A terminally-ill hairdresser has avoided prison after being slapped with a suspended jail sentence - for growing her own cannabis plants to help with...
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted to the failure of the ruling party to prevent corruption during former president Jacob Zuma’s rule.
He said...
A university in eastern Kenya has denied reports that it is enrolling students for a witchcraft degree.
The Machakos University said the reports were malicious.
Kenyan...
A Nigerian journalist has finally honoured an invitation to meet Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, after 52 years of waiting.
Oloye Lekan Alabi, a veteran journalist...
Two Spanish journalists and an Irish citizen have been killed after they were kidnapped during an anti-poaching patrol in Burkina Faso on Monday.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez confirmed...
The communication regulator in Kenya has suspended a television station and fined it for airing a pornographic scene during a children's programme.
Mt Kenya television...
A couple in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, have been allowed to marry, despite the groom testing positive for coronavirus a few days earlier.
Local officials were...
An under-construction mansion in Canada owned by Pornhub executive Feras Antoon burned down in a suspected arson attack on Sunday.
Police said they were initially...
A YouTuber who killed his girlfriend in a sickening live stream before telling viewers 'she's not breathing' has been jailed for six years.
Vlogger Stanislav...
Dozens of inmates at an Iowa prison were sickened this week after the prison’s nurses inadvertently administered overdoses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, an...
Black women face a significantly higher risk of having a miscarriage than white, research suggests.
The Lancet analysis of data on 4.6 million pregnancies in...
All driving test examiners have been suspended across Ivory Coast while the government “cleans up” the transport sector.
Fraud, corruption and a rise in road...
The European Union said Monday it had launched legal action against the British-Swedish drug company AstraZeneca after it repeatedly under-delivered on its shipments of Covid-19 vaccines...
A serial Japanese dater has been arrested for allegedly dating 35 different women at the same time.
Takashi Miyagawa, a part-time worker from the Japanese...
The UK's flagship music awards ceremony, the Brits, will go ahead with a 4,000-strong crowd, no social distancing, and no masks next month.
The show...
A 90-year-old woman from Hong Kong has been scammed of HK$250 million (£23m, $32m) by fraudsters pretending to be Chinese officials, police said.
Hong Kong...
A woman accidentally ended up sealing her eyelids shut after grabbing nail glue which she thought was eye drops.
Yacedrah Williams woke up during the...
US pharmaceutical company Pfizer says it has identified counterfeit versions of its coronavirus vaccine in Mexico and Poland.
The doses were seized by authorities in...
New Zealand is looking to ban smoking for anyone born after 2004 in an effort to make the nation smoke-free by 2025.
Earlier this week, Associate Minister of...
An unidentified lady has been nabbed while using her baby for examination malpractice.
The lady who vehemently denied being involved in such when questioned by...
France was aware that a genocide was being prepared in Rwanda ahead of the 1994 killings and the French government bore a significant responsibility...
Ghana’s consulate in Dubai has announced the arrest of some five Ghanaians in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for trafficking marijuana.
The consulate, in a...
Sisters who had no idea they had each other have reunited for their 36th birthday.
Identical twins Molly Sinert and Emily Bushnell were separated at...
A 28-year-old South African woman who survived a car crash was killed by a hit-and-run-driver while searching for her missing cellphone.
Reaction Unit South Africa’s...
Disruption in the supply of medical oxygen has killed at least 22 patients in a hospital in western India’s Maharashtra state, an official said.
Nashik...
