Lesotho Prime Minister’s wife shot dead

The estranged wife of incoming Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has been shot dead two days before his inauguration. Lipolelo Thabane, 58, was travelling home with a friend when both women were shot by an...

Qatar buys F-15 fighter planes in billion-dollar US deal

Qatar has signed a $12bn deal to buy F-15 fighters jets from the US. The sale was finalised at a meeting in Washington between US defence chief Jim Mattis and his Qatari counterpart. It comes days...

Trump ‘probed for obstruction of justice’

President Donald Trump is being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller for possible obstruction of justice, US media reports say. They say senior intelligence officials will be interviewed about whether Mr Trump tried to end...

Steve Scalise: Republican House whip shot and wounded

A top US Republican was among five people wounded in a "multiple shooting" during baseball practice in an upmarket Washington DC suburb. House of Representatives Majority Whip Steve Scalise was hit but expected to survive...

London: 27 tower block fire claims several lives

Several people have been confirmed dead after a huge inferno broke out at a residential tower block in West London. Eyewitnesses revealed how families 'begged for their lives' as they tried to escape the blaze, while...

London fire: Flames engulf tower block

A huge fire has raged through the night at a west London tower block, with eyewitnesses claiming people were trapped inside. More than 200 firefighters are still tackling the blaze at Grenfell Tower in north...

Zambia opposition MPs suspended

Forty-eight Zambian MPs from the opposition UPND have been suspended for 30 days for boycotting President Edgar Lungu's state of the nation address. They refused to attend in March as they argued Mr Lungu was...

Mosul displaced hit by food poisoning in Iraqi camp

Hundreds of people have fallen ill and a child has died of suspected food poisoning at a camp for displaced people near the Iraqi city of Mosul. People were said to be vomiting and suffering...

Nairobi building collapse: ’15 missing’ as residents join search

Fifteen people are reported missing after a seven-storey building collapsed on Monday night in an eastern suburb of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The Kenya Red Cross tweeted that response teams were at the scene, in...

Trump travel ban suffers new court defeat

A US appeals court has upheld a decision blocking President Trump's revised "travel ban" on people from six mainly Muslim nations. A lower court had issued the injunction on the grounds that the ban was...