Media tycoon Robert Murdoch has become engaged to his girlfriend, his team has confirmed.
The 92-year-old has reportedly been dating retired Russian molecular biologist Elena...
Three West African countries run by military juntas say they will form a joint force to fight jihadist threats.
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso announced...
Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have declared their intention to establish a joint force aimed at combating the threat posed by jihadist groups within...
Senegal's government has announced that the country's presidential election will take place on 24 March.
The announcement follows tension in the West African nation after...
The World Bank Group has asserted its longstanding relationship with Ghana despite the passage of the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill...
No twerking. No drinking. No smoking. These are the rules which guide a new Christian nightclub in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, which features an eclectic...
Nikki Haley is suspending her presidential campaign, making Donald Trump the last Republican left in the race.
It comes after President Joe Biden and Trump...
Jeff Bezos has reclaimed the title of the richest person on Earth, surpassing Elon Musk, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index on Monday.
The Amazon founder’s net...
Peru's Prime Minister Alberto Otárola has resigned over allegations he attempted to use his influence to help a woman gain lucrative government contracts.
The...
A 62-year-old man from Germany has, against medical advice, been vaccinated 217 times against Covid, doctors report.
The bizarre case is documented in The Lancet...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for top Russian commanders over alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
Sergei Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov, an...
A student pilot and trainer have been killed after their aircraft collided with a passenger plane over Kenya's capital, Nairobi, police say.
The aircraft, belonging...
France has become the first country in the world to explicitly include the right to abortion in its constitution.
Parliamentarians voted to revise the country's...
The US Supreme Court has struck down efforts by individual states to disqualify Donald Trump from running for president using an anti-insurrection constitutional clause....
A UN team has concluded there are "reasonable grounds to believe" sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, was committed during the Hamas attacks...
The United States government has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa, along with other senior officials, for corruption and human rights abuses.
On Monday...
Children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief says.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency's visits over the...
Swiss voters have given themselves an extra month's pension each year - in a nationwide referendum focusing on living standards for the elderly.
The...
Armed gangs have stormed the main prison in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, releasing many inmates.
The vast majority of about 4,000 men held there have now...
Some 170 people including women and children have been "executed" in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso, a public prosecutor has said.
Aly Benjamin...
Flights at Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti’s capital have been disrupted for the second straight day by heavy gunfire nearby, as the Caribbean nation grapples...
The United States on Thursday cautioned that it might limit foreign aid to Ghana if President Nana Akufo-Addo signs a new bill criminalising LGBTQI+...
Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema has declared a national disaster to tackle the prolonged drought affecting the country.
Addressing the nation on Thursday afternoon, Mr Hichilema...