International

Petrobas kickback report makes Brazil's Rousseff fuming

Just days before Brazil's presidential election run-off, rightwing news magazine Veja on Friday accused President…

Chad confident Boko Haram will release Chibok schoolgirls: Reuters

Chad said it believed Nigeria's secret deal with Boko Haram Islamists to free more than…

Liberia's Ebola could kill 90,000 by December, scientists warn

Efforts to control the Ebola virus in Liberia must be quickly and dramatically scaled up…

Zambia Independence Day tragedy: 24 people, including schoolchildren drown

At least 20 people, mainly schoolchildren, are believed to have died in Zambia after a…

Girl dies in Mali's first Ebola case

A two-year-old girl died of Ebola in Mali on Friday, in the first case of…

Global food wastes enough to feed 2 billion people yearly

The UN says the world wastes enough food to feed an estimated two billion people,…

Gun-toting American student shoots 6 fellow students, then self

A student opened fire at a US school Friday, shooting six people before killing himself,…

Botswana decides today

Polls opened Friday in Botswana's general elections where the ruling party faces a stern test…

Japanese company, Clever, donates smart masks for Ebola war

A little-known Japanese company has donated 10,000 high-tech face masks to several Ebola-hit African nations…

Clothing store out with pocketless suit to protest corruption

A Paraguay clothing store is leaving the pockets out of the chain's latest line of…