Every so often a story surfaces online that sounds too strange to be true and turns out to be exactly what it claims. That’s the case with Miryam, a 67-year-old woman from the Brisas de Armenia neighborhood in Colombia’s Quindío region, who has built a small fortune doing something most people give away for free: … Read more
Months of disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have pushed Gulf governments into one of the biggest infrastructure spending pushes the region has seen in years, as energy exporters scramble to build routes around a waterway that suddenly cannot be trusted. The strait, a narrow passage between Iran and Oman, has historically carried around … Read more
A fresh wave of allegations over illegal kidney harvesting in Abuja has reignited one of Nigeria’s most persistent and disturbing public health controversies, after the lawyer representing activist Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan or VDM, claimed that doctors at a private hospital in the Federal Capital Territory unlawfully removed kidneys from more than … Read more
Germany’s gas storage operators have picked up the pace of injections in recent days, according to the country’s economy ministry, as easing liquefied natural gas prices and a cooling of demand from Asia give European buyers more breathing room ahead of winter. Speaking at a regular government press briefing in Berlin on Friday, an economy … Read more
The death toll from this week’s catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border has climbed to 547, Nepal Police confirmed Friday, as rescue teams raced against renewed flood warnings to reach survivors still trapped in some of the hardest-hit districts of the Himalayan nation. Nearly 1,000 people remain unaccounted for, among them hundreds of foreign … Read more
Norway’s Royal House confirmed on Friday that King Harald V, Europe’s oldest reigning monarch and a figure whose life traced an extraordinary arc from wartime exile to nearly thirty-five years on the throne, has died at the age of 89. The palace said the King passed away peacefully at Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet at 6:35 … Read more
Venezuela is closely examining plans to leave OPEC, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that would deliver a fresh blow to the oil cartel it helped found more than six decades ago and deepen mounting doubts about whether the organization can hold together at all in its current form. The idea of … Read more
Two of the internet’s biggest streaming platforms buckled under viewer traffic on Thursday, and by Friday morning, Wall Street had already read the message loud and clear. Take-Two Interactive shares climbed in premarket trading after an extended first look at Grand Theft Auto VI drew such overwhelming demand that both Netflix and Twitch reportedly struggled … Read more
World’s Youngest Reigning Monarch Dies in Uganda Aged 34 as King Oyo of Tooro Kingdom Passes Away King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, the Ugandan traditional ruler recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s youngest reigning monarch, has died at the age of 34, according to an announcement from the prime minister of … Read more
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has moved to quell rising anxiety among prospective university candidates across Nigeria, clarifying that O’Level results uploaded prior to the introduction of its new verification system remain fully valid and do not need to be resubmitted. The clarification came after a wave of confused enquiries and complaints from candidates … Read more