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Elon Musk's SpaceX raises over $337m in fresh funding

Elon Musk’s SpaceX raises over $337m in fresh funding

Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX has raised $337.4 million in equity financing, the rocket company disclosed in a regulatory filing on…
WHO DG Tedros Ghebreyesus warns that COVID-19 pandemic could be worse this year

COVID-19 pandemic likely to end 2022, says WHO

Ghebreyesus said he was highly concerned that the more transmissible Omicron, circulating at the same time as Delta, is leading…
Testing for COVID-19 in UK

UK COVID-19 cases hit new high

Despite the growing number of cases, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will not bring in new restrictions this…
Russian President Vladimir Putin

Russia introduces compulsory medical exams for foreigners

Under the law, elaborate medical checks will be required every three months starting early next year, including blood tests and…
Svenja Schulze,

Germany to donate 75m doses of COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries

Development Minister, Svenja Schulze, told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland news service that the target of 100 million donated doses for 2021…
Saddam Hussein

Former U.S. ambassador admits trial of Saddam Hussein flawed

The former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, was executed on Dec. 30, 2006, on the night before the start of one…
File Photo: A doctor and patient with masks in U.S. as COVID-19

U.S. COVID-19 cases hit record high

The previous peak for the seven-day moving average in U.S. was 250,141 recorded on Jan. 8 of this year.
Harry Reid

Obama, Harris pay tribute to Senator Harry Reid

A former amateur boxer who represented Nevada in the U.S. Congress as a Democrat for more than three decades, Reid…
Natalia Kyrychok, killed by her 80 year-old husband

80-year-old man stabs wife to death for denying him sex

The man had taken Viagra pill while at home in Fanano di Gradara, eastern Italy.
Chibueze (middle) arrested by the police

Nigeria’s Chibueze cracked in Cambodia over romance scam

The suspect, a 47-year-old Nigerian man living in Phnom Penh, was setting up fake accounts on social media, where he…
Elizabeth Carr with her parents and Elizabeth now

America’s first IVF baby Elizabeth Carr turns 40

Elizabeth Carr's birth then attracted fanfare and controversy with a PBS film crew holed up in the delivery room and…
Russian President Vladimir Putin

Russia shuts oldest human rights group Memorial

The order made Tuesday, accused Memorial of breaching the rule requiring groups to register as foreign agents.
The Sun. NASA Photo

When will the Sun die? Scientists predict

Before it burns out, the sun is expected to vaporise the earth's oceans and consume the rocky remains of the…
Taking unauthorised photo of someone in UAE now an offence

Taking unauthorised pictures of someone in public now an offence in UAE

The offence is rewarded with six month jail or fine between Dh150,000 to 500,000 or both
Elon Musk

Chinese citizens slam Elon Musk after space station near-misses

Chinese citizens lashed out online against billionaire Tesla (TSLA.O) founder Elon Musk's space ambitions on Monday after China complained that…
The couple

Jealous lover Yamba commits suicide after killing wife 

The man, Steve Yamba, popularly known as a black coloured, got married to his estranged wife one year ago.
Desmond Tutu

The Bidens, Obamas pay tributes to Archbishop Tutu

"On this morning after Christmas, we are heartbroken to learn of the passing of a true servant of God and…
Queen Elizabeth and Desmond Tutu

Tutu’s death deeply saddens me: Queen Elizabeth

Archbishop Tutu’s loss will be felt by the people of South Africa, and by so many people in Great Britain,…
Justin Welby with Desmond Tutu

Archbishop of Canterbury eulogises Archbishop Desmond Tutu [Full statement]

Welby on Tutu: It was Jesus’ love we saw in his eyes, Jesus’ compassion we heard in his voice, Jesus’…
Some of the items left by the Darfur UNAMID looters

UN Peace keeping base in Darfur looted

The looting occurred in a part of the former base for which custody was handed over to local Sudanese authorities…
After the blast: Scattered chairs and tables at the Beni restaurant east Congo

Six killed by suicide bomber in Beni east Congo

The attack in Beni marks the latest violence in a region where Congolese and Ugandan forces have launched a campaign…
Abike Dabiri-Erewa chairman of NIDCOM

Why 1.5m Nigerians in Italy can’t return home or get job

Omo-Iduhon said that out of about three million Nigerians registered in Italy, 1.5 million of them needed passports, which had…
Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth says she misses her husband, in emotional Christmas speech

The Queen also spoke fondly of her eldest son Charles and his wife Camilla, and also of William and Kate,…
Inside Windsor Castle

Teenager with weapon arrested at Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle

The Windsor Castle intruder from Southampton in southern England did not enter any buildings and security processes were triggered within…
Health workers in Britain dealing with COVID-19 cases

Britain breaks COVID-19 chart again

British government data showed 122,186 new cases, up from 119,789 on Thursday and marking a third day of cases in…
The James Webb Telescope

NASA sends $9.7B telescope into space to probe earth’s origin

The powerful $9 billion infrared telescope, hailed by NASA as the premiere space-science observatory of the next decade, was carried…
Conrado Estrada with his disfigured nose, left and after surgery

New York man Estrada with penis-like nose gets help

The 57-year-old painter and construction labourer said people would "stare" at him and "children would ask their mothers what happened"…
Isaac Fayose becomes delivery van driver in the UK

Former Gov. Fayose’s brother now a delivery van driver in UK (video)

Isaac Owolabi Fayose, the younger brother of former Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose, is now a delivery van driver in…
Passengers waiting for screening at JFK Airport on 24 March 2020

U.S. set to lift travel ban on 8 southern African nations

This travel pause has served its purpose. It bought time to understand the science, it gave time to analyze the…
Omicron takeover South Africa

Health officials not panicky as Omicron dominates in South Africa

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) presented a study on Wednesday indicating that the Omicron variant had milder effects…
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