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A Nigerian governor has created a new role for his sister - as commissioner for happiness. Rochas Okorocha unveiled the post during the swearing-in of...

The video shows two women hugging and kissing one another while dancing together, at what appears to be an engagement party. A number of people...

To mark the 25th anniversary of text messages, Sky News has caught up with Neil Papworth - the man who sent the very first...

US President Donald Trump will unilaterally recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, senior administration officials say. But the officials said Mr Trump would not immediately move...

The Swiss government has announced that it will return $320m (£240m) of the money allegedly stolen by Nigeria's late military ruler Sani Abacha. The money...

Reports from Yemen say ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed in fighting with his former allies. Media controlled by the rebel Houthi movement quoted...

South Africa's corruption watchdog has found officials misused millions of dollars during Nelson Mandela's funeral four years ago. According to the report, 300m rand ($22m;...

Husbands who attempt "instant divorce" could be sentenced to three years in prison under draft legislation being considered in India. The traditional practice involves a...

Former First Lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe has reportedly filed for divorce from her 93-year-old husband Robert Mugabe after he was ousted as the...

An Egyptian lawyer has been sentenced to three years in prison for saying that women who wear ripped jeans should be raped in punishment. Nabih...

Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has replaced two ministers, two days after announcing his cabinet. Critics said the original line-up showed Mr Mnangagwa had no...

A hospital in the Indian capital Delhi has fired two doctors for mistakenly declaring a newborn dead. The doctors at the privately run Max Hospital...

Liberia is in the thick of uncertainty after its Supreme Court ruled in November that a presidential run-off vote cannot proceed until a complaint of fraud and irregularities...

The family of former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq say they do not know where is after he was deported from the United Arab...

An Australian MP has proposed to his partner during a parliamentary debate on legalising same-sex marriage. Tim Wilson's proposal to Ryan Bolger, who was sitting...

The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries (OFM) Worldwide, Apostle Suleman, took to social media to disclose that he just increased his tithe from...

The new slave trade-human trafficking in Libya is being carried out by many nationalities, including Nigerians and Ghanaians, according to a Cameroonian returnee, who...

Fifteen Ghanaian prisoners have been beaten to pulp in a prison in Libya for possessing phones. The fifteen were identified and subjected to serious beatings...

  Police in India say they have arrested a man whose smelly socks caused a dispute between him and fellow passengers on a bus. They told...

Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Theresa May to focus on "terrorism" in the UK after she criticised his sharing of far-right videos. "Don't focus...

A Bosnian Croat war criminal has died after drinking poison during an appeal hearing in The Hague. Slobodan Praljak, 72, died in hospital, with the...

Harun Ahmed is one of thousands of young Ethiopians who have attempted the journey across the Sahara to Libya - and from there to...

Kenya’s main opposition leader, Raila Odinga has promised supporters that he would be sworn-in as president on December 12. The announcement comes shortly after the...

Why won't Meghan Markle be known as Princess Meghan when she ties the knot with Prince Harry next year? The brutal answer is that, by...

The home of the founder of Nigeria's Islamist militant group Boko Haram is to be turned into a museum, in the hope it will...

Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in for a second term as president of Kenya at a ceremony in the capital, Nairobi, boycotted by the...

Nigeria's government plans to write to 500 wealthy Nigerians with property and trusts abroad, urging them to come clean about their tax status or...

Australian police have arrested a man they allege was planning to carry out a terror attack during New Year's Eve celebrations in Melbourne. The 20-year-old...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took the world by storm on Monday when it was announced that the famous duo were engaged and plan to wed in...

"The taste of stockfish is life... We can't cook without stockfish." That's the verdict of women at the bustling Onyingbo market in Nigeria's commercial capital,...

French President Emmanuel Macron starts his first tour of Africa on Monday. He is to visit Ghana, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire in an...

Zimbabwe has officially declared 21 February to be Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day, thereby making the former president's birthday a public holiday, the Herald...

Prince Harry is to marry his American actress girlfriend Meghan Markle. Harry, fifth in line to the throne, will marry Ms Markle next spring and...

Libyan authorities have launched a formal investigation into slave auctions in the country following an exclusive CNN report earlier this week, the government said...

US magazine publisher Time Inc. will be bought by rival media company Meredith Corporation for $2.8bn (£2.1bn). The deal is backed by the billionaire brothers...

As a young priest, the Rev. Fidelis Mukonori collected evidence of atrocities during Zimbabwe's brutal civil war. The reports filtered to Robert Mugabe, then...

The Borno Government says plans are on the way to convert the house of the former leader of Boko Haram sect, Mohammed Yusuf, to...

A man was reportedly arrested for incest and sexual battery of a victim ages 12-17. 39-year-old Willie Edward Griffin has been in-and-out of jail for...

A South African court has increased Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius’s jail sentence for killing his girlfriend to 13 years and five months. Prosecutors had argued...

A local Japanese politician has been criticised by lawmakers for trying to bring her baby to a council session. Yuka Ogata said she wanted to...