A mother’s year-long search for her missing baby in India came to an end on Wednesday when a court handed over the child to her.
Soutik Biswas and Ashraf Padanna report on a scandal which has caused outrage and whipped...
Olaf Scholz will head a three-party coalition with broad plans for Germany’s transition to a green economy, under a deal to end 16 years of government led by Angela Merkel.
Almost two months after his Social Democrat party won federal...
Magdalena Andersson has been approved by Sweden’s parliament as the country’s first ever female prime minister (PM), after replacing Stefan Lofven as leader of the centre-left Social Democrats.
Sweden is the only Nordic country never to have elected a woman...
Fires have destroyed Greece's largest migrant camp, an overcrowded facility on the island of Lesbos, leaving nearly 13,000 people without shelter.
Some 20 firefighters battled the blaze at the Moria camp - designed for fewer than 3,000 people - as...
Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, aged 83, is in hospital with early-stage double pneumonia after testing positive for coronavirus, Italian media report.
He spent the night in hospital in Milan for checks, having tested positive on Wednesday.Earlier his right-wing...
Is there a link between poverty, crowded accommodation, and Africa's bafflingly low infection and death rates from the pandemic?
As the number of infections dips sharply in South Africa, and stays relatively low across much of the continent, experts are...
Three persons, all males, have filed nominations to contest the flagbearer position for the People’s National Convention (PNC).
They are; Mr. Samson Asaki Awingobit, Reverend Samuel Adjay and Mr David Apasera.
A total of 21 others submitted their nominations to occupy...
Hurricane Laura is expected to cause an "unsurvivable" storm surge, extreme winds and floods as it hits the US, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) says.
The category four storm is approaching Texas and Louisiana with maximum sustained wind speeds of...
Afghanistan and Pakistan have both experienced heavy seasonal rainfall, leaving thousands of families displaced.
At least 70 people are dead and dozens are injured from flooding after heavy seasonal rains drenched northern and eastern Afghanistan, while 90 have died amid...
Five out of six World Health Organization regions are now wild polio-free.
Rotary (www.Rotary.org) and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) are proud to announce an historic public health achievement as the World Health Organization’s African region...