Beijing now has more billionaires than any other city in the world after bouncing back quickly from Covid-19, according to the Forbes' 2021 World's Billionaires List.
The Chinese capital added 33 billionaires last year and now hosts 100, said the business magazine. This narrowly beats New York City, which hosts...
Ride hailing company, Uber has been ordered to pay $1.1 million after a court ruled that the company's drivers discriminated against a blind woman and her guide dog on more than a dozen separate occasions.
Lisa Irving, a California resident, said she was denied rides or verbally abused by drivers...
The US Capitol Police is "struggling to meet existing mission requirements" in the aftermath of this year's second attack at the complex, union chief Gus Papathanasiou has said.
In a statement this weekend, NBC News reports, union chief says the agency is approaching "a crisis in morale and force numbers"...
Citizens of Philippines won't be celebrating Easter in a normal way this year as the country's leader has imposed a strict lockdown in the capital and nearby provinces, spoiling Easter plans for millions in the Catholic dominated country.
Over the weekend, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced the lockdown after the...
The United States has received $335 million from Sudan as settlement that will be paid out to victims and families of individuals impacted by the 1998 bombings at the US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and the murder of a USAID employee...
A child was among four people killed in a mass shooting at a Southern California office building that left a fifth victim and the gunman critically injured on Wednesday, March 31.
Officers arrived at 202 W. Lincoln Ave. around 5:30 p.m. local time as shots were being fired and located...
A passenger train carrying an estimated 350 people has derailed in a tunnel in Taiwan, killing at least 36 and injuring dozens more.
The 408 Taroko Express came off the rails in a tunnel in the north of Hualien on Friday morning, April 2, causing several carriages to hit the...
Following another day of widespread bloodshed by the Myanmar military that left at least 114 people dead in just one day, top senior UN officials have denounced the “systematic” attacks on peaceful demonstrators in Myanmar stating that the international community has a responsibility to protect the people from atrocities.
Alice...
Two suspected suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, March 28, wounding about 20 people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week.
National police spokesman Inspector General Argo Yuwono said at a press conference in Jakarta that the worshippers suffered from...
North Korea has released new images of its missile tests carried out on Thursday, claiming the missiles it launched were a "new-type of tactical guided projectile", in its first statement since the test.
The Thursday, March 25, launch was the country's first ballistic launch in almost a year and the...
For the first time since Joe Biden became US president, the secretive state of North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Thursday March 25, the US and Japan have announced.
Under UN Security Council resolutions, North Korea is banned from testing ballistic missiles, considered...
Myanmar's military have reportedly shot dead a 7-year-old girl in the city of Mandalay the youngest victim yet in the military's crackdown on civilian ever since the infamous February 1 coup.
The country has been in a dire state ever since the military, headed by coup-leader Gen. Min Aung Hlaing,...
There is now widespread concern for residents of Myanmar and the military junta which seized power from the country's democratically elected government has now blocked off internet usage in the country, an apparent bid to stop information dissemination.
The military seized power in a February 1 coup, and has been using...
Eni and Royal Dutch Shell have been acquitted of corruption charges in the purchase of a Nigerian oilfield.
The long-running case revolves around the purchase of the OPL 245 offshore oilfield in Nigeria in 2011 from Malabu Oil and Gas, a company owned by former Minister of Petroleum Dan Etete.
In...
The nomination list for the 93rd annual Academy Awards has
been released.
“Mank” leads the pack with the most nominations with 10. The film also garnered the most Golden Globes nominations last month but left that ceremony empty-handed. The film is competing for best picture alongside “The Father,” “Judas and the...
The 63rd annual Grammy Awards held on Sunday night. March 14.
It was hosted by Trevor Noah from the Los Angeles Convention Center, just across the street from the award show's usual location at the Staples Center.
Due to the pandemic, there was no live audience for the Grammys this year, except...
A French schoolgirl has admitted to spreading false claims about a teacher before he was murdered last year.
Samuel Paty was beheaded in October 2020 after showing students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The girl, whose complaints about the cartoons sparked an online campaign against Paty, has now admitted that she...
The Church of Cyprus has gone into battle against "The Devil", denouncing the country's pick for this year's Eurovision Song Contest as glorifying Satan.
Dance song "El Diablo" - Spanish for the Devil - is the island nation's offering to the annual music contest for 2021.
Sung by Greek performer Elena...
A top judge in India has sparked outrage for telling an accused rapist and government technician to marry his schoolgirl victim to avoid jail.
More than 5,000 people have signed a petition demanding Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde quit after he told the government technician at a hearing: 'If you...
