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Leo Varadkar has been announced as the leader of the biggest party in Ireland's ruling coalition, Fine Gael.Mr Varadkar beat his rival, Housing Minister...

At least 15 children have died in South Sudan from a botched attempt to immunise them against measles, officials say.They were vaccinated with the...

Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe has begun a series of rallies across the country in a bid to win the support of young people...

Ghana's former President John Mahama has called the decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change...

Suspected al-Shabab militants killed a teacher and abducted another as they burned down a school late Wednesday in northeastern Kenya.The Kenyan MP from the...

Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris accord on climate change on Thursday afternoon – deriding it as bad for American...

More than 40 West African migrants died in the Sahara desert this week after their truck broke down in arid northern Niger, the Red...

U.S. President Donald Trump sought to insert himself into congressional investigations on Russia on Wednesday, urging lawmakers to hear from one of his former...

Kenya has opened a major new railway between the port city of Mombasa and the capital, Nairobi, 18 months early.President Uhuru Kenyatta said during...

A man who claimed he was missing his dead brother dug up his coffin and took him on a ride around town on his...

Saudi Arabia is to behead a deaf and visually impaired man to death for taking part in a protest, it has emerged. Disabled Munir Adam,...

US President Donald Trump called Germany's trade and spending policies "very bad" - intensifying a row between the longtime allies and immediately earning himself...

The decomposed body of a woman was discovered on Table Mountain in Cape Town on Tuesday morning, Western Cape police confirmed.Captain FC van Wyk...

One word was close to breaking the internet on Wednesday morning: "covfefe".It was an apparent typo in a tweet by US President Donald Trump,...

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega has died at the age of 83 following brain surgery this year.Noriega, who ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989,...

The White House communications director has resigned only three months after being hired by President Donald Trump. Mike Dubke, an experienced Republican strategist, was hired...

A fossil of one of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate...

A Chinese dating app for lesbians that has more than five million users has been shut down.The app, Rela, is no longer available in...

Germany's foreign minister launched a scathing criticism of Donald Trump on Monday, claiming the US President's actions have "weakened" the West and accusing the...

Indonesian police have named a controversial hardline Muslim preacher as a suspect in a pornography case.Rizieq Shihab is accused of exchanging graphic messages and...

BA chief executive Alex Cruz says he will not resign and that flight disruption had nothing to do with cutting costs.He told the BBC...

Presidential aspirant Peter Solomon Gichira has been charged with attempted suicide, malicious damage and creating disturbance at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)...

Golf star Tiger Woods was arrested on a drink-driving charge in Florida early on Monday morning, police say.Police recorded the arrest at 07:18 local...

The head of Palestinian Islamic courts on Sunday told judges not to grant divorces over Ramadan, fearing the month-long fast could spark rash words...

Nigerian police are searching for six children abducted from their school on the outskirts of the main city, Lagos. The abductors freed four other children...

South Africa's embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in the local media.The reports...

MI5 is to hold an inquiry into the way it dealt with warnings from the public that the Manchester suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, was...

A 14-year-old maid allegedly tried to poison her master because she was rebuked. Mr. Nasiru Akinlosotu, 63, a former medicine store operator escaped death...

South Africa's embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in the local media.The reports suggest deepening...

This birth announcement won't fit on your standard 5x7 greeting card.Adeboye and Ajibola Taiwo had tried for 17 years to start a family. Now,...

Sir Stanley Matthews remains one of England's most famous footballers and was known as the Wizard of Dribble. But he was also arguably the...

In the superficial, dating app-focused world in which we live, it seems like appearances are everything.Even if you have the most beautiful personality in...

Angry demonstrators in Brasilia have started a fire inside the ministry of agriculture and have damaged several other ministerial buildings.Brazilian authorities estimate around 35,000...

It wasn’t a test, but it wasn’t a real emergency broadcast, either.On Tuesday evening, TV viewers in parts of southern New Jersey saw a...

A federal high court in Ethiopia has sentenced politician Yonatan Tesfaye to six years and six months in prison for planning, preparing and encouraging...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg features in a long line of university dropouts who became millionaires after founding technology companies - Bill Gates and Steve...

Today Thursday, May 25, 2017 is the 54th African Union (AU) Day and Ghana joins the rest of the continent in commemorating the day.AU...

The youth are the centre of focus today as the continent marks the 54th African Union (AU) Day with ceremonies in member countries and...

Nigeria's acting President Yemi Osinbajo has extolled the virtues of hard work, while addressing civil servants.Mr Osinbajo, who is standing in for President Muhammadu Buhari,...

Today Thursday, May 25, 2017 is 54th African Union (AU) Day and Ghana joins the rest of the continent in commemorating the day. AU Day...