Sarah Huckabee Sanders -- a pugnacious Arkansas native from a political family -- took to the podium as the new White House press secretary Friday, stepping into perhaps the most difficult job in the...
Ram Nath Kovind was elected India's new president Thursday, the second time since independence a head of state has been chosen from the bottom of the Hindu caste system. Kovind won the largely...
A sudden leadership change in one of China's biggest cities has highlighted President Xi Jinping's ambition to consolidate his grip on power at an upcoming major political gathering, analysts say....
GN Bank has been adjudged the best growing bank at the 16th Edition of the Ghana Banking Awards (GBA) held in Accra recently. The bank was also named the second runner-up for Trade Finance at the...
North Korea's tourism agency has launched a website offering holiday options ranging from surfing to rice planting, despite strong US warnings to avoid travel to a nation where several trips have...
Trump and Putin had another, undisclosed conversation at G20 US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had another, previously undisclosed conversation at this month’s...
President Donald Trump has tapped veteran diplomat and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman as ambassador to Russia, the White House said Tuesday. The announcement came amid swirling controversy and...
California legislators late Monday approved extending the state's tough measures to fight climate change to 2030, a major victory for Democratic Governor Jerry Brown. The "cap-and-trade" measure --...
Indian conglomerate Mahindra Group plans to double its US investment in the next five years, where it is hoping to its two-wheel electric scooters will win over American millennials. "We're very...
Mike Pence is the loyal wingman, the ever-discreet figure who rises above the Washington fray. But as the Russia scandal encroaches ever further on Donald Trump's White House, the vice president is...
A Nigerian traditional chief in the state of Lagos has been suspended after he confessed to faking his own kidnap. Lagos state Governor Akinwunmi Ambode said the incident was “an embarrassment to...
In the maze of Asante Kotoko running their bus into a horrible ditch, the NDC and NPP haggling over 17.5% or 3% flat VAT rate, ‘Koforidua Legon’ launching Ghana’s Satellite One, Unemployed...
History is littered with countless examples of sovereign states engaging professionals from different nations to man sensitive national positions. The rise of Joseph to the position of Prime Minister...
South Korea's central bank on Thursday tweaked upwards its growth forecast for Asia's fourth-largest economy this year, citing strong exports. Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju-yeol said the bank was...
A giant bulldozer digs a deep ditch among the bushes surrounding the University of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, turning it into a fortress to prevent further suicide attacks by Boko Haram. About...
All 16 troops aboard a Marine Corps air refueling and transport aircraft were killed when the plane crashed in a field in rural Mississippi, officials confirmed Tuesday. Authorities provided few...
A US military plane crashed into a field in rural Mississippi on Monday, killing at least 16 people on board and spreading debris for miles, officials said. The Leflore county emergency management...
The depleted government coffers of bankrupt Puerto Rico will take in $50 million a month now that a law allowing the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes has taken effect, the governor said. After...
Emergency repair work began Monday at New York's Penn Station, kicking off a "summer of hell" for hundreds of thousands of commuters battling chronic delays, overcrowding and frayed tempers at North...
Wildfires roared Sunday across much of California, forcing thousands to evacuate homes as the most populous US state sweltered in record heat and flames menaced thousands of structures. Some 8,000...
