Qatar could agree a deal within a fortnight to abolish its controversial exit visa system which requires workers to obtain...

Lewis Hamilton celebrated one of the luckiest wins of his career on Sunday after a crash-strewn and chaotic Azerbaijan Grand...

Police and soldiers went to the ballot box for the first time in Tunisia on Sunday, casting votes in municipal...

British Prime Minister Theresa May is under pressure to introduce legislation guaranteeing a promise of compensation and help applying for...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday on a hastily-arranged visit to the Middle East as...

African leaders resisting "democratic transformation" must heed their citizens' calls for change, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on...

Spain's feminist movement is pushing for changes to the law after a court acquitted five men of gang raping an...

Pope Francis said Saturday he was "deeply moved" by the news that terminally-ill British toddler Alfie Evans had died after...

Burkinabe authorities have arrested around 100 people and seized explosives in operations in eastern and northern regions near the Malian...

Russian, Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers on Saturday talked up their successes in brokering a political solution to the Syrian...

The U.S. Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo as President Donald Trump's secretary of state on Thursday, putting the former CIA director...

Comedian Bill Cosby was convicted on Thursday on all three counts of drugging and molesting a onetime friend in 2004,...

Businessman Christo Wiese stunned crisis-hit Steinhoff with a $5 billion lawsuit on Thursday, sending shares of the South African multinational...

The remains of more than 200 people killed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide have been uncovered in a village on...

Facebook on Thursday said that it would be extending a raft of measures to allow its users to identify the...

An interim agreement between Cricket South Africa (CSA) and the SA Cricketers' Association (SACA) was announced on Thursday, averting a...

South African retailer Steinhoff said on Thursday it agreed to sell a 50 percent stake in German furniture chain POCO...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Thursday meet officials from the labour ministry to discuss the planned introduction of...

Five migrants have died trying to cross the Mediterranean, the Spanish coastguard said Thursday after rescuing more than 180 others,...