The US will defend itself and its “treaty ally” South Korea in the face of North Korean threats, Secretary of State John Kerry has said. [...]

Six European data protection agencies are contemplating legal action over Google’s privacy policy. The threat comes as a four-month deadline to change the policy expires [...]

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday said he plans on resigning the papal office on February 28th. Below please find his announcement. Full text of Pope’s [...]

Pope Benedict XVI is set to resign as leader of the Catholic Church, according to media reports out of Italy. Pope Benedict announced he will [...]

Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama believes his side are destined to win the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. The Super Eagles turned on the style when [...]

CIA director nominee John Brennan has defended the US drone-strikes programme at a Senate confirmation hearing. Mr Brennan said the US only took such action [...]

Elephant poaching across Africa is said to be at its highest level in 20 years More than 11,000 elephants have been killed by ivory poachers [...]

The Gambia has started a four-day week for public sector workers, with Fridays now an extra day off. President Yahya Jammeh has said the shorter [...]

Accra beat 18 Sub-Saharan cities to emerge as the urban area with the highest growth potential in a research carried out by global payments leader [...]

All BlackBerry did Wednesday was change its corporate name, introduce two new smartphones and launch a bold new mobile operating system, BlackBerry 10, that may [...]