Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has offered to be the first person to be injected with Russia’s coronavirus vaccine even as World Health Organisation cautioned on its safety as pre-qualification assessment and review is yet to be conducted.
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An upper Sharia court in Nigeria Northern state of Kano has sentenced a 22-year-old Islamic gospel musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death by hanging having been found guilty of committing blasphemy for a song he shared on WhatsApp in March.
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A Georgian school that became infamous after a crowded hallway with unmasked students was posted on social media have now been forced to retreat to online studies after 12 students and three staffers tested positive with COVID-19.
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McDonalds is investigating how a blue surgical face mask end up in a chicken Nugget that a six-year-old girl in Hampshire nearly choked on following a complaint by her Mother. Read More »
Anthony Levandowski, an ex-Google self-driving car engineer and serial entrepreneur at the centre of a lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, has been sentenced to 18 months on one count of stealing trade secrets.
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WhatsApp has introduced “Search the web”, a new feature that allows users to fact-check content contained in forwarded messages.
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That a court ruling in Jamaica upheld the ban on kids wearing dreadlocks in schools last week is shocking will be an understatement even as the parents of the seven-year-old insist they will not cut her natural hair.
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Northern Ireland’s Covid-19 contact-tracing mobile phone app has become the first to launch successfully in the UK.
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Plans to build a Disneyland like theme park in London has been unveiled. Dubbed the ‘UK’s Disneyland’, the £5 billion resort will be the first of its kind in Europe to be built from scratch since the opening of Disneyland Paris in 1992, and will cover an area roughly equivalent to 136 Wembley stadiums on a former cement works site in Swanscombe, Kent.
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A Tanzanian club has fired its Belgian coach Luc Eymael for allegedly describing the club’s fans in derogatory terms.
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