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Pope Leo XIV has marked his first Christmas as head of the Roman Catholic Church with a powerful message of peace, hope and global solidarity, as thousands of worshippers gathered...

President Donald Trump has ordered an immediate suspension of the United States’ diversity visa (DV) lottery programme, citing national security concerns following a series of deadly shootings linked to a...

Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed General Christopher Gwabin Musa (rtd) as the new Minister of Defence to replace Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar who resigned on Monday, December 1,...

The UK says it will vote to recognise a Palestinian state at a United Nations meeting in New York. It will be the first time the UK has voted in...

A deal has been made between the US and China to keep TikTok running in the US, according to President Donald Trump. "We have a deal on TikTok, I've reached...

Tuesday was a very good day for Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. The company announced during an analyst call on Tuesday that it had signed four multi-billion-dollar contracts during the fiscal...

Burkina Faso’s unelected transitional parliament has passed a bill banning homosexual acts, a little over a year after a draft of an amended family code that criminalised homosexuality was adopted...

SpaceX has pulled off a successful test flight of its newest generation rocket Starship, reversing a trend of disappointing failures. The world's largest and most powerful rocket blasted off from...

Dozens of soldiers have been arrested in Mali accused of plotting to topple the country's military leaders, sources say. The wave of arrests, which reportedly went on overnight and are...

Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is to be sentenced in October for his conviction on prostitution-related charges, is seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump, one of his lawyers...