International

Nigerian police have arrested a 44-year-old woman for alleged theft of 15 children in the southern Rivers state.The police say the children were abducted...

At first sight it looks as if the bridge was being held up by a ceremonial ribbon.One simple scissor snip at the opening ceremony...

Kwasi Kwarteng, a long-time ally and political soulmate of new prime minister Liz Truss, has been named as the UK’s next chancellor.He takes over...

A sex worker at Lusaka, Zambia's capital has filed a lawsuit against her married client who she accuses of being responsible for her two months...

Two Russian embassy staff are among at least six people killed in a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital Kabul, Russian and Taliban officials...

A judge has granted Donald Trump's demand for a "special master" to oversee the case into his handling of classified materials.Mr Trump is being...

Two LGBT activists have been sentenced to death in Iran, rights groups say.A court in Urmia found Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani, 31, and Elham Choubdar,...

Russia has been forced to buy military hardware from North Korea as sanctions squeeze Moscow's ability to supply its military, US media have reported.According...

Shoji Morimoto has what some would see as a dream job: he gets paid to do pretty much nothing.The 38-year-old Tokyo resident charges 10,000...

Irene Gakwa’s last WhatsApp video call with her parents was filled with gentle ribbing. But beneath the banter were hints that something was off.When...

The skeletal remains of a female “vampire” were found in a 17th-century Polish graveyard — with a sickle across her neck to prevent her...

Psychologist Dr Rebecca Myers has faced some of the UK’s most twisted and dangerous sex offenders – and has nightmares about their sickening crimes.She admits years of...

Eight-year-old twins who were allegedly stabbed to death at their home in Ireland were then ‘thrown out the window’ during a heated confrontation with...

A Ghanaian man, Shadrack Kevin Darko, who decided to journey through the Libyan Desert to seek greener pastures in Europe, has disclosed the horrors...

Donald Trump has called President Joe Biden an "enemy of the state" at his first rally since the FBI searched his Florida resort for...

Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday upheld results declaring William Ruto winner of last month's presidential elections.Ruto, 55, won with 50.49% of the votes against...

Michael Jackson's ex-wife broke down in tears as she revealed she feels partly to blame for the singer's death. Debbie Rowe, 63, wept as she...

An airport baggage handler died after she was scalped in a horrific workplace accident after her hair got caught in a conveyor belt.Jermani Thompson,...

A plane hijacker who had threatened to crash his aircraft into a supermarket below has been arrested by local sheriffs amid claims the pilot had...

The UK's former ambassador to Myanmar and her husband have each been sentenced to one year in prison by the country's military authorities.Vicky Bowman...

A third person has died this week in Argentina from an unexplained type of pneumonia that has affected nine people in total so far.All...

The family of a father who was wrongly convicted of murder has been given a police apology 70 years after he was executed in...

A self-styled Ugandan prophet has been charged with assault, common assault and trafficking in persons.Prophet Kintu Dennis of Hoima Empowerment Church International was seen...

A leading pro-Taliban cleric is among 18 people killed in a blast outside a mosque in the Afghan city of Herat.Mujib Rahman Ansari died...

A 14-year-old girl, identified as Aaliyah Salazaar, was shot in the head while recording TikTok videos with her friends in Monte Vista, Colorado, the...

Tech enthusiasts around the world, and those gazing forlornly at a broken screen, are eagerly anticipating the release of the new iPhone 14 range.Apple has officially...

The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.The company confirmed his...

A man who stabbed his partner in the head during a four-hour long attack after an argument over a missing cigarette lighter has been jailed for more than...

Argentina’s vice-president has narrowly avoided assassination after a gunman’s weapon jammed as he aimed at her.Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was greeting supporters outside her...

Two guns were used in the shooting which killed Olivia Pratt-Korbel as CCTV shows the shooter running from the scene.Merseyside Police released the CCTV of the...

The Dubai-based airline Emirates will not be flying to and from Nigeria for the next 10 days.Its inability to repatriate money it was...

A family outing turned to tragedy as six relatives drowned at a beauty spot on Sunday, say reports.The incident in India saw two sisters...

A man, who identified himself as Mallam Umaru, has lost his two wives and five children after dining together in the Yabo Local Government...

Striking new satellite images that reveal the extent of Pakistan's record flooding show how an overflowing Indus River has turned part of Sindh Province into a...

A Saudi woman has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for her social media posts, in the second case of its kind this...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, has died aged 91.Mr Gorbachev, who took power in...

Russia has completely halted gas supplies to Europe via a major pipeline, saying repairs are needed. The Russian state-owned energy giant, Gazprom, said the restrictions...

A truck has spilled more than 150,000 tomatoes across a busy motorway in the US state of California, bringing traffic to a standstill.The splattered...

A 24-year-old Bailey Ennis birthed a bouncing baby boy in September 2021 with the help of a sperm donor.But what’s shocking about it is...

Supporters of a popular Muslim cleric have stormed Iraq’s Government palace after he resigned from politics.At least 15 protesters were killed in the clashes but many of...