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Liberia have been told by the Confederation of African Football they can play home matches following the end of the Ebola epidemic in the country. Caf banned them from hosting matches in July last year and the country stopped sport...

"There are politics and politics, different kinds of politics." So goes the chorus to one of the Burundian protesters' favourite songs. They say it was invented on the first day of demonstrations against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third...

US tech giant Hewlett-Packard is selling a 51% stake in its Chinese server business for $2.3bn (£1.4bn) to Tsinghua Holdings. The deal brings together HP with the investment arm of China's Tsinghua University in a joint venture called H3C, worth...

The EU has agreed a €1.8bn (£1.3bn; $2bn) loan to Ukraine - described as a landmark deal for a non-EU member. The agreement was signed at an EU summit in Riga, Latvia, with the leaders of six post-Soviet nations. The loan...

Nigeria's incoming president may review the death sentences of 66 soldiers convicted for refusing to fight Boko Haram, a lawyer has said. Femi Falana told the BBC that Muhammadu Buhari had promised to review all operations against the militants. He said...

U.S. stocks fell in late morning trading on Friday, retreating from recent record highs, as investors await Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's economic outlook for clues on the timing of a rate hike after new data showed a rise...

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shi'ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia during Friday prayers, residents said, killing around 20 people and wounding more than 50, local residents and a hospital officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility...

French telecommunications group Altice SA is talking to several banks about raising debt for a potential bid for Time Warner Cable Inc, the second-largest U.S. cable operator, according to people familiar with the matter. The talks are an important step...

China said on Friday it was "strongly dissatisfied" after a U.S. military plane flew over part of the South China Sea near where China is building artificial islands, and called on the United States to stop such action or...

Luis Figo has joined Michael van Praag in withdrawing from the Fifa presidential election on 29 May. Ex-Portugal midfielder Figo, 42, pulled out on the same day as Van Praag, 67, to leave Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan as...