A former Minister of Finance in Nigeria, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been appointed as the new Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
With her appointment, she becomes the first woman and African to occupy the position since the establishment of the global trade body.
Mrs Okonjo-Iweala, a former DG of...
Shamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria to join the Islamic State group as a teenager, will not be allowed to return and fight her citizenship case, the Supreme Court has ruled.
In February 2015, at just 15, Shamima travelled from her east London home to Syria with two...
For the first time as US president, Joe Biden ordered a series of US military strikes in Syria on Thursday February 25, against sites used by two Iranian-backed militia groups in response to rocket attacks on American forces in the region in the past two weeks.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby...
Facebook has banned the Myanmar military from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms with immediate effect, as weeks of mass demonstrations continue in the Southeast Asian country after the military seized power.
“Events since the February 1 coup, including deadly violence, have precipitated a need for this ban,” Facebook said...
At least 67 inmates have died in prison riots across Ecuador as inmates used blood and knives to attack each other.
The violence was said to have broken out over a power dispute between criminal gangs, according to local media.
In a tweet, Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno said gangs had carried out...
France’s government wants to set the age of sexual consent at 15 and make it easier to punish long-ago child sexual abuse.
Victims of sexual abuse and child protection activists have long pushed for tougher laws and greater societal recognition of the problem of sexual abuse and this new development...
Authorities in China have banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country.
The news follows a move by Britain's communications regulator to strip the state-run China Global Television Network (CGTN) of its broadcast license in the U.K. last week. The CGTN was also found in breach of British broadcasting...
President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Friday that the United States will make first contribution of $2 billion to a U.N.-backed program seeking to distribute COVID-19 vaccine doses to people in the poorest countries in the world, according to senior Biden administration officials.
ABC News reported that Congress had...
An eight-day-old baby has died after being snatched from her bed by a group of monkeys.
The girl's mum was devastated to find her newborn twin girls gone from their beds after a pack of primates invaded her home on Saturday, Feb 13, in Mela Alangam (West Rampart) near Thanjavur Palace in...
A woman and her daughter have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Houston after running a car in the garage to stay warm amid record-low temperatures.
Officers with the Houston Police Department and members of the Houston Fire Department were dispatched to 8300 La Roche for a welfare check, and...
An Algerian court has sentenced a man to death over the kidnap and murder of a French mountain climber, Hervé Gourdel in 2014.
Hervé Gourdel, 55, was abducted while exploring Djurdjura National Park and later a graphic beheading video emerged of his death.
The Jund al-Khilafa group, affiliated to the Islamic...
The United States has rejoined the Paris climate accord, just 107 days after it left as President Joe Biden continues to reverse Donald Trump's legacy.
The return became official on Friday February 19, almost a month after President Joe Biden told the United Nations that America wants back in.
'A cry...
The 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards nominations have been released.
Mank leads the nominees on the film side, while The Crown tops the TV nominations.
Other top nominees include the films The Trial of the Chicago 7, with five nominations, and The Father, Nomadland, and Promising Young Woman with four nominations.
On the TV side, Schitt's Creek followed The Crown, earning five nominations, while Ozark and The...
Joe Biden has spent 10 days in office as the 46th US President and during that time, he has signed over 30 executive orders and reversed some of Trumps controversial policies.
And according to Biden, he's just getting started.
He took to Instagram and Twitter to mark his first 10 days...
All bars and clubs in Dubai are to be shut this February following spike in coronavirus cases.
This comes after waves of influencers from different countries jetted out to the UAE to avoid pandemic restrictions and travel bans in their countries.
Last week, the UK Government added the UAE to a...
As part of measures to contain the second wave of the COVID19 pandemic in the state, the Lagos state government has banned indoor gatherings of more than 50 persons.
The state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, announced this during a press briefing on Sunday, January 31. He said places of worship are...
The UK is ready to welcome tens of thousands of migrants from Hong Kong, with the opening of a new visa for residents of the former British colony this Sunday, according to a report by the BBC.
The report comes after China imposed a national security law on Hong Kong...
The People's Republic of China has warned that attempts by Taiwan to seek independence "means war", days after China stepped up its military activities and flew warplanes near the island.
The warning by the communist country also comes after new US President Joe Biden reaffirmed his commitment to Taiwan.
China sees...
Streaming giant, Netflix has announced that the drama series 'Bridgerton' is its most watched series ever as 82 million households around the world tuned into the show in its first 28 days online, surpassing the company's own projections.
According to Netflix, the company measures a view as any piece of content watched...
