Health authorities in Kenya have started administering doses of the world’s first licensed malaria vaccine to young children in rural areas facing high transmission rates.

Indian authorities have announced a plan to restrict the movement of private cars in the capital for nearly two weeks after a major Hindu festival that features fireworks that cloak the area with toxic smog and dust.

South Africa’s president has canceled a visit to the United Nations’ annual gathering of world leaders to focus on unrest over gender-based violence and xenophobic attacks.

Nao Hibino advanced to the semifinals of the Japan Women’s Open by beating top-seeded Hsieh Su-wei 6-4, 6-3 on Friday.

A family spokesman says former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will be buried at the national Heroes’ Acre site but it is not yet clear when.

A lawyer for the former Tunisian president ousted in the 2011 Arab Spring says Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been hospitalized in Saudi Arabia.

Danish police say two elderly German citizens have been found dead in a holiday rental cabin, adding they are routinely investigating the deaths as 'suspicious.'

The speaker of Britain’s lower house of parliament has made it abundantly clear he is not going quietly into retirement.

Philippine immigration agents have arrested 277 Chinese in a raid against an online investment scam syndicate that defrauded hundreds of people, officials said Friday.

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