Tag: world news
Prisoner Hangs Self After 1,000 Years Sentence
Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper who held three women against their will for a decade, is dead after hanging himself…
ICC Wants Kenyan Arrested For Trying To Bribe Witnesses
The International Criminal Court based in The Hague said Wednesday it had issued a warrant against a Kenyan accused of…
Syria: UN experts scurry out as US strikes imminent
DAMASCUS (AFP) – UN experts probing a suspected chemical weapons attack quit Syria on Saturday, opening a window into a…
Black Jesus Killed
An infamous cult leader known as “Black Jesus”, who was suspected of cannibalism, has been chopped to death in a…
EU To Join War Against Sea Pirates In West Africa
The European Union said Wednesday that it was preparing to increase security efforts in the Gulf of Guinea, the West…
Drug Trafficking: Nigerian Sentenced To Death
A Nigerian and a Thai woman have been sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Vietnam, within a week in…
Tunisia TV boss on trial for corruption
The trial of Tunisian television chief Sami Fehri, accused of corruption during the rule of now-toppled strongman Zine El Abidine…
Kuwait Offers $4bn Aid Package To Egypt
Kuwait offered Egypt on Wednesday an aid package of $4 billion, a minister said, bringing to $12 billion the total…
Vatican Approves Sainthood For John Paul II, John XXIII
Pope Francis gave the go-ahead on Friday for John Paul II to be made saint and granted a rare exception…
Lagos State sets world record in tooth-brushing
Kazeem Ugbodaga Nigeria’s Lagos State has shattered the Guinness Book of World in tooth brushing previously set by India by…
Switzerland eyes new law on dictators’ loot
Switzerland, currently in the process of restituting assets to several former autocratic countries, is working on a new law aimed…
Gay marriage now legal in France
France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage Saturday after President Francois Hollande signed the measure into law following…
Bride, 4 friends die in burning limousine on wedding day
A Filipino bride, identified as Neriza Fojas and four friends died desperately trying to scramble out of a rented limousine…
37 muslim fanatics killed in Bangladesh
DHAKA, (AFP) Bangladeshi police broke up a protest by tens of thousands of religious hardliners and shut down Islamist television…
More than 270,000 pedestrians killed yearly
More than 270,000 pedestrians are killed on the world’s roads each year, the World Health Organisation said Thursday, slamming decades…