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Rescue workers are searching for the body of a Catholic bishop in a river in Cameroon after he went missding two days ago. The death of the Bishop of Bafia, Jean Marie Benoit Balla, has been confirmed by the Archbishop of Doula, Samuel Kleda, who is also the president of the Episcopal Council Bishop Baila’s car has been found along ...

A powerful vehicle bomb has hit the diplomatic area of the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 80 people and injuring 350. It struck close to the German embassy in Zanbaq Square, with civilians said to be the main casualties. The morning rush-hour blast was so strong it blew out windows and doors hundreds of metres away. The Taliban have ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man convicted of killing four people in Omaha in 2013 has been given Nebraska’s first death sentence since the state’s voters reinstated the punishment in November. A three-judge panel issued its ruling Tuesday in the case of Nikko Jenkins, who was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder for the August 2013 shooting deaths. The ...

A fossil of one of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco. A study of the jawbone, led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath in the UK, suggests Africa had its own distinct dinosaur fauna, until the asteroid strike ...

Abuja (AFP) – The rescued Chibok girls will not be going back to their rural home town to complete their schooling, Nigeria’s minister for women said on Tuesday. Speaking at a ceremony welcoming 82 newly rescued girls to a government rehabilitation facility in Abuja, Aisha Alhassan said all the girls will be heading back to class in September, without specifying ...

Thirteen South Sudanese soldiers have gone on trial accused of raping foreign aid workers and murdering their local colleague. The incident in the capital, Juba, last July resulted in a UN report which accused UN peacekeepers of failing in their duty to protect civilians. It happened as rival forces in the civil war clashed in the city. The soldiers’ lawyer ...

Golfer Tiger Woods was found “asleep at the wheel” with the engine running when he was arrested, US media reports say. Woods was found behind the wheel of his Mercedes, which was stopped in the road, and had to be woken by the arresting officer early on Monday. “Woods had extremely slow and slurred speech”, a copy of the police ...

A Chinese dating app for lesbians that has more than five million users has been shut down. The app, Rela, is no longer available in the Android or Apple app stores, and its website and Sina Weibo account have been deleted. Users began to notice that the app was not accessible last week. It is unclear why it has been ...

General Manuel Antonio Noriega, former military leader of Panama, has died aged 83, officials have announced. Noriega recently underwent an operation after suffering a haemorrhage following brain surgery. Noriega had been a key US ally but was forcibly removed when American troops invaded in 1989 and was later jailed in the US on drugs and laundering charges. He spent the ...

Abuja (AFP) – Nigeria’s ailing president was glaringly absent on Monday as his deputy marked their two years in power, with no word on the head of state’s health three weeks after he went on indefinite medical leave. Muhammadu Buhari and his deputy Yemi Osinbajo were sworn into office on May 29, 2015, two months after securing the first opposition ...