A South African foundation says retired archbishop Desmond Tutu is receiving an intensive course of anti-biotics to treat a “stubborn infection”.
The Desmond & Leah...
Liberia’s deputy health minister says that a second person has died from Ebola in the latest resurgence of the deadly disease.
Tolbert Nyenswah said the...
A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp has been convicted of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder.
The state court...
A landmark nuclear agreement has been reached with Iran after clearing final obstacles, a senior diplomat said today.
The diplomat said the deal agreed at...
Iraqi forces have begun a long-awaited, large-scale military operation to drive the so-called Islamic State militants out of the sprawling western Anbar province, the...
Mexico's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has escaped from a maximum security prison for the second time, security officials have announced.
Guzman, who...
Tunisian authorities have recovered 27 corpses of migrants off the Mediterranean Coast who apparently died trying to reach Italy from Libya.
Migrant crossings over the...
