A Kenyan court charged eight schoolgirls on Wednesday with murder for the deaths of 16 of their fellow students ​in a dormitory fire at a school in Kenya's ‌Rift Valley in late May, the public ...

Floods in ‌the Ivory Coast have killed 59 people, ​government spokesman Amadou ​Coulibaly said after a cabinet meeting ⁠on Wednesday.

South African police arrested more than 900 ​people during nationwide anti-migrant protests on Tuesday that were ‌mostly peaceful but at times turned violent, with shops looted, police said on ...

Canada will take part in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 2027, organisers have announced. It becomes the first new country to join since Australia in 2015, and follows a turbulent ...

Egypt remain optimistic that the hamstring strain Mohamed Salah picked up against Iran will not prevent him from facing Australia in Friday's last-32 tie at the FIFA World Cup.

Writer E Jean Carroll has asked a judge to order Donald Trump to pay the $5m (£3.7m) in damages awarded by a jury that found the president liable for sexually abusing and defaming her in a civil case ...

A couple dressed in black masks appeared to get engaged atop New York's Empire State Building on Wednesday. The pair climbed to the top of the famous building's spire together and unfurled a large ...

Absa Bank Ghana has begun operating from its new head office, named Absa Place, in Ridge, Accra. In a message sent to customers via SMS, emails, letters, and its Facebook page, the bank said it had ...

The Upper East Regional Police Command has arrested three suspects in Bolgatanga over their alleged involvement in a human trafficking operation that reportedly forced young women into prostitution at ...

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), in collaboration with the National Pensioners Association (NPA), has celebrated the 100th birthday of Ima Zenabu Dagomba, officially ...

The US government has lifted an export ban on Anthropic's most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools, just weeks after ordering it to restrict access to them over national security concerns, the ...

Thousands of people have gathered in a tiny village in Switzerland to witness the ordination of four new Catholic bishops, in defiance of an appeal by Pope Leo XIV.