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Australians decisively support same-sex marriage
Australians have overwhelmingly voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage in a historic poll.The non-binding postal vote showed 61.6% of people favour allowing same-sex...
South African snake pastor admits feeding people cockroaches
South Africa's notorious snake pastor Penuel Mnguni has fed cockroaches to two brothers in his congregation, alleging that the insects turned into cheese for...
FDA approves 'trackable' pill
US regulators have approved the first pill that can be digitally tracked through the body.
The Abilify MyCite aripiprazole tablets - for treating schizophrenia and...
Bill Gates commits $100 million to seek treatments for Alzheimer’s
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek...
May accuses Putin of election meddling
Theresa May has launched her strongest attack on Russia yet, accusing Moscow of meddling in elections and carrying out cyber espionage.
Addressing leading business figures...
Eight things that will happen in 2018, according to the man who predicted Brexit and Donald Trump
2018 is just six weeks away, and this man thinks he knows what the year will hold already.
Craig Hamilton-Parker, a self appointed 'psychic' has...
UK doctor ‘punches shark’ in surfing scare
A UK doctor says he escaped a shark by punching it in the face after the animal injured him in Australia.
Charlie Fry, 25, was...
Train crash 'kills 33' in DR Congo
A train crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 33 people, UN radio station Okapi reports.
It happened in Buyofwe in the province...
DR Congo's Kavumu child rape trial opens
Eighteen militiamen are on trial in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on charges of raping 46 children.
Some of the victims from...
Wife of Texas gunman Kelley describes abuse and death threats
The ex-wife of Texas church gunman Devin Kelley has said he subjected her to abuse and violence and threatened to kill her and her...
Three Chinese students injured in car attack in Toulouse, France
A driver has ploughed into a group of pedestrians near the French city of Toulouse, injuring three Chinese exchange students.
A 23-year-old woman was seriously...
Four charged for booing Grace Mugabe
Four people have appeared in a Zimbabwean court for allegedly booing First Lady Grace Mugabe, state-owned media reports.
The Herald says they were arrested after...
Christmas monster advert divides opinion
A giant snoring monster called Moz has split critics online, after it was revealed as the star of this year's John Lewis Christmas advert.
The...
Botswana police ranked Africa's best, Nigeria at bottom of global report
Africa’s best police service is that of Botswana despite being ranked 47th best in the world. This is according to the World Internal Security...
Yemen faces ‘world’s biggest famine’
Yemen faces the world’s largest famine in decades “with millions of victims” if aid deliveries are not resumed, a senior UN official has warned.
Mark...
North Korea responds: We're done listening to Trump's threats
North Korean officials were closely watching US President Donald Trump when he addressed the South Korean National Assembly Wednesday, but they say they weren't...
Man jailed for 27 years for plotting to murder US judge
An Indian citizen has been jailed for 27 years in the US for sending funds to al-Qaeda and plotting to kill a judge.
Yahya Farooq...
Woman fired for showing Trump motorcade the middle finger
A woman pictured raising her middle finger toward US President Donald Trump’s motorcade has reportedly been fired from her job over the photograph.
The image...
Gunmen storm TV station in Kabul
Gunmen have attacked a local television station in the Afghan capital Kabul, with reports that people have been killed and injured.
Witnesses say the attackers...
Pope Francis requests Roman Catholic priests be given the right to get married
Pope Francis has requested that Roman Catholic priests be given the right to get married.
The request applies to priests in Brazil, and is on...
Harassment scandal in UK politics spreads to Wales, Scotland
The scandal surrounding Britain's political class deepened Sunday with more allegations of sexual harassment, abuse of power and other misdeeds, including new claims involving a key...
27 dead in Texas church shooting
At least 27 people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a church during Sunday services, police say.
The attack happened at the...
Women ‘won’t have equality’ for 100 years – World Economic Forum
The equality gap between men and women would take 100 years to close at its current rate, an economic monitoring group has suggested.
It is...
Egyptian lawyer says raping women who wear ripped jeans is a man's 'national duty'
An Egyptian lawyer has come under attack after stating that women who wear ripped jeans should be raped.
Nabih al-Wahsh said that if a woman...
NYC attack suspect charged with terrorism
An Uzbek immigrant has been charged by US prosecutors with causing the deaths of at least eight people in New York by mowing them...
Cameroon Anglophone crisis forces thousands to flee into Nigeria
The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, had disclosed that thousands of Cameroonians from the restive Anglophone region continue to flee into neighbouring Nigeria.
UNHCR said on Tuesday...
'They used technology to turn me into a bloody dictator' – Faure reacts
Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has bemoaned the use of social media to portray him in a bad light as thousands of opposition supporters call...
Cameroon jails Prez Biya critic for 25 years
Amnesty International has condemned the decision of a military court in Cameroon to sentence an opposition leader to 25 years in prison.
Aboubakar Siddiki was...
Al-Shabaab behind new deadly twin car bomb attack in Mogadishu
Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab have claimed a deadly car bomb attack in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Saturday.A Somali journalist who specializes in reporting...
HIV-positive Italian jailed for infecting 30 women
An Italian accountant has been jailed for 24 years after intentionally infecting 30 women with HIV.Valentino Talluto is said to have had unprotected sex...
Burundi leaves International Criminal Court amid row
Burundi has become the first country to withdraw its membership from the International Criminal Court (ICC).It accused the ICC of deliberately targeting Africans for...
France sentences Equatorial Guinea VP
A French court has handed down a three-year suspended jail term to Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodorin Obiang for corruption.The 48-year-old, known for his...
Thai king cremated a year after his death
The funeral cremation ceremony for Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej has started in Bangkok, with hundreds of thousands of people lining the streets to...
Top US Republicans lambast Trump
In a surprise move, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake has said he will not run for re-election, citing "outrageous and undignified" behavior from the White...
Xi Jinping ‘most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong’
China's ruling Communist Party has voted to enshrine Xi Jinping's name and ideology in its constitution, elevating him to the level of founder Mao...
Soldier’s widow: Trump ‘made me cry’
Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, confirmed a congresswoman's earlier comments that President Trump had said her husband "knew what he...
North Korea’s illicit Africa dealings
Heroes' Acre looms on a hill overlooking Windhoek, Namibia's tidy capital.Under a brilliant blue sky, a series of granite steps slope upwards in a...
Is Social Media Contributing to Rising Teen Suicide Rate?
The bubbly 15-year-old dreamed of becoming a firefighter, a lawyer, or veterinarian. She was passionate about drawing and spending time outside with her dogs...
Obama and Bush decry deep US divisions without naming Trump
Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush have voiced concern about the current political climate in the US, in comments seen as a...
Photo: Dutch Prime Minister shuns convoy, goes to meet king on bicycle
Politicians the world over are known to be surrounded by security personals and in bulletproof cars, however, the Dutch have their own way of...