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The majority of voters in a referendum on Sunday in Japan's Okinawa rejected the central government's plans to relocate a controversial U.S. airbase within Japan's southernmost prefecture, local media reported…

Authorities in Tanzania said on Sunday that 127 dealers have been given licenses to auction gold in the country's northwest region of Geita. Robert Luhumbi, Geita regional commissioner, revealed the…

The world first menstruation-related emoji has been approved by the Unicode Consortium, the official body that manages emojis worldwide. It's set to be launched along with other 229 new emoji's…

Three people have been shot dead and five others were critically injured in a shooting in Durban on Monday. Two men and one woman were among the dead. Kwazulu-Natal police…

The Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington D.C. held a housewarming event inside the giant panda house on Saturday to celebrate the completion of a new visitor exhibit. The celebration featured…

  NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the sharpest possible pictures of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever explored. These new images of…

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un was on a train Sunday to Vietnam for his second summit with President Donald Trump, state media confirmed. Kim was accompanied by Kim Yong…

Kim Jong Un, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), will pay an official friendly visit to Vietnam in the coming days, the Vietnamese Ministry of…

Gunfire and explosions opened Nigeria's delayed election on Saturday as President Muhammadu Buhari seeks a second term in Africa's most populous nation. The vote, widely seen as too close to…

NASA on Friday gave SpaceX the green light to test a new crew capsule by first sending an unmanned craft with a life-sized mannequin to the International Space Station. "We're…