The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has revealed that her mixed-race heritage includes being “43 per cent Nigerian.”She disclosed this in a new episode of her Spotify-exclusive podcast, Archetypes.Markle told Nigerian-American actor Ziwe that she discovered her roots after having her genealogy ...

The new Conservative leader was invited to form a government by King Charles when they met at Buckingham PalaceRishi Sunak has been appointed British prime minister by King Charles III after he accepted the resignation of Liz Truss after just 49 days in office.The new Conservative leader was ...

A Nigerian student schooling in the US was killed by a propeller of the private plane he had rented for a dinner date.Sani Aliyu, 21, died on Sunday night, October 16, in a freak accident after walking into a spinning propeller of a small plane on the way back from a date.The Georgia Southern ...

LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned Thursday following a failed tax-cutting budget that rocked financial markets and which led to a revolt within her own Conservative Party.Truss said in a statement outside Downing Street: “We set out a vision for a low-tax, high-growth economy that ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared martial law Wednesday in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed and gave all regional governors in Russia emergency powers that open the door for sweeping new restrictions throughout the country.Putin didn’t immediately spell out the steps that ...

Osman Eravsar, the head of the provincial cultural heritage preservation board in Antalya, told Demirören News Agency : "The first church was submerged with the rise of the Mediterranean Sea, and some centuries later, a new church was built above."Now we have reached the remains of the first church ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esNN0tIGByIDISAPPEARED : Disappearance of one billion snow crabs leads to first ever cancelation of fishing seasonThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the Bering Sea snow crab fishing season this week for the first time ever after the species’ population ...

Russian forces have been driven back by an ongoing Ukrainian offensive and are at risk of being trapped against the Dnieper River.The new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine says the situation in the Kherson region has become “very difficult” as Ukrainian forces push ahead with an offensive to ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmfsCulezlYAt least 13 people have now died after a Russian fighter-bomber plane crashed into an apartment block in the southern Russian town of Yeysk on Monday night, October 17.Footage shared on social media showed flames pouring from two apartment blocks after the ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=441wQ1FiIygWaves of explosive-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine's capital and other cities as families were preparing to start their week early Monday, the blasts echoed across Kyiv, setting buildings ablaze and sending people rushing to shelters.The ...

A 12-year-boy who recently underwent counselling after concerns about his mental health were raised, has died in South Africa.The Grade 7 pupil from Avanté Primary School in Randfontein allegedly committed suicide shortly after leaving a counselling session at the school.Gauteng education MEC, ...

A female PE teacher faces jail after allegedly having sex with a student, 17, in the back of a car eight times.Ashley Rison, 31, pleaded guilty to charges of sexual battery and gross sexual imposition on Wednesday, October 12.She was also charged with tampering with evidence and furnishing alcohol ...

London: British Prime Minister Liz Truss has sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as her Chancellor after just 38 days in office, as she attempts to drag her government out of deep political turmoil following the disastrous financial impact of her mini-Budget.Truss, who is due to hold a press conference later on ...

The service will be held in Westminster Abbey, where coronations have taken place for 900 years. King Charles will be the oldest person to be crowned in British history.The coronation of King Charles III will take place next year on Saturday 6 May, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.The religious ...

By Emmanuel Addeh:The United States has accused Russian mercenaries of exploiting natural resources in the Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and other parts of Africa to help fund Moscow’s war in Ukraine, a charge Russia rejected as “anti-Russian rage.”The country’s Ambassador to the United ...

A man was viciously attacked by a gang of turkeys and a rooster, leaving him with two broken hips.The attack occurred in the Canadian province of British Columbia in July, when the assistance of Chase RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) was required in order to check on the man's well-being at a ...

The Lesotho General Election was held on Friday, 7th October 2022, in order to elect the 120 members of the Parliament.Early Results show that a newly-formed party, (Otherwise known as a Social-Media Party and a Structureless Party, is leading in most of the positions, and unseating the incumbent ...

