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At least 24 people were killed after two passenger trains in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh derailed minutes apart on a partially flooded bridge.
The trains were passing each other near the...
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Julius Malima ambaye kama fisadi Lowasa alikuwa pia ni mwanachama na Kiongozi maarufu wa ANC huko AK na baadaye baada ya kutoswa na Chama chake (ANC) kuamua kukihama ameshitakiwa na serikali ya...
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Pakistan hii leo imemnyonga kijana Shafqat Hussain, mtuhumiwa wa mauaji ya kijana wa miaka saba yaliyofanyika mnamo mwaka 2004, licha ya malalamiko kutoka mashirika ya kutetea haki za binadamu...
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A prominent Burundi human rights activist has been shot and seriously wounded by gunmen on motorbikes, his family and witnesses say.
Pierre Claver Mbonimpa was attacked in the capital, Bujumbura...
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Spritam is pictured.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prescription drug made through 3-D printing: a dissolvable tablet that treats seizures.
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals said...
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USHINDI wa Chama cha Likud, uliomrejesha madarakani, Waziri Mkuu wa Israeli, Benjamin Netanyahu mwaka huu, unaweza kutafsiriwa kama ishara ya kuchochea upya ugomvi uliodumu kwa zaidi ya nusu...
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At least 27 people were killed and dozens injured when a Syrian army fighter jet crashed into a busy marketplace in the rebel-held northwestern town of Ariha on Monday, residents and witnesses...
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An Orthodox Jewish assailant stabbed and wounded six participants in the annual Gay Pride march in Jerusalem on Thursday, police said. Yishai Shlissel spent 10 years in jail for a similar attack...
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A renewed sense of urgency to get things done characterised last Friday's inter-state council meeting of ministers from Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and DR Congo as they discussed how to make...
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United States President Barack Obama is the most admired foreign leader in Africa because he has ancestral roots in our continent. This is partly the reason his ill-informed and stereotypical...
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After looking at recent photographs of Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza's bodyguards, it came as no surprise to me when officials of his government began blaming Rwanda for their country's...
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Bujumbura, Burundi: Gunmen shot dead a general who was a close ally of Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza in the country's capital on Sunday, the presidency and witnesses said, heightening...
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Wazayuni makatili wa israel wamemchoma moto akiwa hai hadi kufa mtoto wa kipalestina hadi kufa.
Wayahudi hao makatili wamevamia vijiji vya wapalestina huko west bank na kuchoma nyumba moto za...
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Saudi ambassador offers condolences to the family amid reports that relatives of the al-Qaida leader were among four killed in Hampshire crash
The sister and stepmother of the former al-Qaida...
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Rwandan parliament's move to amend the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to run for third term started Wednesday at the Supreme Court.
Rwandan Parliament in mid July voted to support...
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Ahead of President Obama's visit to Kenya, the Global Times, a tabloid newspaper published by Chinese state-run People's Daily, ran this cartoon.
Under the title "Homecoming," it shows Obama in...
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Yesterday at HK's Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre (= remand prison) I was very sad to see two new Nigerian drug mules. Lately there seems to be two or more new Nigerians every week. Each will get a...
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President Obama jabbed at the power structures of Africa on Tuesday by calling for long-entrenched leaders to step down, using off-the-cuff remarks about his own political standing and his stature...
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I am pleased to carry this guest blog by Linda Melvern, who has written extensively about the 1994 Rwandan genocide and acted as a consultant to the prosecution team at the International Criminal...
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"Tough love" has been a theme of President Obama's visit to East Africa.
The moments where he really came alive on this trip were not just when he talked of his love for Africa, but also when he...
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