72 year old great-grandmother set for Kenya primary certificate examination

72 year old great- grandmother, identified as Cheptakar Kakuko Tukongole is among the candidates sitting for the 2016 Kenya Certificate Education Examination.

Texas mom shot dead in front of her daughter while trying to sell iPhone 7

A 42-year-old realtor in Dallas, Martha Teran, who wanted to sell her daughter's iPhone 7 was shot and killed at a Medieval Times parking lot Sunday night as her horrified daughter watched.

Rape videos being sold in India

Shops in the northern state of India are reportedly selling videos of women, being raped, to their customers. The videos cost from Rs 20 to Rs 200 (30 cents to $3) and are transmitted to a customer's mobile phone in a matter of seconds.

Saudi Aramco CEO predicts oil market balance by early 2017

The global oil market should be balanced early next year, the president of Saudi Aramco said on Tuesday, after over-supply drove prices to multi-year lows in 2016.

Trump edges ahead of Clinton, poll finds

a combination of images showing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Roanoke, Virginia on September 24, 2016 and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton September 21, 2016 in Orlando, Florida.Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has edged ahead of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by a point for the first time since May, an ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll out November 1, 2016 has found.

South Africa court hears Zuma bid to block graft report

A South African court was Tuesday hearing a bid by President Jacob Zuma to block the publication of a potentially explosive report that probed his ties with a controversial and powerful Indian business family.

Fears for Kim Jong Un’s wife after not being seen publicly since March 2016

Fears are growing for the safety of North Korea’s first lady, who has vanished from public view for the past seven months. Ri Sol-ju got married to Kim Jong Un in 2009 and soon after, she gave birth to their child and heir to the country.

Former Man.U star becomes a catholic deacon

Former Manchester and Northern Ireland football star, Philip Mulryne has been ordained as a deacon in the Catholic Church.

Chinese woman gets 20 iPhone7 from 20 boyfriends, sells them and buys a house

Xiaoli, a woman from the city of Shenzhen in southern China, who is from a  poor home and the oldest child in her family asked each of her 20 boyfriends to buy her a newly launched iPhone 7.

Wife of Mexican drug lord, El Chapo says ‘he will die or go crazy after prison cut his love-making time from 4 to 2 hours.

Emma Coronel, the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord, Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has cried out after the prison authorities cut his love-making time with her, from 4 to 2 hours, prompting the former Mexican-American beauty queen to file a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission, that her hubby might die or go crazy.

Ugandan President surprises villagers by fetching water on a bicycle (Photos)

President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was pictured doing the unusual this morning when he was spotted by villagers fetching water on a bicycle in a Kawumu village, Luweero District, of Uganda. 

Photos: Doctor delivers baby but leave the head inside then sends the mother to another hospital without a word

A shocking story of alleged medical malpractice is coming out of a hospital in the southern Thai town of Pattalung.

Photographer shoots photos of naked people standing with the head to reflect how Doald Trump has turned the world upside down

Photographer, Spencer Tunick has taken pictures of 20 naked people standing with their head to reflect how the rise of Donald Trump is turning the world upside down.

Young man puts bleach in his pregnant girlfriend's water bottle in order to kill unwanted two-month-old fetus

20 year old Theophilous Washington, a student of Millersville University in rural Pennsylvania, was charged with attempted murder after authorities in the school learnt that he poisoned his pregnant girlfriend's glass of water with bleach in an attempt to abort the 2-months pregnancy his girlfriend was carrying.

El Salvador arrests ex-president on fraud charges

Elmer Charlaix, ex private secretary of former Salvadorean President Antonio Saca (2004-2009), is transferred to the division of narcotics of the police National Civil, where Saca is also detained in San Salvador on October 30, 2016. 

Iraqi militiamen battle IS southwest of Mosul

Iraqi army soldiers patrol outside a refugee camp in Qayyarah, south of Mosul, on October 29, 2016. Iraqi paramilitary forces launched an operation to cut the Islamic State group’s supply lines between its Mosul bastion and neighbouring Syria, opening a new front in the nearly two-week-old offensive.

Georgia ruling party set to win in parliamentary polls

A woman votes at the polling station during the second round of parliamentary elections in Tbilisi on October 30, 2016 Voting, which started at 0400 GMT and will end at 1600 GMT, is being monitored by international observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the European Parliament, and NATO.

Dozens of civilians dead in rebel assault on Aleppo

Rebel fighters from the Jaish al-Fatah (or Army of Conquest) brigades manoeuver a T-55 tank as they take part in a major assault on Syrian government forces West of Aleppo city on October 28, 2016 Syrian opposition fighters launched a major assault on government forces to break a months-long siege of rebel-held neighbourhoods of the battered city of Aleppo.

UN negotiates release of 876 children held by Nigerian army for possible Boko Haram ties

The United Nations has negotiated the release of nearly 900 children detained by Nigeria's army and security forces.

US warns its citizens to avoid traveling to Turkey, orders departure of family members of employees of US Consulate

The United States State Department has ordered the employees of the US Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey to ensure their family members leave the country following Intelligence information of threats on American citizens from radical terrorist groups in Istanbul