Gunmen attacked a government girls' boarding school in Nigeria's Kebbi State early on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, police said, in the latest mass kidnapping in the country's northwest.
Bangladesh’s former prime minister has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity over her crackdown on student-led protests which led to her ousting.
The Nigerian government has announced it is cancelling a controversial policy that mandated the use of indigenous languages for teaching in the earliest years of schooling instead of English.
The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his 6 January 2021 speech together, but rejected his demands for compensation.
A young Nigerian soldier has been widely praised on social media after footage of him standing his ground against a powerful government minister went viral.
Protesters carrying signs reading "our forests are not for sale" broke through security lines of the COP30 UN climate talks on Tuesday night in Belém, Brazil.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been released from jail, three weeks into a five-year prison term for taking part in a criminal conspiracy.
