A criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in a US federal court has shown that six men plotted to try to kidnap Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home. According

US vice-presidential nominees clashed over coronavirus, taxes, race, ‘court-packing’. Although it didn’t have the tension of last week’s debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, there

Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee have been selected to advance to the final round in the race to lead the World Trade Organisation. Okonjo-Iweala and Yoo’s candidacies

Netflix is facing a criminal charge in Texas over the allegedly “lewd” depiction of children in a film on its platform. The film, called ‘Cuties’, follows an 11-year-old Senegalese girl

President Donald Trump has had no Covid-19 symptoms for more than 24 hours and has been fever-free for more than four days, his doctor Sean Conley has said. Conley also

Leaving Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday, Hurricane Delta is expected to strengthen back into a major storm as it makes its way toward the same area of the US Gulf

A live TV debate between the candidates for vice-president ahead of next month’s US election has seen fierce clashes over the coronavirus pandemic. Democrat Kamala Harris accused Donald Trump of

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a method for editing DNA with precision. Frenchwoman Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna discovered one of gene technology’s

Sri Lankan Authorities on Wednesday widened a curfew and warned of legal action against those evading treatment for COVID-19 after reporting a growing cluster centered around a garment factory in

Siemens delivered 3,000 personal masks to Sudan’s Ministry of Health last month to assist in the battle against Covid-19, the company’s latest humanitarian investment initiative aimed at improving living standards

US Vice President Mike Pence and his Democratic challenger, California Senator Kamala Harris, are poised to meet later on Wednesday for a debate that will offer different visions for a

A court in Kenya has found two men guilty of helping Islamist militants attack a shopping mall in 2013. Militants burst into the luxury Westgate shopping centre in Kenya’s capital,

Nigeria again won another international legal battle as the US-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute has ordered Inter Ocean Oil Company to pay the federal government $660,129.87 as

Nigeria’s candidate for the position of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been selected as one of the two female candidates to proceed to

The Nigerian government has ordered a comprehensive investigation into a report by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) that revealed N2.67bn (about $6.5m) school feeding funds

Nigerian equities continued its bullish run on Tuesday, hitting a five-year high. The last time stocks rallied by this much was April 1, 2015.  The All Share Index jumped 4.92%

Covid-19 is spreading further among those around US President Donald Trump, with White House adviser Stephen Miller and a top military official infected.  Miller, who has been self-isolating for the

Nigeria’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) has urged the Federal Government to make every move necessary to ensure Nigeria’s candidate at the keenly contested position of Director General of World Trade

Nominees for this year’s edition of MTV Europe Music Awards have been announced, and six artists across the continent will be vying for Best African Act. Nigerian singers Burna Boy

China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use, a WHO official said