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43 killed in Algeria wildfires – Police

Algerian police say at least 43 people are now known to have died in wildfires that raged for days in the north of the...

Kenya election: Odinga submits truckload of evidence

Kenyan politician Raila Odinga ferried cartons of paperwork in a truck as he files a legal case challenging the results of the presidential election. A...

Losing Kenyan candidate challenges election result

Raila Odinga, who came second in Kenya's presidential election, has filed a legal case challenging the result, his lawyers have said. According to the electoral...

Power drought hit Shanghai, sights go dark

An iconic skyline in the Chinese city of Shanghai - called The Bund - will not be lit for two nights to save power,...

Daughter of Putin ally killed in a blast

The daughter of a close ally of Russia's President Vladimir Putin has been killed in a suspected car bombing. Darya Dugina, 29, died after an...

Singapore to end ban on gay sex

Singapore will repeal a law that bans gay sex, effectively making it legal to be homosexual in the city-state. The decision, announced by Prime Minister...

Gunmen abduct Catholic nuns on Nigeria highway

Four Nigerian Catholic nuns have been abducted in Nigeria’s south-eastern state of Imo, the local convent said, on a now notorious highway where a...

2-year-old revenges, bites 20-inch snake to death

A two-year-old bit a snake to death in Turkey last week after she was struck first.  Newsweek reports the toddler was in her backyard on August 10 when neighbours heard...

Notorious criminal caught after applying for police job

A man has been dubbed 'South Africa's dumbest criminal" after walking into the police station to check on his application to join the police...

Rwanda woman faces jail over ‘shameful dressing’

Rwandan authorities have arrested and taken to court a young woman over ‘indecent’ dressing, after a photo of her in a fish net attire at...

Ethiopian Airlines suspends pilots who didn’t respond to traffic control

Ethiopian Airlines Group has suspended a plane crew pending an investigation after they lost communication with air-traffic control in Addis Ababa before later landing safely. Flight...

Bus ploughs into crash scene, kills 16 rescuers

A bus has hit the scene of an earlier road accident in Turkey, killing 16 people and injuring 21. The incident happened near the southern...

Woman quits job after just 1 coworker attended her wedding

A young Chinese woman allegedly quit her job of five years after being disappointed that only one of the seventy coworkers she invited to...

Zulu King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini to be crowned in South Africa despite family feud

After a year-long family feud, Misuzulu ka Zwelithini is finally to be crowned Zulu King in a traditional ceremony in South Africa on Saturday. The...

Prophet makes shocking confession on daring rituals he performs

Controversial man of God, Prophet Jay Israel, has torched a storm on social media after confessing to rituals he performs after bedding women. The Zimbabwean...

Groom kills bride on wedding night, hides body in suitcase

A man who horrifically murdered his new bride just hours after they tied the knot has been handed a life sentence. Dawn Walker’s body was found stuffed into a...

Sad video of how teens beat Ghanaian taxi driver to death drops

New York City police have released footage of the moment five teenagers fatally beat a yellow cab driver. The harrowing video shows how father-of-four Kutin Gyimah,...

Billionaire jailed for 13 years

A Chinese-Canadian billionaire has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in China and his company fined more than $8bn (£6.7bn). Xiao Jianhua and his...

Tonto Dikeh cries after a scam stopped her from helping fan

Actress and politician Tonto Dokeh is disappointed in herself after she failed to help a fan in need because of a scam. According to her,...

Princess Diana’s jewellery – what happened to collection and who inherited her jewels?

Princess Diana wore such a heavy tiara on her wedding day that is said to have given her a headache. The former Princess of Wales - who died 25 years...

Pope rules out sex misconduct probe of top cardinal

The Vatican has said it will not probe accusations of sexual misconduct against one of its top cardinals due to insufficient evidence. Canadian Cardinal Marc...

Akufo-Addo congratulates President-elect William Ruto of Kenya

President Nana Akufo-Addo has congratulated the newly-elected President of Kenya, William Ruto, on his victory in the just ended presidential elections of 9th August...

2 suspects arrested in connection with death of Ghanaian Taxi Driver in New York

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has charged two men in connection with the death of a city taxi driver. The two, Austin Amos and Nicholas...

Two pilots on Ethiopian Airlines flight ‘fall asleep at 37,000 feet’

Two pilots of a passenger airplane fell asleep mid flight- but miraculously landed their plane without anyone suffering injuries. Flight ET343 was travelling from Khartoum...

Covid-19: Live fish tested for Covid amid China’s new outbreak

More than five million people have been ordered to undergo Covid-19 testing in the coastal Chinese city of Xiamen this week, after some 40...

Woman hospitalised after napkin laced with poison was placed in her door handle

A woman in Texas is shaken up after she was rushed to the emergency room for an apparent poisoning incident. Erin ‘Dawn’ Sims, 37,...

Chief sentenced to death by hanging for ordering the killing of boy accused of wizardry

An 82-year-old chief who has 12 wives and 60 children has been sentenced to death by hanging for ordering and supervising the killing of a...

Afghanistan: Deadly blast kills 21, others injured in crowded mosque

A huge explosion has ripped through a crowded mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing 21 people, police say. Another 33 people were injured, Kabul...

Student jailed 34 years for using Twitter in Saudi Arabia

A 34-year-old Saudi student at Leeds University, Salma al-Shebab, has been sentenced to 34 years imprisonment for using a Twitter account and for following...

Man ordered to pay $1k for urinating in his ex-girlfriend’s Louis Vuitton handbag

A South Korean civil court recently ordered a 31-year-old man to pay his ex-girlfriend 1.5 million won ($1,150) as damages for urinating in her...

Biden signs climate, tax and health bill into law

US President Joe Biden has signed a $700bn (£579bn) bill that aims to fight climate change and healthcare costs while raising taxes mainly on...

Egypt central bank governor quits amid inflation rise

The governor of Egypt's central bank, Tarek Amer, has resigned more than a year before the end of his second term in office. The move...

Tanzania offers internet on Africa’s tallest mountain

Tanzania's state telecommunications firm has installed high-speed internet connectivity on the slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, through a national broadband project. Information Minister...

Man sued after lover injects herself with his HIV+ blood to prove her love for him

The family of a teenage girl, who injected her boyfriend's HIV-positive blood into her body to prove her love for him, has sued their daughter's boyfriend. Last...

Liberian President suspends 3 top officials sanctioned by US for corruption

Liberian President George Weah suspended Nathaniel McGill, the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, and two other officials after the US Treasury added them...

Cuba relaxes foreign investor rules amid crisis

Cuba says it will allow foreign investors into its wholesale and retail trade for the first time in 60 years. The move is a major...

The story of two biological sisters who share the same husband

When a Congo woman, identified as Goreth, decided to share her possessions with her younger sister, she never imagined that would include her future...

Ghana’s Consulate visits family of Ghanaian taxi driver beaten to death in the US

The Consul General of Ghana’s Consulate in New York, Kingsley Daniel Atta Boafo, has visited the family of the Ghanaian taxi driver who was...

Kenya’s first runner up rejects election result

Raila Odinga has rejected the results of Kenya's presidential election saying that the figures announced on Monday were "null and void". According to the official...

Russia blames sabotage for new Crimea blasts

A week after an apparent Ukrainian attack on a Russian military base in occupied Crimea, an arms store at another military facility has been...