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A Taliban suicide bomber and gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in the heart of the Afghan capital Kabul, killing 21 people including three United Nations staff and the International Monetary Fund's top representative in Afghanistan. Gunmen burst into...

More than 98 percent of voters backed a new Egyptian constitution in a referendum this week, authorities said on Saturday, though the turnout was lower than some officials had indicated, with under 40 percent of the electorate taking part. The...

U.S. President Barack Obama told Germans and their leader on Saturday he would not let intelligence work damage relations, and differences of opinion between the two countries was no reason to wiretap. In a rare interview on German TV, Obama...

South Sudanese government forces said they seized the flashpoint town of Bor back from rebels on Saturday and Uganda's army claimed credit for the operation, highlighting the depth of its involvement in the conflict. A rebel spokesman in Addis Ababa,...

Spinning off the clean-up project at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant from the rest of operator Tokyo Electric Power's business could be an option in the future if the decommissioning runs smoothly, the company's president said. Nearly three years after...

In early 2011, Morgan Stanley Chief Executive James Gorman thought he had finally figured out how to rebuild the bank's depleted bond trading business without taking too much risk. He hired traders from rivals in areas where the bank was...

African Independent Television, AIT, emerged as Nigeria’s first private television station, with all Nigerians rejoicing that the station would provide the alternative voice. Of course, the station in the early days of its operation lived up to this expectation....

The media is awash with passionate, intellectual outputs, decrying Nigeria’s President signing the anti-gay bill into law. The Senate passed this since December 2011. The bill has been on the President’s desk since May 2013, when the House passed it;...

Chiwetelu Ejiofor is an international movie star of Igbo Nigerian heritage born in Britain. Ejiofor is among the second generation of Africans Diasporas in Europe, America and across the globe. Chiwetelu Umeadi “Chiwetel” Ejiofor was born to Igbo-Nigerian parents in...

Manchester United manager David Moyes has been fined £8,000 and warned about his future conduct by the Football Association. He was charged following comments made after the 2-1 Capital One Cup semi-final first-leg loss at Sunderland. Moyes, 50, said his side...