Two Muslim converts attempted to hack off a British soldier’s head with knives and a meat cleaver in broad daylight on a London street, a court heard as their long-awaited murder trial opened on Friday. Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale,…
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South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma personally benefitted from the controversial security renovations at his private home and must repay the state, according to a damning watchdog report leaked in a local newspaper on Friday. The government has spent…
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is feeling much better today after becoming ill in London on Thursday. He was in Britain for an investors conference. VOA’s Heather Murdock joins VOA’s Vincent Makori via Skype from Lagos to discuss his health and…
Updated Nov 28, 2013 5:45 PM ET SAO PAULO (AP) A safety engineer at the World Cup stadium where a giant crane collapse killed two workers allegedly warned his supervisor of possible problems with the operation, only to have his concerns brushed…
Just as Mega teased earlier this month, Mega is continuing their domination of the cloud file sharing market with the release of their new Mega for iOS application. Competing heavily with the immensely popular Dropbox service and app, Mega for iOS allows…
A new and more aggressive strain of HIV discovered in West Africa causes significantly faster progression to AIDS, researchers at Sweden’s Lund University said Thursday. The new strain of the virus that causes AIDS, called A3/02, is a fusion of the…
South Africans flocked to cinemas on Thursday to watch the first screenings of the hotly-anticipated Nelson Mandela biopic in a country still battling to exorcise its dark past. Viewers of the two-and-a-half hour “Long Walk to Freedom” tracing Mandela…
Tottenham Hotspur won 2-0 against Tromso in the bitter chill of Norway on Thursday to seal first place in Europa League Group K and ease a little of the pressure on manager Andre Villas-Boas. Reports in England in recent days suggest that the Portuguese…
A British IT worker has launched a frantic search of a landfill site after realising he accidentally threw away a computer drive holding $7.5 million (5.5 million euros) in the online currency bitcoin. James Howells, 28, obtained 7,500 bitcoins in 2009…
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake on the Gulf coast near Iran’s sole nuclear power plant killed eight people and injured 190 on Thursday, emergency response chief Hassan Qadami told state media. “So far, there are seven dead and 30 injured receiving hospital…
Restrictions on protests and hefty jail terms for girl demonstrators are reviving Egypt’s autocratic past, say activists and erstwhile supporters of the government that replaced Islamist president Mohamed Morsi after he was overthrown. The military,…
Air strikes on Boko Haram camps in northeast Nigeria have killed “many” insurgents, the military said Thursday of latest operation aimed at crushing the four-year Islamist uprising. The bombardment last Sunday targeted the notorious Sambisa Forest area…
An explosion killed at least 10 people and wounded 15 at a weapons depot in southern Libya Thursday that may have been linked to common theft, an official said. General Mohamed al-Dhabi told AFP: “A group of unknown people tried to attack the depot,…
The United Nations on Thursday began distributing fuel in Gaza to keep critical infrastructure running as fears of a health crisis grow over accumulating rubbish and sewage, an official said. “Fuel is actually coming in, as of today, through the Kerem…
The European Commission on Thursday suspended imports of citrus fruits from South Africa — which accounts for about a third the EU’s total — on concerns ‘black spot’ disease could infect local crops. Citrus black spot is a fungal disease which lives…
Four soldiers were killed on Thursday in and around Libya’s violence-wracked eastern city of Benghazi, the cradle of the revolution that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011. And in the south, an explosion killed at least 10 people and wounded many…
A post on TheNextWeb points out a new application available for iOS and Android devices that you will never, ever want to encounter: it’s called mSpy, and it’s essentially a “legally” obtained key logging app that’s used to snoop on others…
Since the traditional game of bingo went online, it’s become more popular than ever and today, there are more than 100 million players of the online game around the world. And now it’s even easier to play as you can play it on the move, too, thanks to the increasing number of bingo sites that are offering their games in a mobile format. Now that bingo has gone mobile you can play it on the way to and from work i.e you can play bingo on mobile, while you’re waiting for a bus or sitting in a waiting room for a…
Jack Wilshere said Thursday that Cesc Fabregas had been Arsenal’s greatest loss of recent times in the transfer market. The England midfielder said he was “really upset” when the Spain star left the London club for Barcelona in 2011. And Wilshere insisted…
A businessman who butchered a Chinese family of four to death in a savage revenge attack was sentenced Thursday to at least 40 years in jail. Du Anxiang, 54, was sentenced to life with a four-decade minimum term at Northampton Crown Court in central…