A nine-year-old girl is among three people confirmed to have died following a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in and around the Japanese city of Osaka which occurred  during Monday morning rush hour. Local officials...

Several people have been reportedly injured after a shooting at a funeral home in the town of Hayward in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. According to local media reports, the shooting took...

An Indian spiritual guru, Bhaiyyu Maharaj, known for the massive following he enjoyed in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh districts and among leaders from across the political spectrum,  reportedly shot...

United States President, Donald Trump says North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un no longer poses a nuclear threat to the rest of the world. Trump took to his Twitter handle on Wednesday, a...

Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has defended his government’s latest austerity measures aimed at rebuilding the country’s ailing economy, amid a wave of arrests since his re-election. The...

United States President, Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong Un on Tuesday signed what he described as a “pretty comprehensive” document to cap off their historic summit in Singapore. Trump...

In a surprise move, Burundian President, Pierre Nkurunziza said on Monday that he would step down in 2020, despite widespread belief that he backed a new constitution extending term limits in a bid to...

A decision by the Austrian government to close seven mosques and expel as many as 60 Imams has been branded by  Turkish government spokesman as a populist attempt to standardize racism and Islamophobia. Turkey’s...

  German Chancellor, Angela Merkel has described the contentious Group of Seven (G7) summit with the United States President, Donald Trump as a sobering and depressing experience. She stated this...

An 80-storey office building set to open this week at the World Trade Center will be the third completed skyscraper at the site where the twin towers stood. Monday’s ribbon-cutting for the 1,079-foot...

In what is seen as a rare admission that it used to have such ties in the first place, the Sudanese government on Wednesday announced that it has cut all defence ties with North Korea. The announcement...

The Austrian government on Friday said it would expel several foreign-funded imams and shut down seven mosques in a crackdown In what it described as ‘political Islam’. Austrian Chancellor, Sebastian...

Proceedings in the corruption case initiated against former South African President, Jacob Zuma who was ousted by his own party, the African National Congress (ANC) in February, has been postponed to...

Malawi’s Vice President, Saulos Chilima on Wednesday publicly accused the country’s president, Peter Mutharika of presiding over a government that was riddled with corruption as he announced his resignation...

A Protestant pastor performing a mass lakeside baptism has been attacked and killed by a crocodile in Ethiopia. Docho Eshete and about 80 members of his congregation had gathered at the southern end of...

Jerry Maren, the last surviving member of the group of actors who played munchkins in the classic 1939 film, ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ has died at the age of 99. Boasting of an entertainment career that...

Nigeria has condoled with the government and people of the Republic of Guatemala over the Fuego volcanic eruption tragedy in the country. The Non-Resident Ambassador of Nigeria to the Republic of Guatemala,...

A light aircraft which was flying with ten people on board from Kitale town in western Kenya to Nairobi, the country’s capital went missing on Tuesday. Confirming the incident, the Kenya Civil Aviation...

The United States says it is actively preparing for the much anticipated meeting between President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-Un scheduled to hold by 9 am on June 12 in Singapore. According...

The number of illegal immigrants killed after their boat sank off the southeastern coast of Tunisia on Sunday has risen to 48. Tunisia’s interior ministry reportedly received a distress call at...