Luxury mobile phone giants Apple has turned down a court order to help FBI investigators to access data on the mobile phone belonging to San Bernandino...
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner, has urged China to immediately free a group of detained human rights lawyers. The United Nations Human Rights...
Washington Post’s bureau chief William Booth and the newspaper’s West Bank correspondent, Sufian Taha have both been released after they were briefly detained while they were...
One-time Secretary General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali who served the world body in a topsy-turvy five-year term which ended in 1996 died Tuesday in...
President Muhammadu Buhari and his Liberian counterpart, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, on Tuesday said both countries will ensure the conduct of free and fair elections in five...
One-time Secretary General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali who served the world body in a topsy-turvy five-year term which ended in 1996 died Tuesday in...
Authorities in Bahrain have detained four journalists in the Gulf nation with freelance journalist Anna Therese Day among those arrested. The journalists were reported detained after...
Top presidential candidate and main opposition leader Kizza Besigye who heads the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party was detained briefly days before general elections in...
Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert has begun his 19-month prison sentence at the Maasiyahu jail for bribery and obstruction of justice conviction becoming the...
President Kim Jong-un of North Korea is testing the resolve of world powers and the UN Security Council in particular after he ordered for the launch...
After successful completion of second round run-off elections between former prime ministers Faustin Touadera and Anicet Dologuele, vote counting is underway in the Central African Republic....
The foreign minister of Saudi Arabia Adel al-Jubeir has cast aspersions over the political process in Syria especially of late with UN brokered talks put on...
The rescue mission to pull out bodies from the rubble of a high-rise building which collapsed under a 6.4 magnitude earthquake which hit the city of...
As the forthcoming American Presidential elections draws even closer, the battle for White House has become tougher with Republican candidates trading sharp blows over foreign policy...
Retired chief of the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who was former top military intelligence official to President Barack Obama has called on...
China has hit back at the UK for comments made about the arrest and detention of a Hong Kong bookseller accusing the former colonial power of...
About 1,000 refugees putting up at a makeshift jungle camp in Calais, France have been given the marching orders to leave due to the fact that...
A mortar attack by militants has killed five UN peacekeepers stationed at their base located in Kidal, northern Mali. The attack claimed by Mali jihadist group...
Incoming reports from Turkish media outlets suggests that a five-storey building housing a cafeteria among others has collapsed in the country’s largest city of Istanbul. As...
A jail break plot attempt by Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and local al-Qaida branch to free 100 prisoners in Hyderabad has been foiled by Pakistani military police. The...
After lengthy talks in Munich, Germany, world powers have agreed to seek a nationwide “cessation of hostilities” in war-torn Syria with implementation expected to begin in...
At least 49 prison inmates lost their lives after a riot by rival gangs broke out in Monterrey’s Topo Chico prison. According to Nuevo Leon governor...
As part of a peace deal to calm frayed nerves, South Sudan President Salva Kiir has reappointed his biggest rival Riek Machar as vice-president in a...
The already frosty ties between North and South Korea is about to get even worse with the North moving to cut two key hotlines with the...
Six children who were heading for school lost their lives on Thursday morning when their minibus crashed into a truck in France a day after police...
The United States say it is disturbed by the role being played by Rwanda in the ongoing crisis rocking its East African neighbours Burundi. Reports say...
The death of 30-year-old journalist identified as El Hadj Mohammed who was killed at an opposition rally in Guinea has sparked a media blackout in the...
Tragedy struck on Wednesday morning when an Indonesian air force plane which was on a routine maintenance flight crashed into a home in the island of...
Zimbabwe is seeking for alms as it hopes to save more than a quarter of its population from starvation following the worsening drought situation which has...
At least three Malian soldiers lost their lives when the vehicle they were driving in hit a landmine in Mopti located in the central region of...
A Chinese baby, who was declared dead by doctors, miraculously breathed his way back to life moments before he was to be cremated according to a...
The murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni who was found dead in Cairo has obviously ruined the once friendly relationship between Egypt and Italy with the...
A senior U.S. defence official has said that the long-rang satellite shot into space by North Korea is “tumbling in orbit” and incapable of functioning in...
German police say at least two people have been reported dead and 100 left injured after a train derailed in the southern part of Germany. According...
Opposition parties in South Africa and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) are heading for a heads on collision over protest trailing the controversy of the...
Pandemonium struck at an Indian school in Bangalore when an escaped leopard hurt six people who were trying to capture it. Among those mauled in the...
Rescue efforts are still ongoing to pull out possible survivors with over a 100 people still thought to be trapped under the rubble of the collapsed...
North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket into orbit Sunday which Pyongyang say is part of a purely scientific space programme has been strongly condemned by...
The European Union has called on Turkey to allow the entry of thousands of Syrian refugees stuck at the border of Kilis after fleeing fighting in...
Anxious families affected by the 6.4 magnitude earthquake which hit the southern Taiwan city of Tainan collapsing a 17-storey building now have cause to be positive...
The East Asian country of North Korea has finally gone ahead to launch the controversial long-range rocket which Pyongyang says carries an earth observation satellite but critics...
An Australian woman who was kidnapped alongside her husband on the same day a deadly attack was recorded at a hotel in the Burkina Faso capital,...
North Korea is all set to go ahead with its proposed satellite launch despite warning from regional and other world powers. According to regional sources, the...
A frantic search for missing persons following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake which rocked the southern Taiwan city of Tainan collapsing a 17-storey building is underway. Rescuers...
The southern Taiwan city of Tainan has been hit by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake collapsing a 17-storey building with at least five lives lost and many...
Concerned authorities in South Africa are carrying out a major rescue operation following the collapse of a building at the surface of a gold mine which...
Australia is facing wide-spread criticism after a leaked government document which proposes new strict assessments for over 12,000 refugees in a bid to stop ‘extremism’ became...
A 27-year-old Italian actor Raphael Schumacher has been declared clinically dead by doctors after he was strangled when a hanging scene went wrong on stage. Schumacher...
An 11-year-old Afghan boy, Wasil Ahmad, who has been praised by many for leading security forces in battle against the dreaded Taliban, has been shot dead...
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has declared a state of emergency following a drought disaster which has hit rural areas of the country with an estimated...