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If you're planning on attending the British royal wedding this spring, you can finally stake out a spot on the processional route.

Senior leaders of British aid organization Oxfam are to meet UK government officials Monday amid warnings it could lose public funding over allegations its staff hired prostitutes in Haiti.

Leaders of South Africa's governing ANC party are due to meet to decide the future of President Jacob Zuma.

A passenger plane carrying 71 people crashed minutes after take-off from Moscow's Domodedovo airport killing everyone on board.

New York prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against the Weinstein Company, alleging that the studio failed to protect staff from Harvey Weinstein.

The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has released 13 people who were kidnapped in north-eastern Nigeria last year, the government says.

When the forecasts turned out to be true and rain fell from the skies, the residents of Cape Town in South Africa rejoiced thanked God and stood outside to feel the water on their skin.

A White House speechwriter resigned Friday amid allegations of domestic abuse, the second such departure this week.

As Jamaica prepares to celebrate the birth of world-renowned Reggae icon, Bob Marley, Zimbabwe has been given the go-ahead to have a statue erected in his honour.

US Vice-President Mike Pence has skipped a dinner at which he was due to share a table with North Korea's ceremonial head of state Kim Yong-nam.

The US government has officially shut down for the second time this year because Congress failed to meet a deadline to vote on a new budget.

Al-Shabab militants have been training clan elders in southern Somalia on how to use guns to shoot accurately, in the latest attempt by the jihadists to win the hearts of residents, media outlets affiliated by the group have reported.

The US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Syria conducted air and artillery strikes against pro-regime forces in Syria on Wednesday, killing an estimated 100 pro-regime fighters, according to a coalition statement.