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14-year-old school girl banned from class, ‘too big’ for uniform

A schoolgirl who is ‘too big’ for her school uniform according to her school management has been forced to sit in isolation or stay at home because her skirt doesn’t match uniform requirements. MailOnline relates Kada Jones, 14, school resumption story. She returned to school after the summer holidays to begin her first term in […]

Toilet made entirely of gold stolen from palace

A toilet made entirely of 18-carat-gold has been stolen from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, the stately home where former British prime minister Winston Churchill was born. The fully functioning toilet was installed as part of an exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan titled “Victory is Not an Option,” which only opened to the public […]

South Africa’s deputy mines minister dies in car accident

…was appointed in May South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Bavelile Hlongwa has died in a car accident, the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed on Saturday. Hlongwa, 38, who was appointed in May, died on Friday in an accident that also claimed the lives of four other people, the presidency said, according […]

Tunisian court dismisses appeal to release presidential candidate

A Tunisian appeals court on Friday rejected a request by presidential candidate Nabil Karoui to be released from detention pending the verdict in his trial for tax fraud and money laundering, his lawyer said. “He will remain in prison,” the media mogul’s lawyer Kamel Ben Massoud told Reuters. Karoui denies wrongdoing and says the case […]

Mexico’s paedophile priest bags 30 years in prison

A former Roman Catholic priest who fled to Morocco before he was returned to the United States and convicted of sexually abusing an altar boy in New Mexico in the 1990s was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in prison, prosecutors said. US District Judge Martha Vazquez imposed the sentence in Albuquerque federal court on […]

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