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A section of Muslim youth on Monday morning staged a peaceful demonstration in Kampala, Uganda’s capital to express their concern for the killing of Palestinians in Israel bomb attacks

Protests against Israeli action in Gaza sprung up throughout the United Kingdom on Saturday.

The three pop stars pop out a late-summer banger

Bank of Uganda has started a campaign to boost people’s understanding of economic issues affecting them so that they can identify opportunities to exploit.

The Constitutional Court in Kampala has adjourned the judgment of a case on whether President Museveni was right to reappoint retired Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki

The Swedish government has earmarked about sh514b ($200m) to improve child and maternal health over the coming five years.

Men with larger testicles tend to be less involved fathers than those with smaller testes, a new study suggests. The findings, detailed today (Sept. 9) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are correlational, so they can't say exactly why the trend exists but only that there is a link. But men who produce more sperm have bigger testes, and sperm production is extremely energy intensive for the body, so it may be that fathers "face a trade-off between investing energy in parenting and investing energy in mating effort," said study co-author James Rilling, an anthropologist at Emory University in Atlanta. [Sexy Swimmers: 7 Surprising Facts About Sperm] Involved dads Scores of studies have shown that children with involved and caring fathers tend to do better emotionally, socially and educationally. So Rilling and his colleagues were interested in understanding what makes some men stellar dads and others AWOL. A 2011 study in the Philippines suggested that men who have high testosterone levels are more likely to marry.

How did you get into radio? In August, she will be making 6 years on radio and has spent all the six on Power FM 104.1. When asked if she could be lured away to another station, she said she needed...

England claim Moeen Ali has done "nothing wrong" after he wore pro-Gaza wristbands in the third Test against India.

FANS of the China model frequently say that, for all the disadvantages of a one-party state, there are also benefits. Enforcing basic health care is one—and by no...

A man who went to hospital with stomach ache was told it was period pains - and he's a woman as well.
The married 44-year-old from Zhejiang province, China, was in fact experiencing period pains, doctors told him.

Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare wins the women's 100m gold in a time of 10.85 seconds at the Commonwealth Games.

The UNDP's 2014 Human Development Report ranked 187 countries based on human progress and vulnerability.

Power contest and fight over money suffocates staff at key foreign missions as political envoys bypass Foreign Affairs to complain directly to President Museveni.

Father Marian Rajchel from Jaroslaw, south-eastern Poland, believes the devil is attacking him because he failed to drive the demon out of the teenager's soul.

Police has this morning arrested two Makerere University students who were protesting against unemployment, corruption and the Makerere university crisis, among other challenges in the country

DAKAR, Senegal - No one knows for sure just how many people Patrick Sawyer came into contact with the day he boarded a flight in Liberia, had a stopover in Ghana, changed planes in Togo, and then arrived in Nigeria, where authorities say the Liberian official died days later from Ebola, one of the deadliest diseases known to man.

Three major HIV and AIDS awards funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief will support global efforts to create an AIDS-free generation, the U.S. Agency for International Development announces.

Louis van Gaal believes his inheritance from David Moyes lacks balance and it would not have been harder taking over from Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford