A Southwest Airline flying to Dallas, Texas, from Seattle had to turn around after crew realized someone had forgotten to unload a human heart. The captain said the heart should have been left in Seattle and taken to a hospital, according to Yahoo News UK. The life-critical cargo shipment was reportedly unloaded after the aircraft […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says the country’s broadband penetration stood at 30.9 per cent as at November 2018, surpassing the 30 per cent target by the National Broad Band Plan. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, said this while speaking with journalists on Thursday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports […]
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Michael Cohen, the 52 year-old New York lawyer who once vowed he could take a bullet for US President Donald Trump, unleashed a blistering attack on his once-upon-idol, regretting the association. Cohen, who was jailed three years for multiple crimes including hush money payments implicating the US president, addressed the court before the sentencing. Pleading […]
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British Prime Minister Theresa May will retain her job at least till next year, after she won a confidence vote triggered by 48 Conservative rebel MPs, who hate the Brexit deal she worked out with EU in November. However, May won 200-117. After two hours of voting in Committee Room 14 in the House of […]
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A gunman opened fire inside the Catholic cathedral in the Brazilian city of Campinas on Tuesday and fatally shot four people praying in the pews before killing himself after police wounded him, authorities said. Police identified the shooter as Euler Fernando Gandolfo, 49, a systems analyst with no criminal record. Gandolfo entered the cathedral and […]
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British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday said she would delay a crucial vote on her Brexit deal scheduled for Tuesday, saying she had listened to the concerns of critics. May said she would seek “assurances” from other European leaders ahead of an EU summit later this week in a bid to try to win […]
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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State on Monday urged newly-inaugurated Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to focus on issues-based campaign ahead of the 2019 general elections. The governor gave the charge while addressing the council after its inauguration by the party’s chairman in the state, Kingsley Esiso, in Asaba, […]
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Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will address a group of notable German business leaders in Berlin, Germany, on Monday, the Presidency said in a statement on Sunday. In a statement in Abuja, Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice-President, said that Osinbajo would speak on the […]
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American researchers have transformed toxin in wasps into potential antibiotic drugs that may eliminate hard-to-cure bacterial infections. In a study published in this week’s Nature Communications Biology, the researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology created peptides that are potent against bacteria but nontoxic to human cells. They are variants from a peptide toxin normally found […]
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Twelve people — including six hostages — were killed in northeast Brazil on Friday after police foiled a gang of armed robbers staging simultaneous predawn assaults on two banks in the town of Milagres, officials said. Five of the dead hostages were members of the same family and included two children, the local mayor, Lielson […]
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