceremony’ scheduled for Tuesday 30th January 2018. Odinga...