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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...

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...

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"...

President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has reiterated the commitment of his country to partner with the African Union to end...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday was met with silence when he congratulated the leaders of African countries on the continent's economic progress, telling them,...

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...

Togo will hold a referendum in the coming days to limit presidential terms, after parliament failed on Tuesday to agree the reform that 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...

In a series of unresolved murders in Uganda, the 21st body of a woman has on Tuesday been found in Entebbe, near the capital,...

Kenya's Chief Justice David Maraga has said that he and other members of the legal body which selects judges are "prepared to pay 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...

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has accused the ruling party of planning to remove presidential term limit as well as the security of tenure...

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...

Uganda’s State Minister of Health for General Duties disguised herself as a patient and caught two medical workers demanding a bribe for free government...

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 has insisted it will leave the Paris climate accord, despite reports that it may be softening its stance. Following a meeting of environment...

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...

The hideous and grotesque look of Benita Okereke has not made her warm disposition grow cold and hard. Rather she remains optimistic that God...

Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli and President of the National House of Chiefs, has reiterated the call on the Economic Community of West...

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...

Thousands of people have fled Ethiopia's Somali region following deadly clashes in recent days between ethnic Somalis and Oromos.The BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal looks at...

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...

The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested a 20 -year -old housewife , Aisha Isah , for allegedly throwing her two stepdaughters , Zainab...

A 37-year-old HIV positive man from Uganda was arrested for allegedly defiling his 11-year-old twin daughter.Salongo Christopher Kityo, a fisherman operating at Gerenge landing...

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,...

A young Nigerian girl has been arrested by the police for allegedly possessing human heads.The suspect, Chidinma Ihuoma from Mbirichi, Igbo state was  apprehended...

We reported earlier about the more than 100 young women who were kidnapped from a school in Chibok, north-east Nigeria in 2014, who will now be...

The United States has reportedly queried the inclusion of President Robert Mugabe's family on his entourage of more than 70 people to the United...

A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed in the main commercial hub in Nigeria’s south-eastern Abia state following clashes between the military and activists campaigning...

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...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has stated clearly that he cannot assent to an execution of the death penalty which is legal in the East...

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...

Opposition MPs in Kenya have boycotted the opening of the new parliament to protest against President Uhuru Kenyatta's decision to address it after a...

Togolese president, Faure Gnassingbe, has requested the cancellation of an Israeli-Africa summit scheduled for next month in the West African country, the Associated Press...