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Some 58 percent of Africans in the surveyed countries said corruption had increased over the past 12 months, showed the report entitled People and Corruption: Africa Survey 2015, which is part of Transparency’s Global Corruption Barometer.

Dec 1 Canada pulled out of recession in the third quarter as an acceleration in exports and increased spending in the consumer and housing sectors revived growth, data from Statistics Canada showed on Tuesday. The GDP received boosts from improved performances in exports and...

More than 900 women are running for public office in municipal elections in Saudi Arabia, a country that granted partial suffrage to women only four years ago, CNN reports.

It really shouldn’t have come as all that much of a shock, but the NY political world seemed to be turned on its ear yesterday when former assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was brought in guilty by a jury of his peers on each and every count in his corruption trial.

Robert Lewandowski’s five-goal haul in nine minutes in Bayern Munich’s victory over Wolfsburg this season has earned him four world records.

“There are a few world champions now up here – me, Anthony Crolla, Terry Flanagan, Scott Quigg, and if I’ve missed anybody out then I apologise, but I don’t think I have”. Not according to Fury.

The Chinese renminbi has been added to the International Monetary Fund’s basket of reserve currencies.

Justin Bieber had one helluva Thanksgiving holiday.

Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion and Catherine McKenna, the new Liberal environment and climate change minister, held a news conference Sunday at the government-run Canada Cultural Centre where the unbridled Canadian optimism briefly foundered on the question of whether a...

The 22-year-old became the first Maple Leafs goalie with a shutout in his National Hockey League debut, lifting Toronto over the Edmonton Oilers 3-0 on Monday night.

Adele has smashed yet another record with “25”, becoming the first person to sell more than three million copies of an album in its first week in the US.

Will not having one once again hurt the best team in the Big 12? Pittsburgh, which was among the leading vote-getters outside the top 25 in both major polls, won’t be arriving to provide another significant supplement to Notre Dame’s strength of schedule.

WSB-TV learned from police that no officers were hurt and that two crime scenes may be involved.

As the cast and crew of “Furious 7” franchise celebrated Walker’s second death anniversary, Trese Gibson, Vin Diesel, Gal Galdot and the rest of the gang posted memorabilias of Walker in their respective social media accounts. “Clarity through prayers and...

Customer traffic remained flat on Thanksgiving Day from a year earlier while traffic fell 1.8 percent on Black Friday, RetailNext said.