Category: WORLD NEWS

India’s top court has ruled adultery is no longer a criminal offence. The 158-year-old colonial-era law said any man who had sex with a married woman, without the permission of…

In a bid to boost tourism to the country, South Africa is finalising a number of visa waiver agreements with other countries, allowing travellers to enter the country without a…

A magistrate judge in Ohio has resigned after video of him chasing down and grabbing a Black woman by her neck went public. Michael Bachman, the now-former Hamilton County Common…

Comedian Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for sexual assault. Cosby, 81, has also been categorised as a sexually violent predator, meaning he…

A second woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against President Donald Trump’s US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Deborah Ramirez, a Yale university classmate of the judge,…

Gunmen have opened fire on an Iranian military parade in the south-western city of Ahvaz, killing at least 25 people, including civilians, and injuring 60, state media say. The attackers…

At least 100 people have died after a ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized on Lake Victoria, Tanzania, officials say. Many are missing and it is feared that more than…

Former US rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight has pleaded no contest to a voluntary manslaughter charge over a hit-and-run incident in 2015. The Death Row Records founder made the plea…

Fifteen Liberians, including the son of former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, are banned from leaving the country while the government investigates the whereabouts of $104 million in missing cash intended…

The Liberian government says it is investigating what has happened to two huge consignments of money that were printed abroad and brought into the country between November last year and…