World’s third penis transplant successfully done in South Africa
A team of surgeons from Stellenbosch University (SU) has successfully performed a second penis transplant, making it the first medical centre in the world...
Trump at Vatican for talks with Pope
US President Donald Trump has met Pope Francis at the Vatican for a short private audience on the third leg of his overseas trip.He...
500 Islamic scholars pray for Nigeria’s ailing President Buhari
A total of 500 Islamic scholars from 14 districts of the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara have prayed for ailing Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari...
British police name suicide bomber, threat level raised to critical
British police on Tuesday identified the suicide bomber who killed 22 people, including children, in an attack on a crowded concert hall in Manchester,...
Trump to meet Pope and Italian leaders
US President Donald Trump is due to hold talks with Pope Francis and Italy's top leaders in Rome on the third leg of his...
Yahya Jammeh ‘stole $50m’ from state
The Gambia's former president stole "at least" $50m (£38.4m) from the state before he left the country in January, the justice minister has said.Yahya...
Manchester Arena attack: 22 dead and 59 hurt
Twenty-two people, including children, have been killed and 59 injured in a suspected suicide attack at Manchester Arena.The blast happened at 22:35 BST on...
Yahya Jammeh ‘stole $50m’ from state
The Gambia's former president stole "at least" $50m (£38.4m) from the state before he left the country in January, the justice minister has said.Yahya...
Hot video: Terrifying moment as sea lion yanks a girl into water
The first part of a now-viral video shows a sea lion swimming near a dock in Steveston, a seaside community on Canada’s western coast....
Ghanaian asylum seeker charged for raping woman at knife point in Germany
A Ghanaian asylum seeker has been charged with raping a woman at knifepoint in front of her boyfriend days after learning he was going...
Harvard student submits rap album as final thesis, graduates with honours
An Ivy League student will be graduating with one of the highest accolades after submitting a 10-track rap album for his final thesis, the first to do so...
PHOTOS: Obama lookalike gets mobbed for photos everywhere he goes
Jose Oliveira looks so much like former president Barack Obama that he can hardly go anywhere without people stopping him and asking for selfies.Oliveira,...
Fourth person in probable Ebola death in Congo: WHO
A fourth person has likely died from Ebola in remote northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said on Sunday, as the...
Cholera outbreak claims 315 lives in Yemen
A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen has killed 315 people since April 27, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday.The cholera infection...
Trump visits Israel amid tight security
US President Donald Trump is visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories, as he continues his Middle East trip.He flies in from Saudi Arabia, a...
South African men march against abuse of women and children
Hundreds of protesters, most of them men, have marched in the South African capital, Pretoria, over rising levels of violence against women and children.One...
Accused shooter allegedly poops on his arrest warrant
He’s accused of attempted murder, but it’s what allegedly did afterwards that’s raising a stink.Being accused of a crime is pretty crappy, but that’s...
Photos: 82 Chibok girls reunited with families in Nigeria
A group of the "Chibok girls" freed from Nigeria's Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families.The 82 girls, who were part of...
Combined wealth of Dangote, Adenuga, Otedola, Alakija, Danjuma can end extreme poverty in Nigeria
The combined wealth of Nigeria’s five richest persons, estimated to be about $29.9 billion, can end extreme poverty in the country, a report by...
Rape in India: Kerala woman castrates ‘rapist holy man’
A 23-year-old Indian woman has cut off the genitals of a Hindu religious teacher in the southern state of Kerala, claiming he raped her...
Macron arrives in Mali for visit to French troops
Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Mali to meet French troops, less than a week after his inauguration as president.
Mr Macron’s plane touched down at...
Beyoncé and Oprah land on Forbes’s richest self-made list
Forbes Magazine is well-known for chronicling the lives of the rich and famous. The magazine has released its list of America’s richest self-made women...
Mayor, journalists ‘mistakenly’ arrested at Tanzania bus crash victims’ school
23 people including Arusha mayor and ten journalists have been arrested during a visit to the school of the victims of the May 6...
Photo: Meet the 52-year-old virgin who has never kissed
A 53-year-old woman who prides herself as a virgin has revealed she has never kissed any man in her life.Thembisile Ntaka from South Africa...
Sudan’s Bashir declines to attend Saudi summit with Trump
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has decided not to take up an invitation from Saudi Arabia to attend an Islamic summit at which US President...
African teenager allegedly held captive and used as sex slave in Sydney
An African girl has been taken to hospital in Sydney after escaping from a house where she was allegedly held captive and repeatedly sexually...
Ghanaian asylum seeker wins case to stay in Canada
A Ghanaian asylum seeker who lost his fingers to frostbite while crossing into Manitoba from the U.S. on Christmas Eve has won his case...
Nairobi’s prettiest thug buried after police shooting
Police on Thursday arrested three men shortly after they had attended the burial of the suspected teenage gangster Claire Njoki Kiboi.Detectives raided the 18-year-old...
Girlfriend kidnaps groom from his wedding to another woman
A 25-year-old woman identified as Bharti Yadav, has kidnapped a groom from a wedding alter in Uttar Pradesh, India.According to NDTV, Bharti and the...
Prophet freed in a Congo jail-break
Gunmen from a Christian sect have stormed a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, freeing their leader and about 50 other inmates,...
The people selling canned air to China
Whether enveloped by the thick smog from factories or choked with invisible poisons from vehicle exhausts, many cities around the world are losing the...
Indonesia’s Aceh: Two gay men sentenced to 85 lashes
A Sharia court in Indonesia's Aceh province has sentenced two men to be caned in public for having gay sex.
The men were found guilty...
Inmate mistakenly freed wins release after living an upstanding life
A Colorado man who was sent back to prison after being mistakenly released was told by a judge Tuesday that he is a free...
Trump ‘asked FBI to halt Flynn inquiry’
President Donald Trump asked FBI chief James Comey to end an inquiry into links between his ex-national security adviser and Russia, US media report."I...
Meet the man who ‘brought back our girls’
In our series of letters from African journalists, novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani profiles the lawyer who brokered the release of 82 women...
Oxford student who stabbed boyfriend could be spared jail ‘because of her extraordinary talent’
Lavinia Woodward, an “extraordinary” Oxford University student who stabbed her Tinder date with a bread-knife, could be spared jail time after a judge said...
Uganda bans Dutch film for ‘glorifying homosexuality’
Uganda's censorship board has banned a Dutch film, The Dinner Club, after accusing it of "glorifying homosexuality" the Embassy of The Netherlands in Kampala...
Award-wining Mexican journalist assassinated
Mexican crime reporter Javier Valdez Cárdenas was assassinated Monday by an armed group that reportedly shot him while he was driving, according to both...
I tanned daily as a teen and got skin cancer at 25
Twenty-seven-year-old Brittany Winchester will compete at this weekend's Miss USA pageant as Miss Indiana.I first started tanning the summer I went to freshman prom...
ESPN Anchor suffered miscarriage on-air
Sports anchor Sara Walsh got personal about parenthood and loss in a touching Mother’s Day Instagram post that has struck a chord with many.“My...