An official in Nigeria’s central Nasarawa state and a local leader on Friday accused the military of killing scores of people in a disarmament operation, but defence officials denied the charge. The alleged incident took place on Thursday in the Keana…
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Last week saw the launch of Office for iPad, a suite of long-awaited productivity apps that offer faithful recreations of the more robust versions of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint on Apple’s tablet. All three apps are free to download, and give users…
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said on Friday that he supports FIFA’s decision to hand Barcelona a year-long transfer ban for breaching rules on signing under-age players. The Spanish champions were sanctioned on Wednesday by FIFA’s disciplinary committee…
Nigeria could leap-frog South Africa to become Africa’s biggest economy this weekend, when the results of a new way of calculating national output are announced. Government statisticians will unveil the new figures on Sunday, with widespread expectations…
Michael Schumacher has “moments of consciousness and awakening”, his spokeswoman said Friday, in a sign of progress months after the Formula One legend suffered devastating brain injuries in a ski accident. Doctors put Schumacher in a medically induced…
Venezuelan riot police fired water cannons and tear gas Thursday at stone-throwing student protesters in the capital Caracas, leaving at least seven injured. Demonstrators had initially been riled by armed vigilantes they link to the government after…
Colombia’s Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez was being treated at a Mexico City hospital for a lung infection Thursday, his son and officials said. The health ministry said the 87-year-old author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” has…
Sunderland have been fined by the Premier League after South Korea’s Ji Dong-Won was selected for four matches even though he was an ineligible player, according to British media reports on Thursday. Ji, 22, played for Sunderland against Fulham, Southampton…
àArsenal veteran Thomas Vermaelen has revealed that despite strong criticism on Arsene Wenger from the media, pundits and fans; all of his teammates are behind their manager. WengerâÂÂs future at the Emirates has taken an uncertain turn with…
Phil Mickelson got his Masters warm-up at the Houston Open off to a solid start on Thursday, firing a first-round 68 that left him two shots off the early first-round lead. Mickelson said the injury to his right oblique muscle, which had forced him…
Ukraine’s Western-backed leaders on Thursday blamed Russian agents and the country’s ousted president of organising two days of bloodshed in February that claimed nearly 90 lives. The explosive allegations were levelled only moments before Russia responded…
A United States Chamber of Commerce representative made the official announcement today that the Copyright Alert System, also known as the “six-strike” system, is now fully in place across Internet Service Providers. We first caught wind of this…
Ground sensors and satellites will be deployed in a new bid to keep the ancient Roman city of Pompeii from crumbling following a series of recent collapses at the sprawling and long-neglected site near Naples. Italian aerospace and defence giant Finmeccanica…
The United States on Thursday denied it used its overseas aid agency to mount a covert operation on social media to incite unrest against Cuba’s communist leaders. But the US Agency for International Development (USAID) did say it had created a Twitter…
Space technicians were preparing Thursday for the launch of the first satellite in an ambitious European project to monitor Earth for climate change, pollution and deforestation and help disaster relief. Sentinel-1A, a satellite designed to scan the…
NEWARK — Let the games begin. The Rodney Mason Mentoring Baseball camp is hosting its first meeting at Weequahic Park on Saturday. The camp, founded in 2011, teaches kids and young adults between the ages of 6 and 24 the fundamentals of baseball just…
Mark your calendars, folks; Apple has set the date for its next Worldwide Developers Conference. According to CNET, WWDC will take place June 2-6, 2014, at Moscone West in San Francisco. Developers or those who simply want to attend can sign up for…
Stevie Wonder will top the bill at this year’s Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, with other headliners including Pharrell Williams, Damon Albarn and Massive Attack, organisers said on Thursday. The festival team said that bringing soul icon Stevie…
Family, friends and fans of Marvin Gaye came together Wednesday to pay joyful hommage to the late Motown legend and native Washingtonian on what would have been his 75th birthday. Gaye was shot and killed by his father on the eve of his 45th birthday…
A Nigerian court on Thursday said intelligence agents broke the law when they seized the passport of ousted central bank governor Lamido Sanusi and ordered the government to pay damages and publicly apologise. Sanusi was suspended on February 20, less…