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Insurers set aside $300 million in provisions for Germanwings crash
Insurers are setting aside $300 million (279 million euros) in provisions for the air crash in the French Alps that killed 150 people, German airline Lufthansa...
Cliffhanger in Nigeria as presidential election remains ‘too close to call’
In a cliffhanger of an election, early returns from half the states showed Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and former military dictator Muhammadu...
Cliffhanger in Nigeria as presidential election remains ‘too close to call’
In a cliffhanger of an election, early returns from half the states showed Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and former military dictator Muhammadu...
Cliffhanger in early results for presidential election in oil-rich Nigeria
In a cliffhanger of an election, early returns Monday night from half the states showed Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and former military dictator...
Counting continues while election tensions prompt protests, curfew in Nigeria
Nigeria’s electoral commission began counting votes in hotly contested presidential elections Monday as the United States and Britain warned that...
He’s fallen a fairway: Tiger drops from world’s top 100 for first time since 1996
Tiger woods has slipped out of golf’s top 100 players for the first time since 1996.
He’s fallen a fairway: Tiger Woods outside world’s top 100 for first time since 1996
Tiger woods has slipped out of golf’s top 100 players for the first time since 1996.
Divided Nigeria city awaits results of tense presidential vote
Nigeria counted ballots in a closely fought general election Sunday after failures in controversial new technology pushed voting into a second day, with...
Boko Haram advance on northern city as Nigerians go to the polls
Suspected Boko Haram extremists attacked polling stations and destroyed election material in two northeastern towns, police said as Nigerians continued...
Boko Haram kills 41, prevents hundreds voting in Nigeria
Boko Haram extremists killed 41 people, including a legislator, and scared hundreds of people from polling stations but millions voted across Nigeria Saturday...
Nigeria votes in election amid Boko Haram violence
Nigeria has extended voting to Sunday after problems occurred as millions turned out Saturday to vote in a presidential election that analysts say is too...
Millions in Nigeria go to the polls as voting extended to Sunday after glitches
Nigerians have now until Sunday to vote in a presidential election that experts say is too close to call between President Goodluck Jonathan and former...
Opera singers among French Alps air crash victims, theatre confirms
Two star opera singers, one of them accompanied by her baby, were among 150 people killed in the German airliner that crashed in the French Alps Tuesday.
Two babies, 16 school children among 150 victims of Germanwings Alps crash
German officials have confirmed 16 school children and two babies were aboard a Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday.
'No survivors': Germany-bound airliner carrying 150 crashes in French Alps
German airline Germanwings said its Airbus A320 aircraft that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday started descending one minute after reaching its cruising...
'No survivors expected': Germany-bound jet carrying 148 crashes in French Alps
An Airbus A320 plane has crashed this morning in the southern French Alps, security sources said.
'No survivors expected': Germany-bound jet carrying 148 crashes in French Alps
An Airbus A320 plane has crashed on Tuesday in the southern French Alps, security sources said.
BREAKING: Airbus A320 carrying 148 crashes in French Alps
An Airbus A320 plane has crashed on Tuesday in the southern French Alps, security sources said.
Amnesty warns on ‘seriously alarming’ Nigeria oil spills
Amnesty International said two major oil companies operating in Nigeria reported a combined 553 oil spills in 2014, a figure that qualifies as a national...
Back in China: Former U.S. diplomat Kissinger chats with President Xi Jinping
U.S. statesman Henry Kissinger, who spearheaded efforts to end Cold War hostility between Washington and China more than four decades ago, on Tuesday told...
Germany adopts ‘historic’ quota for women board members
Germany’s biggest companies will be required to have women fill a third of their supervisory boards from next year under a law adopted in parliament...
Sett in his ways: Angry badger brings Stockholm hotel to a standstill
A luxury hotel in central Stockholm came under siege early today by an ill-tempered badger that refused to allow any guests in or out, forcing police to...
40 Algerian police wounded by anti-shale gas protestors
Forty police officers were wounded in clashes with demonstrators opposed to shale gas exploration in the Algerian Sahara, the Interior Ministry announced.
Suicide bombers kill at least 26 across north Nigeria
Suicide bombers struck two bus stations in different parts of northern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people in attacks President Goodluck Jonathan...
Girl suicide bomber kills five, wounds dozens in northeast Nigeria
A young girl with explosives strapped to her killed five people and wounded dozens at a security checkpoint outside a market in the northeast Nigerian...
Nigerian military claims recapture of Baga from Boko Haram
Nigerian forces backed by air strikes seized the northeastern border town of Baga from Islamist group Boko Haram on Saturday, the military said, a significant...
Greece to send loan request to sceptical euro zone as cash reserves burn
Greece’s leftist-led government said it will ask the euro zone on Thursday to extend a “loan agreement” for up to six months, raising...
Greek insider likens ‘arrogant’ Germany to Nazis as debt talks continue
Germany’s government has been “overtaken by arrogance” in its approach to debt negotiations, a Greek government source has said.
Nigeria rocked by multiple attacks in north and south
Two suicide attacks in northeast Nigeria killed at least 38 people Tuesday, after Boko Haram razed a town and as violence raged across the embattled region...
They’re gr-r-reat: Wildlife officials find no abuse to Buddhist temple tigers
About 50 officials from the wildlife department and local religious affairs office, along with soldiers, made a three-hour inspection on Thursday of the...
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