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...
A huge explosion has ripped through a crowded mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing 21 people, police say.
Another 33 people were injured, Kabul...
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...
Tanzania's state telecommunications firm has installed high-speed internet connectivity on the slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, through a national broadband project.
Information Minister...
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 George Weah suspended Nathaniel McGill, the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, and two other officials after the US Treasury added them...
When a Congo woman, identified as Goreth, decided to share her possessions with her younger sister, she never imagined that would include her future...
Raila Odinga has rejected the results of Kenya's presidential election saying that the figures announced on Monday were "null and void".
According to the official...
New Zealand police are investigating after a family found human remains in suitcases they purchased from an auction at a storage facility.
The occupants of...
Tanzania's President Samia Hassan has ordered fresh training for pot-bellied immigration officers to make them more agile.
She made the remarks in Swahili on Monday,...
Eyinatayo Iluyomade, a 19-year-old Lagos-based comedian, has been arrested and charged to court for saying an expensive joke.
The skit maker was alleged to have...
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Monday remanded a 20-year-old man, Musa Salimon, at the Agodi Correctional facility for allegedly raping his friend’s...
A secret underwater village hidden for over 40 years has been uncovered as Britain's scorching heatwave dries up the lake where it was previously hidden.
The houses that used...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Kremlin is ready to hand out modern weaponry to its allies - which include rogue states lead by unpredictable...
At least 50 people have died and "many" displaced after recent torrential rains caused flooding in northern Nigeria, Sani Yusuf, executive secretary of the...
Deputy President, William Ruto has won Kenya's presidential election, the electoral commission chairman has said, amid dramatic scenes.
He narrowly beat his rival, Raila Odinga,...
There were chaotic scenes at an Ikea store in Shanghai on Saturday, with shoppers trying to escape as authorities tried to quarantine them.
Health officials...
The Moscow Exchange will be partially reopened to foreign investors from Monday after a nearly six-month suspension during the Ukraine war.
It says only investors...
There's growing anticipation that the much-awaited results of last week's Kenya presidential election will be known shortly.
Desks being used for the result verification process...
President Muhammadu Buhari has met families of passengers kidnapped during a train attack in late March in northern Nigeria.
It was the first time such...
