The Bluefin-21 submersible robot had finished its search of the area and found nothing, they said. Efforts would now focus on reviewing search data, surveying the sea floor and bringing in specialist equipment. Flight MH370 went missing on 8 March...
He hailed Angelou, who has died aged 86, as "a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman". She made her name with the memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which charted a childhood of oppression and abuse in the Deep South in...
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag married a Christian man and was sentenced to hang for apostasy earlier this month after refusing to renounce Christianity. She is allowed to nurse her baby girl for two years before the sentence is carried out. Born to a...
Ms Banda had earlier said Tuesday's vote had been marred by rigging, multiple voting and computer-hacking. She said a new vote should be held within 90 days but she would not stand again in any new poll. However, the head of the electoral...
Former Las Vegas Metropolitan PD officer Chris Carroll says Tupac uttered the words to him as the wounded rapper lay dying in the officer's arms, that fateful day in 1996, moments before he slipped out of consciousness forever. In an interview for...
US researchers have found that they produce an antibody that attacks the malaria-causing parasite. Injecting a form of this antibody into mice protected the animals from the disease. The team, which published its results in the journal Science,...
It comes a day after 118 people died in a double bombing in the central city of Jos, also blamed on Boko Haram. In the latest attack, Boko Haram fighters reportedly spent hours killing and looting in the village of Alagarno. Alagarno is near...
The US agency's current policy prohibits anyone working for it who has used cannabis in the past three years. However, its director James Comey has acknowledged that this is complicating its efforts to recruit hacking experts, according to the Wall...
Police said two improvised explosive devices had been detonated in the sprawling Gikomba market. Meanwhile hundreds of UK tourists were evacuated from the coastal resort area of Mombasa amid warnings of an attack. In recent years, Kenya has been...
Amnesty International condemned the sentence, handed down by a judge in Khartoum, as "appalling and abhorrent". Local media report the sentence on the woman, who is pregnant, would not be carried out for two years after she had given birth. Sudan...
The European Union Court of Justice said links to "irrelevant" and outdated data should be erased on request. The case was brought by a Spanish man who complained that an auction notice of his repossessed home on Google's search results infringed...
In the 58-second clip obtained by TMZ, Solange can apparently be seen confronting her rapper brother-in-law while Beyonce stands by. Another man holds Solange back until the elevator stops and the three exit. The trio had been together at the Met...
Amnesty International says it was told by several credible sources that the military was given more than fours hours' warning of the raid. Fifty-three of the girls escaped shortly after being seized on 14 April, leaving more than 200 still...
The woman, believed to be travelling with her parents, was reportedly found in the toilet with a man she met on a Gatwick to Las Vegas Virgin Atlantic flight last week. The Sun reports the woman hurled "drunken abuse" at cabin staff after passengers...
The latest kidnapping happened on Sunday night in the village of Warabe, in Borno state. The girls taken were between the ages of 12 and 15. On Monday, Boko Haram's leader threatened to "sell" more than 230 girls seized from their school, also in...
Naomi Mutah took part in a meeting called by First Lady Patience Jonathan and was then taken to a police station, they say. Mrs Jonathan reportedly felt slighted that the mothers of the abducted girls had sent Ms Mutah to the meeting. Analysts say...
Mr Biti was an "opportunist" who was being manipulated by President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, he said. On Saturday, a faction led by Mr Biti said Mr Tsvangirai had been suspended from the MDC because of a "remarkable failure of...
The measure, which would be part of a wider child protection law, says that children under the age of 18 have an obligation to participate in all areas of family life. That includes "co-responsibility in caring for the home and performing household...
A statement issued by the party after a meeting in Harare accused him of a "remarkable failure of leadership". It also said he had deviated from the party's democratic founding principles. Mr Tsvangirai lost a third election challenge to veteran...
She said she "never dreamed" she would be praised for her looks and find herself on the US weekly's cover. Nyong'o shot to fame in the film 12 Years a Slave, winning the Oscar for best supporting actress last month. She subsequently won her first...
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