Britain pledged Monday to invest £15 billion in roads infrastructure over the next five years as part of a major spending package before next year’s general election.

The death of a football fan in a pre-match ruckus that saw rioters marauding with metal bars and knives in Madrid raised tough security questions for Spanish authorities on Monday.

More than 13,000 people have left Finland’s Lutheran Church in three days in a row over gay marriage after an archbishop said he “rejoiced” that it could soon be legal.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, who have between them won the past six world player of the year awards, face opposition from Germany’s World Cup winning goalkeeper Manuel Neuer in the short list announced by FIFA on Monday.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the DSS to immediately tell Nigerians the outcome of its investigations into the cooked-up allegation of PVC cloning that forced the security agency to unlawfully invade the party’s offices in Lagos over a week ago.

Gunmen whose identities still remain unknown have attacked the Federal Prisons, Ado Ekiti on Sunday night and killed one person suspected to be a prison official.

At least five people were killed Monday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at a market in northeast Nigeria and Boko Haram launched a major assault on police in two state capitals.

Multiple irregularities have marred voter registration ahead of Burundi’s elections, the interior minister said Monday, adding that some were the government’s fault.

The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Abdu Bulama, said on Monday Nigeria would launch its first “made-in-Nigeria satellite” by 2018, in the bid to hasten the pace of socio-economic development in Nigeria.

More than 10 people were killed when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at a crowded market in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, police told AFP on Monday.