WORLD NEWS: REBELS DECLARE END OF ASSAD RULE IN SYRIA
Islamist-led rebels declared that they have taken Damascus in a lightning offensive on Sunday, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath...
TRAGIC: CROCODILE MAULS PALM OIL PLANTATION WORKER TO DEATH IN INDONESIA
According to local police, a woman was working on a palm oil plantation in central Indonesia when she was attacked and murdered by a crocodile....
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...
UNIDENTIFIED DISEASE KILLS AT LEAST 27 IN DR CONGO
An unidentified disease has killed at least 27 people in just over a month in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, health officials...
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...
US, HONG KONG, EGYPT, OTHERS SET TO PARTICIPATE IN FENCING WORLD CUP IN LAGOS
Leading fencing nations from across the world, such as Egypt, Hong Kong, the United States, and others, will compete in the 2024 Men's World Cup,...