Australia said, on Monday, that it would donate 10 million Australian Dollars(equivalent to U.S. $7.1 million) to fund relief efforts in Fiji, where more than 60,000 people are sheltering in evacuation centres more than a week after the Pacific island nation was hit by its worst cyclone. Tropical Cyclone Winston, the worst ever recorded in… Read More Cyclone-hit Fiji Island gets relief aid from Australia
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Doha, Qatar, told member states of Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, and non-OPEC members that the continued crashing of oil prices was no longer acceptable. President Buhari, as a matter of of urgency, called on all other stakeholders in the sector, especially the oil producing nations to articulate ways… Read More The oil price crash is unacceptable- President Buhari tells OPEC
A pastor was shot dead by his brother at an Ohio church on Sunday, police said. Daniel Schooler, 68, is accused of gunning down Pastor William Schooler, 70, inside the office of St. Peters Missionary Baptist Church in Dayton, Ohio. The pastor “was the intended and only target” in the shooting, Dayton Police Homicide Division… Read More Man shoots pastor to death in church
The 88th Annual Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 28, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Mad Max won the most awards winning the Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing, Best Production Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling awards. And Leonardo di Caprio finally won an Oscar… Read More Full list of Oscars Awards 2016 winners
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A Virginia police officer was killed while responding to a domestic-related shooting a day after she was sworn in, authorities said. Prince William County police officer Ashley Guindon was killed on Saturday night in Lake Ridge. She was sworn in Friday. Two other officers were injured in the shooting, authorities said. One was in critical… Read More Virginia police officer killed on her first day at work
Violence broke out on Saturday when Ku Klux Klan demonstrators and counter-protesters fought in Anaheim, California, leaving five people injured and thirteen people arrested, authorities said. Anaheim police spokesman Sgt. Daron Wyatt said the KKK planned a walking protest at Pearson Park. However, the counter-protesters arrived beforehand and attacked when the KKK got out of… Read More Several arrested as KKK protesters, counter-protesters clash in California
A 35-year-old Indian man allegedly killed 14 family members, including eight children, with a knife before taking his own life on Sunday, a police spokesman said. Husnain Anwar Warekar put sedatives in his relatives’ food before slashing their throats with a knife, according to Gajanan Kabdule, a police spokesman in the western Indian city of… Read More Man kills 14 of his family members in India
