Global Alarm Grows As China’s Capital Reports First Death
China’s capital on Monday recorded its first death from a deadly coronavirus as it struggles to contain a rapidly spreading disease that has sparked global alarm, with countries scrambling to evacuate their citizens from the epicentre of the epidemic. The fatality in Beijing raises the death toll from the new virus to 82, with more […]
Bryant Tragedy Looms Over Super Bowl Launch Night
The death of NBA icon Kobe Bryant loomed over the build-up to the Super Bowl here Monday as players from the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers paid tribute to the Los Angeles Lakers legend. One day after Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash outside Los Angeles, […]
Carney Swansong May See Bank Of England Cut Rate
Bank of England governor Mark Carney steers his final interest-rate meeting this week that could end with a cut on the eve of Brexit to boost Britain’s stalled economy. The BoE announces its rate decision on Thursday after a meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), whose nine policymakers including Carney each have a vote […]
Nuns Who Are Healing The World With Marijuana
Sister Abbey lives just outside Merced, California. Sister Kate lives close by with Sister Darcy and her youngest son. They posses the discipline, dedication and empathy required to live a life of a nun, although they aren’t members of any religious order. Sisters Kate and Darcy may call themselves nuns, but their spiritual quest is […]
Trump Finally Presenting His Middle East ‘Peace Plan’
It’s been three years in the making. But the Trump Administration’s proposal to bring peace to the Middle East, a purported solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is about to see the light of day. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist rival, Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz, met President Donald Trump […]
After Book Leak, Republicans Will Choose Whom To Believe
For weeks, Senate Republican leaders have nursed a whisper campaign aimed at undermining the credibility of Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton, according to two senior leadership aides. The goal: keep the Congressional GOP unified against calls for witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. On Monday, that whisper campaign broke into […]
Kobe Bryant’s Message Few Hours Before The Crash
Kobe Bryant messaged Shaquille O’Neal’s son, Shareef, just hours before he died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Bryant was killed alongside his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others on board a helicopter which crashed outside the city of Calabasas, which is situated to the west of Los Angeles, at around 10am local time on Sunday […]
Licking Women’s Vagina Causes Throat Cancer – Doctor
A Gynaecologist from the Tamale Teaching Hospital has issued a word of warning to men who practice oral sex. According to Dr Hawa Malechi, oral sex can cause throat cancer to men who involve themselves in it. She added that the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), that causes cervical cancer can also cause cancer of the penis […]
Auschwitz Survivors Sound Alarm 75 Years After Liberation
For what could be the last time, elderly Holocaust survivors returned Monday to the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp 75 years after its liberation, to sound the alarm over a surge in anti-Semitic attacks on two continents. More than 200 survivors from around the globe, some wearing scarves in the blue-and-white stripes of their death camp […]
Salvini’s League Loses Bid To Topple Italian Government
Italy’s populist leader Matteo Salvini failed to win a key regional election and topple the country’s fragile coalition government, official results showed on Monday. The defeat was a major rebuff of Salvini and his far-right League, which had hoped to score a historic upset and force snap elections in the regional vote in Emilia Romagna, […]
Portuguese Hacker Behind Angola Corruption Leak
Lawyers for a Portuguese computer hacker said on Monday he was responsible for revealing the dealings of Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, a corruption scandal with fallout across Europe and Africa. The hacker, Rui Pinto, handed over a hard drive “containing all data related to the recent revelations concerning Ms. Isabel Dos Santos’s fortune” to […]
China Races Against The Clock To Build Virus Hospitals
Hundreds of workers are toiling around the clock at the site of a field hospital that China is racing to build within days to treat a rapidly growing number of patients stricken by a deadly virus. The outline of a floor began to take shape and electrical switchboards were already up on Monday when AFP […]