MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Heavy gunfire raged for two hours in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Friday morning, residents said, and explosions were heard at the Giwa barracks, where the army has detained hundreds of Islamist insurgent ...

A 46-year-old US woman is believed to have acquired HIV from her female partner in a rare case of female-to-female sexual transmission of the AIDS virus. Advertisement. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that laboratory ...

The 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that the relationship between him and the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu, remains intact and stronger. He said no amount of rumour and unfounded allegations against the Asantehene could mar the long-standing bond between them. Nana Akufo-Addo made the declaration ...

Popular Jamaican dancehall and reggae star Vybz Kartel has been found guilty of murder in a high-profile trial. He and three co-defendants were convicted under tight security of killing an associate, Clive Lizard Williams, in a row over a missing gun. Parts of the capital Kingston were cordoned off in advance of the verdict and ...

The Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Mr Kabral Blay-Amihere, has bemoaned the attack on journalists in the performance of their duties. He said with the "sacred" duty performed by the media, nobody dared put the law into their own hands by visiting mayhem on media practitioners and destroying their professional gadgets. Mr Blay-Amihere was speaking with the Daily Graphic after the opening of a three-day media and security agencies collaboration programme in Kumasi. His condemnation

Oscar Pistorius had blood on his arm after shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year, a retired police officer tells his murder trial.

A group of knife-wielding assailants attacked civilians Friday morning on a street in a Chinese city, killing three persons. Three bodies were lying on the ground after the attack in Wujialing community in the northern part of Changsha city, capital China's ...

Marseille winger Andre Ayew has challenged his teammates to bounce back against Reims tonight in the Ligue 1.

Google Drive (Photo : Twitter / @NDTVGadgets) Google remarkably lowered the prices of Google Drive's monthly storage plans last March 13. Print This. Text + -. Share This. Facebook Share. Twitter Tweet. Related. Google To Launch 3D Smartphone ...

LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will seek assurances from Russia on Friday that it will not seek to annex Crimea and will address concerns over Ukraine through negotiation, a senior State Department official said before the ...

A 30-YEAR-OLD staff member of the Accra campus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) lost his life in an accident during last Monday’s heavy downpour in Accra. Gilbert Ofosu Aproti, who was an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialist, was driving a KIA Shuma salon car when he ran into the concrete wall of the Mallam overpass, after losing control of the steering wheel. He was heading towards Lapaz from Weija when the accident happened. The car, with