This year’s Nobel season opens Monday with the announcement of the medicine prize. Like every year, speculation is rife about the possible winners, given the number of worthy laureates in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics. The Nobel medicine prize
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Two women pleaded not guilty Monday to murdering Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, at the start of their trial in Malaysia. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, who arrived at the heavily guarded court in handcuffs and wearing bulletproof vests, entered their pleas through interpreters as proceedings got under […]
A day after the secretary of state said the administration opened “lines of communication” with North Korea, President Trump on Sunday told Rex Tillerson to “save your energy” because “we’ll do what has to be done” with “Little Rocket Man.” “I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time […]
A popular Sierra Leone-based Nigerian pastor, Victor Ajisafe has been arrested by the government after he was found to have made certain outrageous comments about Islamic religion during his Sunday sermon. Ajisafe, was arrested in Sierra Leone after recordings of a sermon targeting Muslims went viral on social media. The Guardian UK reports that Ajisafe, […]
Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe has likened members of his party demanding for his resignation to biblical Judas Iscariot. It is alleged that members of ZANU-PF, the party of the 93-year-old, have privately been pushing for the retirement of Mugabe, who has been in power since the country gained independence in 1980. Speaking during the burial […]
Singer Natalia Dzenkiv found herself taken aback recently when she was stopped and grilled at passport control traveling back home from Turkey. It wasn’t a routine line of questioning, either. Instead, as it turned out, it was a pretty amazing (if slightly back-handed) compliment. Puzzled officials suspected she was using someone else’s passport – because
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