US President Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses November’s election. “Well, we’ll have to see what happens,”…
Jackie Stallone, the mother of Hollywood actor Sylvester and one of Celebrity Big Brother’s most memorable contestants, has died aged 98. The larger-than-life character, who was…
Mali’s new president has been sworn into office, five weeks after the overthrow of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. Former Defence Minister Bah Ndaw, 70, was picked by…
Egypt’s Abdel-Hamid Mamdouh has been knocked out of the running to become the next leader of the World Trade Organization (WTO), along with candidates from Mexico…
Cameroon’s opposition leader, Maurice Kamto, was placed under house arrest for planning Tuesday’s anti-government protests. A video showing police vehicles outside the leader’s house has been…
Kanye West has expanded his tirade against label ownership of musicians’ master recordings, this time adding that Prince and Michael Jackson were “killed” by the music and media industries. “We used to…
Six universities have banned sex between lecturers and students and two authors have claimed that more should be doing the same. The measures came into place…
The US state department has announced economic sanctions against Zineb Jammeh, the wife of Gambia’s former President, Yahya Jammeh. Zineb is believed to have assisted or…
South Africa’s Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize says new research estimates 12 million people – about 20% of the country’s population – could already have been…
Barbados has announced its intention to remove the Queen as its head of state and become a republic next year. The Caribbean island said it wants…
