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Update: Three more girls have been abducted by Boko Haram gunmen in Wala, a village in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State. This followed the abduction of eight girls earlier on Monday morning in Warabe thus bringing to 11 the...

Update: Boko Haram Abducts 8 More Girls In Borno Village Boko Haram insurgents operating in the North-eastern parts of Nigeria have kidnapped eight more girls in Borno State. The abduction, in the wee hours of Monday, came almost three weeks after over...

An Egyptian court on Tuesday banned the leaders of former president Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party from running in any coming elections, the court judge said. Judge Karim Hazem did not specify the number, names or titles of the politicians...

Both sides have been burying their dead as Ukraine slides further towards war, with supporters of Russia and of a united Ukraine each accusing the other side of tearing the country apart. Tuesday morning was quiet in eastern and southern...

A single knife-wielding assailant wounded six people on Tuesday in an attack at a railway station in China's southern city of Guangzhou, police and state media said, the latest of a series of assaults to raise jitters around the...

Thailand's Constitutional Court is almost certain to rule against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on abuse of power charges on Wednesday, forcing her from office and raising the possibility of fresh mass protests by her supporters. That could lead to confrontation...

U.S. economic growth is set to rebound strongly in the second quarter as the scars of a brutally cold winter fade, but inflation pressures will remain tame through 2015, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In its...

Merck & Co Inc has agreed to sell its consumer care business to Germany's Bayer AG for $14.2 billion, the companies said on Tuesday, adding to a string of major cross-border healthcare deals. "This acquisition marks a major milestone on...

Barclays (BARC.L) said a collapse in investment bank revenue hit first quarter profits and was still hurting income in April as the British bank works on an overhaul of the flagging business, expected to be announced later this week. Income...

The dollar fell to a 6-1/2 month low on Tuesday despite signs the U.S. economy is emerging from a particularly harsh winter-induced slowdown. It was hurt by U.S. bond yields struggling to pull away from their recent troughs, suggesting there...