Five C.I.A. commandos write that the C.I.A. station chief stopped them from interceding in time to save the life of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens during the attack on the diplomatic mission in 2012.

Marin Cilic toppled sixth-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych 6-2, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) on Thursday to reach the US Open semi-finals. Marin Cilic of Croatia celebrates his win over Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic during their 2014 US Open men's quarterfinal ...

Benin's role in West Africa's used car trade

The story behind an amazing video of an elephant in a plane

In introducing its new Lumia phones at the IFA trade show in Berlin today, Microsoft stressed camera applications and affordability as it tried to position them against Android phones and iPhone. In fact, Chris Weber, Microsoft Corporate Vice President for ...

New Chelsea signing Loic Remy grabbed the only goal as France squeezed past 2010 world champions Spain 1-0 in a friendly at the Stade de France on Thursday. The second-half substitute netted in spectacular style in the 72nd minute, pouncing on a pass ...

Fans and colleagues everywhere were devastated to hear the news on Thursday that Joan Rivers had died at age 81. But, as any true fan of the witty comedienne would know, she wasn't one for melancholy. (In her statement announcing her mother's death, ...

Rick Sacra, the third American missionary worker infected with Ebola in West Africa, is being flown to The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., for treatment, according to SIM, the international Christian aid organization with which he was working. Sacra ...

The Black Stars held their penultimate training session ahead of their opening 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Uganda under a more receptive crowd at the Baba Yara Stadium on Thursday evening.

A PENSIONER was beheaded in broad daylight in a suburban back garden, sparking a police operation in which a suspect was tasered. Palmira Silva, 82, who is believed to be of Italian descent, was found dead outside a house in Edmonton, north London, ...

Weighing in at 130,000 pounds, 30 feet tall and 85 feet long, ladies and gentlemen you're heavyweight champion of the dinosaur world: the Dreadnoughtus. An empty 737 airplane weighs 93,000 pounds. The fossilized remains of this colossal creature were ...

A few months ago I wrote from eastern Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin might have blinked when he appeared to do an unexpected volte-face and called for an end to the violence there. I was wrong. Putin did not blink. What the Russian leader ...

An Accra Fast Track High Court on Thursday adjourned to September 26, the case in which Ex- President Jerry John Rawlings is seeking to restrain Professor Kweku Danso-Boafo from launching a book titled: “JJ Rawlings and the Democratic Transition in Ghana”. When the case was called, Mr. Samuel Atta Akyea, counsel for Ex- President Rawlings […]

A private legal practitioner, Dr Maurice Ampaw, has called for the immediate arrest of controversial afro-pop Star, Wanlov da Kubolor, for having gay sex

Joan Rivers, the acerbic stand-up comic and television host who blazed a trail at a time when comedy was all but off-limits to women, died in hospital in New York on Thursday. She was 81. The award-winning star had been in Mount Sinai Hospital since ...

The press have been discussing the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. They stress that it is an awful way to die, that there is no cure, and that health workers are dying despite apparently taking all necessary precautions. More learned writers have been ...

NATO leaders on Thursday (Sep 4) accused Russia of failing to take "a single step towards peace" in Ukraine even as President Petro Poroshenko voiced "careful optimism" about forging a ceasefire with pro-Moscow rebels. PHOTOS. (L to R): France's ...