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Former US First Lady Barbara Bush has passed on. Barbara, wife of 41st President George H.W. Bush and mother to George W. Bush, the 43rd US President, passed away on Tuesday at her home in Houston, Texas at the age of 92. "A former first lady of the United States of America and relentless proponent…

A US senator has come under criticism for his ‘Swahili’ reference at a Tuesday Senate hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, was questioning Zuckerberg on Facebook’s user agreement, which he said is too complicated and meant to legally protect…

Park Geun-hye, the former South Korean President who is alleged to have purchased packs of Viagra during her State visit to Kenya in 2016 was on Friday handed a 24-year prison term after being convicted for corruption. During her trip to Kenya in 2016, Park is said to have bought 360 erectile…

Senteni Masango, the eighth wife of King Mswati III of Swaziland committed suicide on Friday following what is reported to be a drug overdose. The queen's lifeless body was found  in the early hours of Friday morning, media outlets in the South African nation reported.  Mpumalanga, a…

Ugandan citizens will now be taxed to use social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and Skype in President Yoweri Museveni's latest bid to stop what he termed as lugambo (gossip). Internet users, human rights defenders and opposition leaders have opposed the new tax proposals…

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of the late South Africa iconic President Nelson Mandela has passed away, aged 81. The anti-apartheid stalwart's personal assistant, Zodwa Zwane confirmed her demise in a statement on Monday. Her family said that she died peacefully after a "long illness for…

Pope Francis didn't say that "there is no hell" as reported by a renowned Italian journalist, the Vatican has clarified. An article that was published on La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper on Thursday claimed that the Pontiff told Eugenio Scalfari, 93, a well-known  journalist, that "there is…

Medics in the United Kingdom say that a man contracted what they described as the world's "worst-ever" case of super-gonorrhoea. He reportedly had a regular partner in the UK, but caught the disease after an intercourse with a woman in South East Asia. Public Health England said it is the first…

Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim has stepped down following a scandal, where she used a credit card issued to her by a non-governmental organisation to buy luxury personal items, including clothes and jewelry. Her attorney, Yousouf Mohamed told reporters that she submitted her resignation in…

(AP) Donald Trump Jr. and his wife, Vanessa Trump, may be getting divorced. A public court record filed Thursday in New York says Vanessa Trump is seeking an uncontested divorce from the president's son. Details of the divorce complaint haven't been made public. The couple married in 2005 and have…