Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister, Ahmad Zahid-Hamidi was charged on Friday with 45 offences including money laundering and graft amid a widening crackdown on corruption.
Bob Marley is one of Jamaica's favourite sons, but it is the late musician's daughter who is hitting the headlines for her part in the nation's latest sporting success.
Morning sittings at the Homa Bay County Assembly in Kenya were on Wednesday delayed for more than 30 minutes after unknown people took away the mace from the Speaker’s office.
The first recreational cannabis to be legally bought in Canada was purchased at midnight on Wednesday (02:30 GMT) on the eastern island of Newfoundland amid queues of hundreds of people.
A man in China whose wife killed herself and their two children after he allegedly faked his own death for an insurance payout has surrendered to police.
At least six children were killed and 25 injured Wednesday when lightning struck a primary school in northern Tanzania, a local government official said.
The United States conducted its largest air strike in nearly two years against militants in Somalia, killing about 60 Al-Shabaab fighters, the US military said Tuesday.