Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed what they describe as a city that dates back more than 5,000 years, containing houses, tools, pottery and huge graves. It lies by the River Nile, close to the...
An experiment to see whether computers can identify criminals based on their faces has been conducted in China. Researchers trained an algorithm using more than 1,500 photos of Chinese citizens,...
A member of the NPP Communications team, Henry Nana Boakye has declared a total defeat for the Mahama led NDC administration come December 7. To him, President Mahama and his government would bring...
Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated as wildfires rage through parts of Israel's third largest city of Haifa. The fires follow a two-month drought and are being fanned by strong winds in...
A former presidential candidate looks likely to spur a last-minute recount of part of the result of the US election. Donald Trump narrowly beat Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin, but two voting rights...
The news about the death of Kwabena Boadu aide to Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has taken social media by storm. NPP supporters, friends and former...
At least 80 people, many of them Shia pilgrims, have been killed in a truck bomb attack at a road stop in Iraq, a security official says. The blast struck at a petrol station and restaurant near...
Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory, a senior UN official has told the BBC. Armed forces have been killing Rohingya in Rakhine state, forcing...
A south Indian film star has caused a sensation after being photographed standing in a bank queue with a live piglet tucked under his arm. Ravi Babu said the piglet would star in his next film called...
Posters for Mr Bellen say "More than ever" while those for Hofer say For Austria, heart and soul Austria's far-right presidential candidate Norbert Hofer has said he would push for a referendum on EU...
A leading ad exchange has blacklisted Breitbart News, which until recently was run by one of US President-elect Donald Trump’s closest advisers. AppNexus said it would no longer allow Breitbart to...
On Wednesday November 9, 2016, like the rest of the world, I was shocked by the outcome of the US election. Looking back a few weeks later, I guess I cried because Hillary Clinton’s defeat to...
President-elect Donald Trump has named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as US ambassador to the UN, praising his former critic as "a proven dealmaker". She is the first non-white female...
Ethel Cofie, CEO of EDEL Technology Consulting is Africa’s Most Influential Woman in Business and Government for the ICT Category, according to CEO Global. The award was conferred on her in South...
An HIV-positive Malawian man has been sentenced to 24 months in jail with hard labour for having unprotected sex with newly bereaved widows. The practice of “widow cleansing”, when a widow must...
Facebook worked on special software so it could potentially accommodate censorship demands in China, according to a report in the New York Times. The social network refused to confirm or deny the...
The school in north-eastern Kenya attacked by gunmen earlier is currently under heavy security. Four men stormed the Abakore high school in Wajir county at 11:00 local time (08:00 GMT) and started...
An HIV-positive Malawian man has been sentenced to 24 months in jail with hard labour, after being found guilty for having unprotected sex with newly bereaved widows, local journalist Alfred Guta has...
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has withdrawn a bill that would pardon men convicted of sex with underage girls if they had married them. The government acted just before the controversial...
US rapper Kanye West has been hospitalised following an emergency services call, media reports say. A police spokesperson told the BBC they had received a “disturbance call” on Monday afternoon,...
