October 26, 2015

“The Martian” regained the top spot on the North American box office charts over the weekend, dethroning spooky children’s flick “Goosebumps,” industry figures showed Monday. The critically acclaimed blockbuster starring Matt Damon

Police arrested a 15-year-old boy over a cyber attack on telephone and internet provider TalkTalk, feared to have breached the data of millions of Britons, Scotland Yard said on Monday. The teenager

US President Barack Obama won Indonesia’s endorsement for a contentious trans-Pacific trade deal Monday, with the president of Southeast Asia’s largest economy vowing to join. During a meeting with Obama at the

Nigeria’s telecommunications regulator has fined South African mobile giant MTN $5.2 billion for missing a deadline to disconnect unregistered SIM cards, the company announced on Monday. The penalty saw shares in Africa’s

Part of the landing gear of a British Airways Boeing 737-400 with 100 people on board collapsed shortly after the jet touched down at Johannesburg on Monday after a local flight, the

Several towns in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were paralysed Monday by a stay-at-home protest to pressure the government to act following an attack by Rwandan rebels that left three seriously

The Director-General, National Sports Commission (NSC), Alhassan Yakmut, said on Monday that Team Nigeria’s preparation for the 2016 Olympics would begin on Nov. 21. Yakmut made this known while speaking with newsmen

Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun on Monday, administered the oath of office on the new Head of Service (HOS), Mr Abraham Adeyemi, at the state Secretariat at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. Adeyemi was appointed

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has directed Multichoice, the parent company of DSTV, not to air a programme titled: “I am Jazz” a mini-series about a transgender child. This is contained in

One person was killed and a dozen wounded on Monday at a bombing of a mosque in Saudi Arabia’s southern Najran region bordering Yemen, state television reported. “One person killed in Najran