A fresh report from the UN rights office decried "the instrumentalisation of the law and of the courts by the government and military in what constitutes a political campaign against independent journalism".World11 Sep 2018
Zimbabwes main opposition party will this week hold a mock inauguration to name its leader Nelson Chamisa as the countrys president, highlighting its claims the July 30 election was rigged.World11 Sep 2018
The dolphin display was part of opening ceremonies for the World Cup series on Enoshima island on Sunday, which hundreds of athletes and officials attended.World11 Sep 2018
Tsipras told the European Parliament that Greece would "continue our path of fiscal stability", after pledging to voters at the weekend to cut taxes and boost spending to kickstart the economy.World11 Sep 2018
Twelve inventive South Korean college students deliberately made themselves overweight to dodge mandatory military service, a branch of the armed forces in Seoul said Tuesday.World11 Sep 2018
The new rules would only allow members of officially licensed organisations to post certain kinds of religious content, according to a draft document published online Monday by the bureau of religious affairs.World7 Sep 2018
"Patient Jair Messias Bolsonaro recently left... and went to the Albert Einstein hospital," a spokeswoman for the Santa Casa de Juiz de Fora hospital said.World7 Sep 2018
The Geneva talks, the first since 2016, had been scheduled to formally open Thursday but were put on hold, although UN envoy Martin Griffiths has held several meetings in the Swiss city with the government delegation.World7 Sep 2018
"We hope that this threat is not real," party spokesman Oskar Cavalli-Bjorkman told AFP, adding they're awaiting the Swedish security and intelligence service Sapo's assessment.World7 Sep 2018
Musk shared thoughts on those topics and more during a podcast with comedian Joe Rogan that lasted more than two hours, stretching into the early hours of Friday.World7 Sep 2018
A legal source said the man, identified as naturalised Dutch citizen Kunti K., is suspected of being a former commander in the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO), which fought during the 1990s.World7 Sep 2018
But even as India's media widely hailed the Supreme Court for quashing the 157-year-old ban on gay sex, it highlighted the "deafening" silence of the conservative government on the historic verdict.World7 Sep 2018
Nigeria's former vice-president Atiku Abubakar said this week he was in favour of handing more powers to the country's 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory if he wins in February.FootballSports9 Jul 2017
Dressed in a T-shirt and jeans or tracksuit and trainers, it is easy to mistake Mino Raiola for just another chubby beer-loving football fan rather than the razor-sharp mind who dominates the world transfer market.