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Kenya Airways missing $28m in forex payments

Kenya’s national airline has told the BBC the amount of money it is trying to repatriate from Ethiopia, Malawi and Nigeria is $28m (£24m). Kenya...

17-year-old sets new record for flying solo across the globe

A 17-year-old pilot became the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a small aircraft after he landed on Wednesday in Bulgaria,...

Hijab-wearing women ‘facing discrimination’ in Egypt

A BBC investigation has found evidence that some businesses in Egypt are discriminating against women wearing the hijab.  It suggests a major property developer is...

Hijab-wearing women ‘facing discrimination’ in Egypt

A BBC investigation has found evidence that some businesses in Egypt are discriminating against women wearing the hijab.  It suggests a major property developer is...

Ukraine war: Russian strike on rail station kills 22

A Russian rocket strike on a Ukrainian train station has killed 22 people, Ukraine says, on the day marking six months since Moscow's invasion...

US court charges Inusah Fuseini’s son with fraud and money laundering

The son of former Tamale Central MP, Inusah Fuseini, has been charged by a United States court with fraud and money laundering. Evidence at trial...

Official sacked over social media posts

A Tanzanian government employee has been sacked for opposing the introduction of charges for mobile money transfers on social media. Jonas Afumwisye, a regional manager...

Meghan Markle, Prince Harry’s son saved from house fire

Meghan Markle has detailed how Prince Harry's son Archie and her good self narrowly escaped a fire in his bedroom on the their royal...

Ex PM to serve 12-year term in jail

Malaysia former Prime Minister Najib Razak has been sent to jail to begin serving a 12-year sentence, after the top court rejected his appeal. The...

Company orders employees to eat raw eggs as punishment

A Chinese company has sparked controversy online after it was reported that it forces employees to eat raw eggs as punishment for not meeting...

Unknown gunman shoot girl, 9, dead at home

A nine-year-old girl has been shot dead in her own home by an unknown gunman who remains on the loose. Merseyside Police officers descended on Kotty Ash, Liverpool,...

Delta Airlines’ plane banned from flights to Accra

The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has temporarily banned Delta Air Lines' plane with registration N195DN, from flying to Ghana. This comes on the...

Trump sues justice department over search

Former US President Donald Trump has asked a judge to freeze the justice department's investigation of files seized from his Mar-a-Lago home. In a lawsuit,...

Officers charged over bride’s arrest at wedding

Uganda’s police have charged four of its officers who stormed a wedding reception over the weekend and arrested the bride over a theft charge. The...

Vladimir Putin’s spiritual guru holds head in hands as bomb ‘meant for him’ kills daughter

A video has emerged showing Putin's spiritual guru at the scene of a car bomb explosion that killed his daughter - but was "meant...

Deserted town where an underground fire has been burning for more than 60 years

An underground fire that has continually been burning for decades in an American town has forced most of its inhabitants to move out. Centralia in...

Horror as bully dog tears chunk of flesh from girl’s legs and arms

A teenage girl was left suffering nightmares and afraid to go outside after a dog mauled her all over her body and tore chunks...

Power drought hit Shanghai, sights go dark

An iconic skyline in the Chinese city of Shanghai - called The Bund - will not be lit for two nights to save power,...

Daughter of Putin ally killed in a blast

The daughter of a close ally of Russia's President Vladimir Putin has been killed in a suspected car bombing. Darya Dugina, 29, died after an...

Singapore to end ban on gay sex

Singapore will repeal a law that bans gay sex, effectively making it legal to be homosexual in the city-state. The decision, announced by Prime Minister...

2-year-old revenges, bites 20-inch snake to death

A two-year-old bit a snake to death in Turkey last week after she was struck first.  Newsweek reports the toddler was in her backyard on August 10 when neighbours heard...

Ethiopian Airlines suspends pilots who didn’t respond to traffic control

Ethiopian Airlines Group has suspended a plane crew pending an investigation after they lost communication with air-traffic control in Addis Ababa before later landing safely. Flight...

Bus ploughs into crash scene, kills 16 rescuers

A bus has hit the scene of an earlier road accident in Turkey, killing 16 people and injuring 21. The incident happened near the southern...

Woman quits job after just 1 coworker attended her wedding

A young Chinese woman allegedly quit her job of five years after being disappointed that only one of the seventy coworkers she invited to...

Zulu King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini to be crowned in South Africa despite family feud

After a year-long family feud, Misuzulu ka Zwelithini is finally to be crowned Zulu King in a traditional ceremony in South Africa on Saturday. The...

Groom kills bride on wedding night, hides body in suitcase

A man who horrifically murdered his new bride just hours after they tied the knot has been handed a life sentence. Dawn Walker’s body was found stuffed into a...

Sad video of how teens beat Ghanaian taxi driver to death drops

New York City police have released footage of the moment five teenagers fatally beat a yellow cab driver. The harrowing video shows how father-of-four Kutin Gyimah,...

Billionaire jailed for 13 years

A Chinese-Canadian billionaire has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in China and his company fined more than $8bn (£6.7bn). Xiao Jianhua and his...

Princess Diana’s jewellery – what happened to collection and who inherited her jewels?

Princess Diana wore such a heavy tiara on her wedding day that is said to have given her a headache. The former Princess of Wales - who died 25 years...

Pope rules out sex misconduct probe of top cardinal

The Vatican has said it will not probe accusations of sexual misconduct against one of its top cardinals due to insufficient evidence. Canadian Cardinal Marc...

Akufo-Addo congratulates President-elect William Ruto of Kenya

President Nana Akufo-Addo has congratulated the newly-elected President of Kenya, William Ruto, on his victory in the just ended presidential elections of 9th August...

2 suspects arrested in connection with death of Ghanaian Taxi Driver in New York

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has charged two men in connection with the death of a city taxi driver. The two, Austin Amos and Nicholas...

Two pilots on Ethiopian Airlines flight ‘fall asleep at 37,000 feet’

Two pilots of a passenger airplane fell asleep mid flight- but miraculously landed their plane without anyone suffering injuries. Flight ET343 was travelling from Khartoum...

Covid-19: Live fish tested for Covid amid China’s new outbreak

More than five million people have been ordered to undergo Covid-19 testing in the coastal Chinese city of Xiamen this week, after some 40...

Woman hospitalised after napkin laced with poison was placed in her door handle

A woman in Texas is shaken up after she was rushed to the emergency room for an apparent poisoning incident. Erin ‘Dawn’ Sims, 37,...

Student jailed 34 years for using Twitter in Saudi Arabia

A 34-year-old Saudi student at Leeds University, Salma al-Shebab, has been sentenced to 34 years imprisonment for using a Twitter account and for following...

Man ordered to pay $1k for urinating in his ex-girlfriend’s Louis Vuitton handbag

A South Korean civil court recently ordered a 31-year-old man to pay his ex-girlfriend 1.5 million won ($1,150) as damages for urinating in her...

Biden signs climate, tax and health bill into law

US President Joe Biden has signed a $700bn (£579bn) bill that aims to fight climate change and healthcare costs while raising taxes mainly on...

Man sued after lover injects herself with his HIV+ blood to prove her love for him

The family of a teenage girl, who injected her boyfriend's HIV-positive blood into her body to prove her love for him, has sued their daughter's boyfriend. Last...

Liberian President suspends 3 top officials sanctioned by US for corruption

Liberian President George Weah suspended Nathaniel McGill, the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, and two other officials after the US Treasury added them...