The 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council (held between 12 September - 7 October 2022) considered issues including systemic racism, enforced disappearances, climate change, water and sanitation, the rights of people of African descent, and colonialism, amongst others. The United Kingdom, ...

An Australian alpaca farmer was savagely beaten to death by his pet kangaroo in the country's first fatal attack by one of the marsupials in 86 years.Peter Eades, 77, was found by a relative at his property in Redmond, near Albany in Western Australia's Great Southern region, after suffering ...

The United States will soon be unable to provide Ukraine with certain types of ammunition that are essential to Kyiv’s battle against Russia’s invasion, as supplies are being used up faster than they can be replaced.Washington has become by far the largest supplier of arms to Ukraine since Russia ...

Biden: Nuclear ‘Armageddon’ risk highest since ’62 crisis President Joe Biden said Thursday that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russian officials speak of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering massive ...

The Kremlin is promising to reoccupy areas of Ukraine that were recently liberated in Kiev’s swift counteroffensive, claiming they will belong to Russia “forever.”Kremlin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was referring to eastern regions of Ukraine that Moscow has annexed – in a move that has been ...

A Chinese vase worth €1,500-€2,000 (around $1,470-$1,960) at auction has sold for more than €9 million ($8.8 million) after a bidding war between collectors, according to a report by CNN.The blue-and-white Tianqiuping vase was sold at the Osenat auction house in Fontainebleau, near Paris, France on ...

Pakistan is on the verge of a public health disaster after record flooding, the UN health agency warned as millions were falling ill due to the spread of waterborne diseases.“The water has stopped rising, but the danger has not. We are on the verge of a public health disaster,” WorldHealth ...

President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has replaced the head of the armed forces as part of broader military reforms aimed at boosting efficiency.Congo’s army is fighting multiple armed groups, mainly in its restive east, where ethnic militias, religious extremist fighters ...

 The UN General Assembly has scheduled an emergency session starting Monday, Oct. 10, to discuss the Russian annexation of four eastern regions in Ukraine.According to a letter sent by the largest UN body to the 194 member states on Tuesday, there will be a vote on a resolution condemning Moscow’s ...

In the biggest expansion of Russian territory in at least half a century, Putin signed laws admitting the Donetsk People's Republic, the Luhansk People's Republic, Kherson region and Zaporizhzhia region into Russia. FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the start of training ...

Elon Musk is abandoning his legal battle to back out of buying Twitter by offering to go through with his original $44 billion bid for the social media platform.The mercurial Tesla CEO made the offer in a letter to Twitter, which the company disclosed in a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities ...

The Salem-based Satanic Temple is suing Indiana and Idaho in federal court over their abortion bans, arguing they violate the religious rights of people in those states.Driving the news: The Satanic Temple filed its complaint against Idaho on Friday, a week after filing a similar one in ...

The US Central District Court in California has again postponed the sentencing of Ramon Abbas, a Nigerian Instagram celebrity, popularly known as Hushpuppi, who has pleaded guilty to multi-million-dollar fraud charges.Hushpuppi was apprehended in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate (UAE) in June 2020, ...

Former President Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation, claiming the cable news network has escalated a campaign of libel and slander against him recently because it fears he’ll run for re-election in 2024.CNN has attempted to taint Trump “with a series of ever-more scandalous, false, and defamatory ...

Watch the video below:VIDEOA footage has emerged reportedly showing a convoy transporting equipment for Russia's nuclear forces.The video shot at an undisclosed location in central Russia, shows a train loaded with vehicles and equipment apparently heading towards the front line in Ukraine, ...

Leader of Roman Catholic church, Pope Francis for the first time directly begged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the "spiral of violence and death" in Ukraine, saying that the crisis could turn nuclear and have heavy effects for the world.In an address dedicated to Ukraine and made to ...

CNN At least 129 people are dead and 180 more injured, police say, after chaos and violence erupted late on Saturday following an Indonesian league soccer match between two of the nation’s biggest teams.Supporters of Arema FC and rival Persebaya Surabaya clashed after home team Arema FC was ...

