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54-year-old dies after having bum lift and tummy tuck

A British grandmother died after travelling to Turkey to undergo a tummy tuck and a Brazilian Bum Lift procedure. Carol Keenan, 54, died in April last year...

18-year-old dies a week after beating cancer

A brave teenager tragically died a week after beating cancer. Molly Hinchliffe fell ill with an infection due to her immune system being low after she completed chemotherapy. The...

Majid Michel breaks silence on Spike Lee, Ghana film industry brouhaha

Ghanaian actor, Majid Michel has finally reacted to claims by American filmmaker, Spike Lee that no Ghanaian movie director or actor approached him for...

The barefoot nun who became Ethiopia’s ‘piano queen’

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the composer and piano-playing nun who died this week at the age of 99, had an extraordinary life, which included being...

Man stabs elder brother to death over shirt and trouser

A 20-year-old man, Halifa Hamza, has stabbed his elder brother, Usman Hamza, to death with a pair of scissors in Kurna of Kano State,...

Cock loses court battle over noise pollution

A Nigerian court has ordered the slaughter of a rooster on Friday after a noise pollution complaint by neighbours, local media report. The court in...

Zimbabwe to criminalise foreign recruitment of medics

Zimbabwe plans to enact a law criminalising the recruitment of its health personnel by other countries, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has said. Mr Chiwenga, who...

Ramadan and Passover raise tensions at Jerusalem holy site

As so often in the past, the latest scenes of violence at Jerusalem’s most important holy site for Muslims and Jews are igniting widespread...

YouTuber’s prank ends badly as he’s shot in stomach by stranger

A YouTuber was shot while filming a prank video at the Dulles Town Center Mall on Sunday. Authorities said the shooter didn’t take too...

TikTok fined £12.7m for misusing children’s data

TikTok has been fined £12.7m by the UK's data watchdog for failing to protect the privacy of children. It estimated TikTok allowed up to 1.4...

Trump indictment: US going to hell, says ex-president

Donald Trump has said the US is “going to hell” in a defiant address after pleading not guilty to falsifying business records to hide...

Pilot praised for safe landing after cobra scare mid-air

A South African pilot is being hailed for successfully making an emergency landing after noticing a cobra coiled under his seat, local media report. Rudolph...

TikTok fined £12.7m for misusing children’s data

TikTok has been fined £12.7m by the UK’s data watchdog for failing to protect the privacy of children. It estimated TikTok allowed up to 1.4...

Trump arraignment: One thing his day in court tells us

Donald Trump’s day in court was dramatic and historic – but what we learned about the criminal charges he faces seems unlikely to change...

Trump is under arrest ahead of arraignment

Former President Donald Trump has arrived at the Manhattan district attorney’s office in lower Manhattan, where he is under arrest and in police custody before his...

Australia to ban TikTok on government devices, following US, UK

Australia will ban the use of TikTok on federal government devices over security concerns, joining a list of countries restricting the video-sharing app that...

Wife of gunned-down traditional leader also shot dead

Gunmen in South Africa have killed the widow of a traditional leader, who was himself shot dead last month. Police in Mpumulanga said Charlene Mathews...

1000 Ghanaian youth to benefit from $100m work-study in USA fund

Ghanaian students will have the opportunity to work and study legally following the launch of the SOS-Nekotech USA-Canada Master's Degree Work-Study Program. The...

Strange as woman discovers ‘secret shower’ complete with tiles while decorating home

A viral video with more than 13.5 million views shows a stunned homeowner discovering a secret shower walled off in her bathroom. Hannah Otto from...

Russia runs the UN Security Council this month; Ukraine says it’s the worst April Fools’ joke

A country led by an accused war criminal is now in charge of the United Nations Security Council. Hard as it is to believe,...

Khosi wins Big Brother Titans, takes home $100,000 cash prize

Khosi, the 25-year-old South African journalist emerged the winner of the Big Brother Titans reality show, which ended on Sunday night. The show brought together...

The wasted 31 years of NDC and NPP: Lessons from Kagame’s RPF in Rwanda

To fix a country you must first fix its political parties. That is one of the biggest takeaways I am returning to Ghana with...

Rwanda: Kagame re-elected as head of the ruling party

Rwanda President Paul Kagame has been overwhelmingly re-elected the chairman of the ruling party, Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi) at the party’s 16th congress which...

Pope to lead Palm Sunday after hospital stay

Pope Francis will lead Mass in St Peter’s Square on Sunday as he kicks off the year’s Easter services, just a day after leaving...

Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election was not credible – Davido

Nigerian musician David Adeleke, professionally known as Davido, says Nigeria's February 25 presidential election that saw the emergence of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate...

Fury as Russian becomes UN Security Council President

Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move. Each of the council's 15 members takes...

Teachers charged with girl’s manslaughter

Staff at a secondary school in Nigeria has been charged with manslaughter over the death of a 12-year-old girl, with a trial expected to...

‘I’m still alive’ jokes Pope as he leaves hospital

Pope Francis has joked that he is “still alive” as he left the hospital in Rome after a three-day stay. He was admitted to Gemelli...

Man forcibly removed from plane for opposing Tinubu’s inauguration

An unidentified air traveller was removed from a flight over his insistence on President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu not being sworn in come May 29....

Trump will not appear in court in handcuffs

Donald Trump’s court hearing has been set for Tuesday afternoon, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News. The former president is expected to...

Police to probe death of Yul Edochie’s son

The Lagos state police command has said it will investigate the death of Kambilichukwu, the first son of Yul Edochie, and May, his first...

Video of widest wig in the world takes internet by storm

An unusual yet stunning video featuring the world's widest wig measuring 2.58m has gone viral on social media. Guinness World Records shared the now-trending clip...

Police officer jailed after taking pictures of teen’s breasts

A police officer has been jailed after he pulled down a teenager’s top and took pictures of her chest. The married dad-of-four Paul Hinchcliffe, 46, was sent to prison...

Trump to be charged over hush payments made to porn star before 2016 polls

Former US President Donald Trump will be charged over hush money payments made to a porn star just before the 2016 presidential election. The details...

Pete Edochie reacts to death of grandson

Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie, on Thursday March 29,2023, lost his first son, Kambilichukwu Edochie. The son died two months after Edochie celebrated his 16th birthday with...

Meet the man who eats raw testicles of animals

A man dubbed "Testicle King" lives on a diet of uncooked animal genitals and raw meat - but it hasn't put off his wife. Pauly Long, 31,...

Family rejects husband’s casket for mother-in-law’s burial

A family at Tombo Mbatie of Benue State in Nigeria has reportedly rejected a casket a husband brought for the burial of his mother-in-law. The...

‘God created me and he knows why I am gay’ – Ugandan

Uganda’s parliament last week passed one of the world’s toughest laws against homosexual activities, prompting widespread condemnation. If signed into law by the president,...

Ghana leads the way as UN’s largest contributor of female peacekeepers

Ghana has been lauded for its significant achievements including contributing the largest number of female peacekeepers to the United Nations (UN). The UN...

Russian Embassy in Ghana takes on Kamala Harris

The Russian Embassy in Ghana has disputed claims by US Vice President Kamala Harris that the Russian-Ukraine war has impacted African countries. According to the...