September 2019
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A 24-year-old man allegedly married his 81-year-old cousin “to avoid doing military service”. Alexander Kondratyuk has denied that he tied the knot with his disabled relative just to skip a stint in the army, which is required of every Ukrainian man. The only exceptions are if someone is disabled or the carer of someone with…
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Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez staged a lavish engagement party in Los Angeles on Friday night. The 50-year-old singer and Alex, 44, toasted their impending wedding at the home of singer Carole Bayer Sager in Bel Air, where they were joined by friends and family. An insider told E! News: “It was a dimly lit…
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Remember Zhou Ying? The Star Search 2007 (the competition that produced stars like Andie Chen, Ya Hui and Desmond Tan) alumnus might have only been in Singapore for a few short years, but the Shanghai-born actress certainly made a splash with her acting chops. Among her most memorable roles is as Tang Ying in Breakout, which also earned…
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Bruce Wayne … He didn’t have what most other super heroes had. Did you ever realize that Batman had no super power?! He was an ordinary man that dressed up in a special suit and had some really cool gadgets; he had the Batmobile, but he did not have a super power! He couldn’t fly,…
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The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution on the right to development with overwhelming victory, emphasizing an urgent need to make the right to development a reality for everyone. The resolution, jointly proposed by China and the Non-Aligned Movement, stresses that the responsibility for managing worldwide economic and social issues and…
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Having announced the launch of an e-tourist visa and the expenditure of billions of dollars in new tourism projects and infrastructure, Saudi Arabia says it is opening up the kingdom to international tourists for a developmental purposes. The announcement came during a huge ceremony organized by the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH)…
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Accusations of fraud and misconduct, more than scores of Taliban attacks, threatened to overwhelm the results of Saturday’s vote for the next president of Afghanistan, denying the winner legitimacy and frustrating efforts to restart peace talks to end 18 years of war. When polls closed Saturday, Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi said there had been…
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Diego Simeone faced the press ahead of the derby against Real Madrid, where he highlighted the quality of his city rivals. In typical Cholo fashion, the Argentine shunned questions about either off-field or non-footballing matters and was interested only in the game on Saturday. “I think that Real Madrid have very good players and when they take…
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The city which is also known as the City of Canals is Venice The country in which river Wangchu flows is Myanmar The biggest island of the world is Greenland The city which is the biggest center for manufacture of automobiles in the world is Detroit , USA The country which is the largest producer…
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Unlike every other president, Trump refused to divest himself of his business interests or put his financial holdings in a blind trust. This means he knows how his actions as president have a direct impact on his personal financial investments. Walter Shaub Jr., the director of the US Office of Government Ethics tried to get…
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A major riot broke out on Tuesday night at the high security Long Lartin jail as prisoners armed with pool balls took over a wing, the Telegraph reports. At least one prison officer has been injured and taken to hospital after the violence broke out during inmates’ association time. Staff withdrew from the wing as a specialist…
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Google received a welcome victory in the European Union’s highest court in relation to the EU’s “right to be forgotten” rules. For the past five years, EU citizens have enjoyed the right to have search engines remove embarrassing or outdated information from their indexes. At the heart of the case was whether the right to…
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In response to Boris Johnson’s statement that the UK would consider taking part in a US-led military coalition against Iran for allegedly attacking Saudi Arabia, Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has denied any part in the attacks. Zarif said Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who claimed responsibility, “have every reason to retaliate” for the Saudi-led coalition’s…
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Justice Taiwo Taiwo on Tuesday ordered asked the Department of State Service to release Omoyele Sowore on bail. The judge made the ruling after listening to the argument of Sowore’s lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) and the prosecuting counsel. The judge, as part of bail conditions, asked Sowore to drop his passport with the court within…
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A report by Bloomberg on Monday said that the Nigerian Government has given ₦1.5tn to the privatized power sector since the privatization process in 2013. According to the publication, this has still not improved the average power supplied to Nigerians within the period. The report said, “Since 2015, the government has provided three bailouts via the central…
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Fallout from the Sept. 14 attacks is still reverberating as world leaders gather for their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly. Britain, France and Germany, however, joined the United States on Monday in blaming Iran for attacks on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, but the Iranian foreign minister pointed to claims of responsibility…
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