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Vietnam has intensified its search for the Malaysia Airlinesjetliner that has been missing since early Saturday, with ground forces joining...

Mohammad Qasim Fahim, one of Afghanistan's two vice-presidents, has died. According to a spokesman for the government he died aged...

  A  Boeing 777-200 passengers jet  en route Kaula Lumpar to Benjing  has gone missing The Malaysia Airways plane which had...

Kenya's president has announced that he and his entire cabinet will take pay cuts as part of austerity measures to...

AFP— CNN founder, Ted Turner, was hospitalized during a trip to Argentina, a medical source said Friday, with reports suggesting...

Reuters - In an official report on Saudi television, Saudi Arabia has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist...

Sweden has suspended some of its financial aid to Uganda over a law that toughened punishment for gay people, becoming...

A neighbour of Oscar Pistorius, Charl Johnson, is giving evidence on the third day of the murder trial, Pistorius who...

Nairobi - Commuters within the Nairobi Central Business District have been forced to seek an alternative means of transport after...

Wellington - New Zealand police on Wednesday were contemplating whether to lay criminal charges or not after a seven-year-old Japanese...

ALJAZEERA - About 2,000 people have been killed and 700,000 displaced since December. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon made his...

Durban - A 32-year-old policewoman has handed herself over to police in connection with the fatal shooting of a policeman...

Cairo - An American anti-war activist who was trying to travel to the Gaza Strip was deported on Tuesday, airport...

Cape Town - Three people were shot dead in two incidents on the Cape Flats, Monday night. The first incident...

The first witness in Paralympian Oscar Pistorius's trial says she heard a woman's "blood-curdling" screams coming from his house, setting...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has thrown his weight behind Uganda's draconian anti-gay laws and hinted at a crackdown on homosexuals...

Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of sending thousands of additional troops to the southern Crimea region, which has a majority...

Serial killer Joanna Dennehy who carried out three savage murders during a 10-day killing spree, was sentenced to life imprisonment...

Ghana's health minister has given a hospital in the city of Kumasi 14 days to produce the bodies of five...

A senior Thai minister rejected a proposal for talks from the leader of an anti-government protest movement on Friday as...