Girl group back together next week for premiere of their new musical Viva Forever! and a major new TV show By Dan Wootton PUBLISHED: 17:25 EST,

Dakar — Farmers in Médina Yoro Foula, in Senegal's southern Kolda region, are expecting a good grain harvest this year, and hope to sell thousands

By Baz Bamigboye PUBLISHED: 18:41 EST, 6 December 2012 | UPDATED: 02:55 EST, 7 December 2012 To the stage: James McAvoy will star as the Scottish king in a

By Nick Pisa PUBLISHED: 14:09 EST, 6 December 2012 | UPDATED: 02:54 EST, 7 December 2012 Their relationship has been fairly tumultuous over the past nine months but bad boy

By Fehintola Betiku PUBLISHED: 03:34 EST, 7 December 2012 | UPDATED: 04:09 EST, 7 December 2012 Gisele Bundchen and her husband Tom Brady have welcomed their second child into the

A strong earthquake struck Friday off the coast of north-eastern Japan in the same region that was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami last

LINDSAY Lohan is reportedly resorting to selling off her designer clothes to pay her tax bill. The troubled actress, 26, sent her sister Ali, 18, off

The cold snap gripping Europe shows no sign of letting up as the UK braces itself for snow next week. Overnight frosts will continue throughout next

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a meeting with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders as Speaker of the House John Boehner looks on in

A 7.3 MAGNITUDE earthquake has struck off the east coast of Japan - causing a one-metre high tsunami to slam into the country. The epicentre

By J J Anisiobi PUBLISHED: 12:03 EST, 6 December 2012 | UPDATED: 03:58 EST, 7 December 2012 It has been a busy week for the X Factor judges with the

By J J Anisiobi PUBLISHED: 02:52 EST, 7 December 2012 | UPDATED: 02:55 EST, 7 December 2012 Christopher Maloney has received a lot of criticism on his journey to the

In her first interview since 2010, Liu Xia described her husband's imprisonment and her house arrest to journalists from the Associated Press as Kafkaesque."I really

By The Associated PressNEW YORK -- A New York City doctor who wrote prescriptions for a man who killed four people in a pharmacy robbery

"There's a powdered milk factory in Latakia, but there are 13 security checkpoints to go through," al-Razzak explained, sitting in the darkened warehouse in this

The French government this week passed a law that adds 480 million euros ($628 million) in new taxes on beer, while leaving wine unscathed."The government

Led by heavy-hitter former NASA executives, the Golden Spike Co. would boldly go where humankind went 40 years ago, this time commercially, hawking tickets to

The United Nations' chief nuclear official urged Iran on Thursday to allow inspection of a military base where Iranian scientists are suspected of conducting secret

"We're not giving up on high-speed rail," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood testified before a congressional committee. "The president will include funding in his budget. I

The twin investigations are part of a stepped-up effort by federal prosecutors and regulators to clamp down on funding sources for drug traffickers, terrorists and