Articles by Kwame Mensah
Deadly IS Attack On Sufi Shrine In Sindh
A suicide attack in a popular shrine in southern Pakistan has killed at least 50 people, reports say. The bomber blew...
Pakistan Sufi Shrine Bombing Kills Up To 35
A bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan Thursday, killing up to 35 people and wounding 60, officials...
Court Acquits Three Over 2005 Delhi Bomb Blasts
An Indian court Thursday cleared three defendants over a series of bomb blasts in New Delhi in 2005 that killed 62...
Yemen Air Raid Kills Eight Women, Child At Funeral
An air strike killed eight women and a child at a funeral reception near the Yemeni capital, witnesses said Thursday,...
US Jobless Claims Edge Upward In Mid-February
New US claims for jobless benefits edged up in the second week of February but continued their record streak of low...
New US Home Construction Slows In January
Construction begun on new housing fell slightly in January, driven by sharp declines in building in the US West and...
Snapchat Owner Prices IPO, Seeks More Than $2 Bn
Snapchat's corporate parent seeks to raise more than $2 billion for the fast-growing social media group in the tech...
Supreme Court Nominee Gorsuch Hearing Set For March 20
The confirmation hearing for US President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has been set to begin on...
Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Tops Record 33 Million Sales Mark
Michael Jackson's "Thriller," the biggest album in history, on Thursday notched up another mark as it was certified as...
Baghdad Car Bomb Kills At Least 48
At least 48 people have been killed in Baghdad in the third blast in the Iraqi capital in three days, security and...
IED Kills Three Pakistani Soldiers
An improvised explosive device hit an army convoy on Thursday in the restive southwestern Pakistani province of...
US Household Debt In 2016 Posts Biggest Jump In A Decade
US household debt surged $460 billion last year, the biggest increase in 10 years, and has nearly returned to the peak...
Indonesian Orangutan Brutally Killed and Eaten
A critically endangered Bornean orangutan was shot dead, hacked to pieces and eaten by workers after straying onto an...
‘Scorpion’ Robot Mission Inside Fukushima Reactor Aborted
A 'scorpion' robot sent into a Japanese nuclear reactor to learn about the damage suffered in a tsunami-induced...
Israeli Joy, Palestinian Alarm At Trump Two-State Shift
Donald Trump's shelving of the decades-long goal of a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict has excited...
Anti-Police Protests Spread To Streets of Central Paris
Violent anti-police protests that have swept the suburbs of Paris since early February spread into the French capital's...
Meet Guinness World Record Oldest Female Bodybuilder
Ernestine Shepherd defies nearly every physical stereotype for an 80-year-old woman. For one thing, she's ripped. In...
30 Killed In Suicide Attack At Pakistani Shrine
A suicide attack Thursday at Pakistan's Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in the southern city of Shewan in Sindh province...
Huge Baghdad Car Bomb Kills At Least 45
A massive car bomb ripped through a used car market in southern Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 45 people in the...
Referee Clattenburg Quits Premier League For Saudi Role
Leading referee Mark Clattenburg is quitting the Premier League after 12 years to work in Saudi Arabia, it was...