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Weeping relatives and friends mourned the 20 children and three teachers who died in a horrific bus fire in Thailand at a funeral on...

Dozens of people are feared dead after a boat capsized in north-central Nigeria.The boat was ferrying more than 300 passengers on the River Niger...

More than 160 people are now known to have been killed by Hurricane Helene, one of the deadliest storms to hit the US in...

The United States Department of State will open online registrations for the Fiscal Year 2026 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery on Wednesday, October 2, 2024,...

Iran fired a massive salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday night, sending almost 10 million people into bomb shelters as projectiles and...

A lawyer, simply identified as Okechukwu, was killed in a tragic road crash that occurred along the Awka area of the Awka-Enugu Expressway in...

Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone. Carter, a Democrat who served in the...

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, on behalf of the Forestry Commission, has signed a Letter of Intent with the Government of the...

A clergyman from Osun State in Nigeria, Niyi Peter was arraigned on Thursday, September 26, 2024, and dragged before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in...

Eighteen people have been killed in a mass shooting in a remote South African town with a manhunt under way to find the perpetrators,...

Six people have died from an outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda, the health minister has announced.Sabin Nsanzimana said most of the victims were...

A zookeeper has been mauled to death by a lion in southwestern Nigeria after he failed to secure the locks on its enclosure when...

Major floods and landslides in Nepal have killed at least 100 people across the Himalayan nation, officials have reported.Dozens more were still missing on...

Clergyman and founder of Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo celebrated his 70th birthday on Friday, September 27, receiving two luxurious Rolls Royce Cullinan...

US Vice-President Kamala Harris has made a rare trip to the US-Mexico border as she seeks to blunt Republican attacks on immigration. Harris, who last...

Days to Tunisia’s election, Ayachi Zammel, a presidential candidate, has been sentenced to six months in prison for using “fraudulent certificates.” The Criminal Chamber of...

The model Naomi Campbell has been banned from being a charity trustee after a UK watchdog found charity funds were spent on luxury hotels...

The phone line of the Nigerian Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, has been compromised.This was made known in a notice issued on his...

Tunisian presidential candidate, Ayachi Zammel has been sentenced to six months in prison for falsifying documents, the second prison sentence against him in a...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is due to be arraigned in a federal courthouse on Friday to face five counts of criminal offences,...

A Hong Kong Court has jailed two journalists who led a pro-democracy newspaper after they were found guilty in a landmark sedition case last...

At least 46 people - including 37 children and seven women - drowned while celebrating a Hindu religious festival in eastern India, local officials...

The US is offering a $20m (£15m) reward for information leading to the arrest of an Iranian man accused of plotting to assassinate Donald...

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyer has offered a bizarre explanation for why 1,000 bottles of baby oil were found during raids on the disgraced rapper’s...

A devastating loss has shaken the Chicago creative community, as 35-year-old Ghanaian photographer and accountant, Ishmael “Kobby” Amuzu-Quaidoo was found dead in the Chicago...

The murder of a 19-year-old female student in an exclusive neighbourhood of Paris is fuelling new calls from the French right for tougher action...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $7bn (£5.25bn) loan to cash-strapped Pakistan. The country is due to receive the first $1bn of the...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated the need for comprehensive reforms in the United Nations Security Council, stressing the importance of a fairer...

Nigerian musician, Reekado Banks has welcomed his first child, a baby boy, on a day filled with bittersweet emotions.The singer shared that the birth...

A Bangkok man, Kittikorn Songsri, has been arrested for performing penis enlargement surgeries and filler injections on hundreds of patients without any medical qualifications.The...

US prosecutors have charged a man arrested near Donald Trump's Florida golf course with the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate. It comes a day...

Sri Lanka's new president has dissolved parliament to make way for a snap general election. Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolved the 225-member parliament in which his...

Police in Spain have arrested five people accused of scamming two women out of 325,000 euros ($362,000) by pretending to be Hollywood star Brad...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the war with Russia could end sooner than some people think. "I think that we are closer to peace...

President Akufo-Addo has urged global leaders to take immediate action against the severe impacts of climate change, particularly in Africa.Speaking at the UN General...

Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the jihadis struck just before dawn prayers.They killed dozens of students at an elite police training academy,...

The US is planning to ban certain hardware and software made in China and Russia from cars, trucks and buses in the US due...

At least 492 people have been killed in intense and wide-ranging Israeli air strikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, the country’s health ministry says, in...

At least 30 decomposing bodies have been found on a boat off the coast of Senegal, military authorities say. The navy was informed of a...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have apprehended a 38-year-old man, Okafor Ifeanyi Anthony, at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport...