Basketball legend Kobe Bryant, 41, died Sunday morning in Los Angeles, two separate sources told CNN. TMZ reported Bryant was aboard a helicopter that crashed in Calabasas, California. Five people were killed the crash on a hillside in Calabasas, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. There were no survivors, the Los Angeles County Fire […]

Beijing’s huge new airport, Daxing International, was formally opened by President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, ahead of the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. The starfish-shaped airport, located in the south of the capital, will help relieve pressure on the existing Capital International Airport in Beijing’s northeast, where capacity constraints often cause flight […]

This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are […]

courtesy TMZ 12:16 PM PT — Denver Police tell TMZ that the man in this video was NOT arrested and did not end up being booked for any charges as a result of the disturbance. He was merely treated at the hospital. 10:27 AM PT — Denver PD tells TMZ … officers at the airport […]

Peter Tabichi, the Kenyan teacher who won the 2019 Global Teacher Prize, met with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday. The White House lauded Tabichi for his selfless nature: giving away 80percent of his salary to help needy students. “His dedication, hard work, and belief in his student’s talent has led his poorly resourced school […]

South Africans have disrupted a speech in Johannesburg by a veteran politician who was trying to quell tensions following a recent wave of deadly riots and xenophobic attacks. Mangosuthu Buthelezi was heckled by a rowdy section of the crowd. Dozens of men marched through the area calling for foreigners to leave. At least 10 people, […]

1. Jubaland is headed to the polls in August (24th August) 2. The outcome of this forthcoming Jubaland election is crucial for peace and stability in the Horn of Africa region which has over the years experienced turbulent times especially arising from terrorist attacks by the Al Shabab militant group 3. Incumbent Sheikh Ahmed Mohammed […]

The number of people killed since security forces stormed a protest camp outside the Sudan Defence Ministry in central Khartoum two days ago has risen significantly to 60. This was confirmed on Wednesday by a doctors group linked to the opposition. The death toll had earlier been put at 35. Talks between the Transitional Military […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced her exit after failing to deliver Brexit deal. Announcing the move outside her Downing Street residence, tearful May said she will step down as leader of the Conservative Party on Friday June 7. “It is and will always remain a matter of deep regret to me that I […]

Salute! The fearless women of Sudan have led the charge in ending the brutal dictatorship of Omar AlBashir! The young woman in a photo that has come to symbolise the protest movement in Sudan has been identified as Alaa Salah, a 22-year-old architecture student in Khartoum…The Future is Female✊ Geopolitical analyst Dr Onyango Ochieng Jnr […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday won a second term at the helm of Africa’s largest economy and top oil producer, a tally by Reuters based on electoral commission results showed. Buhari faces a daunting to-do list, including reviving an economy still struggling to recover from a 2016 recession and quelling a decade-old Islamist insurgency […]

A number of Vatican priests are gay and living in the closet, according to an explosive new book to be published next week. The 570-page expose, titled In the Closet of the Vatican, claims that four in five clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexuals – but aren’t necessarily sexually active. French sociologist and […]

Women in Democratic Republic of the Congo are being forced to have sex in return for Ebola vaccinations, according to reports swirling around a pioneering WHO vaccination program. The research has revealed that a deep mistrust of health workers is rife in DRC and gender-based violence is believed to have increased since the start of […]

His first cause for concern was when neither parent appeared at the kitchen window to greet him, as was usual upon the sound of his bike screeching to a stop outside. Entering the apartment, the family dog, Lady, ran to him. ‘Something felt wrong,’ he remembers. It was then that he saw the body of […]