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Peace Delaly Nicoue, the youngest person to sit the Baccalaureate exam in Benin this year, has passed with top grades. The shy 11-year-old told BBC...

The White House has not yet decided how it will implement the president's ban on transgender people serving in the US military. Mr Trump's surprise...

North Korea threatened a nuclear strike on "the heart of the US" if it attempts to remove Kim Jong Un as Supreme Leader, Pyongyang's...

Khorsheeda Khatun had been left with nothing -- then that too was washed away The 28-year-old fled her home country of Myanmar in January with...

US President Donald Trump has issued a challenge to Republican senators to rally behind their healthcare bill, on the eve of a crucial vote. "Now...

Two Canadian religious leaders have been found guilty of practicing polygamy by the Supreme Court of British Columbia (BC). The trial heard Winston Blackmore, 61,...

A controversial new book about the last days of former South African President Nelson Mandela has been withdrawn by the publisher. Mandela's family had complained...

A suicide car bomb has exploded in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 24 people, officials have told the BBC. At least 42 were...

Prince William and Prince Harry have recalled the “fun” way their mother brought them up saying Princess Diana was a “total kid through and...

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has quit, reportedly in protest at a shake-up of the communications team. Mr Spicer stepped down because he was...

A five-year-old girl was fined £150 by a council for selling 50p cups of lemonade to festival goers. The girl's father Andre Spicer said his...

Six teenagers from Burundi taking part in a robotics competition in the US have been reported missing, police say. Four boys and two girls -...

Thousands of Brits are feared to have been caught up in a deadly earthquake off the coasts of Turkey, Rhodes and Kos which has...

A Saudi prince has been arrested on the orders of Saudi King Salman bin Abdelaziz after videos were circulated on social media which appeared...

The State minister for Youth and Children Affairs, Ms Florence Nakiwala Kiyingi, says the failure by wives to respect their husbands is driving men...

US President Donald Trump’s eldest son, his son-in-law and his former campaign manager are to testify before Senate committees investigating alleged Russian meddling in...

Veteran US Republican Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer and is reviewing treatment options, his office says. His treatment may include a...

On Tuesday June 20 Mohammed bin Nayef, a powerful figure in Saudi Arabia's security apparatus for the past two decades and the next in...

US President Donald Trump met his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at a second, previously undisclosed meeting at the G20 in Germany earlier this month,...

US tech giant Apple has previewed forthcoming emojis, including one that depicts a woman wearing a hijab. More than 12 animated symbols were unveiled on...

The United States said Monday that Iran is continuing to comply with the terms of the nuclear deal that curbed Iran's nuclear program in...

Tanzanian police have detained a pastor after two worshippers drowned while being baptised in a river near Rombo in the north of the country. The...

A baboon in Zambia has tampered with the cables at a power station in the south of the country leaving 50,000 people without electricity. It...

An ambulance carrying South Africa's first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela caught fire as it was rushing him to hospital, his doctor revealed in...

At least one person has been shot dead while waiting to vote in an unofficial, opposition-organised referendum in Venezuela. Men on motorbikes killed a woman...

A Brazilian politician has accused left-wing protesters of physically and verbally abusing her wedding guests over her family’s support for President Michel Temer. Maria Victoria Barros,...

New revelations about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting last summer with a Russian lawyer are continuing to surface a week after the revelation rocketed the...

Ghanaian footballer Solomon Nyantakyi shocked the footballing world after he killed his mum and sister in Italy. The 21 year old who plays for Parma...

President Donald Trump has apparently dismissed news accounts of the latest revelations about a meeting between members of his presidential campaign and a Russian...

The Pentagon said Friday that US forces have killed Abu Sayed, the leader of ISIS-Khorasan, the terror group's Afghanistan affiliate. The "Emir" of ISIS-K was...

The US president paid the compliment to France's first lady, Brigitte Macron, as the two couples chatted in Paris. President Donald Trump arrived in Paris...

The son-in-law of Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos told Reuters news agency that a Congolese court has sentenced him in absentia to one...

A woman from Harlow who used a fake birth certificate to apply for a passport so she could bring her husband from Ghana to...

Somali authorities have arrested seven head teachers who they accuse of meeting al-Shabab militants. They are said to have discussed changing the curriculum at private...

Chuck Blazer, the former FIFA executive committee member who pleaded guilty to racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering, has died, his lawyers said on...

A group of Afghan school girls taking part in a robotics competition in the US have been granted visas to attend it, after their...

State officials in Nevada are considering emergency measures to deal with a lack of marijuana. Demand has been strong since recreational use was legalised on...

A jealous husband is now facing life in prison for chopping off his wife’s fingers because she refused to stop her education as he...

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison, court documents show. It...

President Donald Trump has been party to an eye-watering 4,000 lawsuits over the last 30 years, US media say. And now the mogul turned commander-in-chief has...