A man in New York state has been sentenced to two years in jail after accidentally texting his probation officer a message seeking marijuana.
Prosecutors said Alvin Cross Jr. of Albany sent a text...
The annual great migration of millions of wildebeest, zebra and other animals across the Serengeti Plains is one of nature's most remarkable events.
Tanzania is far more than just a spot to...
Dr. Biodun Ogungbo
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There is a story/video reported on the Internet. The title of the video, "Flying bird turns into old woman in Oshodi," doesn't appear to explain the disturbing...
According to Transparency International, Nigeria occupies the 31st place in the ranking of world corrupt countries.
According to the Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 released by the...
He was born to a white mother in the English village of Ewell in Surrey, appeared on the BBC's Top Gear, leads a country ranked the best governed on the African continent and often gets asked why...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew urged Egypt to persist with economic and political changes that could attract private investment.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has pledged to...
The central office of Saint Petersburg Commodity and Stock Exchange
The central office of Saint Petersburg Commodity and Stock Exchange (RIA Novosti / Vadim Zhernov)
Russia, the world's...
LAST month Kai Krause, a computer-graphics guru, caused a stir with a map entitled "The True Size of Africa", which showed the outlines of other countries crammed into the outline of the African...
A Guinean woman has been attacked in a bus in Rome by angry passengers who told her she was infected by Ebola and had to get off the bus, Italian media reports. She was taken to hospital suffering...
World War 3 is on the tips of the tongues of many, and now that Russia has fired its nuclear weapons as a show of force, Vladimir Putin is already warning the United States and NATO he believes...
The condition of New York City's first Ebola patient, Dr. Craig Spencer, worsened on Saturday, though he remained awake and communicative, health officials said.
Dr. Spencer, 33, was "entering...
More than 140 million Brazilians will choose between Dilma Rousseff (left) and Aecio Neves
Millions of Brazilians are set to vote for a new president in what correspondents say is the tightest...
Kagame amekuwa akiudanganya ulimwengu kwa miaka mingi sana kwamba yeye ndiye aliyestop genocide, ukweli uliokuwa mioyoni mwa watu ni kwamba Kagame alipotungua ndege ndio ulikuwa mwanzo wa mauaji...
The drug mule arrived at Madrid's Barajas airport almost two hours before dying of an overdose.
A Nigerian drug smuggler at Madrid's international airport who started shivering after the cocaine...
China's president pledges $81 million in Ebola aid
October 24, 2014 9:28 AM
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with his Tanzanian counterpart Jakaya Kikwete during a...
Kijana na bibi yake wameponea chupuchupu baada ya gari lao dogo kuanguliwa na lorii kubwa la kubeba na kuchanganya zege.
A grandmother and her grandson were trapped in their sedan after a cement...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame
Kagame, whose Rwandan Patriotic Front or RPF -- a former rebel army that helped end the 1994 genocide and is now the major political party -- was elected in 2003 and...
Disturbing images of life under ISIS rule Raqqa city in Syria have emerged showing the decapitated corpses of Syrian soldiers lined up in the streets, UK Daily Mail reports.
Women walk past...
15 year old Jaylen Fryberg (pictured above), a member of the Tulalip Native-American tribe, entered his school cafeteria yesterday morning around 10.41 am, walked over to a table, pulled out a gun...