Nigeria football fans ‘electrocuted’ while watching TV
Football fans, who had gathered to watch last night's Uefa Europa match between Manchester United and Anderlecht at a viewing centre in the southern port city of Calabar, have been electrocuted after an electric...
Borussia Dortmund bombs: ‘Speculator’ charged with bus attack
Police in Germany have charged a man suspected of being behind an attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus.
Rather than having links to radical Islamism, he was a market trader hoping to make money...
Crocodile eats South African hunter
DNA tests on the carcass of a crocodile shot in Zimbabwe have confirmed that it contains the remains of a missing South African hunter, an investigator has told the BBC.
Scott Van Zyl was killed...
Paris shooting: Gunman was ‘focus of anti-terror’ probe
The gunman who shot dead a policeman in Paris on Thursday has been identified from papers left in his car, but French officials are yet to release his name.
Local media say the 39-year-old lived...
Zimbabwe’s Tsvangirai and Mujuru in anti-Mugabe alliance
Two of Zimbabwe's best known opposition figures have agreed to form an alliance against President Robert Mugabe.
Long-time Mugabe critic Morgan Tsvangirai and former Vice-President Joice Mujuru say they will work together in next year's...
Nigerians charged over ‘gay wedding’
A group of 53 people has been charged in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state with "conspiring" to celebrate a gay wedding at a motel, the local Premium Times newspaper reports.
The group pleaded not guilty to...
Buhari suspends spy chief after $43m found in Lagos
Nigeria's foreign spy chief Ayo Oke has been suspended after anti-corruption officers found more than $43m (£34m) in a flat in the main city, Lagos, the president's office has said.
Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an...
Syria evacuations resume after deadly bomb attack
The evacuation and transfer of thousands of Syrians from four besieged areas resumed on Wednesday, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
The reciprocal evacuations from two pro-government villages and two opposition-held towns...
Ex-Pope marks 90th birthday with beer
Benedict XVI, who resigned as pontiff in 2013, has celebrated his 90th birthday with a mug of beer and the company of visitors from his native Bavaria in Germany. Photos by the Vatican newspaper...
Aaron Hernandez, ex-NFL player, kills himself in prison
Former NFL footballer Aaron Hernandez has been found dead in his cell in Massachusetts, officials say.
Hernandez hanged himself at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center and was pronounced dead later at hospital.
The former New England...