US tech giant Apple has previewed forthcoming emojis, including one that depicts a woman wearing a hijab.
More than 12 animated symbols were unveiled on...
An ambulance carrying South Africa's first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela caught fire as it was rushing him to hospital, his doctor revealed in...
At least one person has been shot dead while waiting to vote in an unofficial, opposition-organised referendum in Venezuela.
Men on motorbikes killed a woman...
A Brazilian politician has accused left-wing protesters of physically and verbally abusing her wedding guests over her family’s support for President Michel Temer.
Maria Victoria Barros,...
New revelations about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting last summer with a Russian lawyer are continuing to surface a week after the revelation rocketed the...
Ghanaian footballer Solomon Nyantakyi shocked the footballing world after he killed his mum and sister in Italy.
The 21 year old who plays for Parma...
President Donald Trump has apparently dismissed news accounts of the latest revelations about a meeting between members of his presidential campaign and a Russian...
The Pentagon said Friday that US forces have killed Abu Sayed, the leader of ISIS-Khorasan, the terror group's Afghanistan affiliate.
The "Emir" of ISIS-K was...
The US president paid the compliment to France's first lady, Brigitte Macron, as the two couples chatted in Paris.
President Donald Trump arrived in Paris...
Somali authorities have arrested seven head teachers who they accuse of meeting al-Shabab militants.
They are said to have discussed changing the curriculum at private...
Chuck Blazer, the former FIFA executive committee member who pleaded guilty to racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering, has died, his lawyers said on...
State officials in Nevada are considering emergency measures to deal with a lack of marijuana.
Demand has been strong since recreational use was legalised on...
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison, court documents show.
It...
President Donald Trump has been party to an eye-watering 4,000 lawsuits over the last 30 years, US media say.
And now the mogul turned commander-in-chief has...
Sixteen people are dead in the crash of a Marine Corps airplane in Leflore County, Mississippi, according to Fred Randle, county emergency management director.
Randle...
The judge who sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death has been captured and executed by ISIS militants, it is claimed.
Raouf Abdul Rahman,...
The former Northern Ireland footballer Philip Mulryne has been ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the Dominican Order.
Fr Mulryne, who is reported to have...
The Anglican Chaplain for Uganda's Parliament has been advising Christians who give their regular offering in shillings (the local currency) to use dollars and...
US President Donald Trump’s son has admitted meeting a Russian lawyer last year who he says had promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
But Donald...
US President Donald Trump has declared the G20 summit in Germany a “wonderful success”, despite his country’s isolated position on climate change.
In a joint...
The International Criminal Court on Thursday rebuked South Africa for not arresting Sudan's president on a genocide warrant when he visited Johannesburg in 2015...
Niger’s army has killed 14 civilians who were mistaken for militants of the Islamist group Boko Haram in the remote southeast, officials say.
The victims,...
President Trump warned Thursday that North Korea could face "some pretty severe" consequences after its defiant test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, but Washington...
The South Sudanese government has called on Tanzania to send Swahili teachers to the country as it introduces the language in school curriculum ahead of its...
Heavy rain and overflowing rivers in southern Japan have forced the evacuation of almost 400,000 people, public broadcaster NHK said on Wednesday.
"Rivers are bursting...
