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Macron joins Femi Kuti on stage at Afrika Shrine

Macron, in company of Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, gave the challenge during a visit to the Afrika Shrine in Ikeja, Lagos State on Tuesday night at a...

Bali volcano hurls lava and ash, but island's airport normal

About 400 local residents living near the rumbling volcano - about 75 kilometres from Bali's tourist hub of Kuta - moved to evacuation centres. "I saw smo...

Bolton Claims US Has Plan to Disarm North Korea Within a Year

White House officials are reportedly looking to schedule a second meeting between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump in New York City this September, in an atte...

Islamic State leader's son killed in operation against Russians

Nussayriyyah is the term used by ISIS for the Alawite religious minority sect of President Bashar al-Assad. "Hudayfah al-Badri. the son of the Caliph. While...

Supreme Court shake-up stirs protests in Poland

Gersdorf had told DW on Tuesday that she had no intention of leaving her post before the end of her term under the constitution. They were chanting "Judges are ...

Top Hong Kong court grants UK lesbian right to spousal visa

Today's judgment confirmed that the denial of partnership rights for same-sex couples can be discriminatory, despite the fact that same-sex marriages or civil p...

European Union starts rule-of-law procedure against Poland

A new law regulating Poland's Supreme Court that would lead to the forced early retirement of almost 40 percent of its justices is to take effect on Tuesday. Th...

Australia ends direct aid to Palestinian Authority

Bishop called that kind of support "an affront to Australian values", saying it "undermines prospects for a meaningful peace between Israel and the Palestinians...

It Appears the Obama White House Also Targeted Political Opponents Via Twitter

The account tweeted at Harris on Monday asking her "why [she was] supporting the animals of MS-13". At a rally in Nashville in April, Trump referred to Pelo...

Two people critical after 'major incident' in UK

They were taken to the Salisbury District Hospital in critical condition. Amesbury lies seven miles (11 kms) to the north of Salisbury, where in March Russia...

‘Bestselling Author’ Donald Trump Mocked By JK Rowling On Twitter

Trump, the author of many "how to get rich" biographies, tweeted to defend his style of tweet-writing. This isn't the first time Rowling has mocked Trump on...

Church 'detains' Jesus, Mary, Joseph to protest Trump's immigration policy

Members of the church say the journeys of immigrant families are similar to that of the Holy Family. Since then, President Donald Trump signed an executiv...

Bolton says he raised United States election meddling with Putin

I asked him again. Just days after Western leaders meet in Brussels on July 11, Trump is due to fly to Helsinki for his first one-on-one summit on July 16 w...

Manager fired after sending brutal texts

Fisher said doctors believe Jason has cellulitis sepsis, but they still don't have a lot of answers. The distressed mom asked her boss if she could work under...

Arizona woman 92 kills son after refusing to go to nursing home

Officials say deputies found that Anna Mae Blessing , 92, had shot and killed her 72-year-old son. Blessing told detectives following her arrest that she hid...

Indonesia says at least 29 dead in ferry sinking, search goes on

Terrified passengers onboard the vessel were forced to hurl themselves into the sea as it took on more and more water on Tuesday evening during a crossing from ...

Trudeau, NATO leaders gearing up for debate with Trump over defence spending

Trump has repeatedly criticized America's European allies, particularly Germany, for not increasing defense spending, but those in the country have little inter...

Loving tribute to 3-year-old who died in Norfolk

One witness told how strangers tried in vain to catch Ava-May before she crashed down to the ground. Ava-May and her mother Chloe Littleboy, 25, from Somersha...

Senate panel backs intel assessment of Russian meddling

The House Intelligence Committee has been split along partisan lines, releasing Republican and Democratic versions of various reports. The House committee dec...

Iran’s leaders seek ways to defend economy from US sanctions

US economic pressure on Iran is meant to turn Iranians against their government, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying on Saturday by his...

N.Korea Suspected of Expanding Missile Plant

North Korea has consistently refused in past rounds of failed negotiations to provide an inventory of its weapons program and US intelligence remains uncertai...

Trump to urge colleges to ignore race in admissions

It has the effect of bringing the federal government's position on affirmative action close to that of the George W. Bush administration which held that race ...

Putin, King of Spain discuss bilateral relations over phone Russian Federation 12:58

Relations between Moscow and Washington have sunk to a post-Cold War low over issues including Russia's seizure of Crimea in March 2014, its role in wars in S...

Expert warns North Korea IS still expanding NUCLEAR missile programme

This comes on top of a Washington Post report that USA intelligence believes the North Koreans are planning to hide the number of warheads in their arsenal. N...

United Kingdom to ban gay 'conversion therapy' after world's largest survey

Controversial gay conversion therapies are to be banned under a new lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT) action plan outlined by the government. Th...

Rescuers reach soccer team trapped in Thai cave for nine days

Families of the missing group were ecstatic at news of their discovery. She said she would cook her son a Thai fried omelet, his favorite food, when he returns ...

2 contractors critically wounded in Kansas school shooting

Authorities say the two wounded contractors, both men, were not school employees. District spokeswoman Becky Miller said no students were present at the sch...

Philippine mayor on Duterte's 'narco-list' slain by 'sniper'

The gunman escaped, police and witnesses said . "Everybody was shocked and it took sometime before some carried the mayor and brought him away in a auto". Pr...

Justice department, 3 federal agencies investigating Facebook data scandal

Shares of Facebook Inc fell 2 per cent on Tuesday, after a report that a federal probe on the data breach linked to Cambridge Analytica had been broadened and...

Trump sent letters demanding North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies boost military spending

Similar letters were sent to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau , Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel among oth...