Nigeria head coach, Stephen Keshi believes Ghana’s Black Stars were better than the Super Eagles in Wednesday’s second semifinal at the 2014 African Nations Championship (Chan) in South Africa.
The Super Eagles lost 1-4 on penalties to their West African...
The United States has canceled funding for opinion polls in the run-up to Afghanistan's presidential election after an initial poll in December triggered accusations of U.S. attempts to manipulate the outcome, officials said.
A spokesman for the U.S.-funded group Democracy...
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been tapped to be U.N. special envoy for cities and climate change, sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
Barring any last minute changes, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - who is...
Thailand goes to the polls on Sunday, but the usual pre-election buzz, banners and loud-hailers on the backs of trucks are noticeable by their absence in the capital, Bangkok.
Anti-government protesters have blocked major intersections and flyovers for weeks, setting...
Japan's core consumer inflation rose at the fastest pace in more than five years in December and the job market improved, encouraging signs for the Bank of Japan as it seeks to vanquish deflation with aggressive money printing.
Factory output...
U.S. stock index futures edged up on Thursday, rebounding after a 1-percent drop in key indexes a day earlier, following the Federal Reserve's decision to continue paring stimulus despite a selloff in emerging markets.
* Market participants were looking ahead...
Robust household spending and rising exports likely kept the U.S. economy on solid ground in the fourth quarter, but stagnant wages could chip away some of the momentum in early 2014.
Gross domestic product probably grew at a 3.2 percent...
Lenovo Group, the Chinese technology company that earns about 80 percent of its revenue from personal computers, is betting it can also be a challenger to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc in the smartphone market.
On Wednesday, Lenovo...
It will be difficult for the U.S. justice department to approve a merger between any of the top four U.S. wireless phone companies, said William Baer, assistant attorney general for the antitrust division, the New York Times reported.
Baer's comments...
Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) plans to sell assets, cut spending and freeze a controversial Arctic drilling program to improve returns after a major profit warning.
Just a month into his new job as chief executive of the...
Describing the allegations as entirely false, Adedeji said they were the handiwork of individuals determined to discredit him and weaken public confidence in the Tinubu administration.
