Taiwan's constitutional court began hearing a landmark case Friday that could make the island the first place in Asia to allow same-sex marriage. A panel of 14 grand justices will hear a debate over...
Second-ranked Rory McIlroy was eliminated from title contention on Thursday at the World Golf Championships-Dell Match Play after group rival Gary Woodland withdrew and Soren Kjeldsen won his second...
The UN Security Council voiced alarm about the deepening humanitarian crisis and famine in South Sudan, with the United States, Britain and France raising anew the idea of sanctions and a weapons...
Trump at the wheel of a big rig? Yes, it happened -- at the White House. US President Donald Trump was rallying votes for his health care reform bill Thursday but made a pit stop in the afternoon to...
Lewis Hamilton has insisted Ferrari start the 2017 Formula 1 season as favourites. Hamilton's Mercedes team have won three successive world championship doubles since 2014 but were consistently...
The United Nations has warned that Uganda is at a "breaking point" as almost 3,000 refugees pour into the country every day from South Sudan, fleeing violence and famine in the world's youngest...
Jerusalem - An Israeli policeman was caught on video on Thursday physically assaulting a Palestinian in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi el-Joz. The video shows a plainclothes police...
Somalia's president said on Thursday almost half his country's people are facing acute food shortages and about 15 percent are facing famine. He urged the world to help. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed...
Some indigenes of Abetifi in the Eastern Region are appealing to President Akufo-Addo to appoint Mr. William Owusu, a native of Abetifi as the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Kwahu East. The...
Adjei - Sowah is the new Metropolitan Chief Executive of the Assembly. The members of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) have overwhelmingly endorsed Mohammed Adjei Sowah as the new Metropolitan...
The US Justice Department on Thursday announced a deal with DirecTV to settle charges that it shared information with competitors negotiating to broadcast games played by a California baseball team....
Virtual rockers Gorillaz on Thursday announced a new album and previewed it with a track that merges rock, hip-hop and reggae alongside a trippy sci-fi video. The experimental side project of Damon...
The UN Security Council on Thursday "strongly condemned" recent North Korean missile and ballistic missile engine tests, denouncing Pyongyang's "increasingly destabilizing behavior." The condemnation...
Omar Khribin moved Syria closer to a place at Russia 2018 on Thursday with the winning goal in their qualifying clash with Uzbekistan. Syria kept their remarkable quest for a place at the 2018 World...
The US military has observed activity in North Korea that suggests Pyongyang may be gearing up for another nuclear test, a US official said Thursday. "At the sites where we watch tests, we see a...
A white US army veteran accused of fatally stabbing a 66-year-old homeless black man in New York was charged Thursday with second-degree murder as a hate crime, after telling police he was planning a...
A spike in water temperature lasting only days bleached all the coral in a South China Sea atoll, and killed 40 percent of the tiny organisms within weeks, researchers reported Thursday. The six...
Alhaji Collins Dauda, Member of Parliament for the Asutifi South has stated that the government of the New Patriotic Party had a duty to reduce the prices of petroleum products following the...
French Defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is the latest member of the current Socialist government to throw his support behind centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron. It’s yet another...
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbugu says he is not satisfied with the answers Interior Ministers gave regarding the attack on a police officer at the Flagstaff House in January. Ras Mubarak...
