LONDON — Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stepped back into front-line politics to offer Scotland almost full power over its domestic affairs as Britain's main parties raced to arrest surging support for independence. Brown pledged that if Scots vote ...

JERUSALEM—. Human Rights Watch accused Israel on Tuesday of coercing thousands of Sudanese and Eritrean migrants to leave since last year in a report that documented alleged cases of abuse against some of those who returned home. The rights ...

U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has been under pressure from lawmakers to articulate a plan for dealing with Islamic State, which has swept across Iraq and carried out a campaign of terror, including beheading two U.S. journalists.

While the Absa Premiership action is only set to continue this coming weekend due to the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, local football fans can still keep an eye on their favourite players as they represent their respective national teams.

The 2015 Orange Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers enter match day two with 14 games lined up on Wednesday. But it is Group E that East Africans will be mainly focused on as their only representatives, Uganda, bid to assume pool leadership should they upstage Guinea at Namboole and Ghana fail to beat Togo in […]

Vivian Boyack and Alice ‘Nonie’ Dubes, 91 and 90, met in hometown of Yale, Iowa, while growing upMore than seven decades after beginning their relationship, Vivian Boyack and Alice “Nonie” Dubes got married.Boyack, 91, and Dubes, 90, sat next to each other during Saturday’s ceremony, the Quad City Times reports.“This is a celebration of something ...

A team of psychologists and medical doctors associated with the Technische Universität of Berlin, have announced that they had proven by clinical experimentation, the existence of some form of life after death.This astonishing announcement is based on the conclusions of a study using a new type of medically supervised near-death experiences, that allow patients to ...

Kofi Asamoah, TUC Boss The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has expressed concern over some provisions of the commercial agreement between the government and Lonrho, provisions which the union says can lead to the payment of judgement debt in the future. It has therefore, intensified its campaign for the government to review portions of the Atuabo […]

The son of Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been shot and wounded in a battle with militant Islamists, the ex-leader’s aide says. Lt Col Adeboye Obasanjo was injured as the army fought to recapture towns in north-eastern Adamawa state from Boko Haram, Muhammad Keffi told the BBC. “Scores of insurgents” were also killed in […]

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. writers captured only two of the six places on the Man Booker Prize 2014 shortlist announced on Tuesday, easing traditionalists' fears that Americans would dominate the contest now it is open for the first time to all authors writing in ...

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed 2,288 people, with half of them dying in the last three weeks, the World Health Organization says.

President Obama on Friday. The president was harshly criticized for confessing two weeks ago that he did not have a strategy for dealing with the militants in Syria. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the ...

There will be no PMQs this week with both Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader agreeing to cancel this week's session in order to let them come to Scotland. Both leaders will spend the day canvassing voters into voting no on the 18 September ...

All my Apple devices are on the family hand-me-down plan. This means that when I get a new iPhone, my previous one goes to my wife, hers goes to one of our kids, etc. Many people decide to sell their old iron to a friend or co-worker in need of a technology ...

Taylor Swift has revealed a fellow female singer tried to "sabotage" her entire 'Red' world tour. The 24-year-old beauty claims the star, who she did not name, committed a "horrible" act by attempting to hire some of her own staff members from under her, and ...

Taylor Swift has revealed a fellow female singer tried to "sabotage" her entire 'Red' world tour. The 24-year-old beauty claims the star, who she did not name, committed a "horrible" act by attempting to hire some of her own staff members from under her, and ...

Taylor Swift has revealed a fellow female singer tried to "sabotage" her entire 'Red' world tour. The 24-year-old beauty claims the star, who she did not name, committed a "horrible" act by attempting to hire some of her own staff members from under her, and ...

Add comment. Bershidsky: Only question Flight MH17 crash report answers. September 9, 2014 11:57 AM By Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg News. A piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 lies in the grass near the village of Hrabove, eastern ...