International

Yevgeny Prigozhin is a Russian oligarch dubbed "chef" to President Vladimir Putin by the Russian press. In 2002, he served caviar and truffles to...

As many as 165 unidentified bodies have been buried after a massive truck bomb attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday.At least 276...

Forty people have died and hundreds are still missing in California after six days of wildfires that have devastated swathes of countryside and destroyed...

An aircraft has crashed into the sea off Ivory Coast, shortly after taking off from the international airport of the main city Abidjan, with...

A rescue ship has docked in Sicily with 606 migrants picked up in less than two days off the Libyan coast.They are from about...

Global powers, including key US allies, have said they will stand by the Iran nuclear deal which US President Donald Trump has threatened to...

Partial results from Liberia's presidential election show former football star George Weah has taken an early lead.Figures from the National Elections Commission (NEC) put...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo walked for several kilometers in scorching heat this week after his motorcade got stuck in a major traffic jam.In an...

The US has announced it will withdraw from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), accusing the body of "anti-Israel bias".Heather Nauert, US...

President Donald Trump finds himself under immense pressure as he considers de-certifying the international nuclear deal with Iran, a move that would ignore warnings...

About 20 people have so been found guilty in Nigeria for involvement with the Islamist militant Boko Haram group at closed-door trials taking place...

India's Supreme Court has struck down a legal clause that permits men to have sex with their underage wives.The clause, which was part of...

Tropical Storm Nate is expected to impact Florida this weekend with rain and wind, even though the eye is not currently forecast to make...

Three US soldiers have been killed and two others wounded in an ambush in Niger near the border with Mali, the US Africa Command has...

FBI investigators were expected to interview Marilou Danley, the live-in girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, on Wednesday, authorities said.The interview was scheduled...

Nine-month-old David drops to his knees, crawls toward a bottle of milk on the counter and begins to whimper. A young lady picks him...

President Donald Trump has described the gunman who killed 59 people and injured 527 in Las Vegas on Sunday as "a sick man, a...

Kenya’s top university has been closed following unrest and allegations from students of police brutality. It is the latest sign of the deepening tensions...

Suspected grenades have been used in attacks on the homes of two opposition MPs – one of them the singer-turned-politician known as Bobi Wine...

Education campaigners in South Africa have criticised a school for suspending two pupils after their marriage proposal on the school grounds, reports the Sowetan Live.The...

International rights group, Amnesty International, says it has independently confirmed that 17 people were killed during clashes between Cameroonian security forces and pro-independence protesters.The...

An Australian teenager has died after being crushed by weightlifting equipment at a gym. Ben Shaw, 15, was attempting to bench press almost 100kg (220...

US President Donald Trump has told his secretary of state that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with North Korea over its...

Cameroon has banned public meetings and travel in a mainly English-speaking region ahead of a protest to demand independence for the area.The South-West region's...

Islamic State militants have released what appears to be an audio recording of their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.A speaker who sounds like the IS...

The proverbial game of chicken between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has only escalated in recent months, but amid...

At least 14 people have been killed and eight injured in an attack on a drug rehabilitation centre in the northern Mexican city of...

Women will be allowed to drive for the first time next summer in Saudi Arabia, the ultra-conservative kingdom announced Tuesday, marking a significant expansion...

A blind female Ethiopian lawyer has been named a joint winner of the 2017 Right Livelihood Award, also known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize.The...

Several dozen conservative Catholic scholars and clergy have charged Pope Francis with spreading heresy, a bold but perhaps futile salvo against Francis and his...

Former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in prison on Monday for sending sexually explicit messages to a 15-year-old girl, setting...

Sri Lankan authorities have arrested a man for allegedly trying to smuggle gold and jewellery weighing up to 1kg (2.2lb) hidden in his rectum.Customs...

North Korea’s foreign minister has accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country. Ri Yong-ho told reporters in New York that North...

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says being a traveling teacher has become "a way of life" as he takes up a post as visiting professor...

North Korea's foreign minister has accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country.Ri Yong-ho told reporters in New York that North...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been re-elected for a fourth term in federal elections, exit polls suggest.Her conservative CDU/CSU alliance has won 32.5% of...

26-year-old Irshad, will be living without his penis as his 30-year-old angry lover who lured him to a guest house in Kattipuram, India, after...

A Pakistani couple united in an arranged marriage over 24 years ago recently learnt that they were in fact of the same parents, SMACK...

How far would you go to save water?Well, for the head of a provincial government in South Africa, it seems there is no sacrifice...

At least 50 migrants are feared drowned after their boat ran out of fuel and capsized off the Libyan coast.The dinghy, which had been...