On Friday August 11, hundreds of marchers descended on the University of Virginia carrying torches and yelling slogans “white lives matter” and “blood and soil”. Protests turned violent in Charlottesville on Saturday, as white supremacists clashed with counterdemonstrators and a car ploughed into a crowd of anti-racist and anti-fascist demonstrators. What happened and when? A “Unite the…
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Microsoft co-founder and American business magnate Bill Gates has just joined Instagram. He took to his new page @thisisbillgates to share a few photos of himself in Tanzania captioning them: ” Hello from Tanzania, Instagram! I just had a great lunch with some amazing kids at Kicheba Primary School in Muheza and met Upendo Mwingira, a remarkable…
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Britain’s Mo Farah missed out on a fifth major championships distance double in a row as he finished second in the 5,000m at the World Athletics Championships in London. The 34-year-old won 10,000m gold eight days ago but couldn’t perform the same feat against Ethiopia’s Muktar Edris, who won tonight in a time of 13 minutes 32.79 seconds to claim his first…
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Great Britain’s men made history by winning the 4x100m relay gold at the World Championships for the first time ever as Usain Bolt pulled up injured in his final ever race. The quartet of 23-year-old CJ Ujah, born into a Nigerian family, alongside Adam Gemili, Danny Talbot and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake ran a near-perfect race to hold off the US team who were favourites. The Japanese team…
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North Korea said on Saturday that nearly 3.5 million workers, party members and soldiers volunteered to join or rejoin its army to fight against the U.S. in the current geopolitical tension between Pyongyang and Washington. Rodong Sinmun, North Korea’s official newspaper, said the volunteers had offered to join or rejoin the People’s Army after the…
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Five transgender women in the US military are suing President Donald Trump and the Pentagon over Trump’s recent announcement to enforce a ban on transgender people serving in uniform. In the lawsuit filed in a Federal Court on Wednesday, the five plaintiffs from the Air Force, Coast Guard and the Army said they faced uncertainty about…
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Hours after Donald Trump threatened “fire and fury’’, North Korea warned it is considering a missile strike on the US Pacific territory of Guam. U.S Donald Trump had warned the regime that any threat to the United States would be met with “fire and fury”. The threat, carried by the state-run KCNA news agency, marked…
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U.S. President Donald Trump, on Wednesday announced an initiative to reduce the number of legal immigrants allowed into United States each year and to prioritise highly skilled workers. “The so-called RAISE Act being introduced by a pair of Republican senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue would mark the most significant reform to our immigration system in half a century,’’ Trump…
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Superstar Rihanna is using her arsenal to accomplish great things including helping Malawian school girls get to school with easy transportation. According to Billboard, the pop superstar’s Clara Lionel Foundation has teamed up with bike-sharing service Ofo to fund scholarships for girls in Malawi through the foundation’s Global Scholarship Program. Along with the scholarship, Ofo will also donate bikes to students who have…
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China loves peace but will never compromise on defending its sovereignty, President Xi Jinping, said on Tuesday while marking 90 years since the founding of the People’s Liberation Army. China has rattled nerves around Asia and globally with its increasingly assertive stance in territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas and an ambitious…
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