Today's World News covering, Africa, Europe, Middle East

Violent extremism contributes and continues to poss great challenges to the global security architecture, stability and socio-economic development, creating a humanitarian crisis, sometimes of very unimaginable magnitudes, Mr Thomas Kwesi Quartey, Deputy Chairperson, African Union (AU) has stated.

The Palestinian foreign ministry has denounced a new Israeli settlement construction plan, which includes the building of 300,000 housing units in occupied East Jerusalem.

Pope Francis has urged Roman Catholics not to ignore the plight of millions of migrants “driven from their land”, during Christmas Eve Mass.

A 25-year-old housewife, Helen Bassey Umoh, has told an Akwa Ibom State High Court in Uyo to end her nine-month-old marriage with her husband, Michael Bassey Umoh over ‘malfunctioning’ of her husband’s manhood.

The US has sanctioned a Myanmar general accused of leading an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya people.

Australian police have arrested two people after a car drove into a crowd in Melbourne.

The US Senate has approved the most sweeping overhaul of the US tax system in more than three decades.

Zambia’s inspector general of police Kakoma Kanganja has cancelled the induction of eight Chinese nationals as police reservists.

A robot of US President Donald Trump has been unveiled at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and it's attracting plenty of attention.

President Donald Trump's nominee for the federal court in Washington withdrew from consideration after a video that showed him admitting a lack of experience and ignorance of basic legal concepts went viral.

South Africa's ruling African National Congress, ANC, has selected Cyril Ramaphosa to succeed President Jacob Zuma as the party's leader.

At least 61 people have been killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region, the latest bout of violence to highlight increasing instability in a province racked by bloody protests in 2015 and 2016.

A train carriage has plummeted on to a motorway in Washington state and there are reports of casualties.