President Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to tour Meru County on Friday and Saturday. During the two-day visit, he will issue 200,000 title deeds in different areas in the...
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A former Miss Turkey beauty queen faces up to 4.5 years in prison on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on social media, the state news agency...
Avalanches triggered by heavy snow have killed more than 100 people in mountainous areas of Afghanistan and the death toll is expected to rise, officials said on...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation to address the US Congress, without the blessing of the White House, is destructive to US...
An Egyptian who is obese and ailing was declared eligible for release Wednesday by a US government panel that reviews cases of those still held at the prison camp...
South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a 60-year-old statute outlawing adultery under which violators faced up to two years in prison. The...
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) will issue a second notice to three media houses to go back to the TV digital platform, failure to which they risk...
Marriage therapist Valerie Goss turned on her computer one day and found that all of her data was being held hostage. Malicious code referred to as “ransomware”...
The built-in bottom washers and pre-warmed seats of Japan’s luxury toilets have become the latest flashpoint with China, as Beijing’s state-run media launched a...
Islamic State group jihadists have abducted 220 Assyrian Christians from villages in northeastern Syria in recent days, a monitoring group said Thursday, more...
Suspected Jewish extremists torched part of a church-owned building in Jerusalem overnight, police said, in the second racist attack in the Holy Land in two days...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame arrives in Paris Friday, his spokeswoman said, but for a UN meeting and is not expected to meet French officials while in the country...
The United States staged a military ceremony Thursday to end its five-month Ebola mission in Liberia, with the west African nation in recovery from the worst-ever...
The Sh14 million custom-made dress worn by actress Lupita Nyong’o at the Oscars on Sunday has been stolen in Hollywood, the BBC reports. Lupita was stunningly...
A 15 year old Brazilian shot dead by police last week was carrying a mobile phone that caught the incident on camera, according to video published Thursday by a...
Sudanese President Omar al Bashir said Thursday he would stand down if he is voted out at polls in April, as he launched his campaign which he is widely expected...
“Jihadi John”, the masked Islamic State group militant believed responsible for beheading of at least five Western hostages, has been named as Kuwaiti-born...
A Hong Kong woman was jailed for six years on Friday for beating and starving her Indonesian maid and keeping her prisoner, as the judge called for action over laws...
Lesotho’s army will be confined to barracks when the small mountain kingdom votes Saturday in a snap election to break a political deadlock after an attempted coup last...
The US led coalition has carried out air strikes against the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria, where the jihadists have launched a new offensive and kidnapped...
Beijing has imposed a one year ban on imports of ivory carvings, but questions remained Friday on its effect on rising Chinese demand, which critics say could...
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has admitted he blundered by giving ill-equipped black farmers vast tracts of farmland seized from whites under his...
A baby stolen from her sleeping mother’s arms shortly after birth has been found by the family through an astonishing coincidence 17 years later, South African...
Immigration officials are no longer screening out undocumented immigrants who may be eligible for deportation relief under President Barack Obama’s most recent...
[Independent (Lagos)]IN the last two weeks, I have not enjoyed up to 48 hours of public electricity. The situation may not change in the next two weeks, but I...
On Thursday and Friday, the Internet went gaga, first over a pair of llamas loose in Arizona, then over a dress that appeared either white-and-gold or black-and-blue...
AFP) – Billionaire French industrialist Martin Bouygues died on Saturday at the age of 62, a mayor in the northwestern Orne region, where he had a home, said...
(AFP) – When sculptor Xavier Veilhan persuaded Daft Punk to come to his studio, the artist, in the words of one of the duo’s songs, got lucky. The...
(AP) — Julio Cesar Strassera, the prosecutor who won conviction against leaders of Argentina’s dictatorship and coined the term “Nunca mas,” or...
(AP) — Former AIG President and CEO Robert Benmosche, who led the insurer’s turnaround after its $182 billion government bailout, has died of lung cancer at age...
