Pregnancy might just be catching at a hospital in Mesa, Arizona, where 16 nurses are expecting at once.

Greece has successfully completed a three-year eurozone bailout programme designed to help it cope with the fallout from its debt crisis.

Zambia has a new president in the person of finance minister, Margaret Mwanakatwe. She is serving in a temporary capacity in the absence of the president and his vice, the local news portal Mwebantu reports.

Aretha Franklin, the undisputed “Queen of Soul” who sang with matchless style on such classics as “Think,” ″I Say a Little Prayer” and her signature song, “Respect,” and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from advanced pancreatic cancer. 

Uganda’s vocal legislator, Robert Kyagulanyi, who is popularly known as Bobi Wine has been charged with treason, in the aftermath of the deadly clashes that rocked the West Nile town of Arua on the last day of campaigns to elect a member of parliament for the municipality.

San Francisco jurors just ruled that that Roundup, the most popular weedkiller in the world, gave a former school groundskeeper terminal cancer. 

Smith explains some fundamental features of Immanuel Kant’s moral and political theory.

Since several of my previous essays have been linked to Rand’s moral condemnation of Immanuel Kant (1724-1802), especially her infamous remark that Kant was “the most evil man in mankind’s history” (The Objectivist, Sept. 1971), I thought I would write a conciliatory essay or two about the moral and political theory of this villainous character whose evil supposedly exceeded that of the most murderous dictators in history. (The source of direct quotations from Kant are indicated by initials. See the conclusion of this essay for bibliographic details.)

The US has made repeated proposals to North Korea on denuclearization, all of which have been rejected, according to senior diplomatic sources. 

Ethiopian Airlines should be co-owned by African governments, suggested its Group chief executive Mr Tewolde Gebremariam on Friday.

The death of a 23-year-old student, who killed herself two months after she alleged she was raped has renewed anger over sexual violence against women in South Africa.

Argentina’s senate has rejected a bill to legalise abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.

A government crackdown in Zimbabwe after Monday's elections has prompted international calls for restraint. 

Three people have been killed in Harare as soldiers and police fought running battles with hundreds of protesters, firing live ammunition, tear gas and water cannon amid rising tension following Zimbabwe’s presidential election.