Renowned Ghanaian-British Architect David Adjaye was among seven global leaders honoured for the way they’ve pushed their industries forward at the TIME 100 Impact Awards and Gala held Monday 28 March at Dubai’s Museum of the Future, UAE.
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A 31-year-old Ugandan traditional healer living in South Africa illegally has been handed a 30-year prison term for defrauding a miner of his R955 300 pension money under the pretense that it would multiply into millions.
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Still fighting extradition to the United States, where he is wanted for an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information, Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange has married his fiancée at Belmarsh high-security prison in south-east London.
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A non-hormonal birth control pill found to be 99 per cent effective at preventing pregnancy in test on mice with no observed side effects. Human trials are being planned, but some researchers warn that safety concerns could yet prevent the drug from making it to the market.
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The founder of global megachurch Hillsong, Brian Houston, has resigned after an internal investigation found he behaved inappropriately towards two women.
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The parents of a disabled teenage girl have appeared in court charged with causing her death by allowing her to become morbidly obese.
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Consistent with economic sanctions against Russian Oligarchs and affiliated entities in the wake of that country’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to limit citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programs in the European Union.
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For years, there’s been a cottage industry in Japan and South Korea of renting strangers to impersonate friends, family members or other acquaintances, as a way to save face at social functions where plus-ones are expected.
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Mali’s ruling military junta has ordered French state funded broadcasters RFI and France 24 off the air, complaining they had falsely accused the army of committing abuses.
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The US government has dismissed claims that the detained Nigerian influencer Ramon Abbas, known as Hushpuppi, carried out a $400,000 internet fraud from prison.
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