Reading Time: < 1 minuteBenin forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack near the border with insurgency-hit Niger and Burkina Faso, authorities have said.  Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn attack on Chad’s presidential palace left 18 assailants dead and six in custody, with one soldier killed and three wounded, state media…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAuthorities in northern Nigeria’s largest city have begun evacuating more than 5,000 street children seen as a “security threat” and a growing…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo doctors in Malaysia have been ordered to pay RM6m (£1m) to the family of a woman who bled to death after one…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’ve all been there — a much-loved (if rather overbearing) relative is in the neighbourhood and you just have to catch up….

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDonald Trump has been given an unconditional discharge over hush money payments sent to porn star Stormy Daniels, avoiding jail before his…

Reading Time: < 1 minute  The head of the Metropolitan Black Police Association (MBPA) has been dismissed without notice for gross misconduct over a chat with…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMaría Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, was arrested on Thursday while leading a protest against the swearing in of autocratic president Nicolás…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMPs have written to Wes Streeting, the health secretary, asking for his action plan to help the 14 hospitals declaring critical incidents…