In London, the old,enigmatic clock called Big Ben chimed loudly at 23:00 GMT. Alas! The United Kingdom has officially left the European Union. This is coming more than three years after the Brexit referendum...

The World Health Organization has declared a global emergency over the new corona virus outbreak even as China reported on Friday that the death toll in that country had climbed to 213 with nearly 10,000...

   Three-and-a-half years since the 2016 Brexit referendum, Britain finally becomes the first ever country to leave the European Union and go it alone since the union was birthed in 1973. Prime...

China, with 5,974 cases of a new corona virus, has more infections than it recorded with SARS, though the death toll is still lower. China had 5,327 cases of SARS in the 2002-2003 outbreak. The number...

President Donald Trump released his long delayed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan Tuesday, promising ‘a new dawn,’ but angry Palestinians called it biased and deserving to go into the ‘dustbin...

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is withdrawing his bid for parliamentary immunity from prosecution on corruption charges, paving the way for a trial to begin. He disclosed his decision...

Qatar’s emir has appointed via decree a new prime minister, according to state media. Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdelaziz Al Thani will take on the role of prime minister after Sheikh Abdullah...

Aviation authorities have now confirmed that Kobe Bryant’s 13-year old daughter, Gianna died along with him and three yet to be identified other persons in the fatal helicopter crash. Gianna was...

Legendary basketball player, Kobe Bryant has died in an helicopter crash. He was travelling with four other people in his private helicopter when it went down near the city of Calabasas in California. The...

The EU Withdrawal Bill that will enable Britain’s exit from the European Union became law on Thursday after receiving Royal assent from Queen Elizabeth II. According to the law, the U.K. will leave...

The World Health Organization on Thursday decided not to declare the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak a global emergency, despite the spread of the dangerous respiratory infection from China to at least five...

The Trump administration is imposing new visa rules aimed at restricting “birth tourism,” in which women travel to the United States to give birth so their children can have U.S. citizenship. The regulations...

Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, has been accused of embezzlement and money laundering by prosecutors in Angola. Attorney General Helder Pitta Gros said the allegations related to her time...

Three American crew members died Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in southeastern Australia, officials said. The cause of the crash was not immediately...

China locked down two cities at the centre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak on Thursday, banning planes and trains from leaving in a move aimed at containing the disease which has already spread to other...

The death toll from a new flu-like coronavirus in China rose to nine on Wednesday with 440 confirmed cases, Chinese health officials said as authorities stepped up efforts to control the outbreak . Authorities...

Greece’s parliament on Wednesday elected the first woman president in the country’s history. Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou, a 63-year-old senior judge with  expertise in environmental and constitutional...

The US Senate has approved a resolution along party lines outlining the rules that will govern the impeachment proceedings on President Donald Trump. The  Senate early on Wednesday voted 53-47 to adopt...

A fourth person in China has died from a new virus that has spread rapidly across the country. The latest victim of the new strain of corona virus is an 89- year- old man who lived in Wuhan, the city at...

Angola’s prosecutor general has promised to use all possible means to bring Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of the country’s former president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos back to the country to...