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Former US Vice-President and lifelong Republican Dick Cheney has confirmed he will vote for the Democrats' Kamala Harris in November's presidential election.Mr Cheney, seen...

The colossal asteroid known as "God of Chaos" might be on a collision course with Earth with an arrival date of Friday the 13th,...

Donald Trump's sentencing in his Manhattan hush money criminal trial has been postponed until after the November election. Judge Juan Merchan on Friday delayed the...

The US Embassy in Ghana has announced the introduction of a new pre-screening process aimed at enhancing the efficiency of immigrant visa processing.Starting from...

At least 17 students have been killed and 14 injured following a fire in an elementary school dormitory in central Kenya. The inferno occurred late...

Marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei ran in the Paris Olympics last month. This week, her boyfriend doused her with petrol and set her ablaze, police said...

Burkina Faso’s junta administration has unveiled a new generation biometric passport that no longer carries the insignia of the Economic Community of West African...

A 300-level student of Philosophy at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ogun State in Nigeria, Ayomide Adeleye, has been arrested over the kidnap and...

In a tragic turn of events, a 300-level student from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Christiana Idowu, who was kidnapped between...

The man who had been chief engineer at South Africa’s state-owned passenger rail company has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for faking...

Two brothers from Nigeria who targeted a 17-year-old in a sextortion scam have been sentenced to 17 years and six months in jail in...

A financial statement published by the World Bank has placed Nigeria as the third largest debtor to the Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) as...

The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended Dr. Idara Bassey, who was wanted in connection with the death of a 36-year-old woman during a...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in recognition of his...

President Akufo-Addo and Chinese President, Xi Jinping have announced the elevation of China-Ghana relations to a strategic partnership.The announcement was made during a meeting...

Spotify has won a long-running court case, in which it was accused of streaming Eminem's music without permission.The case was launched in 2019 by the...

Burkina Faso has launched new biometric passports without the logo of West Africa's main political and economic bloc on their cover, further signalling its...

Nigerians have been hit by a double whammy of chronic fuel shortages and a hike in prices by the state-owned oil company. The Nigerian National...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered up to 30 officials to be executed over their alleged failure to prevent massive flooding and landslides in...

A daughter of the former South African President Jacob Zuma and the king of Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, have become engaged during a traditional ceremony...

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has been injured in the leg in a confrontation with a policeman in uniform, his personal assistant has told...

A British national has said he is at a loss as to why the Nigerian police have accused him of planning to overthrow Nigeria’s...

Afrobeats star, Divine Ikubor known as Rema, has generously donated a total of 105 million naira to various departments of the Christ Embassy church...

A 19-year-old self-proclaimed native doctor, Timothy Dauda, has been arrested in Edo State for shooting his client to death while testing a bulletproof charm...

A major fire broke out at a historic church in northern France early on Monday, September 2, with its bell tower collapsing as a...

The Edo State Police Command has said it has arrested a 19-year-old self-acclaimed native doctor over the death of his client.The native doctor, who...

Tragedy struck at Umueze Ibeku community, a Abia State in Nigeria, early Sunday morning, when a middle-aged man identified as Lawrence Uzor, plucked out...

A trained tiger handler has been hospitalised with injuries to her arm after being attacked by one of the animals at an Australian theme...

Indonesia plans to sign business deals worth $3.5 billion with African countries as it hosts the second Indonesia-Africa Forum in the resort island of...

Brazil's Supreme Court will vote on Monday on whether or not to uphold a ruling to ban social media platform X, formerly known as...

After being hounded over her nationality and forced to drop out of the Miss South Africa contest, Chidimma Adetshina has been crowned beauty queen...

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has triggered a heated debate by saying she wants to keep the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower after the...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi vaccine...

A global network has fleeced students out of tens of thousands of pounds for worthless visa documents they hoped would enable them to work...

It was the image that made Titanic's wreck instantly recognisable - the ship's bow looming out of the darkness of the Atlantic depths.But a...

Israel’s military said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages killed by Hamas militants in Gaza – including an Israeli-American captive – dealing...

US rapper, Fatman Scoop has died aged 53 after collapsing at concert on Friday in Connecticut, his representative has told the BBC.He was halfway...

A Nigerian woman based in Canada, Amaka Sunnberger, is under probe for threatening to poison Nigerians of Yoruba and Benin extractions.A representative of the...

A recent report has revealed that between July 2023 and June 2024, Nigerians paid N1.048 billion in ransom to kidnappers.The report by SBM Intelligence...

NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother were fatally struck by a suspected drunken driver while riding bikes on a New Jersey roadway, officials...