October 29, 2015

Lack of support from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is responsible Segun Odegbami’s failure to meet the requirements for the FIFA presidency, ex-international, Adokiye Amiesimaka, has said. Amiesimaka told the News Agency

Tanzania, where ruling party candidate John Magufuli was on Thursday declared the winner of a hotly contested presidential vote, has a history of troubled elections since a multi-party system was introduced 20

The trial of exiled Chadian dictator Hissene Habre for war crimes and crimes against humanity has been suspended until November 9, the president of the special tribunal in Senegal said Thursday. “The

Several people were injured when an airliner caught fire while taxiing to a runway at Fort Lauderdale in Florida on Thursday, authorities said. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office said an engine caught

Several Israeli passengers on an Iberia flight to Tel Aviv were unpleasantly surprised by their Spanish pilot’s announcement as they landed in Tel Aviv. The airline insisted what they heard was not

An American citizen has applied for asylum in Canada because he says he fears police in the United States will kill him because he is black, the refugee board said Thursday. Kyle

Spain’s coastguard said it rescued 15 migrants from a boat that was sinking off the coast of Morocco on Thursday, but 39 others who are onboard were missing. A coastguard vessel spotted

The seasonal hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has widened to near-record size, the United Nations said Thursday, insisting though that efforts to save the earth’s protective shield were still working.

An Israeli Arab who was shot and wounded when suspected of trying to carry out a knife attack staged the incident in a suicidal bid to get Israeli soldiers to shoot her,