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The death of a former newsreader who won acclaim for blogging about her breast cancer fight hit the headlines Saturday ...

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has been condemned for comments that girls who give birth should not be allowed to return ...

All Kenyan schoolgirls are to get free sanitary pads, the government has said. It is hoped the move will improve ...

South Sudan's media authority will lift a ban on around 20 foreign journalists who had been refused access to the ...

Anti-junta activists staged a rare protest in Thailand on Thursday demanding the release of a prominent student leader who was ...

All Kenyan schoolgirls are to get free sanitary pads, the government has said. It is hoped the move will improve ...

A controversial dog meat festival has begun in the Chinese city of Yulin, despite earlier reports it had been cancelled ...

WhatsApp is becoming one of the prevailing ways people discover and discuss news, according to a study. But use of ...

The BBC’s renowned West Africa reporter, Umaru Fofana, believes West African countries must do more to ensure that the integration ...

Saudi Arabia’s king has appointed his son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince – replacing his nephew, Mohammed bin Nayef, ...

Manchester United have been cleared by Fifa of wrongdoing in the deal to sign Paul Pogba from Juventus last August. ...

Belgian soldiers have shot a man suspected of being a would-be suicide bomber at Brussels Central Station, officials say. He ...

Tributes were paid Tuesday to Joel Joffe, the lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela in the trial that saw the anti-apartheid ...

Sensitive personal details relating to almost 200 million US citizens have been accidentally exposed by a marketing firm contracted by ...

Revolting Rhymes scored a hat-trick this weekend: first winning Best Storytelling at Shanghai International Film and TV Festival in China, ...

Ghanaian-British Filmmaker Amma Asante has been honoured with an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Asante was awarded for her ...

A car has crashed into a police van before bursting into flames around the Champs Élysées area of central Paris, ...

Gunmen have stormed a tourist resort in Mali popular with Westerners and two people are dead, the country’s security minister ...

A man has died and eight people have been injured after a van ploughed into pedestrians near a north London ...

The funeral of Ivorian star Cheick Tiote was held in Abidjan on Sunday following his sudden death in China earlier ...