Relatives wept Tuesday as the names of the 96 Liverpool football supporters who died in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium crush were read out in court. Lord Justice John Goldring, the coroner presiding, said Britain’s worst sporting disaster was “seared…
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Britons should eat seven portions of fresh fruit and vegetables a day, according to new research into healthy eating, published on Tuesday. The state-run National Health Service currently recommends each person eats five 80-gramme (three-ounce) helpings…
Fortified by a faith in God and a Guinness stout — or a tot of something stronger — Ololade Rabiu reckons she must have dug hundreds of wells in her time. But the 46-year-old mother of six is a rarity in Nigeria, where forging deep into the red earth…
The Vatican is turning to social media to reach out to the millions of pilgrims expected to attend the canonisation of John Paul II, the Polish pope who attained rock star status by the time he died in 2005. Rome police expect up to five million people…
An independent Scotland would drive on the right, replace the queen’s head on coins and bring in UN peacekeepers with purple berets — if Britain’s newspapers were to believed on April Fool’s Day. The Scottish independence referendum on September 18…
Kenyan police have arrested more than 650 suspects a day after six people were killed in bomb attacks in the capital Nairobi, the interior minister said Tuesday, in a crackdown on suspected Islamist insurgents. “This act of cowardice perpetrated against…
The chief executive of London’s Heathrow will stand down from the job later this year, the airport announced Tuesday. No immediate reason was given for the departure of Colin Matthews from the post, which he has held since April 2008. Matthews said…
The UN’s refugee agency said Tuesday it was prepared to help evacuate some 19,000 Muslims at risk of attack from mainly Christian militias in the conflict-torn Central African Republic. “What we don’t want is to stand by and watch people being slaughtered…
A man in his twenties was arrested in the southern Swedish town of Helsingborg on Tuesday in connection with the weekend death of a football fan from head injuries, police said. The 28-year-old suspect presented himself to a police station late Monday…
More than 150,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011, a monitoring group said in a new toll released on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 150,344 people, 51,212…
Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday applauded a court decision that Japan must halt its annual Antarctic whale hunt, but raised fears it could sidestep the order and begin whaling again under a new “scientific” guise. The United Nations’ Hague-based…
Greece will receive 6.3 billion euros ($8.7 billion) from its pending EU bailout fund at the end of April, Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Tuesday. “A first tranche of 6.3 billion euros at the end of April will allow Greece to meet its debt…
Download image Marriott Becomes Largest Hotel Company in Africa BETHESDA, Md. and CAPE TOWN, South Africa, April 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) today became the largest hotel company in Africa according to published…
NEW YORK, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General…
Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike has denied rumors making the rounds that he has resigned his appointment, attributing…
As preparations for the 2015 general elections gather momentum, the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig.-Gen. Bamidele Olawunmi,…
FROM LEFT: Gov. GABRIEL SUSWAM OF BENUE; Senate President DAVID MARK; President GOODLUCK JONATHAN AND THE PDP CHAIRMAN, ALHAJI ADAMU…
Prominent Islamic cleric, Sheik (Dr) Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi has described the ongoing National Conference as futile, null and void…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has warned the party leadership…
Ogun State Government has released N1.5 billion for the payment of gratuities to pensioners and severance package of former political…