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...
The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Justice has banned the marriage of persons under 18 years. It also set 18 years as the minimum age for marriage.
The Minister of Justice and Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council, Sheikh Walid Al-Samaani, issued the new directive in a circular sent to all...
A Chinese court has sentenced a journalist who reported from Wuhan, the city in which the Covid-19 pandemic started, to four years in jail on charges of "picking fights and provoking trouble," one of her lawyers said.
The Pudong New Area People's Court in the financial hub of Shanghai sentenced...
Lin Qi, chairman and CEO of the Chinese entertainment company Yoozoo Group and a producer on Netflix's upcoming series The Three-Body Problem, has died after he was allegedly poisoned by a co-worker amid fights among his company's executives'
His company, Yoozoo Group confirmed that Lin died on Christmas Day after having...
A Pakistani court has ordered the release of the British-born militant, Omar Sheikh who was accused of killing an American journalist, Daniel Pearl in 2002.
Omar Sheikh was acquitted of Daniel Pearl's murder earlier this year but had remained in jail after an appeal against that decision began.
The Sindh High...
Hundreds of immigrants in France who are working on the coronavirus frontline have had their citizenship applications fastracked with 74 people already granted permanent stay.
Back in September, the interior ministry invited people who "actively contributed” to the fight against the novel coronavirus, such as healthcare professionals, cleaners, childcare, and shop...
The Catholic Church announced on Monday, Dec 21, that the use of Covid-19 vaccines is "morally acceptable".
The Covid-19 vaccines are developed using cell lines derived from aborted foetuses.
But the Vatican said that in the absence of any alternative, such vaccines "can be used in good conscience."
It added that this...
A German court has jailed a far-right gunman for life for his deadly attack on a synagogue in the eastern city of Halle last year, 2019.
Stephan Balliet, 28, shot and killed a female passer-by and a man at a kebab shop after failing to break into the synagogue which...
The highest-paid YouTube stars of 2020 have been revealed, and a 9-year-old boy holds the title of highest-paid YouTuber for the third year running.
Child influencer, Ryan Kaji, from Texas racked in nearly $30m in a year from “unboxing” and reviewing toys and games on YouTube, nabbing 12.2 billion views.
According...
Instagram model, Joselyn Cano, has reportedly died at the age of 29 after a botched butt-lift surgery in Colombia.
The news of her death was announced by fellow model and Influencer Lira Mercer on Twitter yesterday. She wrote: 'Omg Joselyn Cano died in Colombia getting surgery. That’s wild.'
The model, dubbed...
A Paris court has found 14 people guilty of involvement in the three days deadly militant Islamist attacks infamously known as the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January 2015 that involved attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine, a policewoman and a Jewish supermarket that killed 17 people.
On 7 January 2015 at...
A suicide bomber 'screaming Allahu Akbar' blew himself up and injured six people in an attack on Federal Security Service headquarters in southern Russia on Friday, December 11.
The country's National Anti-Terrorism Committee said an unidentified person tried to break into an area where police were conducting searches.
The person then...
France and Barcelona forward, Antoine Griezmann on Thursday, December 10, ended his business affiliation and endorsements with Mobile Phone giants, Huawei, saying there are “strong suspicions” that the Chinese owned company has contributed to the repression of the mostly Muslim minority Uighurs.
It comes after a report in the Washington...
The International Criminal Police Organization has announced that it has arrested a total of over 20,000 people in an Interpol-coordinated blow against online and telephone fraudsters since September 2019.
The international organization said 35 countries participated in the operation dubbed “First Light" and this led to 21,549 arrests in more than 10,000 raids, as...
Chinese authorities have made an astonishing claim that coronavirus may have arrived via imported frozen food from countries including Australia.
An article in the Global Times over the weekend argued that Western countries had attempted to “shift the narrative from their own shortcomings” by accusing Wuhan of being “where the coronavirus began”.
“As the mounting...
The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on Wednesday November 2, voted to remove cannabis from the list of the world's most dangerous drugs.
The Vienna-based UN agency said in a statement that out of its 53 member states, 27 voted in support and 25 against the reclassification of the...
Iran has announced it will not accept preconditions from a new Joe Biden administration over its nuclear programme unless the US returns to it's 2015 deal signed by the Obama administration but discarded by Trump in 2018.
After Trump scrapped the deal, he then reimposed strict economic sanctions against Iran,...
As the world continues to await a cure for the novel Coronavirus, the International Criminal Police Organisation INTERPOL has alleged that some criminal minds have concluded plans to sell fake COVID19 vaccines to Nigeria and other countries in search for the treatment of the viral disease.
The need for a COVID19 vaccine has...
Hong Kong media tycoon, Jimmy Lai, was remanded into custody on Thursday December 3, after being charged with fraud over a charge relating to the illegal use of his company's premises.
Lai is the owner of Hong Kong tabloid and founder of Next Digital Media which publishes Apple Daily, a...
