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Photo: Actress jailed for paying bribe for daughter’s admission
US actress Felicity Huffman has reported to prison to begin a 14-day sentence for her role in a nationwide university cheating scandal.The Desperate Housewives...
Egypt archaeologists find 20 ancient coffins near Luxor
Archaeologists have found more than 20 ancient wooden coffins near the Egyptian city of Luxor, the country's antiquities ministry says.The coffins, whose brightly-coloured decorations...
Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam abandons speech after protests
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has been forced to suspend her annual address after being heckled in parliament.Opposition lawmakers disrupted the Legislative Council session...
Ivory Coast’s former rebel leader to run for president
Former Ivory Coast rebel leader, Guillaume Soro, has announced plans to run in the West African state’s presidential election scheduled for next year.Guillaume Soro led...
Oprah Winfrey states her biggest regret
Oprah Winfrey is talking about some of her biggest life choices: not marrying, and not having children.Winfrey, 65, met her longtime partner, Stedman Graham,...
Stonebwoy caught in studio with USA Grammy Awards winner, Keri Hilson
Ghanaian dancehall musician, Stonebwoy has been spotted with American Grammy-award winning singer, Keri Hilson.The duo is understood to be working on a collaboration that...
Newborn girl found alive in shallow grave in India
A newborn baby girl has been discovered buried alive in northern India, a local police chief has revealed.Abhinandan Singh told reporters the baby was...
11-year-old Nigerian wows 200 global delegates at the Education for Justice in Austria
Children have a voice that is often overlooked but when close attention is paid to them, the world would realise the wealth of wisdom...
Photos: Wild brawl at wedding as families ‘clash’, guests left covered in blood
Shocking footage shows wedding guests punching each other amid the sound of screams and breaking glass as families allegedly clash at a Ramada hotel...
Pope mistakenly tweets to support US ‘Saints’ football team
Vatican employees who manage Pope Francis’ official Twitter account in English on Sunday, mistakenly tweeted in support of United States (US) football team the...
Man, 61 steals 159 bicycle seats because someone stole his
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61-year-old man from Tokyo’s Ota Ward was recently arrested by Japanese
police for allegedly stealing no less than 159 bicycle seats, as a...
Saudi Arabia allows unmarried couples to share hotel rooms
Last month, the Saudi Kingdom announced the launch of a new tourist visa program, opening up the country to mass tourism for the first time.And...
Student punished after baking cannabis cakes
In an unconventional ruling, a court in northern Zambia has ordered a university student to write a 50-page essay on the dangers of drugs...
Trump ends automatic citizenship for children of military, federal workers born in US
Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of United States
Citizenship and Immigration Services, speaking during a briefing at the White
House says the Trump administration has unveiled new...
Uganda wants death penalty for gay sex
Uganda plans to enact a law that would impose the death penalty on homosexuals, saying the legislation would curb a rise in unnatural sex...
Congolese scientist uncovers ebola cure
Congolese scientist and researcher, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, has successfully discovered the most effective cure for Ebola.According to him, he discovered the most effective
cure for the...
Apple removes police-tracking app used in Hong Kong protests
Apple on Wednesday removed an app that protesters in
Hong Kong used to track police movements from its app store.Apple said the use of the...
Video: Mexico mayor tied to truck, dragged through streets over unfulfilled campaign promise
Eleven people were arrested in southern Mexico on Tuesday after the mayor of their village was dragged out of his office, beaten, and then tied to a pickup...
Magufuli shocked at pregnancy rates in schools
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has said he is shocked by the lack of action against men who impregnated 229 schoolgirls in the south-western...
Judge shoots himself in court after being forced to give guilty verdict
A judge shot himself in a Yala courtroom in Thailand after handing down a ruling on Friday.Khanakorn Pianchana pulled out a pistol and...
Saudi Arabia now lets women rent hotel rooms without a man present
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Saudi Arabia has lifted some restrictions on women travelling in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom, its tourism authority said Sunday,...
Gandhi’s ashes stolen and photo defaced on 150th birthday
Thieves stole some of Mahatma Gandhi's remains on what would have been his 150th birthday, police say.The ashes were taken from a memorial in...
Facebook says it has removed multiple accounts from UAE, Nigeria, Egypt and Indonesia
Facebook Inc has removed several pages, groups and accounts on its platforms from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Nigeria and Indonesia, citing “coordinated inauthentic...
Video: 60-year-old teller fights off armed bank robber
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3IuyZYAJe4/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_againAn elderly female bank employee has been hailed after she fought off an armed bank robber and forced him to leave the premises.READ: Shatta...
Dramatic escape by jailed Colombian politician caught on video
Colombian officials have ordered an investigation following the daring escape in Bogota of an imprisoned former senator from a medical centre where she had...
Murder: Ghanaian stabs Ghanaian to death in Europe
A Ghanaian resident in Spain has allegedly killed another
Ghanaian in a meat factory where they both work.The happening was made known to the Ghanaian...
60-year-old man dies while watching porn
A man has reportedly died while watching porn at a sex shop in Italy. The 60-year-old British tourist is suspected to have suffered a heart
attack...
Photos: Lady falls in love with DJ who played at her wedding
In an unusual twist of fate, 26-year old Megan Willis from Baltimore
met her current partner, 42-year old DJ Mark Stone when he played...
Doctor performs abortion on the wrong woman
Police have launched an investigation in South Korea after a doctor performed an abortion by mistake.On August 7, a pregnant patient with a six-week-old...
German court rules hangover is an ‘illness’
A German court has ruled hangover is an "illness", in a case against the maker of an anti-hangover drink.The firm was taken to court...
World’s oldest working barber dies at 108
A barber, who spent nearly a century of cutting hair in upstate New York “didn’t know the meaning of the word retired.”Anthony Mancinelli in...
Pastor blames child for ‘demon-for-sex attack’
A pervert pastor tried to rape an underage girl – then said the child’s ‘demons’ had provoked him into the sex attack, police say....
FIFA reacts to ‘Messi Vote fixing claims’
FIFA has denied allegations of foul play with regards to the voting as Lionel Messi was named Best Men's Player at the FIFA The...
US museum returns looted Egyptian gold coffin
A gilded coffin looted by art thieves in the wake of the Arab Spring and unwittingly purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in...
Former French president Jacques Chirac dies
Jacques Chirac, former French president whose later years were blighted by corruption scandals, has died aged 86.More soon.Source: BBC
Ghana grabs two awards with Africa’s highest score in ‘Aviation Safety Oversight’, Airport Security
Ghana has been awarded two International Civil Aviation Organization Council President certificates for maintaining one of the highest aviation safety and security standards Globally...
Man mauled to death by lion he kept in backyard
A man has been mauled to death by a lion caged at his family home in the eastern Czech Republic.Michal Prasek owned the...
Pastor commits suicide by jumping from 4th floor
Reverend Berry Dambaza, a senior Zimbabwean pastor with Upper Room Ministries died on Monday, September 23, after committing suicide by jumping from the third...
US Army soldier arrested after allegedly discussing bombing news network
A US Army soldier discussed bomb-making techniques and bombing a major American news network's headquarters, as well as named presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke as a possible...
US policeman suspended for arresting two six-year-olds
A US police officer has been suspended after arresting two six-year-olds at a school in Orlando, Florida. One of the two was handcuffed...