A fresh fire has erupted at South Africa's parliament building in Cape Town a day after it first went up in flames.The main assembly chamber was "completely gutted" by the initial blaze, which is...
Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro has said doctors are assessing whether he needs surgery after being admitted to hospital with abdominal discomfort.Mr Bolsonaro said in a Twitter post that he had started to feel unwell...
The woman who has accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault agreed not to sue anyone connected to Jeffrey Epstein who could be described as a "potential defendant", a newly-released document shows.The 2009 settlement between...
Police in Cyprus are investigating after a statue of a giant potato was found vandalised on New Year's Day.The four-metre sculpture in the village of Xylophagou was cut down from its stand at around...
One of the survivors of the 2015 Berkeley balcony collapse, Aoife Beary, has died at the age of 27.Six Irish students were killed and several others were injured when a fourth-floor balcony in Berkeley,...
World-renowned conservationist and fossil hunter Richard Leakey, whose discoveries helped prove humankind evolved in Africa, has died at the age of 77.Tributes have poured in for the Kenyan paleoanthropologist who also spearheaded campaigns against...
Sudan's prime minister has announced his resignation from the country's military-controlled government following pro-democracy protests which left two dead.Abdalla Hamdok's resignation comes less than two months after he was reinstated into power after signing...
