A US drone strike targeting a militant compound killed at least three suspected insurgents in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border late Wednesday, officials said. The attack took place around midnight in Qutab Khel village, five…
Author: Adewale Ade
South African cricketing great Jacques Kallis will retire from Test and First-Class cricket after the upcoming Test against India, which gets underway in Durban on Thursday, he announced on Wednesday. However, the 38-year-old — described by Cricket…
Teen pop megastar Justin Bieber has set Twitter ablaze with a message suggesting he may be stepping away from the stage — just as his new movie hits theaters on Christmas Day. “My beloved beliebers I’m officially retiring,” the 19-year-old Bieber said…
Dubai has promised to celebrate New Year’s Eve with a record-breaking extravaganza featuring over 400,000 fireworks, the largest display the world has ever seen, its government said. The United Arab Emirates city state, home to the world’s tallest tower…
Christians in the Middle East are being “attacked and massacred” and driven into exile, the leader of the world’s Anglicans said Wednesday in his first Christmas sermon. Justin Welby used his first Christmas Day address as Archbishop of Canterbury to…
Two NASA astronauts wrapped up successful repairs at the International Space Station after a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk to fix an equipment cooling system. Americans Rick Mastracchio, 53, and Mike Hopkins, 44, floated outside the orbiting lab for…
The Galaxy S4 is Samsung’s flagship smartphone, and it seems that the company’s been making inroads to get the device adopted by the US government as an alternative to the Blackberry. But according to a report in the Wall Street Journal from yesterday…
Pope Francis held his first Christmas Eve mass in the Vatican by highlighting the role played by humble shepherds in the Nativity, as thousands flocked to the historic site of Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem. At the service in St Peter’s Basilica, the 77…
CNN’s Michael Holmes takes you through 2013’s top international stories. See which ones topped the list.
European stock markets rose in light pre-holiday trading on the coattails of Wall Street gains on renewed confidence in the strength of the US economic recovery, with Frankfurt setting a new record high. London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index gained 1.09…
Good news for the developing countries as Google introduces free Internet browsing tagged “Google Free Zone”. With this development, people subscribing to the participating carrier and using compatible phone will benefit a lot. NIGERIA is already on the list! Subscribers to Airtel Nigeria can benefit from the Google initiative as released on the company’s website titled ”Free Zone powered by Google” Google Free Zone is an innovative service that allows you to access Google mobile services on the go for free! You’ll incur absolutely no data costs with your internet-enabled mobile on the Airtel network. You can: Search on Google…
Rafik Khalifa, a former Algerian tycoon who once owned an airline and a string of companies, was extradited to his homeland from Britain Tuesday, Algeria’s APS news agency reported. He took refuge in Britain in 2003 when his business collapsed, costing…
Egyptian police arrested on Tuesday Hisham Qandil, who was prime minister under deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, the interior ministry said. The ministry said he was arrested in the desert outside Cairo with a “smuggler attempting to escape…
One of the more typical pursuit of the tech writer these days is to not simply report on what Apple’s doing, but to make bold predictions (or, in reality, guesses) about what Apple is planning. And this year, there’s been plenty to guess about,…
There’s been lots of news about patents from Apple lately: earlier this month alone, we’ve heard of patents awarded to the iPhone maker revolving around improving the nascent tech behind curved displays, the smart-dock, and facial recognition. Today…
A British Greenpeace protester Tuesday said he was “jubilant” after Russia closed the criminal case against him for staging a protest on an oil rig, and vowed to keep fighting for environmental issues. Russia has dropped the case against Anthony Perrett…
Santa may already be riding his sleigh around the globe doling out gifts, but that did not stop US lawmakers and conservative groups Tuesday from warning of efforts to sabotage Christmas. Some members of Congress and religious organizations perennially…
A majority of Palestinians believe Israel poisoned their late leader Yasser Arafat, according to poll published Tuesday, which also highlights a decline in Hamas popularity compared to rival Fatah. The poll, released by Ramallah-based Palestinian Center…
US international midfielder Clint Dempsey on Tuesday agreed to return to struggling Premier League club Fulham on a two-month deal. The 30-year-old, who plays for the Seattle Sounders in the MLS, spent five and a half seasons at Craven Cottage in his…
This past year brought a lot of really great apps, but it’s tough to argue against 2013 being the year of photo and video sharing. The category is not itself new, but this year really saw it grow tremendously — in fact, the word of the year was “…