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Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi announced during a trip to Vatican City that the Pope planned on visiting the southern African country next year, to...

Two sisters have died in Somalia from complications that arose after undergoing female genital mutilation, according to Hawa Aden Mohamed, who campaigns against the...

Hurricane Florence, which is nearing the US East Coast, could kill "a lot of people", officials warn.The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) says storm...

More than 3,600 children in Germany were assaulted by Roman Catholic priests between 1946 and 2014, a leaked report has revealed.The study was commissioned...

The mortal remains of the late United Nations (UN) Secretary-General will be laid to rest today at the Military Cemetery in Accra.The three-day state...

Landlords in the West are offering free rent in return for sex, an investigation from BBC Inside Out West has found.The Ministry of Justice...

An Indian man who suspected his wife of cheating hacked off her head and carried it to the police station to confess to her...

Boris Johnson has attacked Theresa's May's Brexit plan, saying she had "wrapped a suicide vest" around the British constitution and "handed the detonator" to...

Some unexpected visitors have overstayed their welcome at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport: rats.KIRO 7 reported Thursday that over 120 active construction projects at the air...

A Chinese national identified as Liu Jiaqi has been deported by Kenyan authorities after a racially abusive video went viral on social media in...

In a historic verdict, India’s Supreme Court ruled that gay sex is no longer a criminal offence in the country.The ruling overturns a 2013...

US President Donald Trump plans to lead a meeting of the heads of state of the United Nations Security Council on Iran in late...

Efforts to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement as a three-country pact are due to resume Wednesday when Canada and the US sit...

An explosion at a South African munitions depot in Somerset West, near Cape Town, has left at least eight people dead, but authorities are...

A court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for violating a state secrets act while investigating violence against...

There has been an outcry in Tanzania after a teenager was allegedly beaten to death by a teacher who accused him of stealing, AFP...

Chancellor Angela Merkel left Germany on Wednesday morning for a multi-day diplomatic mission which will take her to the West African states of Senegal,...

A group supporting Nigeria’s 75-year-old President Muhammadu Buhari has rubbished a claim by his US counterpart Donald Trump who reportedly described him as “lifeless”.The...

US President Donald Trump reportedly told his aides he never wanted to meet someone as "lifeless" as Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari again.Trump's remarks came...

A worker in Australia has been paid more than 100 times their normal salary because of a decimal point in the wrong place.The worker...

Pope Francis has refused to respond to claims by a former Vatican diplomat, who has called for him to resign.Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano also...

Spanish police have said more than 100 African migrants managed to force their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco when they...

US First Lady Melania Trump will travel to Africa later this year, although it is not clear where or when she plans on visiting...

Sunday marked the World Photography Day and as the day is set aside to measure progress made so far in the industry and as well...

A woman who punched a man when he grabbed her genitals twice in a club says she does not endorse violence but is proud...

US special counsel Robert Mueller has recommended a prison sentence of up to six months for former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos.Mr Mueller, head...

Pope Francis is on the side of victims of more than 300 "predator" priests in the US accused of abusing children in one state,...

Katie Stubblefield was only 18 when she was severely injured by a self-inflicted gunshot wound.Her life was saved in hospital, but the young woman...

A 2-year-old boy from Sukabumi, Indonesia, has become so addicted to smoking that he smokes up to 40 cigarettes a day.Rapi Ananda Pamungkas started...

Indian tourist hotspot, the state of Kerala has been struck by heavy monsoonal rains which has led to unprecedented flash flooding in the area.At...

A Taiwanese tourist has died after being bitten in the chest by a hippo he was trying to photograph in Kenya.Chang Ming Chuang, 66,...

Lizzie Neville is an 'end-of-life doula' who helps people prepare for death.Doula is a term traditionally associated with childbirth, describing someone who helps a...

The eastern part of Burkina Faso was on Saturday again attacked by a jihadist.Five gendarmes and one civilian were killed in a mine explosion...

The death of a 23-year-old student, who killed herself two months after she alleged she was raped has renewed anger over sexual violence against...

An airline employee who stole an empty passenger plane from Seattle airport has crashed on a nearby island.Authorities said the man had made "an...

Dozens of children, most believed to be under the age of 10, have been killed after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a school bus...

Argentina’s senate has rejected a bill which would have legalised abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. After a marathon debate, 38 senators voted...

During her last two weeks of life, Aurelia was often distressed and had self-harmed."I'm stuck in my own body, my own head, and I...

The remains of a young boy have been found at a remote desert compound in New Mexico, police say.They made the announcement the day...

UK law says that you can't buy or sell dog meat, but if you humanely kill a dog you own, you can eat it.But...