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More than 90 people have died in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana's capital, Accra, the fire service says. The fire started as people in the city are trying to cope with two days of heavy rain, which...

Rescuers have pulled dozens of bodies from a capsized cruise ship in China's Yangtze River, as authorities promised "no cover-up" over the disaster Hundreds of people are thought to have died, with only 14 of the 456 passengers known to...

Burundi has announced it is postponing both parliamentary and presidential elections that were due this month. The move follows weeks of political turmoil that saw a failed coup attempt against President Pierre Nkurunziza after he bid for a third term. East...

Former top Fifa official Chuck Blazer has admitted that he and others on the executive committee agreed to accept bribes in connection with the choice of South Africa as 2010 World Cup hosts. The American said he also facilitated bribes...

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will face a second and final retrial over the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising which forced him from power, the high court said on Thursday The judge accepted the public prosecution's appeal against...

A persistent sell-off in bond markets left financial market confidence in short supply on Thursday, with stocks lower globally and not even traditional safe havens like gold and the Swiss franc providing much of a refuge German 10-year Bund yields...

Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) is in talks to merge with T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.N), in a deal that would combine the second-largest satellite TV operator in the United States with the fourth-largest wireless carrier, the Wall Street Journal reported. The...

Mazda Motor Corp (7261.T) on Thursday filed a recall for 75,000 cars in Japan to replace air bag inflators made by Takata Corp (7312.T) after the Japanese supplier was ordered to expand a multi-million-vehicle recall in the United States. Of...

U.S. mutual funds are placing bigger bets on privately held companies to get a head start finding the next IPO superstar, a strategy that has yielded some dramatic payoffs and flameouts. Fast-growing private companies such as Uber Technologies, Pinterest and...

Nearly a year after oil markets entered a deep downward spiral, unmoored from the $100-a-barrel mark that had anchored them for years, some OPEC members are publicly talking for the first time about a new "fair" price for their...