Former Secretary General of the United Nations Boutros Ghali has died. He was 93.
Venezuela's UN ambassador Rafael Ramirez, the current council president, made the...
Two female suicide bombers have blown themselves up in a Nigerian refugee camp, killing at least 56 people, officials said.
A further 78 people were...
Boko Haram extremists have fire-bombed huts, burning people including children to death, in the latest attack by the Nigerian group, according to a survivor.
Scores...
Five female suicide bombers targeted the Chibok home town of Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls, killing nine civilians and wounding 32, witnesses said.
Soldiers are searching the...
Eight Egyptians involved in a botched repair of the famous golden burial mask of King Tut have been referred to trial for “gross negligence”.
Prosecutors...
Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe arrived home from a weeks-long holiday looking sprightly, quashing rumours that he had a heart attack.
The 91-year-old president arrived late...
