During a nationwide broadcast to mark 61 years of Nigeria's independence, President Muhammadu Buhari praised social media for being "a very useful platform."

Guinea junta leader Mamady Doumbouya was inaugurated as interim president on Friday to oversee what regional powers hope will be a short transition to constitutional rule after the September 5 overthrow of president Alpha Conde.

Millions of people across Europe may not be able to afford to heat their homes this winter as gas and electricity prices soar.

Worker shortages have left UK service stations empty, created gaps on supermarket shelves and are forcing farms to cull pigs. Even the finance industry is starting to suffer. The situation could get much worse this winter if the British government doesn't relax its Brexit immigration rules, business leaders say.

With nearly three quarters of all adults fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the European Union is a world leader in inoculations. But the impressive headline number is obscuring an uncomfortable reality: the rollout has been extremely unequal across the union.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday, October 1 announced plans to reopen the country's borders to fully vaccinated citizens and permanent residents, moving from a strict zero-Covid strategy to a model of living with the virus.

Large UK companies are required to reveal their gender pay gaps. But the rules are failing to address inequality, according to a new report.

Canada observed its first national holiday honoring victims and survivors of the country's residential school system.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has refused to apologize for the widespread human rights violations in the country since his disputed re-election last year in an exclusive interview with CNN.

Paris-based designer Rick Owens has been called many things in his long career. An antihero, a goth, fashion's "prince of darkness." He's been labeled as such because of his proclivity for a largely noir, gray and ice-hued oeuvre, his deployment of pentagram motifs on underwear or elk antlers on furniture, and an overall aesthetic that is -- and he'd agree with this -- rapturously anti-establishment.