Britain's Labour government is enduring a disastrous start to its second year in power, after the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner sparked a major cabinet reshuffle.
First Lady Melania Trump made a rare public appearance at the White House on Thursday, telling the crowd that "the robots are here" and that it is "our responsibility to prepare America's children" for the AI-driven decades ahead.
An NHS vascular surgeon who had his own legs removed has been jailed for two years and eight months for insurance fraud and possessing extreme pornography.
A former justice minister in Congo was convicted for embezzling millions of dollars earmarked for a prison construction in the northern city of Kisangani and sentenced to three years forced labour on Tuesday, a court ruled.
Burkina Faso's unelected transitional parliament has passed a bill banning homosexual acts, a little over a year after a draft of an amended family code that criminalised homosexuality was adopted by the country's cabinet.
A new $250 "visa integrity fee" imposed on travellers to the United States risks piling more pressure on the struggling travel industry, as overseas arrivals continue to fall due to President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration and hostility to many foreign countries.
A woman has been burnt to death by a mob in northern Nigeria's Niger state after she was accused of blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad, police have said.
US President Donald Trump has called on pharmaceutical companies to explain the results of their Covid-19 drugs, saying the public deserves clarity on whether they were effective.
Nestlé has fired its chief executive after just one year in the job because he failed to disclose a "romantic relationship" with a "direct subordinate".
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he reached "understandings" with US President Donald Trump over the end of the Ukraine war, at their meeting in Alaska last month.
A divided U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president's use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool.
