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Multiple bomb blasts in Nigeria's biggest northern city of Kano killed 15 people on Monday, a senior policeman said, in an area previously targeted...

The Presidency has declined to comment on reports that former President Nelson Mandela's life support machine showed he was in distress last week. Over the...

Egypt's new leaders warned on Sunday that there would be no compromise with supporters of the deposed former president Mohammed Morsi. In an interview with...
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More than a thousand inmates escaped a prison Saturday in Libya as protesters stormed political party offices across the country, signs of the simmering...
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Overnight clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in east Cairo left at least 38 protesters dead on Saturday,...

Italy's first black minister, a target of racist slurs since her appointment in April, has condemned a spectator who threw bananas towards her while...

Four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian have been charged with running a sophisticated hacking organization that over seven years penetrated computer networks of more...

Alabama has executed its first inmate since 2011, a man convicted of the beating and shooting death of an elderly man on Halloween night...

Former US president George Bush Sr has shaved his head to show solidarity for the sick child of a secret service agent. A statement issued...