Diego Maradona’s surgeon responded to the launch of an investigation for involuntary manslaughter by saying he did “everything he could, up to the impossible” for an “unmanageable” patient.
Earlier in the day prosecutors in San Isidro, near Buenos Aires, said they were investigating Leopoldo Luque while Argentine television showed police...
The Iranian chief nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, assassinated last week Friday, November 27, 2020, in Tehran, was shot by a remote-controlled machine gun operating out of another car, Iran's Fars News Agency has stated.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, dubbed by Israel as the father of Iran’s nuclear program, died on Friday after...
The U.K. government said Friday, Nov 27, that it plans to create a Digital Markets Unit (DMU) to enforce "a new code to govern the behavior of platforms that currently dominate the market, such as Google and Facebook."
The aim is to protect smaller competitors and give consumers more control over personal data.
Under the new code, some...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has formally received the repatriated Ife Terracotta from Foreign Affairs minister, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, in the company of the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Nigeria, Mr. Harry van Dijk.
While receiving the artifact in his office in Abuja...
A new report released by the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) has ranked Nigeria, for the sixth consecutive year, as the third most terrorized country in the world.
The report which was released on Wednesday, November 25, ranked Afghanistan as the number one most terrorized country in the world, followed by Iraq. Syria,...
The 2020 American Music Awards aired on Sunday night from Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater with Hollywood actress Taraji P. Henson as the host.
The event kicked off with Covid-19 protocols in place and had multiple live performances, as well as in-person presenters, and even a small audience.
Justin Bieber and Shawn Mendes...
President Emmanuel Macron of France has issued a 15-day ultimatum Muslim leaders in the country.
Macron gave French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) a 15-day ultimatum to accept "charter of republican values" which is part of a broad clampdown on radical Islam. He said the charter should include an affirmation of French...
Vince Reffet, the Jetwing pioneer famous for flying above city skyscrapers with jet engines strapped to his back has died in a training accident in Dubai.
The French stuntman, 36, was killed in the deserts of the Arabian sheikhdom, Jetman Dubai said in a statement, adding the company is "working...
Israel has demanded that CNN and it's International anchor, Christiane Amanpour apologize after she compared US President Trump’s four years in the White House to Kristallnacht - the deadly night at the start of the Holocaust .
During Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and...
The US President made the admission in a tweet along with more unfounded claims the vote was unfairly and deliberately stacked against him.
Donald Trump wrote of his soon-to-be successor: “He won because the election was rigged.
“NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a radical left privately owned...
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night, November 11, alleged that voter fraud had occurred in the 2020 presidential election after Donald Trump made similar claims without providing strong evidence to back up the allegations.
Carlson, 51, showed his prime-time audience names and pictures of 25 deceased people he...
Kim Jong Un has threatened North Koreans with punishment if they are caught wasting food as the country struggles to feed its population amid famine.
An official from the country’s North Hamgyong province told Radio Free Asia on condition of anonymity while speaking about the country's crisis.
The official said: “At the...
As threats of legal challenges from Donald Trump mount against Joe Biden's campaign due to the US president's perceived allegations of 'electoral fraud' in states like Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan, the German governmen has urged the US leader to refrain from pouring oil on the fire of an already...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) says it has opened a preliminary inquiry into the "crimes" committed during the widespread #EndSARS protest in the country.
Recall that an ICC prosecutor had earlier said the international agency had received information on alleged crimes committed during the protest against police harassment and brutality.
BBC has...
The Grammys have announced its decision to change the name of their World Music Album category to Global Music Album to avoid “connotations of colonialism”.
The world music album category was first introduced in 1991 to highlight "international non-Western classical music, international non-American and non-British traditional folk music, international cross-cultural...
A huge manhunt was under way Tuesday after gunmen opened fire at multiple locations across central Vienna, killing at least three people and wounding several more in what Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz describes as a "repulsive terror attack".
One of the gunmen was shot dead by police who said they...
Two women have made history in Taiwan as they have become the first military officers to marry their same-sex civilian partners at a mass military wedding which held over the weekend.
Taiwan's Defence Ministry called it an "open and progressive" move and gave its blessings to all 188 couples married...
A three-year-old girl has been rescued alive from a collapsed apartment building in Izmir, Turkey, following Friday's devastating earthquake, according to reports by Turkish media on Tuesday morning, November 2.
Dozens of people died and hundreds more were injured after the earthquake, measured as magnitude-7.0 by the US Geological Survey,...
A couple have become the first in the world to get married over Zoom from different countries after they were separated for 10 months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Scott Marmon, 32, from New York, and Augustina Montefiori, 28, from Argentina, have been together since meeting in Denver in May 2017,...
The Canadian Government has announced plans to bring in more than 1.2 million immigrants over the next three years in an effort to use immigration to boost the country's economic recovery from the impacts of COVID-19.
The announcement was made on Friday, October 30, by Immigration Minister, Marco Mendicino in...
