LUSAKA. – Joseph Chewe, a barbershop owner in Ng’ombe, a residential area in Lusaka, Zambia, now has to reschedule his business hours under the availability of electricity in the capital city’s staggered power cuts. In his neighbourhood,...
Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, accepted a £1 million donation to his charitable trust from the family of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, The Sunday Times has reported.
BEIJING. — A compilation of excerpts from discourses on China’s financial sector by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has been published by the Central Party Literature Press. Since...
China’s economic recovery has been fragile as the government relaxes curbs with easing Covid-19 outbreaks, but then tightens them again wherever the virus pops back up
John Morris says American Airlines has caused extensive damage to two wheelchairs costing $75,000, and he wants a "seat at the table" to bring about change.
Kyiv, Ukraine CNN — His inauguration speech was loudest in its silence on Ukraine. But hours later, US President Donald Trump laid bare – in a trademark casual, rambling fashion – his position over the war in Ukraine. And it was...
GENEVA. — The UN weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and is warning that the...
ABUJA. – will from 1 April Nigeria will impose a three-month ban on ministers and other government officials from publicly funded overseas travel, President Bola Tinubu has announced. This is aimed at curbing government spending...
Ukraine's president has urged civilians to evacuate the frontline Donetsk region, the scene of fierce clashes with the Russian military, as Kyiv called on the Red Cross and UN to gain access to its soldiers being held by Moscow's forces.
In 2007, Trump filed plans to build a 6-metre-high stone mausoleum with four obelisks on his golf course in New Jersey. The city called the plans "garish."
Hong Kong CNN — Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to take his country’s ties with Russia to a new level this year in a video conference with counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, hours after the inauguration of US President Donald...
Washington CNN — Republican senators struggled to defend Donald Trump’s decision to commute and pardon hundreds of January 6 protesters, including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers, just hours after...
A lucky US lottery player has won a Mega Millions jackpot worth more than $1.3 billion, one of the highest prizes ever, a US lottery official confirmed.
Devastating flooding in Kentucky has killed 25 people and the toll is expected to rise, the southern US state's governor said Saturday, as rescuers and residents continued a harrowing search for survivors.
The Judicial Conduct Tribunal investigating sexual harassment involving the Eastern Cape judge president, Selby Mbenenge, is the first time where the issue of emojis is playing out in a legal matter
At least 45 people were killed and several others injured in a bus crash in Limpopo, South Africa, according to SABC News yesterday. “The bus went out of control, fell over a bridge and caught fire on the mountain pass between Mokopane...
JOHANNESBURG. – For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of...
New DelhiAP — At least 12 train passengers were killed in western India Wednesday after being struck by another train on an adjacent track after they jumped from their coaches in panic to escape a rumored fire incident, the Press Trust...
London CNN — “I would prefer to stay out of politics,” Elon Musk told his followers in 2021, on the platform then known as Twitter. Plenty has changed since then. Musk now owns the social media giant, renamed X and repurposed as his...