Isaac Kaledzi

India's top court on Tuesday banned a controversial Islamic practice that allows men to divorce their wives instantly, ending a long tradition that many Muslim women had fiercely opposed.

Nigeria appears to be skeptical about Morocco's bid to join the West African Sub-regional body ECOWAS and is reluctant in seeing it gain a membership, DW reports.

Former world number one Victoria Azarenka will miss the US Open because of an "ongoing family situation". The Belarusian only returned to tennis in June after giving birth to her son, Leo, in December.

Reversing course from his campaign pledges, President Donald Trump on Monday night committed the United States to an open-ended conflict in Afghanistan, signaling he would dispatch more troops to America's longest war and vowing "a fight to win."

Recent data from economists at the African Development Bank (AfDB) show that trade among African countries is alive and growing, expanding from 10% in 2000 to about 16% in 2014. Despite this modest improvement, the volume of intra-Africa trade is a paltry US$ 2 trillion when juxtaposed alongside trade between Africa and the rest of the world, which stands at US$77 trillion.

Spanish police have confirmed the man shot in an operation outside Barcelona is Younes Abouyaaqoub - the chief suspect in the van attack in the city last Thursday.

French oil giant Total said Monday that it would buy Maersk Oil, a unit of Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, for $7.45 billion (6.35 billion euros).

Paris Saint-Germain's world record signing Neymar launched a scathing attack on his former club's directors, saying "Barca deserve much better".

Seven Burundian peacekeepers serving with the African Union have been killed in an ambush in Somalia by al-Shabab.

Police in South Africa have arrested three suspected cannibals, according to local media reports. One of the suspects walked to the police to claiming he was “tired of eating human flesh.”