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Today In History: Britain and France declare war on Russia, Spanish Civil War ends...
1814 - The funeral of Guillotin, the inventor and namesake of the infamous execution device, takes place outside of Paris, France. Guillotin had what he felt were the purest motives for inventing the…
British lady sells her virginity for over a million dollar.
A 26-year-old British lady has taken an unconventional decision of auctioning her virginity. The lady, a London resident who gave her name as just Jasmin, said she received a final offer of $1,482,52…
Ecuador police search for kidnapped reporters in border area
Ecuadorean police are searching for two newspaper journalists and their driver who were kidnapped near the village of Mataje, Esmeraldas province, close to the border shared with Columbia.Former memb…
Obasanjo disappointed Buhari delayed signing Africa free trade deal
Nigeria's former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has joined the growing number of voices who believes the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to withdrawal from the Africa Continental Free Trade Area…
Assange a 'miserable little worm': UK minister
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been labelled a "miserable little worm" by a British minister after he questioned the UK government's response to a nerve agent attack.Alan Duncan, Britain'…
Chinese space station Tiangong-1, to fall back to Earth 'in days'
Scientist say debris from a defunct Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, which was put into orbit in 2011 as part of China's ambitious space programme could crash to Earth as early as Friday.Tiangong-1…
Gold casts of Mandela's hands sell for $10m in Bitcoin
An Ontario-based cryptocurrency company is planning on buying a prized gold castings collection of the hands of late South Africa anti-apartheid revolutionary leader, Nelson Mandela.Alberta businessm…
Spy Poisoning: Massive expulsion of Russian Diplomats across US and Europe.
The fall out of Russia's alleged poisoning of a former spy has continued to gather momentum despite the Kremlin's repeated denial of the act.Hours after reports emerged that some Russian ambassadors …
France attacker's girlfriend 'known to security services'
Local media in France are reporting that security services knew about the girlfriend of the perpetrator of last weeks attack in the south-west region of the country, in which four people were killed …
Okagbare breaks 22-year-old African record
Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare has broken a 22-year-old record for African athletes on Saturday. Okagbare kicked off her outdoor campaign for the year at the Wes Kittley Invitational Track and Field Mee…
Father of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo's late wife, Stella Obasanjo, dies at 99
The father-in-law of former president Olusegun Obasanjo has passed away at the age of 99. Dr. Christopher Abebe (OFR), who was the father of the late first lady, Stella Obasanjo died on Thursday acco…
Singer sentenced to 10 months in jail for insulting Turkey's president
A famous Turkish celebrity has been sentenced to 10 months in prison, Turkish paper, Hurriyet newspaper said on Thursday.The sentence was passed on Zuhal Olcay, a singer and actress for insulting Pre…
Today In History: The first color photograph was published, Persia is renamed Iran, Equal Rights Amendment passed...
1765 - British pass Stamp Act (the first direct British tax on the American colonists) as it hoped to raise sufficient funds to defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Sev…
Facebook's Zuckerberg breaks silence over 'data breach' scandal
Since news broke in the US, about British data consultancy firm, Cambridge Analytica (CA) using data harvested from over 50 million Facebook users to create psychological profiles that may have been …
Today In History: New Orleans almost destroyed in fire, Archbishop of Canterbury burned at the stake at Oxford...
1556 - Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is burned at the stake at Oxford after retracting the last of seven recantations that same day.1788 - Almost the entire city of New Orleans, Louis…
Demi Lovato: I thought of ending my life at age 7
US singer Demi Lovato has made a startling revelation about her childhood. The singer revealed that, at age 7, she had suicidal thoughts adding that her mother was sometimes scared to wake her up bec…
US policeman charged with murder
A US police officer has been charged with murder by prosecutors over the death of an unarmed Australian woman,a case that caused an outcry both in the US and Australia.The charges against offic…
New explosion at a FedEx facility in Texas, an Austin-bound package explodes injuring one
A new explosion has been reported in Texas, this time at a FedEx depot near in Schertz, near San Antonio. A parcel bomb containing nails and shrapnel, headed for Austin, Texas (location of four bomb …
Two year old rescued from a car in river Teifi in Cardigan dies
A child who was in a car when it was reported stolen has died after being recovered from the car which was found in a river.Two-year-old Kiara Moore, who would have been three next Tuesday, died at t…
Serena Williams helps break ground for new Miami Open site at Dolphins Stadium
Standing on the field at the Miami Dolphins' stadium, Serena Williams used a two-hand grip to stick her shovel in the dirt, flashed a smile and flicked a forehand.When she comes back, she plans to be…