Polls have opened in Senegal’s parliamentary elections as President Bassirou Diomaye Faye aims for a resounding majority to see through the promises of ambitious reforms that...
A gold pocket watch given to the British boat captain who rescued more than 700 passengers from the Titanic has sold at auction for a record-breaking...
Eight people have died and 17 others have been injured following a stabbing incident outside a school in eastern China. A 21-year-old man was arrested at...
South Korea’s main opposition leader, Lee-Jae-myung has been convicted on charges of violating the country’s election law and handed a one-year suspended prison sentence. The Seoul...
At least 35 people have been killed in a car attack in southern China, believed to be the deadliest known act of public violence in the...
The annual United Nations climate summit has started in Azerbaijan, with countries readying for tough talks on finance and trade, following a year of weather disasters...
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has formally apologised to victims of abuse in care homes, following an inquiry into one of the country’s biggest abuse...
The prime minister of Mauritius has accepted that his coalition, L’Alliance Lepep, has suffered a “huge defeat” following Sunday’s parliamentary election. “The population has decided to...
What the rest of the world sees as a sex tape scandal could in fact be the latest episode in the real-life drama over who will...
Authorities say at least 25 people have been killed after a bomb exploded at a railway station in Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province. Dozens of others were...