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Gunmen have killed 13 people in an attack on a farming community in central Nigeria in the latest deadly violence to rip through the region, police said on Monday. A further 10 people were injured in the shooting in the village of Gbajimba on Sunday…
Jean-Paul Duminy hit a brilliant 40-ball 86 to lift South Africa to 170-6 in the World Twenty20 crucial Group One match against New Zealand in Chittagong on Monday. The left-hander smashed 10 boundaries and three sixes while Hashim Amla made a 40-ball…
Ivory Coast superstar Yaya Toure scored his first career hat-trick at the weekend as English Premier League title-chasers Manchester City cruised to a 5-0 win over Fulham. The reigning African Footballer of the Year converted two penalties before curling…
A 15-year-old boy was on Monday charged with the murder of Shereka Fab-Ann Marsh, also 15, who was shot in the neck at a house in east London, Scotland Yard announced. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will appear at Stratford Magistrates…
Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial entered its fourth week on Monday with more testimony on gunshots and a woman’s terrified screams on the night the star Paralympian shot dead his glamorous girlfriend. Anette Stipp, a neighbour and one of the prosecution…
At least eight people were killed and 18 were missing when a massive landslide slammed “like a freight train” into a mountainside community in the northwestern United States, rescue officials said late Sunday. The wall of mud, rocks and trees smashed…
Chinese manufacturing activity contracted in March to its weakest rate in eight months, data showed Monday, the latest indication of slowing growth in the world’s number two economy. The data is the latest in a string of weak indicators out of Beijing…
A court in Egypt on Monday sentenced 529 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death after a mass trial, judicial sources said. Islamist backers of Morsi are facing a deadly crackdown launched by the military-installed authorities…
Australian rugby chief Bill Pulver said Monday he is confident the relaunched National Rugby Championship can prove the doubters wrong and make a financial profit in its first year. The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) Monday announced nine teams to compete…
The Rolling Stones Sunday said they will play Paris’ Stade de France in June for the first time since 2007, after postponing a tour Down Under due to the death of Mick Jagger’s girlfriend. The British band will play a single gig in France’s national…
An Egyptian court released a leading leftwing activist on trial for joining an unsanctioned and violent protest on bail Sunday, as the army-installed regime seeks to quell political unrest. Alaa Abdel Fattah and 24 others are accused of taking part…
French voters went to the polls on Sunday in the first round of local elections set to represent a landmark for women in politics and, possibly, for the far-right National Front. The first nationwide vote since Francois Hollande’s 2012 election as president…
Adolfo Suarez, the prime minister who led post-Franco Spain to democracy, died on Sunday at a Madrid hospital, his family’s spokesman said. He was 81. “Adolfo Suarez has died,” the spokesman Fermin Urbiola told reporters at the Cemtro hospital where…
Kiev braced for a unity rally on Sunday after elite Russian forces stormed one of Ukraine’s last Crimean bases in a march that has defied both sanctions and global isolation. Saturday’s takeover involving machinegun fire into the air and stun grenades…
Visiting US first lady Michelle Obama toured China’s Great Wall on Sunday, after her arrival at the US embassy in Beijing earlier in the day sparked a minor security alert. She and her daughters strolled along a popular section of the wall and rode…
Spanish police detained 24 people during street violence late on Saturday following a large anti-austerity demonstration in Madrid in which dozens were injured, a police spokesman said. Tens of thousands of people, some having walked from the farthest…
World number two Laura Massaro was crowned the new world women’s squash champion Sunday after edging Egypt’s Nour El Sherbini in a suspenseful final. England’s Massaro downed Sherbini 11-7, 6-11, 11-9, 5-11, 11-9 in front of a full house in the Malaysian…
The murder trial of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius for shooting dead his girlfriend has been extended until May 16, the South African court hearing the case said Sunday. The trial, which enters its fourth week on Monday, will continue until April 4, then…
Nigerian police said Sunday they have opened a murder probe after the discovery of rotting bodies and skeletons in an abandoned building the media has branded a “House of Horror”. Police also rescued several severely malnourished people founded wandering…