Isabel dos Santos: Africa’s richest woman eyes Angola presidency
Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, who is embroiled in a huge financial scandal, has suggested that she may seek to become the country's president. In a BBC interview, Ms Dos Santos pointedly declined four times to rule out running for the presidency. Her father José Eduardo dos Santos ruled Angola for 38 years. Prosecutors are seeking to recover $1bn (£760m) Ms...
Russia PM Medvedev Resigns Over Putin’s Reforms
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced on Wednesday that he and the rest of the Russian government were resigning, Russian news agencies reported. The announcement came on the heels of President Vladimir Putin's annual speech to lawmakers where he proposed a series of constitutional reforms that would grant more powers to parliament — including the ability to select the prime minister. The changes would make significant...
BREAKING: Ex-pope Benedict XVI wants his name removed from controversial book
Former Pope Benedict XVI wants his name removed as co-author of a controversial book on the issue of priestly celibacy, his personal secretary said on Tuesday. According to Reuters reports, Archbishop Georg Ganswein said; at the former pope’s behest, he had asked the principal author of the book, Cardinal Robert Sarah, to contact the publishers and make the necessary changes. The...
Iran protesters demand leaders quit after they took responsibility for Ukrainian plane crash
Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday, increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic’s leadership after it admitted its military shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident, despite days of denials that Iranian forces were to blame. “They are lying that our enemy is America, our enemy is right here,” one group of protesters chanted outside a university...
Nigeria, India, Israel are Trump’s strongholds – Survey
A survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre has listed Nigeria as one of the strongholds of United States President, Donald Trump. This is as the survey found that support for President Trump remains largely negative around the world. The Centre discovered that across the 33 countries surveyed a median of 64 per cent said they do not have confidence in...
Iran protesters demand leaders quit after they took responsibility for Ukrainian plane crash
Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday, increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic’s leadership after it admitted its military shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident, despite days of denials that Iranian forces were to blame. “They are lying that our enemy is America, our enemy is right here,” one group of protesters chanted outside a university...
Nigeria, India, Israel are Trump’s strongholds – Survey
A survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre has listed Nigeria as one of the strongholds of United States President, Donald Trump. This is as the survey found that support for President Trump remains largely negative around the world. The Centre discovered that across the 33 countries surveyed a median of 64 per cent said they do not have confidence in...
BMW Tupac was shot dead in is being sold with bullet holes for $1.75m
The car Tupac Shakur was in when he was shot dead has been put up for sale for $1.75m. The legendary rapper was a passenger in a BMW 750 when he was gunned down in Las Vegas in 1996. The shooting took place while Tupac Shakur was being driven by his friend and notorious record producer, Suge Knight after watching a...
North Korean Mother faces jail for saving kids from fire instead of Kim Jong il’s portrait
A North Korean mother has been threatened with jail after saving her two children from a house fire but allowing portraits of North Korea's leaders to burn. The woman has been placed under investigation by the country's Ministry of State Security after a fire broke out in a home shared by two families in Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province, close...
BMW Tupac was shot dead in is being sold with bullet holes for $1.75m
The car Tupac Shakur was in when he was shot dead has been put up for sale for $1.75m. The legendary rapper was a passenger in a BMW 750 when he was gunned down in Las Vegas in 1996. The shooting took place while Tupac Shakur was being driven by his friend and notorious record producer, Suge Knight after watching a...
