International

A mum of five brushed off her daughter’s advice to not get her eyeballs tattooed due to potential blindness — and now, she’s losing...

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has cancelled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Friday and directed that the budget instead be used to build dormitories...

Tourism operators in Indonesia are still trying to recover from the devastating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now the country’s parliament has passed new...

It’s very rare for Nigerian presidential hopeful Bola Ahmed Tinubu to talk directly to the media.At a recent much-publicised event in London, questions from...

Ex-Spanish King Juan Carlos has won an appeal to block part of a case brought against him in the UK by his ex-lover.Businesswoman Corinna...

Airline passengers in the European Union (EU) will soon be able to use their phones to full effect in the sky.The European Commission...

Indonesian lawmakers unanimously passed a sweeping new criminal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside marriage, as part of a tranche of changes that critics say threaten...

Oil prices have risen after major producers agreed to continue to cut output and the G7 and its allies said they will cap the...

Iran’s morality police, which is tasked with enforcing the country’s Islamic dress code, is being disbanded, the country’s attorney general says.Mohammad Jafar Montazeri’s comments,...

A Georgia man assisted law enforcement in his arrest after he commented on the Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page.The sheriff’s department, located east...

Police have arrested a man and charged him with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff.The 28-year-old Grammy-nominated musician was shot...

A mum has been arrested after the body of her daughter was found set in concrete and used as a bedside table in her San Andrés,...

Elon Musk said on Wednesday he expects a wireless brain chip developed by his company Neuralink to begin human clinical trials in six months,...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing a possible impeachment threat over the “Farmgate” scandal.The president has been accused of covering up a $4m...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indicated that it is premature to comment on the final form the financing programme for Ghana will take....

The drowning of the three-year-old son of Afrobeats star Davido in the swimming pool at his home in Lagos last month has thrown a...

Kenyan ministers will forgo their salaries for one month in solidarity with people who have been affected by the ongoing drought in parts of...

Janusz Walus, who was about to be released on parole after serving nearly three decades in a South African jail for killing anti-apartheid leader...

The high court in Nigeria has sentenced the country’s police chief to three months in prison for disobeying a court order.The ruling followed a...

Namibia’s Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is edging closer to becoming the country’s first female president.The 70-year-old has just been elected as vice-president of...

Angola’s Attorney-General Helder Pitta Groz has confirmed that his country has issued an arrest warrant for former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ daughter, Isabel...

The Spanish coastguard says it has rescued three migrants who stowed away on the rudder of a tanker that arrived in the Canary Islands...

A flight attendant suffered a heart attack midair and died while working on a flight from Bahrain to Paris last week.Gulf Air flight attendant...

Police in Ecuador have arrested seven gunmen who stormed a hospital in an attempt to kill a teen being treated there.Gang members took...

The father of Ghanaian-American gospel musician, Britney Boateng, Ernest Boateng, has spoken out for the first time following the death of his daughter.Speaking in...

A court in Ireland has blocked billionaire Twitter CEO Elon Musk from firing a top employee of the company.Ireland’s High Court granted an injunction to...

A court in Comoros has handed down a life sentence for high treason to former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi.He was convicted of selling passports...

The Oslo Court of Appeal has in a unanimous decision dismissed an appeal filed by Jongsbru AS, the sellers of a property identified by...

Squid Game actor O Yeong-su has been charged with sexual misconduct, South Korean judicial officials say.The 78-year-old is accused of touching a woman inappropriately...

Nigerian actress, Rita Dominic and founder of Folio Media Group, Dr Fidelis Anosike, have tied the knot in the presence of family and friends...

Some 2,500 naked volunteers have posed in the early morning light on Sydney’s Bondi Beach for an artwork designed to raise awareness of skin...

A woman in Indonesia’s Jambi province was killed and swallowed whole by a python, according to local reports. Jahrah, a rubber-tapper reportedly in her 50s,...

Police in South Africa are investigating two murder cases after an ally of King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini and a bodyguard were shot dead.Prince Mbongiseni...

Namibians have been reacting to a recommendation of the recent National Men’s Conference where what’s called a “girlfriend allowance” – a form of financial...

Rats in northern India have been accused of eating hundreds of kilograms of marijuana seized from drug dealers and stored in police warehouses.“Rats are...

World Cup fans noticed that Morgan Freeman was wearing a glove - but didn't know that the Hollywood actor was the victim of a...

A five-year-old Australian boy has survived being bitten, constricted and dragged into a swimming pool by a python about three times his size.Beau Blake...

Rapper Kanye West has said he intends to run for US president in 2024, despite facing several scandals over his recent behaviour.The star, who...

A Kenyan policeman who gained notoriety after mobile phone footage showed him gunning down two men in 2017 is to be charged with murder.Kenya’s...

Writer E Jean Carroll has sued Donald Trump in the US state of New York for allegedly raping her in the 1990s.Ms Carroll is...