Negotiators from 195 countries will try to reach a deal within two weeks aimed at reducing global carbon emissions and limiting global warming to 2C (3.6F). Leaders from 147 nations are addressing the meeting, known as COP21. President Obama urged...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said half a billion litres were taken from the pipeline that runs north-east from Lagos. Long queues have formed at petrol stations across Nigeria in recent days. Governments blame pipeline...
Data until the end of October showed this year's temperatures running "well above" any previous 12 month period. The researchers say the five year period from 2011 to 2015 was also the warmest on record. The rise, they state, was due to a...
Russia's defence ministry said an Su-24 had crashed on Syrian territory after being hit by fire from the ground, and that its pilots had managed to eject. But Turkish military officials said Turkish F-16s had shot down the plane after repeatedly...
Judges on Saturday chose 42-year-old Mison Sere, citing his numerous missing front teeth and a wide range of grotesque facial expressions, over William Masvinu, who had held the title since 2012. Masvinu and his supporters mobbed the judges upon...
The three patients include a 10-year-old boy from Paynesville, a suburb of the capital Monrovia. All people with the symptom have been isolated, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told the BBC. Liberia has seen more than 10,000 Ebola cases and more...
"Apparently it's an attempt to take hostages. The police are there and are sealing off the area," a security source told Reuters news agency. Automatic weapon fire could be heard from outside the 190-room hotel, AFP reports. BBC Afrique's...
The 1,111-carat stone was recovered from its Karowe mine, about 500km (300 miles) north of the capital, Gaborone. It is the biggest diamond to be discovered in Botswana and the largest find in more than a century. The 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond...
Residents say one of the bombs went off inside the Farm Centre mobile phone market, and the other at the entrance. No-one has said they are responsible but militant Islamist group Boko Haram has previously targeted Kano. On Tuesday, more than 30...
The airstrikes came two days after a series of terrorist attacks in Paris. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which France's President described as "an act of war." ISIS claims Raqqa as the capital of its so-called caliphate. The...
"We have to find out where they came from... and how they were financed," Francois Molins told reporters. He said seven attackers had been killed, and that all had been heavily armed and wearing explosive belts. Friday's attacks, claimed by Islamic...
The blasts hit the southern suburb of Burj el-Barajneh, a stronghold of the Shia Hezbollah movement. A statement purporting to be from the so-called Islamic State group said that it carried out the attack. The conflict in neighbouring Syria has...
It has caused the worst drought in more than 30 years in Ethiopia, Unicef said. Its effects could also be "particularly harsh" in Somalia, amid fears of flooding, it warned. El Nino is caused by Pacific Ocean warming. "The weather phenomenon,...
Nu couche (Reclining Nude) was sold at Christie's in New York to a Chinese collector. It had never been sold at auction before, having been in the same private collection for about 60 years. The top price achieved for an art work at auction was...
Magufuli's win in the October 25 poll with over 58 percent of votes cemented the long-running Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party's firm grip on power. Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who comes from Zanzibar, was also sworn in at a stadium in the...
On Thursday, the government announced it would relax the rules to allow all couples to have two children. It said the decision was made because of China's rapidly ageing population and to help support the economy. However, officials have stressed...
All 224 people on the Airbus 321 - most of them Russians - died when it came down over the northern Sinai peninsula. The country observed a day of mourning on Sunday after its worst air disaster. Russian Air Transport Agency head Aleksandr Neradko...
The announcement followed a four-day Communist party summit in Beijing where China’s top leaders debated financial reforms and how to maintain growth at a time of heightened concerns about the economy. China will “fully implement a policy of...
Statistics SA figures showed that unemployment rose to 25.5% in the third quarter of the year from 25% in June. This amounted to 5.4million people without work, up from 5.23 million in June. The job losses, said economist Dawie Roodt, were an...
“Hello, can you hear me?” sang Adele to the world. And the world answered: yes, and we’re watching you too. Many many times. Adele’s video for new single Hello has broken Taylor’s Swift’s records for the most views on Vevo in 24 hours....
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