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Detty December, a popular term for Ghana and Nigeria’s end-of-year party season, can have “negative connotations”, Ghana’s official for diaspora affairs has said, adding that he does not want the label linked with his country. “On a personal level I don’t want the word ‘detty’ to be associated with anything Ghana… that’s something I’m not read more

Jonathan BealeDefence correspondent in Kyiv YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP Across Ukraine electricity is being rationed – with supplies turned on for a few hours each day Ukraine’s biggest energy provider is living in permanent crisis mode because of Russian attacks on the grid, its chief executive has told the BBC. Most of Ukraine is suffering from lengthy read more

Messages were sweeping across Sydney within minutes of the attack at Bondi Beach. Parents messaged their children and teenagers, who had been enjoying a late afternoon swim at Bondi. Witnesses said police were on the scene quickly, and the streets of Sydney’s eastern suburbs were full of police cars and ambulances on their way to read more

Emergency workers standby at Bondi Beach after a reported shooting in Sydney, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. Mark Baker/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Baker/AP SYDNEY — Two gunmen shot dead at least 11 people on Sunday at a Jewish event being held at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Australian authorities said, declaring it a terrorist attack. One read more

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at blocking states from enforcing their own artificial intelligence (AI) regulations. “We want to have one central source of approval,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. It will give the Trump administration tools to push back on the most “onerous” state rules, read more

The mandatory release date for clubs to allow all players competing at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) is Monday, 15 December. That means players will be together six days prior to the start of the tournament on Sunday, 21 December. The final takes place on Sunday, 18 January, 2026. Fifa have confirmed that read more

South Africa completed the joint-highest chase in the history of one-day internationals in India as they passed a target of 359 to win by four wickets in Naya Raipur. Aiden Markram hit 110 from the top of the order, while Matthew Breetzke and Dewald Brevis both made half-centuries as the tourists beat India with four read more

Tom RichardsonBBC Newsbeat Picture Group Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s director Guillaume Broche accepted the game of the year prize Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been named game of the year at this year’s Game Awards. The French-developed role-playing game (RPG) cleaned up in 9 of the 10 categories it was up for, with further wins read more

Erasmus was appointed as South Africa’s director of rugby in March 2018, after they had slipped to sixth in the world rankings and won only 11 of their previous 25 Tests. His predecessor Allister Coetzee’s final game in charge was a 24-22 defeat by Wales in Cardiff. Erasmus guided South Africa to the Rugby Championship read more

Liverpool have struggled to hit the heights of Slot’s first season in charge. They sit ninth in the table, 10 points behind leaders Arsenal, after winning just seven of their opening 15 games. Salah has scored four times in 13 top-flight appearances. Rooney said Salah was wrong to say “I don’t have to go every read more

The lengthy Egyptian FA statement claimed the initiative would clash with “the cultural, religious and social values” of Egypt and Iran, and urged Fifa to ensure the match would remain focused on football. It cited Fifa’s statutes on political and social neutrality, arguing matches should not be used to promote causes that are “sensitive or read more

When Salah first moved to England – signed by Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea after impressing for Basel in Switzerland – he struggled to impose his personality in a squad full of established stars, and lacked self-belief. “When I first met him, he was 21 – very innocent,” says former team-mate Mark Schwarzer. “He was coming to read more

Indiana Republicans have defied intense pressure from President Donald Trump by rejecting his demands that they pass a voting map meant to favour their party in next year’s midterm elections. In one of the most conservative states in the US, 21 Republicans in the Senate joined all 10 Democrats to torpedo the redistricting plan by read more

Barbara Plett Usher,Africa correspondentand Mohamed Zakaria WATCH: Abdu-Rabbu Ahmed, who worked at the Saudi Hospital throughout the conflict, says he has no hope of returning to el-Fasher A man who escaped the last functioning hospital in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher before a reported massacre by paramilitary troops says he has lost all hope and read more

Todah OpeyemiBBC Africa, Benin City AFP/Getty Images Guests and dignitaries looked on as protesters stormed the Museum of West African Art in Benin City on Sunday Nigeria’s stunning new Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) has found itself in the crosshairs of local power politics in the week it was supposed to – but failed read more

Peter Mwai & Richard Irvine-BrownBBC Verify Getty Images Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence and gunshot injuries. A crowd runs in panic along a dusty street. Shots ring out. A woman wearing a purple jacket carrying a stick falls to the ground. Another woman can be heard pleading, “Mama, mama, stand,” as she read more

South Africa’s Malcolm Marx has been named men’s 15s player of the year at the World Rugby Awards, becoming the first hooker to win the award since 2001. The 31-year-old has started 11 of the Springboks’ 13 Tests so far this year, scoring five tries. Compatriots Pieter-Steph du Toit and Ox Nche, and France’s Louis read more

Tyson ContehBBC Africa Eye, Sierra Leone BBC Papayo’s mother Sally Kalokoh has not come to terms with her son’s death and wants his killers found With many families left traumatised by killings apparently linked to supposed magic rituals in Sierra Leone, BBC Africa Eye looks into those behind the trade in human body parts. Warning: read more

After the game, Gueye – who is in his second spell with the Toffees – apologised on social media. “I want to apologise first to my team-mate Michael Keane,” he wrote. “I take full responsibility for my reaction. “I also apologise to my team-mates, the staff, the fans and the club. “What happened does not read more

South Africa are on the brink of a first Test series win in India for 25 years after reducing the hosts to 27-2 in pursuit of 549 on day four in Guwahati. India, who were skittled for 201 in their first innings, must bat throughout the final day to avoid a second whitewash in three read more