The United Nations on Monday launched the Generation Unlimited campaign that aims to promote education, training and employment of young people all over the world. As part of the opening day activities...

  Co-founders of Instagram, a smart phone photo-sharing platform, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have resigned from their positions. The duo resigned from their positions as Chief Executive and...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting Algeria to promote bilateral ties and discuss migration and the situation in neighbouring Libya. The high-point of Monday’s one-day visit is her meeting with...

In what looks like the first move of its kind since the two neighbouring countries fought a war two decades ago, the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea on Monday re-opened a border point between both countries...

Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir on Sunday dissolved the government and named a new prime minister, Motazz Moussa whom he charged to form a smaller cabinet as the country struggles to fix the crisis-hit...

At least seventeen people have reportedly died in South Sudan after a small aircraft carrying passengers from the country’s main airport, Juba International Airport and heading to the city of Yirol...

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced 75 people, including prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders to death and jailed more than 600 others over a 2013 sit-in which ended with the killing of hundreds of...

A South Sudanese military court on Thursday sentenced ten soldiers to jail terms ranging from seven years to life for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a local journalist in an assault...

At least 400 prisoners on Sunday reportedly escaped from a jail in Tripoli, Libya‘s capital while fighting between rival armed groups raged  in a nearby town.  Fierce clashes erupted last week between...

Shots  fired by a yet to be identified person reportedly injured two people during a horse racing event at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in Del Mar, California, United States on Sunday evening. According to...

At least eighteen persons have been confirmed dead after an Ethiopian military helicopter crashed in the country’s Oromiya region on Thursday. According to the state-affiliated Fana News Agency, fifteen...

French and British fishermen have clashed in the English Channel in an escalating battle over scallops although no one was injured during the incident. About 40 French boats tried to stop five larger...

One thing seemed to have caught the attention of most Kenyans when the country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta recently met with the President of the United States, Donald Trump in a first of its kind,...

A two-foot tall robot called Keeko which bears a startling resemblance to Eve from the Pixar film ‘Wall-E’ is being used to teach young children in Chinese kindergarten schools.  Keeko moves around...

Emmerson Mnangagwa has begun a fresh five year term as president of Zimbabwe. Mnangagwa was sworn in on Sunday in the presence of thousands of cheering Zimbabweans. He took the oath before Chief Justice...

  A 24-year-old man identified as David Katz of Baltimore on Sunday fatally shot two people at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida before taking his own life. Police authorities said...

United States Republican Senator, John McCain has died on Saturday after battling brain cancer for more than a year. He was 81. Senator McCain who faced down his captors in a Vietnamese prisoners of...

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake which struck near the Iranian city of Kermanshah on Sunday has killed at least two persons and wounded 241. According to the Tasnim News Agency, the majority of the casualties...

  Kenya’s Deputy President, William Ruto has responded to an opinion poll that ranked him the most corrupt politician in the country, describing it as fake news sponsored by his detractors. An...

A knife-wielding man on Thursday reportedly killed his mother and sister in the Paris suburb of Trappes and seriously wounded a third person. According to the French Interior Ministry, the young man...