Voting underway in Ukraine election
Voters headed to polling stations Sunday for the second round of Ukraine’s presidential elections — a bitter battle between a populist prime minister and the man she once helped oust.
Nigeria has set its sights on making multibillion-dollar oil deals with China amid peace moves with militants.
America’s top diplomat to Kenya has announced that the United States has suspended a $7 million “capacity building” program for the country’s Ministry of Education, citing corruption.
A French court on Tuesday convicted the Church of Scientology and six of its members of organized fraud, but stopped short of banning the church.
British authorities are investigating at least 30 claims that soldiers abused Iraqi civilians during the war, the Ministry of Defence has said. UK minister Bill Rammell, pictured, said the vast majority of troops had “conducted themselves to the highest standards of behavior.”
A previously unknown armed group said Friday it attacked a Nigerian oil pipeline this week on the first full day in office for Nigeria’s new acting president.
Germany’s national soccer team have cancelled their training session ahead of Saturday’s friendly match with Chile after their goalkeeper, Robert Enke, was struck and killed by a train on Tuesday, in what police called an apparent suicide.
A former royal aide who escaped from an open prison where she was serving a sentence for murder has been found, British police said Wednesday.
A $5 million prize to reward good leadership in Africa was dramatically awarded Monday to … nobody.
Turkey will not send its U.S. ambassador back to Washington until it receives “clarity” on a measure that recommends the United States recognize the 1915 killings of ethnic Armenians as genocide, Turkey’s prime minister said Tuesday.
Investigators were en route Thursday, and dead and injured were being evacuated, a day after 26-foot waves crashed into a cruise ship and killed two people off northeast Spain, officials said.
A man hurled a makeshift bomb at Egypt’s main synagogue Sunday morning, but no injuries or damage were reported.
A London-based security clothing company has been blasted for marketing a “stab-proof vest” for football fans planning to visit this summer’s World Cup in South Africa.
We explore if there can be common ground between the needs of a local population versus the efforts to save the last of Nigeria rainforests.
Ireland’s justice minister ordered an investigation Tuesday after explosives planted in an unsuspecting passenger’s luggage by authorities as part of a security test in Slovakia made their way to Dublin.
Two fingers cut from the hand of Italian astronomer Galileo nearly 300 years ago have been rediscovered more than a century after they were last seen, an Italian museum director said Monday.
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