The Russian government said the economy will contract by 0.8% in 2015. The country revised its 2015 budget based on a lower value for the ruble and oil trading at $80 per barrel, compared to its...
A Tory MP was caught playing popular puzzle game Candy Crush on his taxpayer-funded iPad during a crucial Parliament hearing on the future of pensions, it was revealed today.
Nigel Mills has...
Rank
Country
Population below poverty line (%)
1
Liberia
80
2
Haiti
80
3
Chad
80
4
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
71
5
Sierra Leone
70.2
6
Nigeria
70
7
Suriname
70
8...
Wakuu nimesoma habari BBC kwamba Marekani badoimewawekea vikwazo vya silaha nigeria.
Sasa minajiuliza kwamba USA wanapambana na ugaidi popote ulipo duniani.
Inakuwaje katika kipindi...
Harare - Ninety-year-old Robert Mugabe Saturday was endorsed as president of his ruling Zanu-PF party by a party congress in the Zimbabwean capital Harare.
Thousands of supporters chanted...
Most would agree that Africa is the godfather of the nature holiday. Whether lions on the hunt, the social hierarchy of ants or the maturing process of a slow-growth fungus, we have all been...
Reports by UN observers in the Golan Heights over the past 18 months reveal the type and extent of cooperation between Israel and Syrian opposition figures. The reports, submitted to the 15...
Spika wa Bunge la Uganda Bi Rebecca Kadaga awashauri wanaume kutowaoa wanawake waliokeketwa
Spika wa Bunge la Uganda Bi Rebecca Kadaga amewashauri wanaume kutowaoa wanawake...
Bwana Zhu ambaye ni mkuu wa kitengo cha usalama katika cha cha kikomunisti nchini China ametimuliwa Nazi na anaandaliwa mashtaka
Nafasi aliyokuwa anashikilia bwana Zhu ni mojawapo wa nafasi za...
Bishoy converted from Islam to Christianity in 1998 and have faced persecution ever since.
An Egyptian Christian journalist, Bishoy Boulous Armia, who was imprisoned and tortured for converting...
Robert and Grace Mugabe have been married since 1996
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has been re-appointed as leader of the ruling party, while his wife Grace has been given a top position in...
Protests over no indictment in NYPD chokehold death remain peaceful
NEW YORK CITY - A Staten Island grand jury's decision Wednesday not to indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of...
anasema utegemezi wa kiuchumi ni hatari kwa russia
anasema lazima russia wawe huru vinginevyo watapotea duniani
anaendelea kusema kama siyo mgogoro wa ukraine nchi za magharibi wangetumia kitu...
UK to establish £15m permanent Mid East military base
Philip Hammond said the new base would accommodate ships including Type 45 destroyers
Britain is to establish its first permanent military...
Korea ya Kaskazini imeishutumu Marekani kwa kusambaza makusudi virusi vya ugonjwa wa Ebola na kwamba inatengeneza silaha hiyo ya kibailojia ili kuwa taifa lenye nguvu zaidi duniani.
Taifa hilo...
Probably only 5 percent of the human skulls at Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre are Tutsi. The rest are Hutu and Congolese
A new BBC documentary has sparked international debate about the facts of...
US hostage Luke Somers and SA Pierre Korkie killed during Yemen rescue bid
The journalist was abducted in Yemen in September 2013
UK-born US journalist Luke Somers and South African teacher...
First it was the British and the Irish. Then the Swedes and the Spanish. And on Tuesday, the French, too, added their weight to the push for recognition of a Palestinian state.
The vote in the...
A German court has convicted three men for links to an ethnic Hutu militia involved in killing Congolese citizens. The court found in 2011 and 2012, the two main suspects had posted rebel...
African Americans trekked long distances to work instead of riding the buses during the Montgomery bus boycott, 1955/56
Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science...