Young people in France will have free access to condoms from January, in a bid to minimise the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
The...
Gunmen in the northern Nigerian state of Zamfara have abducted the entire family of a local state politician.
Residents say the kidnappers broke into the...
Celine Dion has revealed she has been diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS), a rare neurological disorder with features of an autoimmune disease.
The French...
The world’s longest-serving head of state, the president of Equatorial Guinea, has been sworn in for a sixth term in office.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo,...
Some royals questioned why Meghan should be protected from press harassment, Prince Harry has claimed in the couple’s new Netflix documentary.
Harry said some members...
Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout,...
Twitter owner and Tesla (TSLA.O) boss Elon Musk briefly lost his title as the world's richest person on Wednesday, according to Forbes, following a steep drop...
The United States recorded the largest increase in inward foreign direct investment of all economies in 2021.
The latest release of the IMF’s Coordinated...
Despite Bill Cosby’s 2018 sexual assault conviction getting overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court back in June 2021, the comedian is now facing a...
The 14th edition of the International Telecommunication (ITU) Kaleidoscope Conference is ongoing in Accra, Ghana.
Being hosted by the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of...
A Mozambican court on Wednesday sentenced the son of Mozambique’s ex-president Armando Guebuza to 12 years in jail.
This is following a vast corruption scandal...
The Cyber Security Authority (CSA) says it has observed a worrying trend of increased reports of unauthorised access and online scams perpetrated through the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
