A Tanzanian opposition MP has been handed a five-month prison sentence after being found guilty of defaming President John Magufuli, The Citizen news site...
Poor women in a southern Indian state have been offered free breast surgeries, including implants, for both aesthetic or medical reasons.
The Tamil Nadu state...
A Nigerian bishop whom Pope Francis had fiercely defended has resigned after a five-year, sometimes violent, standoff with rebel priests and faithful who rejected...
Mensah, 28, was mourned Saturday at a funeral mass which recalled the characteristic selflessness that cost the young soldier his life.
Our Lady of Mount...
Russia's foreign minister has dismissed as "blather" the charges levelled by the FBI special counsel against 13 Russians for election meddling.
Sergei Lavrov said at...
New York police have arrested a former teacher and his twin brother after stockpiles of explosive materials were found at their home.
Christian Toro, 27,...
Retired archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu announced Thursday that he had quit his role as an ambassador for Oxfam after the British charity...
An Israeli military court on Tuesday ordered the extension of a Palestine teenager’s detention by one month for slapping an Israeli soldier.
In the court...
Pakistan has again banned Valentine's Day events and media coverage of them, after a court ruled the holiday un-Islamic for a second consecutive year.
The...
The Commonwealth has confirmed the successful readmission of Gambia into the global bloc.
The West African country becomes the 53rd nation but fourth to rejoin.
The...
One of US President Donald Trump's top aides has resigned amid abuse claims from his two ex-wives.
White House staff secretary Rob Porter said "these...
Kenya has deported opposition supporter and lawyer, Miguna Miguna, following his role in the unofficial swearing-in of opposition leader Raila Odinga as "the people's...
At least 40 people have been tested HIV positive in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where an unqualified doctor had allegedly used a single syringe to...
Leading rights group Amnesty International has condemned Ghana's authorities for carrying out medical tests on the private parts of two male students accused of...
Senior Democrats have warned President Donald Trump not to use a controversial memo as a "pretext" to fire the special counsel investigating alleged Russian...
The 68-year-old son of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro, Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart, has died in Havana after taking his own life, according to state...
Eleven people have been killed after a fire at a Japanese residential facility for people in financial difficulty.
TV footage on the country's public broadcaster...
First Lady Melania Trump broke with long-standing tradition when she arrived at her husband's State of the Union address alone.
Her office told reporters it...
A school district in Southern California says it's looking into allegations that a teacher told his history class that military service members are "the...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to keep the detention centre open at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Trump’s decision, which was announced shortly before...
Kenyan authorities shut down TV stations to prevent live coverage of a swearing-in event by opposition leader Raila Odinga, who boycotted last year's disputed...
Kenya’s main opposition coalition the National Super Alliance (NASA) says it will press on with a planned inauguration banned by the authorities.
There is tension...
