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Two US police officers have been shot in Ferguson, a Missouri town hit by riots over the killing of an unarmed black teenager last year. One officer was shot in the face and one in the shoulder, St Louis County...

The killing of Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov within sight of the Kremlin has exposed rarely seen tensions between different camps inside President Vladimir Putin's system of rule. No outsiders can know with any certainty what is happening behind the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is in good health, the Kremlin said on Thursday, dismissing rumors that the leader was suffering from an illness after a foreign trip was canceled. A Kazakh governmental source said Putin's trip to Astana scheduled for...

Days after word leaked that the Afghan Taliban had signaled willingness to enter talks to end Afghanistan's long war, senior representatives of the militant group visited Islamabad for secret discussions on the next step forward. They left with a blunt...

Nigeria has brought in hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa and the former Soviet Union to give its offensive against Boko Haram a shot in the arm before a March 28 election, according to regional security, defense and diplomatic...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, (THEWILL) – The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the confirmation of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro as a Minister by the Nigerian Senate despite damaging implications in a rigging scandal in...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, (THEWILL) – The Borno State chapter of a group, Movement for Good Governance, has called on Nigerians to call the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief...

KFC, the world's largest chain of fried chicken restaurants, may face pressure from consumer and environmental groups to change how its poultry are raised after McDonald's Corp (MCD.N) said it would switch to chicken raised without human antibiotics. McDonald's will...

A federal appeals court upheld a district judge's decision to drop manslaughter charges against two former BP Plc (BP.L) well site managers over their roles in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil drilling disaster that killed 11 people. Robert Kaluza...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, (THEWILL) – The Presidency has been accused of plotting to blackmail the Judiciary in its alleged desperation to prosecute former Kwara State governor, Bukola Saraki, over allegations for which he had been cleared by the...