British police announced on Sunday a second arrest in connection with an assault on three police officers by a man armed with a four-foot sword outside London’s Buckingham Palace on Friday. A 30-year-old man was arrested at an address in West London on suspicion of being “involved in the...

Farming in Nigeria is not for the fainthearted. Intermittent electricity means generators are needed half the time. Chronically potholed roads make transport slow and expensive. Fake fertiliser has previously devastated crops, while toxic feed ruined one dairy farm. But for a group of 13...

A serious humanitarian crisis is looming as the United Nations food agency today announced cutting daily rations of thousands of Burundi and Congolese refugees in Tanzania to cope with drying funds. The World Food Programme said today it has reduced daily food rations for 320,000 refugees in...

Rescue crews raced against rising floodwaters on Sunday to pull hundreds of stranded residents from their homes in southeast Texas as Harvey, the most powerful storm to hit the state in more than 50 years, roared inland. The storm has killed at least two people and Harris County Sheriff Ed...