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The death toll in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew - the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade ...

Steven Woolfe, a leading candidate to be the new leader of Britain's anti-EU UK Independence Party, was in hospital after ...

Militant Islamist group al-Shabab says it has killed six Christians in north-eastern Kenya in an attack aimed at forcing them ...

Some people run for cover when he appeared in the village square, elegantly dressed in full military attire. The last ...

Ethiopia and Djibouti have launched the first fully electrified cross-border railway line in Africa. It links Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, ...

The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the world’s smallest machines. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir ...

The International Olympic Committee should be helping to compensate child victims of police violence at Rio 2016, say children's rights ...

Police in the western Indian city of Thane have arrested more than 750 people suspected of defrauding US citizens from ...

Founding President of think tank, IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, Franklin Cudjoe, says an order by the Inspector General ...

Seven-year-old Bana Alabed tweeted a photo a week ago, sitting at a desk with a book, her doll in the ...

A leading Nigerian actress, who was banned from the Hausa-language film industry because of her “immoral” behaviour, has apologised. Rahama ...

Yahoo secretly scanned millions of its users’ email accounts on behalf of the US government, according to a report. Reuters ...

The African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) has commended the National Petroleum in Authority (NPA) for preliminary steps taken to ...

Police in Kenya have arrested a man after he allegedly boasted on Facebook about having sex with an underage girl, ...

Thousands of police were also among those purged in the immediate aftermath of the failed overthrow Turkey has suspended almost ...

A leading Nigerian actress, who was banned from the Hausa-language film industry because of her "immoral" behaviour, has apologised. Rahama ...

One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent years is closing in on Haiti, bringing winds, rains and storm ...

Former Liverpool and Cameroon defender Rigobert Song has been brought out of a two-day coma and is due to fly ...

A leading Nigerian actress has been banned from the Hausa-language film industry because of her “immoral” behaviour, the main industry ...

The National Petroleum Authority has revised the national sulphur specification for diesel from maximum 3000pmm (parts per million) to 500pmm ...