US President Barack Obama on Thursday scotched the notion that his more popular wife Michelle would launch a White House bid.
Actor Alan Rickman, known for films including Harry Potter, Die Hard and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, has died at the age of 69, his family has said. Read More…
US President Barack Obama on Thursday scotched the notion that his more popular wife Michelle would launch a White House bid.
Janet Jackson on Thursday rescheduled concerts she had previously cancelled in a new sign of her solid recovery from a mystery illness. Read More…
An ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up in the heart of Istanbul’s main tourism district and killed ten German travellers after entering the country from Syria. Read More…
Saudi jets have ‘deliberately’ bombed the Iranian embassy in Yemen in an air raid that wounded staff, Tehran has claimed today. Read More…
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Leading US Republicans have denounced President Barack Obama’s move to tighten gun controls. Read More…
North Korea successfully tests a hydrogen bomb. Read More…
The diplomatic crisis surrounding Saudi Arabia and Iran widened on Tuesday as Kuwait recalled its ambassador to Tehran in the face of growing international concern. Read More…
Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), arrived in Abuja on Monday to begin her four-day visit to Nigeria.
Donald Trump on Monday warned that President Barack Obama’s planned executive actions to expand background checks on gun purchases are a step toward even greater restrictions on Americans’ access to firearms.
Marco Rubio is sharpening the contrast between himself and his rivals — in both his own party and the opposing side over issues of national security and foreign policy, topics on which the Florida senator has staked his presidential campaign.
Iran says it is using all diplomatic channels to pursue the release of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky who was arrested by the Nigerian army last month. Read More…
The South African King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo began his jail term on Wednesday. Read More…
President Obama has said he wants to take unilateral action to tackle the problem of gun violence in the US. Read More…
Five attackers and three members of the security forces been killed in an attack on an Indian air force base near the Pakistani border, officials say. Read More…
People were shoving each other down the stairs and climbing over each other’: Read More…
Prosecutors in the US have charged comedian Bill Cosby with aggravated indecent assault over an alleged incident in 2004. Read More…
New Year fireworks and festivities have been cancelled in the Belgian capital, Brussels, because of a terror alert. Read More…
A suspected suicide attack at a government office in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 26 people, police say. Read More…
David Cameron has defended the government’s spending on flood defences following widespread devastation across parts of northern England. Read More…
A US grand jury has decided not to bring charges against two policemen over the killing of a 12-year-old black boy armed with a toy gun. Read More…
An 81-year-old woman has been shot dead by a fellow octogenarian resident at a care home in Essex, police said. Read More…
A German man died on Christmas Day after blowing up a condom dispenser with a homemade bomb in a botched robbery, police say. Read More…