Get ready Africa (and the United States) because Abubakar Shekau, the still-somewhat-shadowy, thirty-something leader of Bobo Haram, the Islamic terrorist group that kidnapped 300 Nigerian schoolgirls, has a role model: the late and unlamented Osama…
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Chandika Hathurusinghe will leave his post as coach of the Sydney Thunder Twenty20 team to take up the head coaching role with Bangladesh, Cricket NSW said on Monday. The 45 year-old Sri Lankan, who took charge of the Thunder last season, has been offered…
Video News by NewsLook Nigeria and four neighboring countries vowed to wage “war” against Boko Haram at a security meeting with U.S. and European Union officials in Paris.
Internet giant Yahoo Japan said Monday it had cancelled plans to buy domestic telecom company eAccess from its parent SoftBank Corp. in a deal that was valued at about $3.2 billion. In March, Yahoo’s Japanese unit — whose top shareholder is SoftBank…
Japanese figure skating world champion Mao Asada will sit out competitive figure skating next season but will take part in potentially lucrative commercial ice shows in the coming months, a report said Monday. Asada won her third women’s world figure…
Four people were killed, including a young girl, in a suicide car bomb attack in the north Nigerian city of Kano, the city’s police commissioner said. “At about 2200 (2100 GMT), we heard an explosion and immediately mobilised to the scene where we discovered…
The 10 Chinese workers abducted by Boko Haram gunmen in Cameroon have most likely been taken back across the border to the Nigerian Islamist group’s strongholds, a police official said Sunday. “We are almost certain that the 10 Chinese have been kidnapped…
Inmates at a maximum-security prison in northeast Brazil, who had taken four guards and more than 100 visiting relatives hostage during a riot, released all the captives Sunday, officials said. Negotiators secured the remaining hostages’ release just…
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has frowned at the presence of a large number of tourists, journalists and adventurers of diverse…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, administering the Polio Vaccine to a child, during the Flag-off Ceremony of the May…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; acknowledging cheers from Teachers, during a Teachers’ Sensitization on World Bank Project of the…
LEEDS, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwired – May 19, 2014) – Callcredit Information Group is pleased to announce today (19th May) the re-launch…
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS–(Marketwired – May 19, 2014) – Webzilla has joined Internet Exchanges in Poland (PLIX) and Czech Republic (NIX.CZ). The…
MUMBAI, INDIA–(Marketwired – May 19, 2014) – For the fourth year in a row, DatacenterDynamics brings to you India’s largest…
16 May 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today voiced deep concern about the situation of Meriam Ibrahim,…
Kogi State Chief Judge, Nasiru Ajanah has decried corruption in the judiciary, saying that bad eggs had contaminated the whole…
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – May 18, 2014) – Teranet President and CEO Elgin Farewell, and Lawrence Franco, President of Value Added…
15 May 2014 – A senior United Nations official has highlighted the extreme hardship faced by Palestinian refugees in Syria…
15 May 2014 – Drought and ongoing conflict are not only adding pressure to Syria’s already dire food security situation,…
Follow @{0}A small arms and ammunition investigator sifts through military materiel at a captured militia base in the DRC’s Virunga…