A United Nations commission voted on Wednesday to remove cannabis for medicinal purposes from a category of the world’s most dangerous drugs, a highly...
The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for widespread use.
British regulator, the MHRA, says the...
A child rapist collapsed after he was flogged 146 times with a cane during a public whipping in Aceh, Indonesia.
The 19-year-old sex attacker was arrested...
Liberia's President George Weah was among African football greats who have shared tributes to Argentina's football legend Diego Maradona, who died on Wednesday aged...
Thousands of fans are paying their final respects to Argentine football legend Diego Maradona at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires.
Three days of national...
The Recording Academy has announced 'The Daily Show' host and GRAMMY-nominated comedian Trevor Noah as host of the 63rd GRAMMY Awards on January 31. This will be the first time...
A younger brother to Nigeria’s Agriculture Minister Sabo Nanono was abducted by gunmen from their family home in the northern Kano state, according to...
Donald Trump has accepted a formal US transition should begin for President-elect Joe Biden to take office.
The president said the federal agency overseeing the...
Kenya’s Kenyatta University has beaten the United Kingdom’s Oxford University in the semi-finals of a competition for aspiring lawyers.
Oxford – one of the most...
The coronavirus vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford, is highly effective at stopping people from developing Covid-19 symptoms, a large trial shows.
Interim data...
Dancehall musician, Stonebwoy, has threatened to take on whoever leaked his 'Activate' song featuring Nigeria's music star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, into...
Two schoolboys tried to stage a fake wedding so they could hold a huge end-of-year party.
The students from Sydney, Australia, wanted an after party...
President Trump on Tuesday night fired his administration’s most senior cybersecurity official responsible for securing the presidential election, Christopher Krebs, who had systematically disputed Mr. Trump’s...
Abubakar Shekau, leader of Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad otherwise known as Boko Haram, has claimed that he cannot be arrested because he was...
Though this year has been upended in almost every possible way, People Magazine was determined to keep its 35-year tradition going: the announcement of Sexiest Man...
Guinness heiress, Honor Uloth, 19, drowned in a swimming pool accident this summer in the United Kingdom.
Honor — the eldest daughter of Rupert Uloth...
Former President Barack Obama made it clear in an interview on Sunday (Nov. 15) with CBS’s Gayle King that he has no plans to join President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet...
A US-based Ghanaian woman, Sophia Tagoe has died in a motor accident Thursday, October 22, in Sandy Springs Georgia.
The incident occurred on the eastbound...
Joe Biden is projected to win the state of Georgia, as media reports say Donald Trump is considering running again in 2024.
President-elect Biden picked...
US election officials have said the 2020 White House vote was the "most secure in American history", rejecting President Donald Trump's fraud claims.
"There is...
Former President Barack Obama has said senior US Republicans are undermining democracy by going along with President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.
In...
A stack of messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden are sitting at the State Department but the Trump administration is preventing him from accessing...
The Trump administration has carried out sweeping changes atop the Defense Department’s civilian leadership structure, removing several of its most senior officials and replacing...
Four opposition pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong have been disqualified with immediate effect.
The expulsion came moments after Beijing passed a resolution allowing for the...
