The charity's Global AgeWatch Index measured the social and economic welfare of those over 60 in 96 nations. Switzerland topped the list and Afghanistan came last. It measured income security, health and whether someone had access to public...
Critics at home have accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of creating a dangerous precedent by opening Germany's borders. About 18,000 migrants arrived over the weekend after an agreement with Austria and Hungary to relax asylum rules. But...
The wing section, known as a flaperon, had been examined in France by international aviation experts. French authorities launched searches on and around Reunion for more debris after the flaperon was discovered. The Malaysia Airlines plane carrying...
The 56 Dean Street clinic in London's Soho sent out names and email addresses of 780 patients with HIV in an information sheet regularly sent out to people who attend the clinic. Patients were supposed to be blind-copied into an email but instead...
Two ships carrying more than 4,200 people travelled to Piraeus port at night after leaving Lesbos island. The whole EU is struggling to deal with an unprecedented influx of migrants. Hundreds of people, mostly from the Middle East, remain stranded...
The 21-year-old Koki Manunga and the 29-year-old Joyce Zakary -- who are both 400 meter runners -- were provisionally suspended by the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) after returning positive samples on August 20 and 21...
Wall Street's Dow Jones was nearly 6% lower in early trading after plunges across Europe. London's FTSE 100 index was down by more than 6% in afternoon trade, with major markets in France and Germany down by 7% and 6% respectively. The sell-off hit...
The 24-year-old, who cannot be named until he enters his plea, is accused of raping the teenager in the toilets of a bar in Johannesburg. Earlier in the week, the family of the alleged victim said that Mr Mandela's ex-wife, Winnie...
"I would go to download important Supreme Court judgements, and pornographic adverts would pop up instead. And when I looked around, I saw rows of children surfing porn openly without a care in the world," says Mr Vaswani, 43, a quiet man with a...
Flibanserin, a drug produced by Sprout Pharmaceuticals, recently passed an FDA advisory committee meeting. The pill is designed to assist premenopausal women regain their sex drive by boosting levels of certain brain chemicals. The drug has been...
Many Kenyans were outraged by the report, which suggested Obama was likely to be attacked during his historic visit to the land of his father’s birth. While the country has suffered a string of atrocities by the Somalia-based al-Shabaab militant...
The two men are said to have disagreed on a number of issues including the use of aid money and the return to Guinea-Bissau of a former army chief of staff. The West African state returned to civilian rule in June last year. With a history of...
As many as 52 people are believed to have been injured, a military source told Reuters news agency. The blast struck Jebo livestock market in Sabon Gari town in southern Borno at about 13:30 local time (12:30 GMT), sources said. Suspected Boko...
PM Najib Razak said experts examining the debris in France had "conclusively confirmed" it was from the aircraft. However investigators have stopped short of confirming the link, saying only that it is highly likely. Australia says it remains...
In a press statement released on Friday afternoon, government spokesperson Jeff Ramsay condemned the killing of the famed lion. “The Government of Botswana has learnt with deep concern of the killing of a collared and protected lion by an American...
A two-metre long piece of wreckage was found on Wednesday. Malaysia's Deputy Transport Minister, Abdul Aziz Kaprawi, said it was "almost certain" that the wreckage was from a Boeing 777 aircraft. MH370 is the only Boeing 777 to have disappeared...
Professional hunter Theo Bronkhorst and farm owner Honest Ndlovu, are charged with poaching offences for not having the required hunting permit. US dentist Walter Palmer shot the animal with a crossbow and rifle outside Hwange National Park. Police...
Already there are numerous young Barack Obamas living in Kogelo, the president’s ancestral village, but soon after Obama touched down on Friday night two mothers in the western city of Kisumu took the unusual decision to name their sons after the...
"I'm the first Kenyan-American to be president of the United States. That goes without saying," Obama said. Inside a packed Nairobi gymnasium filled with nearly 5,000 cheering Kenyans, Obama offered his own personal history as evidence that all...
“President Barack Obama is not just heading to his father's homeland, but to a hotbed of terror,” the CNN report read, raising concerns about al-Qaeda affiliated terror group al-Shabaab. The Kenyan are using the hashtag #SomeoneTellCNN to...
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