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Prince William’s wife self-isolating after COVID-19 contact

British royal Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, is self-isolating and has cancelled her engagements after someone she came into contact with subsequently tested positive...

Ugandans to be jailed for violating Covid rules

Ugandans who violate the Covid pandemic control restrictions may go to jail for up to two months. According to new rules released by the health...

Methodist Church approves same-sex marriage

The Methodist Church has become the largest religious denomination in Britain to permit same-sex marriages. A vote to change the definition of marriage at the...

Military plane crash kills at least 45

A military plane has crashed in the southern Philippines killing at least 45 people, with dozens more pulled alive from the burning wreckage. The transporter...

Ukraine’s female soldiers to march in high heels

Plans by Ukraine’s defence ministry to have female soldiers march in high heels instead of army boots in a parade next month have caused...

Pope Francis undergoes surgery for ‘colon diverticulitis’

Pope Francis is undergoing surgery for “colon diverticulitis,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told CNN on Sunday. It comes just hours after the 84-year-old pontiff, attended...

#EndSARS: Court throws out case against Davido, Burna Boy, 47 others

Justice Bello Jawu of a High Court sitting in Abuja has struck out a suit filed by one Kenechukwu Okeke, a human rights activist, against...

Jacob Zuma: Supporters form ‘human shield’ to stop ex-president’s arrest

Supporters of South African ex-President Jacob Zuma have formed what they say is a human shield outside his home to try to prevent his...

Delta variant fueling Africa third wave – WHO

Along with Alpha and Beta, Delta is fuelling an aggressive third wave across Africa, with case numbers climbing faster than all earlier peaks, according...

Beautiful lady wanted for robbery [Photos]

Authorities in Atlanta have declared a woman wanted after she allegedly stole $1 million worth of jewelry from a man she had gone on...

Groom slumps and dies at his wedding [Photos]

A groom with terminal cancer collapsed and died at the altar as his horrified bride walks down the aisle with their son.  Father-of-eleven Paul Wynn,...

Coup plotters sentenced to 15 years

Three soldiers in Gabon have been sentenced to 15 years in jail for an attempted coup in 2019, when President Ali Bongo was recovering...

Shocking: Man, 40, breaks p*nis during s3x

This man discovered the most painful way to take a “break” from sex. A frisky UK fellow reportedly made medical — and sexual — history...

Malawi’s female MPs dress as school girls [Photos]

Malawians have been sharing photos on social media of female Members of Parliament dressed up as schoolgirls - some delighting in their outfits others...

24-year-old sentenced to death by hanging for stealing cash and phones

Justice Oluwatoyin Abodunde of an Ado Ekiti High court has sentenced a 24-year-old man, Sola Jegede, to death for stealing phones and cash. According to...

2-year-old found dead 58 years ago has been identified

Roy Rogers was fishing in Keene Creek Reservoir near Ashland, Oregon on the night of July 11, 1963, when he found something wrapped in...

Japanese serial killer loses death sentence appeal

A convicted serial killer in Japan, dubbed the Black Widow, has lost her final appeal to avoid execution. Chisako Kakehi, 74, killed three of her...

South Africa’s ex-President, Jacob Zuma sentenced

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months by the highest court in the country. This came after the Constitutional Court...

Jubilation as police gun down notorious criminal

There was jubilation in Amukpe area of Sapele, Delta State, following the killing of a notorious criminal known as Fowlboy. The deadly armed robber met...

Pope Francis meets Spider-Man

Pope Francis met Spider-Man at a general papal audience in Vatican City on Wednesday. Mattia Villardita, the 28-year-old who dressed up as Peter Parker’s superhero...

TB Joshua’s wife to lead SCOAN – Reports

The wife of the late founder and leader of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), TB Joshua, Evelyn Joshua, will succeed his late...

Cardi B is pregnant again!

Cardi B is Pregnant! The rapper revealed she's expecting her second child during BET Awards performance. The rapper revealed the news while performing with her...

George Floyd’s Death: Former police officer sentenced!

The US white ex-police officer convicted of murdering African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 has been sentenced to 22 years and...

COVID-19: Checkout countries on UK’s red list

Uganda will be added to the UK’s travel “red list” of high-risk Covid-19 countries from 30 June. This means travellers from Uganda will not be...

Japan proposes four-day working week to improve work-life balance

The Japanese government has just unveiled its annual economic policy guidelines, which include new recommendations that companies permit their staff to opt to work...

I’m underperforming – Man with four wives;10 children cries

Popular South African polygamist, Musa Mseleku has said that he feels he is underperforming even though he has 10 children from four wives.   Speaking in an...

Fake Covid-19 certificates hit airlines

Test results, often required to fly across borders, can be easily manipulated. Airlines are battling a scourge of passengers traveling with falsified Covid-19 health...

COVID-19: Queen Elizabeth loses £10m of income

The Queen has been left with a £10million shortfall in her finances as a result of the pandemic. Buckingham Palace revealed yesterday that it had...

5 people hospitalised after pedestrian bridge collapses onto DC highway (Photos)

Five people have been hospitalised with non-life-threatening injuries after a pedestrian bridge that was in "poor condition" collapsed onto a busy Washington, D.C., highway.  The...

John McAfee: Anti-virus creator found dead in prison cell

Anti-virus software entrepreneur, John McAfee, has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to...

South African President plead for his missing iPad on live TV

South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa had a moment of panic after his iPad mysteriously vanished during a press conference on Tuesday, June 22, leaving...

Man nabbed for attempting to smuggle guns from Turkey to Ghana

Police in Istanbul have announced the arrest of a Ghanaian national for attempting to smuggle 17 handguns into Ghana from Turkey. Istanbul Police in a...

ECOWAS Court stops Nigeria from prosecuting people using Twitter

The Nigerian government has been ordered by the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja not to prosecute people for using Twitter while it considers a...

Presenter demands salary on live TV [Video]

A video making rounds online has shown moment a Zambian TV news presenter went off script and demanded his salary and that of his colleagues during...

Woman missing for 11 years found secretly living in neighbor’s house

An Indian woman who had left her family home in 2010 and hadn’t been seen since was recently found living just 500 meters from...

The Nigerian priest saving Igbo deities from the bonfires

While some Pentecostal preachers in eastern Nigeria set fire to statues and other ancient artifacts that they regard as symbols of idolatry, one Catholic...

South African woman’s claim of giving birth to 10 babies a hoax

The family of a South African man whose girlfriend reportedly gave birth to 10 babies last week concluded in a statement released Tuesday that...

Laurent Gbagbo, 76, files for divorce

Former President of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, has filed for divorce from his wife of three decades at the age of 76, his lawyer...

COVID-19: Philippines threaten to jail those who refuse vaccine

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, frustrated by the slow pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in his country, threatened people who refuse to get inoculated with jail...

Gaddafi’s ‘Flying Palace’ returns home after nearly a decade

A private plane belonging to Libya’s late leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has landed in the capital Tripoli after nearly a decade in France for safekeeping...