Residents of Potiskum, Yobe state, are still living in fear following the bomb blast at the assembly ground of a school, on Monday. It has been widely reported that over 40 people died. Howe... Read more

A report from Ramallah said the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians were on Tuesday marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat. Arafat, for decades, led... Read more

A Malian nurse has died of Ebola, the second confirmed death from the disease in the country. Officials say the nurse had treated a man who arrived from Guinea at the Pasteur Clinic in Bamak... Read more

Zambia is holding a state funeral for President Michael Sata, who died last month in a UK hospital at the age of 77. Tens of thousands of people are attending the Catholic Mass at the Nation... Read more

The Yobe Government has closed down all public and private schools in the state, following Monday’s suicide bomb attack on Government Science Secondary School, Potiskum. The attack had claim... Read more

At least 56 people, including 18 children, have been killed after a passenger bus collided head-on with a lorry carrying goods in southern Pakistan, officials said. The accident happened on... Read more

Eight women have died in India and dozens more are in a critical condition after a state-run sterilisation programme designed to control the country’s billion-plus population went badly wron... Read more

Frosty greeting between Xi, Abe (Reuters) – After an awkward handshake, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held formal talks on Monday for the first ti... Read more

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL), has been injured and a close aide was killed in a US-led airstrike, reports Iraqi state television. There wer... Read more

Five Syrian nuclear scientists have reportedly been killed by unknown assailants while riding a bus north of Damascus, near the research center where they worked, the UK-based Syrian Observa... Read more