Seattle Seahawks player Chad Wheeler was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence after beating his girlfriend till she bled.
Wheeler was arrested Saturday night, Jan 24, and charged with felony domestic violence, according to the Seattle Times.
He was released from King County Jail on Tuesday morning, Jan 26, on $400,000 bond.
King...
Barely 24 hours after Joe Biden's inauguration as US President, a Republican lawmaker, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed articles of impeachment against Joe Biden, alleging abuse of power by Biden from his time as vice president.
The newly sworn in Rep. from Georgia, who has supported QANON conspiracy theories...
Donald Trump has just departed the White House for the last time as US president before his successor President-elect Joe Biden will take the oath of office.Just after 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Trump was filmed with his wife Melania boarding a helicopter to a ceremonial send-off at Joint Base...
US Military troops were pictured on Tuesday morning, January 19 rehearsing in full gear ahead of Joe Biden's presidential inauguration on Wednesday.
The inauguration rehearsal comes after a false alarm briefly interrupted the rehearsal after a fire in a homeless encampment roughly a mile away sent a plume of smoke...
Russian opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, was arrested by police in Moscow on Sunday, January 17, moments after his return to the country five months after alleging the Russian government tried killing him by poisoning him with the lethal nerve agent Novichok.
Navalny was taken away by police officers without explanation,...
Federal prosecutors have said in a new court filing there is “strong evidence” that the pro-Trump rioters who invaded the U.S. Capitol last week intended “to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government,” including Vice President Mike Pence.
Prosecutors also noted in that filing that “news reports...
The Nigerian lady who went viral after kneeling down to accept her boyfriend's surprise proposal, has gotten married to him.
Adaeze Gift Okolie and her man, Chimezie Ettoh recently had their traditional wedding in her hometown.
Recall that late last year, the lady knelt down to accept her man's ring because she feels...
Manchester City and Argentiana striker, Sergio Aguero has expressed regret for splashing a mouthwatering £361,000 to purchase a Lamborghini Aventador back in 2014.
Aguero who earns as much as £250,000 per week says the car has used barely 745 miles in six years since he bought it and that all the...
Donald Trump supporters clashed with police as they attempted to gain access to the U.S. Capitol building where Congress are meeting to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s election win in the November election.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Freedom Plaza on Tuesday evening, January 4, a day before a congressional vote...
The 2021 Grammys, originally scheduled for January 31, has reportedly been postponed due to concerns over the spread of Covid-19.
The Recording Academy has yet to announce the new date, but sources speaking to Rolling Stone said that the organizers are aiming to hold the ceremony in March.
According to Rolling Stone,...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the United States, a court in London has ruled.
The judge on Monday`December 4, blocked the request because of concerns over Mr Assange's mental health and risk of suicide in the US.
The 49-year-old is accused by US authorities of conspiring to hack...
The Islamic Republic of Iran has restarted uranium enrichment toward a 20% target at its Fordow nuclear facility, a government spokesman said on Monday, January 4, according to the semi-official news agency Mehr and state news agency IRNA.
Taking Nuclear enrichment towards 20% makes it easier for Iran to develop...
An innocent driver who spent 28 years in jail after he was wrongly convicted of murder has been awarded $9.8million.
Chester Hollman III was 21 when he was charged in 1991 with killing a student in a botched robbery in Philadelphia, US.
He had no criminal record and worked as an...
A 35-year-old Nigerian man who has been living in the UK for the past 16 years is set to be deported after losing several appeal.
Barido Nwinaene arrived in Liverpool on a student visa and studied for a degree in business and marketing at Liverpool Hope University.
He went on to obtain...
The US Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, an ally of Trump during the president's tenure, has rejected attempts to give new $2000 to Americans despite President Donald Trump, congressional Democrats and some Republicans agreeing that the Coronavirus relief aid should be given.
The House of Representatives, held by the Democrats, voted...
At least 22 people have been killed and more than 50 wounded in an attack at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, Government officials say.
According to reports coming out from Yemen, there was at least one explosion shortly after a plane carrying the Yemen's newly formed...
A statue of a formerly enslaved man on his knees in front of President Abraham Lincoln in a Boston public park was dismantled this week after 141 years when it was erected.
The removal of the Emancipation Group statue in Park Square comes months after the Boston Art Commission voted...
A US judge has denied a $28.5m bail package to Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's alleged pedophile collaborator, saying the British socialite might flee.
The proposed bail package included $22.5m posted by Maxwell and her husband, as well as home confinement with electronic monitoring and 24-hour guard to ensure Maxwell remained...
