The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed for, among other achievements, helping his country end the 20-year war with neighbours, Eritrea. Announcing the prize...

Romania’s beleaguered left-wing government was on Thursday toppled by the country’s parliament in a no-confidence vote, paving the way for President Klaus Iohannis to appoint a new Prime Minister. Prime...

An oil tanker named Sabiti and owned by The National Iranian Oil Company was on Friday morning struck by two explosions off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Tehran said the supertanker was hit by two missiles...

In the face of an open  declaration by US President Donald Trump that American troops were withdrawing from Syria, Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has said the president did not give Turkey the green...

Three scientists, including the oldest ever winner have taken home the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating the rechargeable battery. The trio, John B. Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino...

North Korea on Thursday threatened to resume its nuclear and long-range missile tests, describing outside condemnation of her weapon launches as a grave provocation.  Thursday’s warning by the...

Police in Nepal have arrested a former speaker of the country’s parliament, Krishna Bahadur Mahara following a district court permission to take him into custody to investigate the attempt-to-rape charges...

The Hong Kong Police has filed criminal charges against an 18-year-old Hong Kong student who was shot by a Police officer as pro-democracy protests hit a new level of violence. Police told reporters...

The Turkish Defence Ministry on Tuesday said it had concluded all preparations for a military incursion into northern Syria. This is coming just a day after United States President, Donald Trump announced...

Former United States President, Jimmy Carter fell in his Plains, Georgia home on Sunday and received some stitches above his eye brow. His spokeswoman, Deanna Congileo said in an email that the 95-year-old...

North Korea’s top negotiator, Mr. Kim Myong Gil on Saturday night said that the nuclear talks in Sweden between officials from Pyongyang and Washington had broken off, dashing expectations of an...

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has designated a man who has confessed to nearly 100 murders and is serving multiple life sentences in a California prison as the most prolific serial killer...

A United States federal judge on Monday rejected a bold argument from President Donald Trump that sitting presidents are immune from criminal investigations, allowing the Manhattan district attorney’s...

The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres on Monday said the body is running a deficit of $230 million and may run out of money by the end of October. In a letter intended for the 37,000...

 About 104 persons have been killed and some 6,000 others injured following protests in Iraq which began last  week. According to the country’s Interior Ministry, eight of the dead are members...

United States researchers, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza as well as Britain’s Peter Ratcliffe on Monday shared the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. According...

The Police in London say they have arrested 21 climate change activists over the past few days as the Extinction Rebellion group attempts to draw attention to increasing global warming. The capital’s...

A painting by England’s anonymous street artist, Banksy showing the British House of Commons overrun by chimpanzees has sold at auction for just under £9.9 million. Expected to fetch up to £2 million,...

At least five persons were killed after an Antonov-12 transport plane crash-landed near Lviv Airport in western Ukraine on Friday morning. Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister, Vladislav Krikliy said...

The wife of the French Police employee who killed four colleagues at the Paris Force’s Headquarters on Thursday says he had a psychotic episode, was incoherent and heard voices the night before. The...