By Francis Ugwu The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, is set to stage a ceremony in an ornate Kremlin hall to announce Russia’s rule over around 15% of Ukraine, the biggest European annexation since World War II.Putin disclosed that the four Ukrainian regions would remain “Russian forever”.The ...

A zookeeper miraculously dodged death after a 16-foot crocodile launched an attack on him in front of horrified tourists.Crocodile handler Sean Le Clus was ferociously attacked while sitting on the back of the 660kg beast before a second one also targeted him.The 68-year-old endured a terrifying ...

Ukraine’s ministry of defence has shared a horrific image of one of its soldiers recently liberated from Russian captivity.In the photograph shared on Friday, Mykhailo Dianov, a Ukrainian soldier, looks emaciated.“Ukrainian soldier Mykhailo Dianov is among the fortunate ones: in contrast with some ...

By Chido Nwangwu:It was Carl von Clausewitz, the famous German military theorist, who brought forward his remarkable definition of war as “the continuation of politics by other means.”At a press conference, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, the New York Attorney General Letitia James, metaphorically, ...

DESPERATE Russians are frantically attempting to flee the country to avoid being catapulted to the frontline amid Putin's call up.Massive queues have built at Russia's borders as people try to escapeCredit: East2West NewsHuge queues have built at the borders with Finland, Georgia and Mongolia as ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists Wednesday, taking a risky and deeply unpopular step that follows humiliating setbacks for his troops nearly seven months after invading Ukraine.This will be Russia's first mobilisation since WWII. Putin's mobilisation ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5BEUf-xLbsSTATE OF THE WORLD : United nation Secretary General delivers his “state of the world” speech at opening of the annual high-level global gathering.Warning that the world is in “great peril,” the head of the United Nations says leaders meeting in person ...

Colombian pop star, Shakira, has spoken for the first time since she split from Barcelona defender, Gerard Pique.The couple had two children together during the 12 years they were together.The 45-year-old singer was candid about how difficult life has been as her relationship with the 35-year-old ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to be honored in state funeral next weekA Japanese man set himself on fire Wednesday in protest of the state funeral for the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The man, who reportedly doused himself in oil before igniting in protest, carried a note stating his ...

This month, Ukrainian forces have recaptured swathes of territoryRecep Tayyip Erdogan addressing the UN | Official Twitter handleTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to end the war in Ukraine. He added that a significant step will ...

Flags on public buildings in Germany are flying at half-mast on Monday as the state funeral of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II takes place in London.Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said all federal authorities should follow suit.A ministry tweet was accompanied by the hashtag #RestInPeace and a picture ...

Huge crowds line streets as Britain says farewell to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday at a state funeral attended by world leaders.BRITAIN'S KING CHARLES III, BRITAIN'S CAMILLA, QUEEN CONSORT, BRITAIN'S PRINCESS ANNE, PRINCESS ROYAL, VICE ADMIRAL TIMOTHY LAURENCE, BRITAIN'S PRINCE ANDREW, DUKE OF YORK, ...

It is a day that has been decades in the planning, with every detail arranged for the biggest state funeral ever to be held in Britain.The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will take place on Monday in Westminster Abbey, where hundreds of dignitaries and global heads of state will join the royal family ...

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signs abortion ban into lawRepublican Gov. Jim Justice on Friday signed into law a ban on abortions at all stages of pregnancy, making West Virginia the second state to enact a law prohibiting the procedure since the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling overturning its ...

 The man, while speaking to a televangelist whom he and his wife had visited for counseling after she found out he cheated on her, said he did it to make her lose weight.According to him, when he first met his wife in 2017, she was slim, which was one of the reasons he loved her, but after they got ...

 Nigerian-born American professor, Uju Anya and TV broadcaster, Piers Morgan, have been trading words over her comments on the late Queen Elizabeth II.Uju took to her Twitter handle last Thursday to describe the Queen as the "chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire." shortly after the ...