A pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) group, Save NPP Now, has repeated its call for the flag bearer of the party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to step down from his position to save the party from another humiliating defeat in the upcoming 2016 general election.

The US Secret Service has launched an investigation after Donald Trump's former butler called for the death of President Barack Obama.

The oldest known person in the world has died in New York aged 116.

Guinea-Bissau's President Jose Mario Vaz sacked Prime Minister Carlos Correia and dissolved his government on Thursday in a move that threatened to worsen political turmoil that has crippled the tiny West African nation.