Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fired the director-general of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Ndi Okereke-Onyuike, and suspended its chairman. The move is being seen as an effort to restore investor confidence following...

Trinidad and Tobago is to have its first woman premier after Prime Minister Patrick Manning was ousted in a snap election on Monday Jubilant crowds gathered at the party headquarters of Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the Caribbean country’s attorney...

British Airways announced last night that it was seeking a High Court injunction to block 20 days of strikes due to begin next week. The disclosure came as Acas, the conciliation service, tried to broker talks with the Unite union. Both sides said that...

Two drunken teenage girls kicked a man so badly as he lay unconscious during their homophobic attack that he later died, a court heard. Ruby Thomas and Rachel Burke, both 18, stamped on Ian Baynham’s chest and kicked him in the head after their...

A devastated mother has told how her six-year-old daughter was physically and sexually abused by more than 20 of her classmates over a period of months. The little girl was stripped of her clothes and assaulted on a daily basis by pupils her own age...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been off the U.N.’s watch list since March 2008 when the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council buckled under pressure from a number of states. Egypt, other Arab and African states, and Russia were among...