As rescue workers comb through chunks of concrete and lumber searching for survivors, Indonesian officials say that 832 people were killed in a powerful earthquake and tsunami on the island of Sulawesi.
Zambia has deported Kenyan lawyer and renowned pan-Africanist Prof Patrick L.O Lumumba because he has spoken against China's pernicious dealings in Zambia.
A court in Liberia has banned 23 more people from travelling abroad following the disappearance of more than $100m (£76m) worth of freshly printed banknotes.
All of them are employees of the Central Bank.
The authorities are investigating what happened to two shipping containers full of $16bn Liberian dollars in new banknotes which were brought into the country last year.
They were printed abroad and destined for the Central Bank.
Last week, 15 others were banned from overseas travel, including a son of former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Savile Row tailoring expert, Ozwald Boateng OBE known for his contemporary touch to clothing, has been selected to design uniforms for the British Airline.Â
Republicans are pushing to vote on President Donald Trump's nominee for the US Supreme Court on Friday, after hearing dramatic testimony from him and a woman accusing him of sexual assault.
Tea workers in Kenya have filed a case against multi-national company Unilever in the UK's Supreme Court for allegedly failing to protect them during the violence that followed the 2007 elections in which over 1,000 people were killed.
An elephant has trampled to death a 49-year-old German woman in a famous game reserve in Zimbabwe, a wildlife official has said, AFP news agency reports.
Bill Cosby, the man once fondly known as "America's dad," is going to prison. And while it's a lesson we have learned time and again in the past, it's hard to think of a more profound juxtaposition in terms of the need to separate the public image from the private man.Â
US President Donald Trump is expected to voice fresh criticism of Iran later when he chairs a UN Security Council session on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
