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Manchester City and Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure has been named the Confederation of African Football (Caf) Footballer of the Year. It is a third straight title for Toure, who also won December's BBC African Footballer of the Year award. He...

Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill will miss the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow because she is pregnant. The 27-year-old Briton is expecting her first baby with husband Andy, but still plans to defend her Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio...

An Indian diplomat whose arrest and strip-search caused a major rift in U.S.-Indian ties was effectively expelled from the United States on Thursday as part of a deal in which she was granted diplomatic immunity from charges of visa...

Washington has expressed concern about a plan by the Afghan government to release scores of prisoners considered by the US to be dangerous. Afghanistan said there was not enough evidence against 72 of 88 prisoners previously held by US forces...

Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed dozens of rebel fighters who tried to break an army siege of the central city of Homs, state media and a monitoring group said. SANA news agency quoted a military source as...

U.S. forces in Afghanistan have accidentally shot dead a four year old boy, Afghan officials said on Friday, the latest violence to strain ties between the uneasy allies. The Afghan-U.S. relationship has been damaged by President Hamid Karzai's refusal to...

China will look into establishing a nation-wide trading system for pollution permits as part of efforts to use market mechanisms to help clean up its environment, the country's top environment official said. In remarks published on the website of the...

The Nigerian sugar market has an estimated potential of 1.7 million tons, according to the United States Development of Agriculture (USDA). Data obtained from the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) reveals that the country’s sugar consumption in 2012 was...

Ivory Coast Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan said his nation will boost oil production within five years to 200,000 barrels a day, rivaling neighboring Ghana as stability returns to a country racked by a decade of turmoil. The West African...

China's export growth slowed more than expected in December due to a higher comparison base a year earlier and a clamp-down on speculative activities disguised as export deals, missing the official target on foreign trade. But the outlook for 2014...