One potato, two potato, three potato four, five potato, six potato AND NO MORE could be the new mantra among BBC staff if newly imposed restrictions on side orders stick. According to Metro UK, in a half-baked idea the corporation’s canteen cut portions of the popular fried treat to just six chips. Servers began ‘counting […]

An uneasy calm settled over Hong Kong on Saturday as the city prepared to go to the polls for local elections seen as a referendum on months of anti-government protests, after weeks of especially violent clashes between police and demonstrators. On the grounds of the besieged Polytechnic University on the Kowloon peninsula, a dwindling number […]

An African migrant recently rescued from a crowded dinghy drifting in the Mediterranean said he would have rather died at sea than return to Libya, highlighting the desperation driving the current wave of immigration to Europe. Ibrahim Assoumanou Abdel Azize, originally from Togo, his Nigerian partner Fethia Owolabi and their five-year-old son Ibrahim were among […]

Pope Francis landed in the wind and rain in Tokyo on Saturday evening, issuing a call for an end to nuclear weapons is the only country to have suffered a nuclear bomb attack.

The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa announced the renaming of ten streets after himself. His decision seems to not have settled well with some citizens of the country. News media in the country reported that there was an uproar following the public announcement of decision after a cabinet meeting on Thursday. According to the report, […]

  A woman born with 12 fingers and 20 toes has described how neighbours ‘keep away’ from her because they think she’s a witch. Kumar Nayak, 63, has lived with the abnormality since birth and has never been able to afford treatment, Metro UK reports. She says others living in the same town of Ganjam, […]

A former CIA case officer was sentenced by a federal judge in Virginia on Friday to serve 19 years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to become a spy for China, federal prosecutors announced. Jerry Chuan Shing Lee, 55, left the CIA in 2007 and moved to Hong Kong. A few […]

U.S. President Donald Trump would like the U.S. Senate to hold an impeachment trial of him, and would like former Vice-President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden,  to testify as witnesses. Both father and son are in the centre of a scandal that provoked the impeachment inquiry, The White House made this known in […]

An avowed white supremacist being held without bond for plotting to bomb a Colorado synagogue this month has been indicted on additional charges of attempted arson and using explosives to commit a felony, federal prosecutors said on Friday. The two additional charges against Richard Holzer, 27, on top of an earlier count of attempting to […]

A senior Iranian cleric said on Friday during prayers in Tehran that some of the leaders of the recent protests over fuel price hikes deserved to be given a death sentence. The Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said that “some of the leaders of the unrest were anarchists that deserve a death sentence,’’ adding that […]

Norwegian researchers said on Friday that they had discovered a Viking-era ship at a burial site in western Norway, estimating it could be more than 1,000 years old. Ola Elvestuen, Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment, said in a statement that the ship was important for our common history saying “now we have to investigate […]

United States President, Donald Trump on Friday touted news reports that a former FBI lawyer is suspected of altering a document related to surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser in 2016. A report has confirmed earlier reports by CNN and The Washington Post that the finding is part of a Justice Department inspector general […]

Presidential palace spokesman Sediq Sediqi said on Friday that the U.S President Donald Trump has insisted on a ceasefire as a precondition to begin peace talks with Afghanistan. Sediqi made this known in his Twitter account saying that Trump made his intention in a telephone conversation with his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani. According to the […]

Japan seized the last event of its G20 presidency on Friday to reject a South Korean warning about radiation from the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant as a dispute between the neighbors threatened to overshadow the meetings. Foreign ministers from the Group of 20 (G20) nations gathered in the central Japanese city of Nagoya for two […]

A dedicated nurse took her own life after the stress of 12-hour hospital shifts left her unable to lead a life of her own, an inquest has heard. Leona Goddard, 35, wanted to settle down and have a family but felt she could not even have a social life because of her unpredictable work hours […]