Social media platforms will be hit by fines of up to $22.5 million unless they take action to ensure their algorithms do not direct children towards harmful content, the UK…

Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on Wednesday said it was withdrawing Covid vaccine Vaxzevria, one of the first produced in the deadly pandemic, citing “commercial reasons” following a slump in demand. “As…

As the world commemorates International Red Cross and Red Crescent Day (RCRC) today, natural and man-made disasters are ravaging the world. NGOZI EGENUKA reports that humanitarian services, which the Red…

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money trial has fined him 1,000 dollars (nearly £800) for violating his gag order – and sternly warned the former president that additional…

By Oluyemi Ogunseyin 07 May 2024   |   4:29 pm A Nigerian, Oluwami, “Wami,” Dosunmu-Ogunbi has made history as the first Black woman to earn a PhD degree in…

Russian President Vladimir Putin was sworn in for his fifth term in Moscow on Tuesday, two months after being re-elected in a vote that was widely seen as neither free…

An attack at a hospital in southwest China left more than 10 people dead or wounded on Tuesday, according to state media, which did not specify the nature of the…

By AFP 07 May 2024   |   7:50 am Thai police have arrested an American who fled a 25-year jail sentence in the United States for kidnapping, sex trafficking…

Haniyeh had spoken on the phone with Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and with Egyptian Intelligence Minister Abbas Kamel, “and informed them of Hamas’s approval of…

Putin has upped his nuclear rhetoric since the Ukraine conflict began, warning in his address to the nation in February there was a “real” risk of nuclear war. “During the…