A South African court has increased Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius’s jail sentence for killing his girlfriend to 13 years and five months.
Prosecutors had argued...
Indians have reacted angrily after the health minister from Assam state said cancer “is divine justice” caused by “past sins of a person”.
Himanta Biswa...
A British camera operator has died while shooting a stunt sequence for a BBC drama in Ghana.
Mark Milsome, whose credits include Saving Private Ryan...
Flash floods caused by heavy overnight rain have killed at least 15 people and caused destruction in central Greece.
The industrial towns of Mandra, Nea...
Australians have overwhelmingly voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage in a historic poll.
The non-binding postal vote showed 61.6% of people favour allowing same-sex...
South Africa's notorious snake pastor Penuel Mnguni has fed cockroaches to two brothers in his congregation, alleging that the insects turned into cheese for...
US regulators have approved the first pill that can be digitally tracked through the body.
The Abilify MyCite aripiprazole tablets - for treating schizophrenia and...
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek...
Theresa May has launched her strongest attack on Russia yet, accusing Moscow of meddling in elections and carrying out cyber espionage.
Addressing leading business figures...
A driver has ploughed into a group of pedestrians near the French city of Toulouse, injuring three Chinese exchange students.
A 23-year-old woman was seriously...
Four people have appeared in a Zimbabwean court for allegedly booing First Lady Grace Mugabe, state-owned media reports.
The Herald says they were arrested after...
Yemen faces the world’s largest famine in decades “with millions of victims” if aid deliveries are not resumed, a senior UN official has warned.
Mark...
North Korean officials were closely watching US President Donald Trump when he addressed the South Korean National Assembly Wednesday, but they say they weren't...
A woman pictured raising her middle finger toward US President Donald Trump’s motorcade has reportedly been fired from her job over the photograph.
The image...
Gunmen have attacked a local television station in the Afghan capital Kabul, with reports that people have been killed and injured.
Witnesses say the attackers...
The scandal surrounding Britain's political class deepened Sunday with more allegations of sexual harassment, abuse of power and other misdeeds, including new claims involving a key...
The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, had disclosed that thousands of Cameroonians from the restive Anglophone region continue to flee into neighbouring Nigeria.
UNHCR said on Tuesday...
Amnesty International has condemned the decision of a military court in Cameroon to sentence an opposition leader to 25 years in prison.
Aboubakar Siddiki was...
Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab have claimed a deadly car bomb attack in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Saturday.
A Somali journalist who specializes in reporting...
An Italian accountant has been jailed for 24 years after intentionally infecting 30 women with HIV.
Valentino Talluto is said to have had unprotected sex...
Burundi has become the first country to withdraw its membership from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
It accused the ICC of deliberately targeting Africans for...
