Around 1,000 people demonstrated in the Ivorian economic capital Abidjan against today’s referendum on a new constitution which the opposition has denounced as dangerously anti-democratic.

Britain’s Prince Harry (right) helps a tranquilized young male elephant to the ground in Malawi with African Parks as part of an initiative to relocate 500 elephants over 350km from the Liwonde National Park and Majete Wildlife Reserve to the Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday began a two-day visit to Sudan, just days after Khartoum issued a call to all African countries to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

In preparation for the influx of passengers on All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) has activated “Oplan Ligtas Biyahe: Undas 2016” to ensure the safety and reliability of various modes of transportation.

Saying he had heard the voice of God, President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday night promised to stop cussing in his speeches, after weeks of expletive-laden rants against critics of his anti-drug war.

She tried to reprise the role of the late Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard.

A pin-drop silence engulfs Chandni Chowk square in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi around midnight.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan yesterday vowed to go ahead with his plans of a ‘lockdown’ of Islamabad on November 2 to demand “accountability” of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over alleged corruption.

Pakistan federal Information Minister Parvaiz Rasheed has resigned from his position as Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage.

President Francois Hollande has acknowledged France’s “broad responsibility” for the internment of thousands of Roma by the World War II Vichy regime and in the early months of the post-war government

French President Francois Hollande has urged Britain to take in 1,500 unaccompanied minors from the “Jungle” as officials stepped up efforts to finish demolishing the almost-deserted Calais migrant camp.

Cycling campaigners demanded changes to a busy road where an Italian waitress was killed by a lorry months before her death, it emerged yesterday.