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Italian Christmas meal tragedy turns into murder inquiry
Italian prosecutors have opened a murder investigation following the deaths of a mother and her teenage daughter after a pre-Christmas meal last year. Sara Di Vita, 15, and her mother Antonella Di Ielsi, 50, fell ill after a lunch in their hometown of Pietracatella, a small municipality 260km (161 miles) south-east of...
Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists over Air Force One reporting
Several New York Times journalists were summoned to testify under oath after they reported alleged security concerns involving President Donald Trump’s new Air Force One plane, the US newspaper said. Federal agents delivered subpoenas to some reporters’ homes demanding they appear before a federal grand jury investigat...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs moved to solitary confinement following alleged prison fight
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was reportedly involved in a prison fight. On Friday (July 24), a source told NBC News that the 56-year-old music mogul is now in solitary confinement after he reportedly got into a fight with a fellow inmate. According to TMZ, the prison fight started after an inmate insulted Diddy and was quickly s...
Google has exceeded $1 billion Africa investment target
Google has exceeded a five-year target to invest $1 billion in Africa, it said on Wednesday, as it made public initiatives on infrastructure and the development of AI to accelerate the continent’s digital growth. They follow Google’s launch of cloud services for the Johannesburg region in 2025. Here are the details...
Ugandan gov’t evacuates 424 citizens from South Africa
The government of Uganda has evacuated 424 Ugandan nationals from South Africa following weeks of anti-migrant protests and xenophobic violence. The first batch of returnees, comprising 273 people, including 255 adults and 18 children, arrived at Entebbe International Airport aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight as part...
Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office
US President Donald Trump made more than $1bn (£750m) last year from business dealings in cryptocurrency, according to his mandatory financial report for 2025. In a 927-page disclosure, he reported $635m in royalties from a Trump meme coin that has since plunged in value, having launched it days before taking office. H...
International Criminal Court confirms Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger move to leave court
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have initiated a year-long process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the court said in a statement. READ ALSO: 700 Ghanaians stranded in Pretoria amid renewed xenophobic tensions Floods killing Ghana’s economy – Peter Quartey
Nigerian student dies after suffering injuries in Russian airstrike
A 23-year-old Nigerian medical graduate, Nnani Adaobi Marian, has died after sustaining critical injuries in a Russian airstrike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, just days before her graduation ceremony. Adaobi was injured on June 29, 2026, when Russian forces reportedly struck the Kholodnohirskyi district of Kharkiv with aerial b...
US wants Iran to pledge to stop shooting at ships in Strait of Hormuz
The US wants Iran to publicly state that the Strait of Hormuz is open and to pledge to stop firing on commercial ships as part of negotiations due to be held on Saturday. US media cited unnamed officials as saying Tehran had privately acknowledged to President Donald Trump’s advisers that the shooting at ships was […]
Africa must mobilise its own capital to drive transformation, AfDB chief says
Africa must do more to channel its vast domestic wealth into productive investment and reduce its dependence on external financing if it is to achieve economic transformation, African Development Bank (AfDB) President Sidi Ould Tah has said. Addressing the opening session of the AfDB’s annual meetings in Brazzaville on...
South African politician seeks US refuge on fears of future persecution
For SJ Du Venage, a provincial council member for a right-wing party in South Africa’s governing coalition, the decision to leave his homeland under a U.S. refugee programme created by President Donald Trump was shaped by longstanding fears. A former youth leader in the far-right Conservative Party —which opposed the...
(Update): Suspect killed after opening fire on Secret Service near White House
A suspect who shot at a White House checkpoint was killed in an exchange of fire with Secret Service agents on Saturday evening, officials have confirmed. The BBC’s US media partner CBS has named the suspect as Nasire Best, a 21-year-old man who was known to the protection agency and had a documented history of mental...