U.S. Representative Jeff Van Drewof New Jersey is leaving the Democratic Party to become a Republican, President Donald Trump announced Thursday, confirming during a White House meeting with his new GOP ally a party switch that had been expected since last weekend. Trump introduced Van Drew in an Oval Office meeting that also included Vice […]

The British parliament will vote on Boris Johnson’s deal to leave the EU on Friday, a move the prime minister described as delivering on his promise to “get the Brexit vote wrapped up for Christmas” after his landslide election victory. After suffering several defeats in the previous parliament, Johnson now enjoys a large majority and […]

…teachers threaten to send her home Teachers have been accused of being all bah humbug after a girl was threatened with being sent home over her hair-do. Poppy Leigh, 13, wanted to be festive in her last week of school before Christmas so fashioned a Christmas tree out of her hair. But when she turned […]

A photographer, Maurice Irennadi is in court for allegedly publishing an obituary poster of his customer with the knowledge that the customer was alive, on Wednesday, December 18, appeared in an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State. Irennadi, whose residential address was not given, is standing trial on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy, fake publication […]

Clashes between Syria’s regime forces and armed groups in the country’s last major opposition bastion have killed more than 60 on both sides in the past 24 hours despite UN calls for de-escalation, a war monitoring group said Friday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 38 jihadists and allied rebels had been killed […]