Al-Shabaab militants in East Africa are now posing new worries for the President's trip to Kenya this week. CNN has learned that, in just the last week, the U.S. military has conducted nearly half a dozen secret air strikes in Somalia against al...
Data in its first call home since Tuesday's flyby suggest the spacecraft experienced no upsets as it hurtled past the icy world at 14km/s (31,000mph). The signal came through a giant dish in Madrid, Spain - part of a Nasa network of communications...
Members of Prophet Penuel's End Times Disciples Ministries in Soshanguve, Pretoria ate parts of a snake, believing it would become chocolate. Images posted onto the church's social media sites show Penuel dangling a live snake and dropping it into...
The coroner, Oyetade Komolafe, blamed poor construction work for the collapse of a Lagos church guesthouse on Sept. 12, 2014 and said weak foundations led to the disaster. "Synagogue Church of All Nations should be investigated and prosecuted by the...
Speaking to this reporter in confidentiality, the former employee of a lodging located in the CBD of Bulawayo said the exercise which is predominantly done in Harare is slowly finding its way to most Bulawayo lodges and low class hotels. According...
The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) said Botswana now recognised the spirit as a geographical indication (GI). The move means only whisky that has been made in Scotland can legally be sold as Scotch in the country. SWA said the "legal breakthrough"...
The accused, who were all Muslims, had pleaded guilty, the head of Kano's religious police, Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, told the BBC. The trial was speedily done in secret after a section of the court was burnt down by angry protesters last month. It is...
But, according to Swiss newspaper Blick, Blatter told a party at a Fifa museum: "I did not resign. I put myself and my office in the hands of the Fifa congress." Blatter is thought to be considering standing for re-election as president. Two...
The so-called "S.T.EYE" condom is a conceptual design that changes color when it comes into contact with an STI such as chlamydia or syphilis. The idea is the brainchild of Muaz Nawaz, 13, Daanyaal Ali, 14, and Chirag Shah, 14, who attend the Isaac...
It invited the public prosecutor to investigate if the government had broken the law by letting him leave. He faced the possibility of arrest due to an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant on genocide charges. But he flew out of South Africa...
Gen Karake, 54, was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Saturday, and remanded in custody ahead of a court hearing on Thursday. He is accused of ordering massacres while head of military intelligence in the wake of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Louise...
About 10,000 dogs will be slaughtered for their meat at the Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in Yulin in Guangxi province on Sunday and Monday to mark the summer solstice, state media said. One retired school teacher from Tianjin hit the headlines when...
The survivor was found unconscious in the undercarriage of the plane on Thursday morning having endured freezing temperatures over the 12,875km flight from Johannesburg to London. The body of the dead man was discovered an hour later on the roof of...
The 21-year-old - identified as Dylann Roof of Columbia, South Carolina - was arrested yesterday in North Carolina, a four-hour drive from the scene of the shooting, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. The attack was described...
Attorney General Michael Lauber said the incidents had been reported by Swiss banks. He said his office was analysing a "huge amount" of seized Fifa data in its inquiry. The Swiss investigation is running in parallel to one being carried out by the...
A woman who was banned from selling plots on the Sun on eBay has won the right to take the auction site to court. Maria Duran has been claiming ownership of part of the star since 2010 when she threatened to bill solar power users. The 54-year-old...
The Pretoria High Court was due to decide whether he should be handed over to the International Criminal Court, which has charged him with the crimes. Mr Bashir was in Johannesburg for an African Union (AU) summit. A news conference will be held in...
The Pretoria High Court will rule on whether he should be handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) who have charged him with the crimes. President Bashir is in Johannesburg for an African Union (AU) summit. He is accused of committing...
His girlfriend has reported that she is about four months' pregnant, and this showed that the "transplant worked", said Andre van der Merwe. The 21-year-old recipient, whose identify is being protected, lost his penis in a botched...
Lufthansa sent the coffins by cargo plane on Tuesday night from Marseille. Elmar Giemulla, a lawyer for some of the families, said the arrival of the remains would give relatives "closure". Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is believed to have...
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