A man attempting to recreate the iconic Titanic movie flying pose with his girlfriend has drowned after the pair plunged into the sea. The couple had gone to the edge of a pier to recreate the iconic “King of the World” pose struck by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet...
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, on Tuesday, made a surprise appearance at a ceremony to mark the completion of a long-awaited London train line named in her honour. Elizabeth, wearing a bright yellow hat and coat, using a walking stick, was joined by her youngest son Edward and Prime Minister Boris...
No fewer than forty-two wedding guests have fallen ill from mass food poisoning in Afghanistan’s northern province of Takhar, local police said on Monday. Mubin Safi from provincial police department said the incident occurred during a wedding ceremony in Takhan Abad village of Chah Hab district on Sunday night....
Multiple people were shot Sunday at a church in Laguna Woods in California’s Orange County, prompting a major response from Orange County Sheriff’s officials and other first responders. The number of casualties was not clear. The shooting occurred at the Church on the 24000 block of El Toro Road....
Mali on Sunday said it was leaving a five-country military alliance in the Sahel region of Africa. The alliance known as the Group of five (G5) Sahel also includes Chad, Mauritania, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The G5 Joint Force was created in 2017 to shore up efforts to establish...
North Korea reported its first Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on Thursday, calling it the “gravest national emergency”. The government, therefore, ordered a national lockdown, with state media saying that an Omicron variant had been detected in the capital, Pyongyang. North Korea had never confirmed a COVID-19 infection before Thursday although...
No fewer than 11 passengers have been killed after an aircraft crashed in a forest in Cameroon. It is said to be unlikely that any of the 11 survived after the plane crashed during a heavy storm near to Nanga Eboko, Centre Province in Cameroon. Authorities have said the...
Ukrainian drone attacks are preventing Russian troops from making further gains in the western region of the Black Sea, according to an assessment by British intelligence. “Fighting continues on Zmiinyi Island, also known as Snake Island, with Russia repeatedly trying to reinforce its exposed garrison located there,’’ the assessment...
Qatari TV channel Al-Jazeera on Wednesday accused the Israeli military of murder following the death of its reporter in the northern West Bank. “In a blatant murder, violating international laws and norms, the Israeli occupation forces assassinated in cold blood Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Palestine, Shireen Abu Akleh,” the...
Former boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson will not face criminal charges after punching a man multiple times before a flight out of San Francisco last month. The announcement came on Tuesday following an investigation by the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office. It says the circumstances preceding the April...
Kremlin forces bombed a village school in eastern Ukraine killing about 60 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said,. The bombing occurred as Russia prepared to mark the Monday anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The governor of the Luhansk region said about 90...
Saudi Arabia’s ageing King Salman has been admitted to hospital for unspecified tests, state media reported Sunday. The kingdom has generally sought to quell speculation over the health of the 86-year-old monarch, who has ruled the top oil exporter and the Arab world’s biggest economy since 2015. He entered...
A powerful explosion due to a suspected gas leak ripped through a luxury hotel in central Havana, killing at least 22 people Friday, according to official tallies. Rescuers pulled four bodies out of the rubble in the early evening as they combed through what remained of the prestigious Saratoga...
A Russian woman, Nadezhda Sayfutdinova has protested against President Vladimir Putin. It was gathered that the woman sewed her mouth to express her anger over the decision of Putin to censor protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Nadezhda Sayfutdinova, an activist in her 30s, had sewn her own mouth...
Pope Francis, who has suffered from pain in his knee, used a wheelchair for the first time at a public event on Thursday. The 85-year-old was wheeled into the Paul VI hall at the Vatican for a meeting of a Catholic organisation of sisters and nuns, according to an...
The Collaborative Partnership on Forests on Thursday announced a Cameroonian woman, Cecile Ndjabet, as the winner of the 2022 Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the winner will receive a cash prize of $20,000 and is supported to attend the congress, alongside...
A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), bringing the total number of confirmed cases to three, since the 14th Ebola outbreak was declared in the country in late April. This is according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The...
Guinea said Wednesday it would prosecute former president Alpha Conde, who was toppled in a military coup last September, for murder and other crimes committed during his time in office. Conde is among 27 former senior officials who face prosecution for “murder, assassination, and complicity,” according to a document...
The world’s largest bottle of Scotch whisky, with a record-breaking 311 litres of 32-year-old Macallan, will be auctioned this month in the UK. The bottle, known as The Intrepid, is 5-feet 11-inches tall and will be auctioned by an Edinburgh-based auction house. It contains the equivalent of 444 standard...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for more resources to fight terror attacks in Africa’s Sahel as the number of attacks in the region continues to increase. Guterres, who made the call in the capital of Niger, Niamey, on Monday said that the international community should realise that terrorism...