The judiciary, which is the last hope of the common man, has been hit with serious scandal in Ghana, a country regarded as being ahead of...
Widespread flooding and landslides in north-east Japan have forced more than 90,000 people to abandon their homes. The city of Joso, north of the capital, Tokyo,...
Tragedy struck in the Holy land of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as five of the Nigerians pilgrims who had gone to the country for pilgrimage died....
Though her mother is contesting for the same position, Chelsea Clinton, former first daughter of America is surprisingly one person that thinks Kanye West’s announcement that...
A British Airways plane bound for London has caught fire at Las Vegas airport, forcing the evacuation of 172 people on board on emergency slides. Airport...
As the refugee crisis leaves a scar on Europe, France has announced a 10 million euro ($11.16 million) emergency fund for housing, health and education of...
North and South Korea agreed on Tuesday to hold a further round of reunions of family members separated during the 1950-53 Korean-War next month, the South...
The burgeoning refugee crisis in Europe may have claimed its first high profile official. Unable to keep thousands of migrants off its borders, Hungary’s Defence Minister...
An Unknown number of people may have lost their lives in a mid-air collision involving two planes in Senegal. The Senegalese National Civil Aviation Agency had...
A council appointed by Thailand’s military rulers has rejected a controversial new constitution drafted after last year’s coup. A new committee must now be appointed to...
Germany’s coalition government has agreed to spend 6bn euros (£4.4bn) to support record numbers of migrants and other measures to deal with the influx. Critics at...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced the start of construction of a fence along Israel’s border with Jordan after calls for Tel Aviv to take...
An aircraft carrying seven people, including a French patient, went down off the coast of Senegal at 7:08 p.m. (1908 GMT) on Saturday. The medical evacuation...
Russia is providing “serious” training and logistical support to the Syrian army, Vladimir Putin has said, in the first public confirmation of the depth of Russia’s...
The first group of what are expected to be some 10,000 migrants has been greeted in Munich after an arduous journey through Hungary and Austria. German...
The Austrian chancellor has said his country and Germany have agreed to let migrants cross their borders from Hungary. Werner Faymann’s announcement came after Hungary began...
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin said on Friday he would vote against the nuclear agreement with Iran, lessening the chances that President Barack Obama can win enough...
A new report by AfrAsia Bank and New World Wealth says Johannesburg alone, known as the “city of gold”, is home to 23,400 millionaires. South Africa...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has reportedly said that his country does not want to take in large numbers of Muslims, in defence of Hungary’s response...
Guatemalan President Otto Perez has resigned, his spokesman said on Thursday, after becoming embroiled in a corruption scandal that has gutted his government and plunged the...
He’s maybe a year old, maybe a little older. Lying face down, his head to one side with his bottom slightly up — the way very...
Guatemala’s congress has voted to strip embattled President Otto Perez’s immunity, clearing the way for him to be prosecuted over allegations he masterminded a massive corruption...
Gabon is the latest country to become a member of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), after signing the Corporation’s Instrument of Accession and Acceptance of membership...
Pope Francis is to grant all Catholic priests the power to forgive women who have had abortions, in a significant softening of the Church’s stance on...
A West African migrant entered the Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco curled up next to a car engine and another was hidden behind the back...
A hurricane with winds of up to 120km/h (75mph) has hit the island nation of Cape Verde, off the coast of West Africa. The government grounded...
The fatal brain-eating amoeba has struck once again, this time claiming the life of a 14-year-old star athlete. Michael John Riley Jr. had been just days...
The European Union has called emergency talks on tackling the bloc’s escalating migration crisis. The EU presidency said interior ministers from all 28 member states would...
A mayor in Brazil is on the run after she was accused of siphoning off funds from the school system and running the town remotely through...
A 60-year-old man plunged headfirst to his death from the upper deck of a baseball stadium in Atlanta on Saturday, brushing past wires holding a protective...
The founder and chief executive of the Ashley Madison infidelity dating website, Noel Biderman, has stepped down. A statement released by the firm said his departure...
[one_half_last]Chad has executed 10 members of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram by firing squad, a day after they were sentenced on terrorism charges, security sources...
President Obama has revealed he was heartbroken when he learned a TV news reporter and a cameraman were shot dead during a live broadcast in Virginia....
Billionaire Donald Trump, a presidential candidate of the Republican Party, campaigned with serious issues bothering the American public, to the extent that even people in other...
Austrian officials now say more than 70 bodies, thought to be migrants, were in an abandoned lorry found on a motorway. They originally estimated that between...
A radio broadcaster was shot dead on Thursday by an unidentified gunman in the southern Philippines, police said. The victim is the third media professional to...
The list keeps growing in status. More important people are being linked to the cheating website. This time around it is the son of Hunter Biden,...
Zimbabwe’s veteran President Robert Mugabe was booed and heckled by opposition lawmakers over the deteriorating economy as he gave his state of the nation address to...
It’s never going to be easy cheating online again. Hackers calling themselves Impact Team are dumping the names of users of Ashley Madison site – a...
China stocks opened sharply lower on Tuesday, extending a selloff that has unnerved investors around the globe. The benchmark Shanghai Composite was about 5% lower in...
Joe Biden is much more likely to enter the 2016 presidential race than to decide against a run, a Democratic source who’s been in touch with...
Three Americans and a Briton who foiled a suspected terror attack on a train have received France’s top honour from President Francois Hollande. Mr Hollande presented...
The Bugatti as a car is a wonder on wheels itself, and when it was mentioned that there was going to be a plane of the...
The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, arrived in Nigeria on Sunday for a two-day official visit. Ban, who arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at...
The Guinness World Records has confirmed and recognized, Yasutaro Koide, Japanese, as the oldest person living (male) at the impressive age of 112 years and 161...
The train was speeding through Belgium when the man emerged from the train bathroom, shirtless with a rifle — possibly an AK 47 — slung over...
The No. 2 figure in ISIS, Haji Mutazz, was killed in an August 18 drone strike near Mosul, Iraq, a spokesman for the U.S. National Security...
Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga wants to be released from prison early to study the causes of ethnic conflict, he has told the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
After another war of words, and an exchange of fire across the world’s most fortified border, the two Koreas appear to be set on a collision...
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump took on an array of subjects and political figures during a lengthy interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday, including Hillary...
