Australia police, as part of counterterrorism operations, arrested a 16-year-old schoolgirl and a 20-year-old man in Sydney for funding ISIS. The identities of the two suspects...
Barack Obama of the United States and Raul Castro of Cuba went toe-to-toe over human rights issues even as they both pledged to set aside their...
Sensing that he may have lost the on-going presidential polls, Benin Republic Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou has conceded defeat to his businessman opponent Patrice Talon. ...
Sven Mary, lawyer to prime surviving suspect of Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam says he plans to sue a French prosecutor for breach of his clients confidentiality...
Authorities in Australia have taken delivery of two possible parts of the missing MH370 flight which went missing about two years ago. The two pieces of...
According to authorities, the pilot flying the ill fated FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 plane voiced concerns over weather before the crash in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don,...
Hours after a deal aiming to cut off refugee routes to EU came into force, about five boats carrying Syrians arrived Greece from Turkey. The arrival...
Sensing that the incumbent President Muhamadou Issoufou is expected to win a second term, the opposition in Niger is calling for a boycott of run-off election...
The deal by European leaders which will see Europe-bound migrants returned to Turkey has been criticised by Amnesty International with the body accusing leaders in Europe...
Salah Abdeslam the mastermind behind the Paris attacks and Europe’s most wanted fugitive has been captured by Belgian authorities after a raid on Friday. After four...
According to Russian officials, a passenger plane from Dubai carrying at least 55 passengers crashed on landing in the city of Rostov-on-Don with preliminary reports by...
Amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula, North Korean government led by defiant Kim Jong-un fired two medium-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea, US and...
Jason Dalton, 45, an Uber driver accused of killing six people last month has said the app controlled him ‘like a puppet’ forcing him to go...
A family in western Australia found a snake had sneaked into its garage, but was captured by one of nature’s trap-a venomous redback spider’s web. Jamii-Leigh...
Citing recent terror attacks, the Pentagon, United States military on Wednesday restricted its service members’ from travelling to five West African countries. The order limits unofficial...
Reuters, quoting military sources in Cameroon, is reporting that the country’s soldiers killed 20 Boko Haram fighters on Wednesday during a raid in northern Nigeria carried...
A Japanese journalist who went missing in Syria after entering the country from Turkey has appeared in a video which surfaced online. The Japanese journalist Jumpei...
Huge protests have erupted in Brazil as tens of thousands are calling for the resignation of Dilma Rousseff after she made her predecessor Luiz Inacio “Lula”...
According to a report prepared by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Denmark overtook Switzerland as the world’s happiest...
Real Estate mogul turned politician, Donald Trump is now more confident about picking the sole ticket on the platform of the Republican Party while warning of...
Otto Warmbier a 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in prison as punishment for allegedly trying to steal...
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump strengthened his lead in the race to pick his parties sole ticket for White House as he carpeted Marco Rubio in primaries staged...
France has said it will deploy a paramilitary force to be stationed in Burkina Faso in the event of fresh attacks by Islamic militants. This is...
As widely expected, the close confidant of Myanmar’s Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, known as Htin Kyaw, was chosen on Tuesday as the new president...
The Central Bank Governor of Bangladesh has thrown in the towel after hackers allegedly stole the sum of $81m belonging to the government from a U.S...
Not able to cope with growing influx of refugees and asylum seekers, Germany is offering to give cash incentives to Afghan refugees willing to return home...
Not fazed by strengthened UN sanctions hastened by U.S and China, the government of Kim Jong-un of North Korea has threatened to embark on more nuclear...
Russian President, Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian ground forces to pull out of war-torn Syria, but has not given details of the move. Russia has pulled...
A 34-year-old blogger Roy Ngerng has been slammed with libel against Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The blogger has been ordered to pay the sum...
Three men armed with sickles and sharp weapons attacked and killed a 22-year-old student while his wife was critically injured in a suspected “honour killing” by...
Authorities in Egypt have relieved justice minister Ahmed al-Zend of his duties after his controversial remarks about imprisoning the prophet went viral. “The decision to sack...
The Turkish capital of Ankara has been hit by a deadly car bomb attack, the second in weeks, killing at least 34 and injuring another 125...
The death toll from an attack by gunmen on a beach resort located in the Grand Bassam region of Ivory Coast has risen to 16 local...
The controversial comments of Egypt’s justice minister Ahmed el-Zend who remarked about imprisoning “the prophet” in an interview has landed him in hot soup. Moment after...
Emerging reports says gunmen have attacked a hotel in the beach resort of Grand Bassam in Ivory Coast, with at least five people dead in the...
A rally for Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, which was staged in Kansas City, Missouri, was interrupted severally by angry protesters- an occurrence which is almost becoming...
The continued implementation of the state of emergency laws by France has been condemned by thousands of protesters who gathered in Paris describing it as a...
A Tunisia based UN-backed Presidential Council of Libya has claimed power in the war-torn North African country as it has also called on the international community...
Tragedy struck early Saturday when fragments from a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft claimed the lives of a six-year-old Palestinian girl and her 10-year-old brother...
Another piece from the missing MH370 plane may have been found by a South African teen while strolling at a beach in Mozambique. According to Liam...
Evgeny Buryakov, a Russian spy who posed as a banker in New York City has pleaded guilty to espionage-related charges after court documents revealed that the...
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump was miffed when his rally staged in St. Louis was disrupted by angry protesters who were mainly of black origin. Police said...
It is now the second month of a strike by frustrated Palestinian teachers who are holding out for a pay rise demand they say was promised...
Angola’s President, Jose Eduardo dos Santos has said that he will step down in 2018, after ruling for 39 years, having ruled the country since 1979....
President Barack Obama of United States and his Canadian counterpart, Prime Minister Justin Tradeau, on Thursday, announced joint efforts to curb emissions of planet-warming gases. Mr....
Barring any last minute change of mind, former presidential hopeful, Ben Carson, is set to endorse Donald J Trump on Friday. The retired paediatric neurosurgeon ended...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised European nations for “unilaterally” closing Balkan routes for migrants as stranded refugees complain about their inability to continue their journeys further into...
Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has been ruled out of the running to become the next president of Myanmar. That much information was revealed...
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a former Brazilian president has been slapped with money laundering charges after Sao Paulo state prosecutors led an investigation against him....
A plot by ISIS to kidnap the Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak alongside two other ranking officers has been foiled according to deputy prime minister...