President Jacob Zuma announced on Tuesday night that 67 South Africans were among the scores of people who died after a building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed on Friday in... Read more
Health workers bring a woman suspected of having contracted Ebola virus to an ambulance in front of a crowd in Monrovia, Liberia, September 15, 2014. (Reuters / James Giahyue) Out of 5,000 p... Read more
Russian President, Putin Russia’s currency dropped to an all-time low against the dollar on Tuesday as investors fret about long-term economic damage from Western sanctions. The United... Read more
US warplanes carried out their first air strike on the Islamic State near Baghdad, as world diplomats pledged to support Iraq in its fight against the militants. A general view taken from a... Read more
Several Arab countries have offered to join the United States in air strikes against Islamic State targets, US officials said on Sunday, indicating a possible widening of the air campaign ag... Read more
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt says he will resign after his center-right coalition lost a parliamentary election to a left-leaning opposition led by the Social Democrats. Reinfeld... Read more
Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has sacked 10 government officials who have been “out of the country without an excuse,” amid a national Ebola crisis. She said the officials had s... Read more
Judge Masipa in court in Pretoria Oscar Pistorius has been released on bail after being convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The South African athlete... Read more
Grace Mugabe is on a mission to get into power President Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace is moving to build her support base and national profile by engaging traditional leaders and Zanu-PF’s gra... Read more
sis fighters during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. Photograph: AP Middle Eastern governments formally signed on to Barack Obama’s war coalition against the Islamic State (Isis) on Thursday, even... Read more
