ExxonMobil's shareholders voted decisively Wednesday to push the oil giant to test how the fight against global warming could affect its business, handing a victory to environmentalists at a critical...
A 'disgruntled' ex-employee of a Saudi private school shot dead two staff members and injured a third, the school's chairman said. The rare shooting happened at Kingdom School, which is owned by...
A new NASA mission aims to brush by the sun, coming closer than any spacecraft in history to its scorching heat and radiation in order to reveal how stars are made, the US space agency said...
President Donald Trump's cryptic tweet of a non-existent word -- "covfefe" -- sparked a flood of humor and ridicule on the internet, but it also highlighted the inability of his communications team...
NBC News has finalised its deal to take a 25 percent stake in Euronews as it seeks to compete on a more global scale, the European broadcaster said on Wednesday. NBC will pay 25 million euros ($28.1...
A Chinese activist has been detained while investigating alleged workers’ rights abuses at a supplier for Ivanka Trump’s shoe brand. Hua Haifeng was working undercover for the US-based China...
Police in the US capital Wednesday arrested a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle at Trump International Hotel, as they investigated a potential threat against protectees of the Secret Service. The...
A 57-year-old woman believed to be from Ghana was found dead near the U. S.-Manitoba border last week after officials say she likely attempted to cross into Canada. The Kittson County Sheriff’s...
A Ghanaian woman has been found dead near the US-Canada border and police say she died of “possible hypothermia”. Mavis Korkor Larnyoh Otuteye, 57, was found dead near Noyes, Minnesota, the...
A gunman killed two staff at a private school in the Saudi Arabian capital on Wednesday, a security source told AFP. "A teacher took a gun and then he went to the school room and he killed the...
Andy Rubin, one the creators of Google’s Android software, has launched his own high-end smartphone. Mr Rubin left Google in 2014 to create Playground, a technology investment company. Essential is...
Donald Trump castigated a well-known comedian on Wednesday after the release of a grisly-looking photo showing her holding up a prop depicting the president's bloodied severed head. Kathy Griffin had...
British Prime Minister Theresa May held talks with Saudi officials on Tuesday, hoping to tap the oil-rich kingdom's "immense potential" as she looks to secure post-Brexit investment and trade. May...
President Donald Trump's administration is poised to announce its withdrawal from the Paris climate deal, US media reported on Wednesday. According to the political news site Axios, the first to...
The Black Stars of Ghana will begin non-residential training at the Accra Sports Stadium today, Wednesday, May 31, ahead of their 2019 Nations Cup qualifier against Ethiopia. Coach Kwesi Appiah is...
Donald Trump may be lighting up Twitter with strange new words and attacks on allies but in the battle for most attention per tweet the US president is losing. The world leader whose original tweets...
US President Donald Trump faces a Thursday deadline to decide whether to move the US embassy in Israel to the disputed city of Jerusalem. Israelis are eagerly watching to see whether he renews a...
A Bahraini court dissolved a secular opposition party on Wednesday, a judicial official said, as authorities in the Gulf state kept up a crackdown on dissent. The decision by the administrative...
In June 2016, it was officially announced that Nigerian artiste Tiwa Savage had signed a management and publishing deal with the house Jay Z built, Roc Nation. DJ Khaled, Kanye West, Rihanna, Vic...
Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte angrily hit back Wednesday at Chelsea Clinton for criticising remarks he made about rape, using vulgar language while referring to her father's infidelities as...
