The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered its forecasts for US and UK economic growth this year, following "weaker-than-expected activity" in the first three...
Nigeria's president has been pictured in London for the first time since he left his homeland almost 80 days ago.
President Muhammadu Buhari, 74, came...
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has quit, reportedly in protest at a shake-up of the communications team.
Mr Spicer stepped down because he was...
Former US football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole after nine years in a Nevada prison.
"Thank you!" said 70-year-old Simpson, bowing...
US President Donald Trump’s eldest son, his son-in-law and his former campaign manager are to testify before Senate committees investigating alleged Russian meddling in...
Veteran US Republican Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer and is reviewing treatment options, his office says.
His treatment may include a...
US President Donald Trump met his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at a second, previously undisclosed meeting at the G20 in Germany earlier this month,...
Radio France International’s Hausa service journalist Ahmed Abba who was sentenced to 10 years in prison this year by a Cameroon military tribunal has...
Kenya’s main opposition leader Raila Odinga has called on his supporters not to have sex on the eve of the elections on August 8.
The National Super...
US tech giant Apple has previewed forthcoming emojis, including one that depicts a woman wearing a hijab.
More than 12 animated symbols were unveiled on...
A TV debate for Kenyan politicians hoping to become deputy president in next month's elections went ahead even though only one candidate took part.
Muthiora...
An ambulance carrying South Africa's first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela caught fire as it was rushing him to hospital, his doctor revealed in...
At least one person has been shot dead while waiting to vote in an unofficial, opposition-organised referendum in Venezuela.
Men on motorbikes killed a woman...
A Brazilian politician has accused left-wing protesters of physically and verbally abusing her wedding guests over her family’s support for President Michel Temer.
Maria Victoria Barros,...
New revelations about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting last summer with a Russian lawyer are continuing to surface a week after the revelation rocketed the...
Ghanaian footballer Solomon Nyantakyi shocked the footballing world after he killed his mum and sister in Italy.
The 21 year old who plays for Parma...
A thirteen-year-old boy has been found dead in an uncompleted building beside his home after his mother allegedly rained abuses on him.
The teenager, simply...
President Donald Trump has apparently dismissed news accounts of the latest revelations about a meeting between members of his presidential campaign and a Russian...
The Pentagon said Friday that US forces have killed Abu Sayed, the leader of ISIS-Khorasan, the terror group's Afghanistan affiliate.
The "Emir" of ISIS-K was...
A Nigerian traditional chief in the state of Lagos has been suspended after he confessed to faking his own kidnap.
Lagos state Governor Akinwunmi Ambode...
The US president paid the compliment to France's first lady, Brigitte Macron, as the two couples chatted in Paris.
President Donald Trump arrived in Paris...
