The long-awaited trial of medical staff who treated the late Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has started in the capital, Buenos Aires.
Maradona was convalescing...
The vast majority of the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) programmes have been terminated following a six-week review, Secretary of State Marco Rubio...
At least 20 people have been killed as Russian strikes hit several regions in Ukraine overnight, including Donetsk and Kharkiv, according to Ukrainian officials.
Eight...
A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday, March 5 rejected the Trump administration’s request to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress...
US President Donald Trump said he would cut funding for universities that allow what he called "illegal" protests and prosecute and deport foreign students...
Jay-Z is suing a woman who in February withdrew her legal action accusing the rapper of rape.
His defamation action claims she "voluntarily admitted" being pressured...
Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children as young as one during Sudan's civil war, says the UN children's agency, Unicef.
Mass sexual violence...
A Ghanaian-Bronx-based immigration lawyer, Kofi Amankwaa, has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for his role in a fraud scheme involving fraudulent filings...
A Scottish businessman who disappeared in Kenya has been found dead.
Campbell Scott, from Fife, was attending a conference at the JW Marriott Hotel in...
Indian authorities have banned two highly addictive opioids in response to a BBC investigation which found they were fuelling a public health crisis in...
Pope Francis is resting, but remains "critical" with respiratory and kidney problems, more than a week after being admitted to hospital, the Vatican has...
An aid worker has died from gunshot wounds in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels who captured two key cities in recent...
Former President Nana Akufo-Addo has called on Nigeria to take a leading role in driving Africa’s economic integration, emphasizing the need for bold leadership...
An Indian pharmaceutical company is manufacturing unlicensed, highly addictive opioids and exporting them illegally to West Africa where they are driving a major public...
Nigeria may face a tanker shortage as the Federal Government moves to ban 60,000- and 45,000-litre capacity petroleum trucks.
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum...
Muhsin Hendricks, a pioneering figure dubbed the world's first openly gay imam, has been shot dead in South Africa.
The 57-year-old cleric ran a mosque...
A cellphone exploded in a woman's pocket inside a busy supermarket in a terrifying scene that was caught on video.
Security camera footage showed the...
A 23-year-old woman has died after suffering a heart attack while dancing at her sister's wedding in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha, officials said on Sunday.
The...
China's tit-for-tat import taxes on some American goods came into effect on Monday, as the trade war between the world's two biggest economies escalates...