International

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...

Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to cosmetics firm L'Oreal, has died aged 94, her family has confirmed.A statement said she had died at home "peacefully"...

Kenya's Supreme Court has blamed the country's electoral commission (IEBC) for its decision to annul the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta.The judges said the...

A strong earthquake has struck central Mexico, killing at least 44 people and toppling dozens of buildings in the capital, Mexico City, officials say.The...

Li Wenxing was starting a new life. In May, the young university graduate left his home in rural China on the offer of work...

Twenty people have been arrested on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar for alleged homosexuality, police say. The 12 women and eight men were picked up...

Social media platform Snapchat has blocked access to Al Jazeera content in Saudi Arabia. Snapchat said it was asked by the Saudi authorities to remove...

The US is considering closing its embassy in Cuba after diplomatic staff reported health problems which Washington blames on a "sonic attack".Secretary of State...

A 17-year-old boy with albinism has been found with his brain missing after he was brutally murdered in Mozambique.A local resident in Tete in...

Tunisia has abolished a decades-old ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims as the president seeks to secure equal rights for the country's female population."Congratulations...

A young girl detonated a suicide bomb in a mosque in northern Cameroon early Wednesday, killing at least five worshippers and wounding others.The girl,...

One of Africa's most prestigious universities is investigating how 300 students managed to get their degree results changed.Uganda's Makerere University discovered that the students'...

Eight people at a Florida nursing home that was left without power for days after Hurricane Irma have died.Police evacuated 115 residents on Wednesday...

North Korea has threatened the United States with the "greatest pain" it has ever suffered following new sanctions imposed by the United Nations.Pyongyang's envoy...

A boy and his parents have died after falling into a volcanic crater at Solfatara near Naples.What happened is still unclear, but Italian reports...

China and Russia have joined a unanimous UN vote to impose new sanctions on North Korea after its sixth and largest nuclear test.The council...

Landholders and ecologists in Australia are warning wild kangaroo levels have become unsustainable, urging Australians to eat more kangaroo meat. Government figures show there were almost 45...

TweetAt least 18 policemen have been killed in an attack on a convoy in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula claimed by so-called Islamic State, security sources...

At least 80 opposition protesters have been arrested after two days of demonstration demanding the departure of President Faure Gnassingbe.According to the Civil Service...

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has blamed witchcraft for his party’s failure to beat the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in its Western Cape stronghold,...

Tanzania’s mining industry will come under the spotlight today as two parliamentary committees are presenting reports to President John Magufuli, after investigating diamond and...

Chicago's Mayor has declared the city a "Trump-free zone", after the US president ended protection for the children of undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers".Introduced...

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to temporarily bar most refugees from entering the country, ruling that those who...

Internet access in Togo has been severely restricted as opposition supporters gather to protest against the rule of President Faure Gnassingbé.Some users say internet...

Former US President Barack Obama has attacked the Trump administration for scrapping his scheme to protect young undocumented migrants from deportation.The Deferred Action for...