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Saturday, 21 July 2018 04:32

Boat accident kills 17, including nine from one family

Divers on Friday recovered the last bodies from the wreckage of a "duck boat" that sank on Thursday during a storm on a Missouri lake, killing 17 people, including nine members of the same family. The World War Two-style amphibious vehicle was carrying 31 passengers including children when a storm hit Table Rock Lake outside Branson, raising waves that caused it to capsize in one of the deadliest U.S. tourist tragedies in years. More than three dozen people have died in incidents involving duck boats on land and water in the United States over the past two decades. Tia Coleman…

Tuesday, 17 July 2018 05:08

World's oldest bread found at prehistoric site in Jordan

Charred remains of a flatbread baked about 14,500 years ago in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan have given researchers a delectable surprise: people began making bread, a vital staple food, millennia before they developed agriculture. No matter how you slice it, the discovery detailed on Monday shows that hunter-gatherers in the Eastern Mediterranean achieved the cultural milestone of bread-making far earlier than previously known, more than 4,000 years before plant cultivation took root. The flatbread, likely unleavened and somewhat resembling pita bread, was fashioned from wild cereals such as barley, einkorn or oats, as well as…

Wednesday, 04 July 2018 03:46

Fire razes Imo residence, spares only Bible

Fire has burnt down a three-bedroomed bungalow at Ezioha Okporo in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State, leaving only a Holy Bible in its parlour unaffected. Although there was no casualty, many found it curious that the Bible was not burnt. It was, however, gathered that the landlord’s original company certificates, vehicles documents, his educational certificates, those belonging to his wife, and household items were all razed to ashes by the inferno. Some of the wife’s burnt certificates mentioned were First School Leaving Certificate, Senior Secondary School Certificate, National Examination Council Certificate, National Certificate of Education and Bachelors degree…

Sunday, 01 July 2018 04:32

The Imam who saved Christians from Muslim gunmen

When an imam in Nigeria saw hundreds of desperate, frightened families running into his village last Saturday, he decided to risk his life to save theirs. They were fleeing from a neighbouring village - a mainly Christian community. They say they came under attack at about 15:00 (14:00 GMT) from about 300 well-armed men - suspected cattle herders, who are mostly Muslims - who started shooting sporadically and burning down their homes.Some of those who managed to escape ran towards the mainly Muslim neighbourhood nearby where the imam lived, arriving over the next hour. The cleric immediately came to their…

Thursday, 28 June 2018 04:59

Russia 2018: Doctor dies watching Nigeria lose to Argentina

Mr Emeka Ogah, Chief Medical Director (CMD), Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (FETHA), has confirmed the death of one its consultants, Mr Canice Ebirim, on Tuesday during the Super Eagles and Argentina match. Ogah said Wednesday that reports reaching him suggested that Ebirim died within the period of the match. The CMD said that he received the news of his death at about 9 p.m. while the match was ongoing. Ogah said that a friend of the deceased informed him that Ebirim started behaving funny within that period. “Ebirim’s friend said that the deceased started moving suspiciously and solicited for assistance…

Tuesday, 26 June 2018 04:24

Woman drinks dog’s urine, claims it helps her acne

A woman claims that she has a new remedy to counteract acne: dog urine! In a shocking viral video, a woman has her dog pee into a cup and then she drinks the urine from the cup. **Warning: Video may be disturbing to some.** “Until I first drank my dog’s pee, I was depressed, I was sad, and I had really bad acne. Dog pee also has vitamin A in it, vitamin E in it, and it has 10 grams of calcium, and it’s also proven to help cure cancer,” says the woman in the video. Certified holistic nutritionist Joy…

Monday, 25 June 2018 04:26

Rats eat $19,000 in ATM

Police say at least one rat slipped through a hole in the back of an ATM in northeastern India and started eating. By the time it finished, more than US$19,000 in bills were shredded. The police superintendent in the town of Tinsukia, Mugdha Jyoti Mahanta, says that when technicians arrived June 11 to fix a broken State Bank of India cash machine they found a dead rat inside it and Indian currency notes worth nearly 1.3 million rupees, or a little over $19,000, chewed to shreds. The rat had entered the ATM through a small hole for cables. A bank…

