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SAN FRANCISCO, May 22, (THEWILL) – Hundreds of rioting Muslims set a Shariah court ablaze Friday in Nigeria's northern Kano city, protesting its decision to free a cleric accused of insulting the prophet Mohammed. An AP reporter watched protesters throw...

President Goodluck Jonathan has inaugurated a radio station, known as Defence Radio 107.7 FM owned by the Defence Headquarters in Abuja. The radio station is located inside the Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja. At the inauguration, President Jonathan said that the Army radio...

Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor has been granted compassionate leave for the second time this season, but his Spurs future remains uncertain. The Togo international, 31, has written about his family issues on Facebook and said he had considered suicide. He will...

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says he does not want goalkeeper Petr Cech to leave the Premier League champions. The 32-year-old has only made 16 appearances this season, with Belgian Thibaut Courtois now first choice. Cech's agent recently said the Czech Republic...

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been named Barclays Premier League manager of the season for the third time. In his second spell at the club, the Portuguese, 52, guided Chelsea to their first Premier League title in five years and...

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...