The number of Syrian refugees has passed the two million mark, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). Inside Syria, a further 4.25 million people have been internally displaced. UNHCR says about 5,000 to 6,000 Syrian women, children and men ...

Google has acquired Titan Aerospace, the drone startup that makes high-flying robots which was previously scoped by Facebook as a potential acquisition, the WSJ reports. The details of the purchase weren't disclosed, but the deal comes after Facebook ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor Monday congratulated the newly elected National Executive of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and urged them to further strengthen unity within the party and work hard for victory in 2016. He appealed to them to work in ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor Monday congratulated the newly elected National Executive of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and urged them to further strengthen unity within the party and work hard for victory in 2016. He appealed to them to work in ...

Relief followed Saturday's historic presidential election in Afghanistan, which was marked by high voter turnout. Election officials are calling the landmark poll, which marks the beginning of country's first democratic transfer of power, a success. Following a ...

Unable to inform further on missing flight MH370, Malaysia's Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has nevertheless given a press conference with the Civil Aviation Director general Azharuddin Abdul Rahman and Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari ...

The Government of Ghana has allocated GH¢24,677,025 towards the country's participation in the 2014 Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) World Cup tournament in Brazil in June. A statement signed by the Minister of Information, Mahama ...

Antonis Samaras is set to become the new prime minister of Greece. The 62-year-old's New Democracy party achieved the highest percentage of votes in Sundays election, beating the radical left Syriza party into second place. The leader believes it was a ...

Four officials of the International Criminal Court, held by Libyan militia accused of espionage, have been freed after a month in detention. The President of the ICC Sang-Hyun Song led a delegation to Libya in anticipation of the release, which came after the ...

A Tunisian military court has sentenced ousted president, Zine al-Abadine Ben Ali to life in absentia for his role in the killing of protesters in the uprising that swept him from power. Ben Ali and his family fled the north African country on January 14 last year and ...

A Tunisian military court has sentenced ousted president, Zine al-Abadine Ben Ali in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the deaths of protesters during the country's uprising that swept him from power. But there was anger in the courtroom when 21 ...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is meeting with a troika of EU, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank inspectors to try and convince them to release the final bailout payment of 31.5 billion euros. Without the money, Greece would ...

Arab League foreign ministers have called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down quickly. The group made the call at an emergency meeting in Qatar as the violence continued to escalate in many parts of Syria. Secretary-General Nabil Al Arabi ...

The second and final day of the G8 summit saw Russian President Vladimir Putin clash with the other heads of state over potential solutions to the growing problem in Syria. For the world's press the leaders seemed united but behind the scenes Putin, whose ...