Sunday, 24 June 2018 03:59

Tech boss killed ‘when his mobile phone explodes while charging next to his bed’

Nazrin Hassan died last week when one of his smartphones exploded Police say Mr Hassan's death was caused as a result of smoke inhalation But his brother-in-law claims he died due to exploding shrapnel from a phone British educated CEO of a venture capital firm was killed last week when his mobile phone exploded while charging next to his bed. Nazrin Hassan, chief of Malasia-based Cradle Fund was charging his BlackBerry and Huawei smartphones in his bedroom, according to reports online. It is believed his mattress caught fire after one of his smartphones exploded. Cradle Fund said in a statement…

Sunday, 17 June 2018 05:02

7-meter-long python swallows woman

A 7-meter-long (23-foot-long) python has swallowed a woman in central Indonesia, a village official said Saturday. The victim, 54-year-old Wa Tiba, went missing while checking her vegetable garden near her village on Muna island in Southeast Sulawesi province on Thursday evening, according to the village chief, Faris. On Friday, her family went to look for her at the garden but found only her belongings, including sandals and a flashlight, said Faris, who uses a single name. The family and villagers launched a search for the woman, and found the snake with a bloated belly about 50 meters (yards) from where…

Saturday, 16 June 2018 04:41

No live chickens at the World Cup for Nigeria fans

Chicken on plates, no problem. In the stadiums, not so much. A Russian official in the city of Kaliningrad says authorities forbade World Cup fans from bringing live chickens to matches. Some fans dye chickens in the national colors as a good luck symbol, including those from Nigeria, who play Argentina on Saturday in Kaliningrad. Russia's Interfax news agency quotes regional culture and tourism minister Andrei Yermak as saying "fans from Nigeria asked whether they could bring a chicken to the stadium. It's their symbol and people support the team with them at all the games. We told them they…

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Friday, 15 June 2018 04:38

How algorithms and cats predict the winners of the World Cup

World Cup match-day nerves can improve your decision-making: algorithms used in the stock market could divine the victors of football's biggest competitionWith a half-hearted mew, a white cat called Achilles hovers lazily between two bowls of food adorned with the national flags of Russia and Saudi Arabia. The preferences of this rather ordinary-looking feline, which lives in the basement of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, have come under surprising scrutiny in recent weeks. The reason for the attention? He is the official animal oracle for the 2018 Fifa World Cup. The clairvoyant cat signals who will win…

Sunday, 10 June 2018 05:01

Sculpted head of mystery biblical king found in Israel

An enigmatic sculpture of a king's head dating back nearly 3,000 years has set off a modern-day mystery caper as scholars try to figure out whose face it depicts. The 5-centimeter (2-inch) sculpture is an exceedingly rare example of figurative art from the Holy Land during the 9th century B.C. — a period associated with biblical kings. Exquisitely preserved but for a bit of missing beard, nothing quite like it has been found before. While scholars are certain the stern bearded figure wearing a golden crown represents royalty, they are less sure which king it symbolizes, or which kingdom he…

Friday, 08 June 2018 04:01

Family of five, friend die after moving to own house

A family of five died under mysterious circumstances on Wednesday night at Old Aiyepe road in Sagamu area of Ogun State. The family includes father, mother, three children and a family friend. It was learnt that the family had just moved from their rented apartment into their own property but died the very first night in the house. The house was suspected to have been fumigated with “killer chemical’’. One of the sympthasisers, who accompanied the corpses to Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu said the man of the house, a borehole driller, had just spent a night in…

Friday, 01 June 2018 03:58

Uganda imposes WhatsApp and Facebook tax 'to stop gossip'

Uganda's parliament has passed a law to impose a controversial tax on people using social media platforms. It imposes a 200 shilling [$0.05, £0.04] daily levy on people using internet messaging platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber and Twitter. President Yoweri Museveni had pushed for the changes, arguing that social media encouraged gossip. The law should come into effect on 1 July but there remain doubts about how it will be implemented. The new Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill will also impose various other taxes, including a 1% levy on the total value of mobile money transactions - which civil society groups…

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