Manager Claudio Ranieri has been sacked by Leicester City, nine months after leading them to the Premier League title. The Foxes are one point above the relegation zone with 13 matches left. "The...
New figures showing that 53 footballers have been reported over potential breaches of betting rules are the “tip of the iceberg”, says a sport integrity expert. Former FIFA and Interpol adviser...
Eating loads of fruit and vegetables - 10 portions a day - may give us longer lives, say researchers. The study, by Imperial College London, calculated such eating habits could prevent 7.8 million...
One of the strange features of cybercrime is how much of it is public. A quick search will turn up forums and sites where stolen goods, credit cards and data are openly traded. But a glance into...
Wayne Rooney’s agent Paul Stretford is in China to see if he can negotiate a deal for the forward to leave Manchester United. There are no guarantees of success and it is thought a deal remains...
After 60 years of independence, we’re still arguing about the pros and cons of a Free Senior High School education. An array of comments have been bundled around in the last few weeks since the...
Dozens of Nigerians have staged an anti-xenophobia protest outside the South African embassy in the capital, Abuja. Members of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, which organised the...
A British journalist with the BBC faces up to five years in a Thai jail after a lawyer brought a criminal defamation case against him over an investigation into fraud on a popular tourist island....
Facebook has apologised for repeatedly restoring an account that posted stolen photos of children falsely claiming they had cancer. The social network twice disabled the account following complaints,...
A ban on female army officers in Turkey wearing the Muslim headscarf has been lifted by the government. The military is the last Turkish institution to see the ban removed. It has long been seen as...
After three years of his painful departure to eternity, the family of the late ace broadcaster Komla Dumor’s in partnership with the Komla Dumor Foundation on Tuesday held a classic music concert...
Political scientist, Dr. Richard Amoako Baah has backed the decision by President Nana Akufo-Addo to appoint a Special Prosecutor but wants that individual to be truly independent without any...
Malawi's Agriculture Minister George Chaponda has been fired over a scandal that has been dubbed "maizegate". Last month, President Peter Mutharika ordered an investigation into a $34.5m (£27.7m)...
By Frederick K. Kofi Tse “Our political class introduced something they call free education that is free indeed?free of knowledge. It is because they are so suspicious of those institutions that...
Facebook has deleted two accounts that used stolen photographs of a sick child to falsely claim he had cancer. It follows complaints by the three-year-old’s mother that the images had been used as...
Only weeks after chiding congresspeople’s indolence and piping detail, I find myself caught in the mediocrity I have been crusading against. It’s all courtesy one of the motherland’s finest...
South Korean women will be the first in the world to have an average life expectancy above 90, a study suggests. Imperial College London and the World Health Organization analysed lifespans in 35...
Angelina Jolie gave an exclusive interview to BBC World News ahead of the premiere of her new film in Cambodia. The Hollywood A-lister sat down with BBC correspondent and presenter, Yalda Hakim, to...
US President Donald Trump has named Lt Gen HR McMaster as his national security adviser. He will replace Lt Gen Michael Flynn who was fired after just three weeks and three days in the job. A...
YouTube is to scrap “unskippable” 30-second advertisements on the video-streaming service, from 2018. Google confirmed the plan to the BBC’s Newsround programme, saying it wanted to focus on...
