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Two sergeants of the Texas Prison, set out on Friday morning to pick up two pallets of already-ripe fruit – 45 banana-filled boxes – from the Ports of America in Freeport. But when they arrived to grab up their load, they found one of…

A contestant on America’s Got Talent has been charged with domestic violence just a day after performing in the show finale. Michael Ketterer, 41, who came fifth in the TV show, was arrested in Hollywood at 3.45pm on Thursday, US…

A 44-year-old woman, Jane Govender and her two daughters, were brutally murdered by her boyfriend at their home in Durban, South Africa, an attack that got the suspect arrested. Jane Govender’s husband who was on a night shift and…

“China equals Hitler” said the sign held up in the Zambian capital Lusaka by a protester opposed to Beijing’s tightening grip on the economy of the southern African nation. The demonstrator, James Lukuku, who leads a small political…

The controversial 3D-printed gun maker Cody Wilson has been arrested in Taiwan after authorities in Texas announced he was wanted on charges that he sexually assaulted a minor. On Wednesday, Texas law enforcement announced that the…

Kenyan Governor Okoth Obado, who had a secret love affair with his wife’s sister, Rhoda OdieNyakwaka reportedly impregnated the lady while the relationship lasted. Okoth Obado whose close aides, have been arrested and interrogated by…

Ten people were killed and 34 others injured when a bus overturned on a highway near the South African city of Polokwane, an emergency official said on Friday. Paramedics arrived to find the passenger bus lying on its side on the…

Moscow said Friday Washington’s latest raft of anti-Russian sanctions that also target China undermined global stability, warning the United States against “playing with fire.” “It would be good for them to remember there is such a…

eSwatini, the small southern African kingdom was formerly known as Swaziland, is set to hold elections on Friday, though political parties are banned from taking part and the absolute monarch, King Mswati III, chooses both prime…

Rwandan authorities have discovered the bodies of 5,400 victims of the 1994 genocide, the executive secretary of Genocide Survivors Organisation Ibuka said on Thursday. The executive secretary, Naphtal Ahishakiye, added that the…

Pretty high school teacher, who was wrongly accused of having sex with students, narrates her ordeal during and after trial. The 30-year-old former Kennebunk High School teacher, Jill Lamontagne was first accused of sex charges with…

A pretty wife who stabbed her husband seven times after he admitted cheating on her, has been jailed for six years. Deborah Rose, from Deal, Kent, launched the attack on John Rose after his affair was revealed during a night of drinking…

French Gossip Magazine Closer lost its appeal on Wednesday against hefty fines issued over topless pictures it published of Kate, Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge. A court in Versailles confirmed fines against two Closer journalists…

A 38-year-old French priest in a town in northern France committed suicide in his church after being accused of molesting a girl, local prosecutors and police sources told AFP on Wednesday. Jean-Baptiste Sebe killed himself on…

Local bank notes worth about $60 million, printed abroad and brought into Liberia in two huge consignments, have “vanished”. The consignments were brought in between November 2017 and August 2018. According to BBC, there were reports…

Malaysia's toppled leader Najib Razak was arrested Wednesday and will be charged over allegations that $628 million linked to state investment fund 1MDB ended up in his personal bank accounts, officials said. Allegations that Najib…

North Korea has agreed to “permanently” shut one of its main missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in announced at a joint press conference with Kim Jong-un on Wednesday. The leaders…

South Africa’s constitutional court has decriminalised the private use of marijuana. The ruling came after a provincial high court in 2017 held that the use of cannabis in private space should be allowed because laws against it were…

Vladimir Putin has said the Syrian government will allow a demilitarised zone around Idlib. The Russian president said the 15-20km (9.3-12.4 miles) wide safe zone will be created in the northwest Syrian province by 15 October. He…

The U.S. Government says it anticipates processing up to 310,000 refugees and asylum seekers in 2019. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the country proposed resettling up to 30,000 refugees under the new refugee ceiling as…

China has promised to retaliate if US President Donald Trump goes ahead and slaps tariffs on 200 billion dollars’ worth of Chinese imports. Beijing “will have to take necessary counter-measures,” a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman…

Salesforce.com chief Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne will buy storied US news magazine Time for $190 million, a company statement said Sunday. “The Benioffs are purchasing TIME personally and the transaction is unrelated to…

Some view it as gainful employment for youths with too much free time, others as a tool to blunt protest movements — Moroccans are divided over the looming return of military service. Twelve years after conscription was scrapped, the…

US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has denied an allegation of sexual misconduct made against him. The allegation was made by an unnamed woman, who said in a letter Kavanaugh had tried to force himself on her when both of them…