The masterminds of sun-powered plane Solar Impulse formally unveiled their new aircraft Wednesday, a year ahead of their planned round-the-world flight. Solar Impulse 2 is the successor of the original plane of the same name, which last year completed…
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The Catholic weekly Credere (Believe) has been caught in a delayed April Fools’ prank about the Vatican recruiting a hawk to protect the pope’s doves after two were killed by a crow and a seagull. The publication said a bird of prey named “Sylvia”,…
Hon. Oyetunde Ojo, member representing Ekiti West/Efon/Ijero Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, has urged the people of Ekiti…
The United States said Tuesday it had only low expectations for an upcoming meeting with Russia, Europe and Ukraine on the crisis in the former Soviet republic. “I have to say that we don’t have high expectations for these talks, but we do believe it…
Yesterday, independent security researchers made public that a critical vulnerability in the widely popular cryptographic software library, OpenSSL had been discovered. The vulnerability, known “Heartbleed” allows anyone on the Internet to read…
Users of Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 may have noticed a rather large OS update yesterday—that’s Windows 8.1 Update 1, if you were wondering. The update brought a whole bunch of new bits and pieces to the table to make the experience of actually using…
At a press event in San Francisco earlier today, Dropbox announced not one, but two major changes in their insanely popular cloud file storage service, which just hit an impressive 275 million users. The first and perhaps more impressive bit of news…
A NASA robot has snapped pictures showing glints of light on the Martian horizon, which some UFO enthusiasts have seized on as a sign of alien life on the Red Planet. Not so, said the US space agency. More likely, the images of bright spots taken on…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on wednesday approved a new National Tobacco Control Bill 2014, which among others, prescribes six…
Doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) have embarked on a three-day warning strike to protest against ‘very poor…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday directed establishment of a White Paper implementation committee on the report of Presidential Committee on…
The potentials of the agriculture sector in Lagos State if fully maximized was brought to the fore yesterday as the…
Speaking English with a Slavic accent, a man known only as “John Smith” because he does not remember his real name is proving a mystery for Norwegian police. The tall, young amnesiac was found helpless in the snow near a carwash in Oslo last December…
Canada’s tax agency shuttered its website Wednesday after warning that encrypted taxpayer data could be vulnerable to the “Heartbleed” bug. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) said the decision, which comes only three weeks before the annual income tax…
England striker Wayne Rooney won his race to be fit for Wednesday’s Champions League, quarter-final, second-leg at Bayern Munich despite struggling with a toe injury. United manager David Moyes started Rooney just in front of attacking midfielder Shinji…
Austin Healey has called on England to end the Test exile of Danny Cipriani after the fly-half was named the Premiership’s player of the month for March. Cipriani’s form has helped guide unheralded Sale to the brink of the play-off and led to calls…
Demba Ba admitted to somewhat mixed feelings after coming off the bench to score the goal that took Chelsea into the Champions League semi-finals at Paris Saint-Germain’s expense on Tuesday. The 28-year-old came on for Frank Lampard midway through the…
English third tier club Tranmere sacked manager Ronnie Moore on Wednesday, a day after he admitted a Football Association charge of repeatedly breaking betting rules. Moore was suspended by the north-west club on February 17 after the FA launched an…
Wigan manager Uwe Rosler has insisted his FA Cup-holders will be “massive underdogs” when they face Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley this weekend. Last season Wigan, then under the guidance of now Everton boss Roberto Martinez, beat Manchester…
Egyptian owner Assem Allam’s application to change the name of Premier League Hull City to Hull Tigers has been rejected, the Football Association announced Wednesday. The move came as little surprise after the FA’s membership committee had said, three…