A small-scale miner in Tanzania has become an overnight millionaire after selling two rough Tanzanite stones - the biggest ever find in the country.
Saniniu...
A popular social media influencer, who ran away with her husband’s eldest son, has shared the first ultrasound image of their baby.
Marina Balmasheva hit...
Three men have been arrested in Iran on suspicion of trying to sell two babies on Instagram.
Tehran’s police chief, Brig-Gen Hossein Rahimi, said one...
Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, have been charged with murder in the February shooting to death of Ahmaud Arbery. A video apparently...
Dubai Police has released the first-ever visuals of how most-wanted Nigerian, Hushpuppi and his 12-member gang were arrested.
He was arrested by the International Police...
As the world grapples with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a new study suggests that antibodies -- the proteins produced by the immune system that can grant protection against...
Members of Gabon's lower house of parliament have voted to decriminalise homosexuality, becoming one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa to reverse a...
Hundreds of thousands of people trapped near fierce fighting in Myanmar’s far west may know nothing of Covid-19 thanks to a yearlong internet shutdown, according...
Bodies of coronavirus victims are being stashed in bin bags next to patients as the Covid-19 crisis continues to worsen in Brazil.
Earlier this year,...
Nigerian law enforcement officials have commenced an investigation into the allegation against a housewife, who reportedly damaged the genitals of her husband.
One Omolara Seriki,...
Liberia’s Education Minister has been flown into Accra and is undergoing treatment after testing positive for Covid-19, sources close to Ghana’s Covid-19 management team...
Newborn triplets in Mexico have tested positive for coronavirus in an “unprecedented” case, according to local health authorities.
Medical experts are investigating whether the disease...
South Africa has rolled out the continent’s first coronavirus vaccine trial this week.
The university leading the pilot has said, as the country grapples with...
After recovering from a serious coronavirus infection, the last thing that most people would want would be another trip to the hospital.
But doctors have...
Saudi Arabia has banned international visitors from making the Islamic pilgrimage, or Hajj, this year in a bid to control coronavirus.
Only a very limited...
The busiest airports in Spain? Madrid and Barcelona spring to mind and, under normal circumstances, they’d be the right answer.
Yet when Aragon’s Teruel Airport...
Eight corrections officers at the Ramsey County, Minnesota, jail where former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin is being held say they were briefly barred...
US President Donald Trump has extended a pause on some green cards and suspended visas for other foreign workers until the end of 2020.
High-skilled...
Health officials in South Korea believe the country is going through a second wave of coronavirus, despite recording relatively low numbers.
The country had been...
School pupils could be banned from wearing blazers and ties to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
The ban would start in September when more children...
Patients who have suspected coronavirus can have a “spit” test to see if they have the disease, it is announced today.
Until now, potential sufferers...
Brazil has become the second country, after the US, to register more than 50,000 deaths from Covid-19.
The grim milestone comes amid growing political unrest...
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) is looking into two separate theft reports relating to donated Coronavirus equipment in March when the Ministry of...
A 15-year-old pregnant woman on admission at the Ikorodu General Hospital, Lagos, has died from health complications similar to coronavirus symptoms.
It was learnt that...
Six policemen in Mozambique have been found guilty of murdering an election observer ahead of last October’s election.
Anastacio Matavel was shot as he was...
China has promised to give priority to African countries once COVID-19 vaccines are ready to use.
The Chinese President Xi Jinping was quoted by the...
