The city of Pittsburgh in the US state of Pennsylvania witnessed an unusual form of terror on Saturday as a lone gunman entered into a synagogue packed with worshippers and opened fire. At the end of the...

The helicopter of Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha has crashed after the Premier League football match between his club and West Ham on Saturday night. Statements from the English Premier...

The Ethiopian Parliament on Thursday elected veteran diplomat, Sahle-Work Zewde as its first female president. The 68-year-old Zewde succeeds Mulatu Teshome, who resigned from the largely ceremonial post...

An archaeological mission in Egypt has uncovered parts of a celebration compartment belonging to ancient Egyptian King, Ramses II in the Matariya neighbourhood of Cairo, the country’s capital. According...

  Ethiopia’s President, Mulatu Teshome on Wednesday submitted his letter of resignation to the two houses of the country’s Parliament. A joint extraordinary session of the two houses is scheduled...

Suspected explosive devices meant to be delivered to the homes of former US President Barack Obama and  former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been intercepted by security agents. Also intercepted...

The Prince of Wales and first in line of succession to the British throne, Prince Charles will visit Nigeria in two weeks. This was made known by the UK High Commission in Nigeria in a tweet. It was also...

The Constitutional Council in Cameroon has declared  incumbent president, Paul Biya, the winner of the October 7 presidential election in the country. The announcement follows two weeks of political...

A 72-year-old Indian man identified as Dharampal Singh has reportedly died after a group of monkeys threw bricks at him in Tikri, Uttar Pradesh district in India. According to reports, Singh was  gathering...

Saudi Arabia has described the killing of journalist, Jamal Khashoggi at its Istanbul consulate as a huge and grave mistake. According to a statement by the country’s Foreign Minister, Adel al-Jubeir,...

Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday nullified a law which allows the country’s police to authorize protests as it could be abused or misused by state machinery. By this position, the court...

A group of United Nations agencies has called for a ban on all tests carried out to assess the virginity of a girl or a woman, describing it as an abuse of their fundamental human rights. The agencies...

The Kensington Palace has officially confirmed that the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle is pregnant and expected to put to bed in the summer of 2019 with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as the child’s...

Hillary Clinton says her husband’s affair with former White House intern, Monica Lewinsky was not an abuse of power and he was right to not resign from the US presidency in the wake of the scandal. The...

Roelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha, a key figure during South Africa’s transition from the apartheid era has died at the age of 86. Mr. Botha, who spent most of his career defending the white minority...

The Police in Tanzania on Thursday morning rescued Tanzanian billionaire and former Member of Parliament of the country’s ruling party, Mohammed Dewji from his abductors in Dar es Salaam, the country’s...

Britain’s Prime Minister, Theresa May has appointed Jackie Doyle Price as the country’s Suicide-prevention Minister as part of a national effort to reduce the number of people who take their own...

The Malaysian cabinet has agreed to abolish the death penalty which is currently mandatory for murder, kidnapping, possession of firearms and drug trafficking, among other crimes in the country. According...

  The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Williams has bemoaned the extent to which African wildlife has been poached over the years leading to radical measures being taken to protect them. Speaking at the...

At least 50 persons including women and children have died in Kenya as a result of a bus accident as they were travelling from the country’s capital, Nairobi to the Western town of Kisumu. Confirming...