The news that Michael Essien’s wife, Akosua Puni, had purchased the Italian third division side Como at an auction certainly raised a few eyebrows this week. She paid £206,000 to take control of...
The world’s most powerful man is about to meet one of its most influential women. A snowstorm forced the cancellation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s planned visit to Washington on Tuesday....
Japan coach Jamie Joseph has expressed dismay that notes on the team's swashbuckling 2015 World Cup run were not available to him when he took over from Eddie Jones. Keeping up with the Joneses is...
President Donald Trump hosts Germany's Angela Merkel at the White House Friday, a meeting delayed by a snowstorm and still clouded by a storm of words between the two ostensible allies. The cautious...
Halfway into an OPEC-led oil supply cut, Asia remains awash with fuel in a sign that the group's efforts to rein in a global glut have so far had little effect. The Organization of the Petroleum...
A UN drugs body moved Thursday to crack down on the production of chemicals made to use illicit fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid killing thousands in the United States. Fentanyl is a potent...
Several tourists have been injured as Mount Etna erupted for the third time in just under three weeks, spitting molten lava nearly 650 feet into the sky above Sicily. A BBC journalist and camera crew...
Audience figures for Sunday Mass on Spanish public television have soared after a far-left party tried to get the weekly broadcast banned to be more 'multicultural'. Unidos Podemos, the third biggest...
The European Parliament has imposed severe sanctions on a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP), for unsavory comments he made against women. Janusz Korwin-Mikke, who made the...
Dutch people rejected "the wrong kind of populism", Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said, as he celebrated victory in Wednesday's election. "The Netherlands said 'Whoa!'" he declared after his...
Thomas Partey of Atletico Madrid became the third Ghanaian to reach the quarter finals of the Uefa Champions League on Wednesday night where he joined Kwadwo Asamoah of Juventus and Leicester...
President Xi Jinping welcomed visiting Saudi King Salman to Beijing on Thursday as China pursues a charm offensive towards the Middle East, where it has previously kept a low profile. The king's...
The White House clashed with environmentalists over President Donald Trump's retreat from tough future auto emission standards, with both sides predicting potentially big consequences for America's...
The African Centre for International Law & Accountability hosted a roundtable discussion (RTD) on 8 March 2017 to discuss the African leaders’ strategy for the collective withdrawal from the ICC...
Turkey on Wednesday threatened to unilaterally scrap a March 2016 deal with the EU that has substantially reduced the flow of migrants and refugees to Europe, in an escalating diplomatic crisis. "We...
Ernest Opoku has been criticised on social media by a self-acclaimed "Woman of God" for allegedly using juju. The lady who is believed to be in living in Europe said she has had a revelation that the...
Turkey's red meat association has ordered Dutch cattle to be sent back to the Netherlands, saying that the diplomatic crisis between the countries has led to a decision to no longer farm the cows....
At least three people have been killed in an avalanche at a ski resort in the Austrian Alps, police say. Rescuers are looking for a fourth person reported missing, police said. The four were said to...
Dutch investment in Turkey is not at risk from the diplomatic row between the two countries as Ankara's ire is focused on the Dutch government, not its people or businesses, Turkey's minister for EU...
Asian stocks consolidated recent gains on Wednesday before a U. S. central bank policy meeting that could signal how much monetary tightening to expect during the remainder of the year, with an...
