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...
The police in Chicago are now investigating an apparent homicide after it found six dead bodies inside a home in the city’s South Side. According to...
The murder of Guilio Regeni an Italian PhD student of the Cambridge University now clouds the relationship between Egypt and Italy. Reports say Regeni who worked...
In the face of mounting challenges posed terrorists, especially Nigeria’s Boko Haram, President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday in London, pleaded with the international community to give...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday called on the international community to help end the turmoil in Libya, warning that it was creating a “strategic time bomb”...
U.S. senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul has unceremoniously bowed out of the race for the White House after he suspended his campaign for the 2016 presidential...
Tension in Eastern Asia is about to boil over following Japan’s decision to put its military on alert following North Korea’s plan to launch a satellite...
Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh, can now heave a sigh of relief as reprieve has come his was following a decision by a Saudi Arabian court which...
Pope Francis, the leader of Catholic Church worldwide, is set to make his first-ever big screen debut, as he has been lined-up to play the role...
A prominent chief prosecutor in Zimbabwe has appeared in court for allegedly dropping charges in a case against people accused of planning to bomb President Robert...
A supposedly peaceful protest by workers against the privatisation of Pakistan’s national carrier claimed the lives of two workers when a clash with police ensued. According...
Mouthy billionaire estate tycoon turned politician, Donald Trump, was defeated by fire-brand conservative Senator Ted Cruz in Iowa as the first state votes to chose a...
A 36-year-old Scottish tourist riding a male elephant has been reportedly killed by the animal after it got angry. Reports say the tourist who was on...
The Middle-East Asian country of Jordan may have reached it tethers end due to the unending influx of refugees into the country from neighbouring war-torn Syria....
A number of African countries are planning to withdraw their membership of the International Criminal Court following claims that the continent is constantly targeted by the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday received the Prime Minister of Italy who is on an Official visit to Nigeria, at the State House, Abuja. Photos: Courtesy...
Hard-working Zimbabwe farmer Phillip Rankin has been sent packing from his farm after claims by a British doctor that the disputed expansive farmland is his. Reports...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in Addis Ababa challenged fellow African leaders to engage decisively with the people and government of South Sudan and Burundi to...
The growing influx of migrants into European countries has continued to heighten tension leading to arrests and violence in the UK and Sweden. Over the weekend,...
A Turkish news agency reports that at least 33 people have lost their lives following a boat mishap in the Mediterranean Sea involving migrants from Myanmar,...
Elephant poachers in Tanzania shot and killed a British helicopter pilot Roger Gower who had been tracking poachers at the Maswa Game Reserve. The conservation charity...
Sweden has come under heavy criticism from rights groups days after the Swedish interior minister Anders Ygemen revealed that as many as 80,000 failed asylum-seekers face...
According to Donita Cuzma of the British Columbia Coroners Service, at least five people have been reported dead after an avalanche struck near McBride, British Columbia...
In a case that some may term as unheard of, a Chicago police officer, Robert Rialmo is planning to file a law suit against the family...
French and British journalists among 17 arrested in Burundi crackdown Tension continues to be on the high in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, which has been...
Years after fatally stabbing a South Korean university student at a Seoul Burger King restaurant, a Central District Court in the capital of South Korea sentenced...
The government of Morocco says it has agreed to accept its citizens who have failed to be admitted as refugees in European countries such as Norway,...
After initially waving aside North Korea’s claim of testing a hydrogen bomb, the U.S. says it now has cause to believe that the Asian country actually...
The spate of dangerous sea crossing by desperate Asian descents especially from war-torn countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan seeking refuge in Europe has claimed the...
Activists in Syria have called on Syrian opposition to boycott peace talks scheduled for Friday in Geneva via its #DontgotoGeneva campaign. The activists are using Twitter...
The Swedish interior minister, Anders Ygemen has revealed that as many as 80,000 failed asylum-seekers face expulsion from the Scandinavian country. Ygemen also informed that in...
Former President of the Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo will be standing for trial as he faces allegations for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court...
An attempt by ISIS militants to infiltrate a residential compound near a strategic air base in western Anbar province of Iraq was thwarted by security forces...
in from Ali Smart . . . The anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration received a boost on Wednesday, as the European Union pledged to...
Despite protest by international human rights organisations, the Danish parliament has passed a bill considered to be detrimental to refugees. The law in-the-making is a...
The police in Senegal have gone on an overdrive following the arrest of 900 people in an attempt to foil possible militant attacks that happened in...
Iran’s continued execution of juveniles over the last 15 years has been slammed by rights group, Amnesty International. According to the group, dozens of juveniles have...
Pandemonium struck at a home for asylum seekers younger than 18 when a boy stabbed a refugee worker to death at a refugee centre which is...
With just only 48km from achieving his goal of reaching Antarctic on a solo attempt, 55 year-old British explorer Henry Worsley has collapsed and died of...
Authorities in China have released and deported Swedish rights activists Peter Dahlin who was made to admit his wrongdoing on Chinese TV. 35 year-old Dahlin was...
Eastern Asia is the latest to be hit by extreme weather conditions following the death of 50 people in Taiwan with at least 60,000 tourists stranded...
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s media centre has released a video showing the last images and statement of the terrorists that took part...
