TRUMP NOMINATES BILLIONAIRE PRIVATE ASTRONAUT AS NEXT HEAD OF NASA
US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Jared Isaacman, a billionaire online payments entrepreneur and the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk, as the...
WORLD NEWS: SIX BODIES PULLED FROM ILLEGAL SOUTH AFRICAN GOLDMINE
Six bodies have been extracted over the past two days from an abandoned mine in the town of Stilfontein in South Africa, where hundreds of...
MERCEDES DELIVERS ELECTRIC POPEMOBILE TO POPE FRANCIS
Agency Report German automaker Mercedes-Benz delivered an electric popemobile to the Vatican on Wednesday for use by the pontiff, who has repeatedly called for global...
TALIBAN GOVT BANS WOMEN FROM STUDYING NURSING, MIDWIFERY
Agency Report Senior employees at several institutions offering nursing and midwifery courses in Afghanistan on Tuesday said women would be barred from classes, following an...
WORLD NEWS: MACRON REJECTS CALL TO RESIGN AS FRENCH PRESIDENT
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday rejected calls to resign to break a political impasse in the country, saying such a scenario amounted to “political...
NAMIBIA ELECTS NANDI-NDAITWAH AS FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT
Namibia’s ruling SWAPO party was declared winner Tuesday of last week’s disputed elections, ushering in the southern African country’s first woman president after a disputed...
BELGIUM APPROVES MATERNITY LEAVE, PENSION FOR SEX WORKERS
Belgium has passed a law that extends the same rights and protections to sex workers as those given to other workers. Signed into law on...
AUSTRALIAN GOVT PASSES LANDMARK SOCIAL MEDIA BAN FOR UNDER 16s
On Thursday, Australian lawmakers approved one of the strictest crackdowns on popular websites like Facebook, Instagram, and X in the world by passing historic legislation...
FORMER LIBERIAN WARLORD, PRINCE JOHNSON DIES AT 72
Agency Report Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord who played a significant role in the back-to-back civil wars from 1989 to 2003, passed away on...
JUST IN: MALI JUNTA ANNOUNCES POSSIBLE END TO MILITARY RULE
Mali’s ruling general on Wednesday made an unusual reference to preparations for elections that would put an end to military rule, albeit without setting out...