Google has come to Apple’s defense after the luxury phone making company denied the FBI allowance into the iPhone 5C of the San Bernardino shooter–under the...
Weeks after it launched a long range missile amid calls for it not to, North Korea is set to be hit by new expanded sanctions signed...
The elections in Uganda which is about to be wrapped up have been marred by alleged rigging in favour of the incumbent President Museveni and the...
Tension is beginning to rise in Liberia, as the country’s central bank confirmed Thursday that it has appointed the son of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as...
President Muhammadu Buhari as part of efforts to improve Nigeria’s relationship with other countries today hosted members of the diplomatic corps in the country at the...
A 15-year-old British schoolboy has been arrested at his Glasgow home for allegedly attempting to hack into FBI computer networks. Reports say operatives of the FBI...
For illegally encroaching on government land in eastern India after a roadside temple was built in his honour, a court has served a Hindu god with...
Long-serving President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has hinted that he intends to contest the next election in 2018 despite the fact that his party would choose...
The Turkish city of Ankara was rocked by a deadly explosion which left at least 28 people dead and 61 other wounded when a car bomb...
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...
