Family razed their 400-year-old dream cottage to the ground just three days after moving in - when wood-burning stove set fire to its thatched roof

The Purdy family from Hertfordshire had barely settled into their 400-year-old £865,000 dream home when it burned to the ground in a blaze earlier this month after the thatched roof caught fire. The family had wanted to warm up the

Customs intercept 102 bags of plastic rice

The Federal Operations Unit, Ikeja, of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted 102 bags of plastic rice branded “Beat Tomato Rice’’ with no date of manufacture.

The Customs Area Controller of  F.O.U. Comptroller Mohammed Haruna, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lagos.

He said that the commodity was stored for distribution as

At Least 26 Anti-Government Protesters Have Been Killed in the Latest Congo Clash

Congo on Tuesday to demand that President Joseph Kabila step down after his mandate expired overnight.
Security forces shot dead at least 26 protesters who had gathered in the streets of Kinshasa and other cities of Democratic Republic of
Scattered protests started on Tuesday, and opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi called on the Congolese people to

I will not step down, Jammeh talk tough - Gambia

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh said he would not step down and condemned mediation by West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, that aims to get him to leave power after he lost a December 1 election to challenger Adama Barrow.

The comments on state television late on Tuesday were a hardening of the veteran president’s position after days in which hopes mounted he

Christmas: Police ban fireworks in Adamawa

The Police in Adamawa Police has renewed the ban on fireworks during the yuletide period across the state. The police issued the warning in a statement issued by the spokesman of the command, SP Othman Abubakar on Wednesday in Yola.

Abubakar advised parents and

58 People Have Died in Russia After Drinking Bath Lotion

Fifty-eight people in Russia have now died as a result of consuming a bath lotion containing toxic methanol, the BBC reported Tuesday citing local media — an increase on the earlier figure of 49 victims.
A further 37 people who became ill after drinking as little as one shot of the hawthorn-scented bath oil are still receiving treatment, with

BREAKING: 25 dead, 49 injured in explosion inside Coptic Cathedral in Cairo

At least 25 people died and 49 were injured in an explosion inside Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbasiya, according to state TV.
Army forces were deployed at the scene after the attack, security sources told Daily News Egypt on condition of anonymity, adding that casualties may increase.
Eyewitnesses said

Indonesia's anti-terrorism squad kills 3 suspects in firefight during raid on house south of Jakarta, police say.

Members of Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism squad killed three terror suspects in a firefight during a raid Wednesday on a house south of the capital Jakarta, police said.

Police spokesman Senior Commissioner Rikwanto said the suspects hurled explosives at agents from the country's anti-terrorism unit, Densus 88, during a raid on a rented home in Tangerang, Banten province. Three suspects were killed, while

Hillary Clinton faces more troubles as Court Unseals FBI Search Warrant of Hillary Clinton’s Email Server

The FBI told a federal court it needed a search warrant to look at thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails on the laptop of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner because they had the potential to cause “grave damage to national security” if disclosed, according to court documents made public Tuesday. The wording was contained in a redacted search warrant and

Police warned 'vigilance' is needed because a second attack could be imminent at Berlin

Naved Baluch, 23, inset, who arrived in Germany a year ago, was seized and blamed for Monday night's carnage after witnesses saw him commit a traffic offence a mile away. Detectives, who flew him out of Berlin and across the country to Karlsruhe to question him, took 18 hours to

Frank Lampard, former Chelsea and Man City player celebrate wedding anniversary

Today, Frank Lampard, former Chelsea and Man city Player celebrate his wedding anniversary with his wife via Instagram. He wrote and said;

The claim, carried on ISIS's Amaq news agency, described the man seen fleeing from the truck as "a soldier of the Islamic State."

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for a truck attack on a crowded Berlin Christmas market that German authorities said came right out of the extremist group’s playbook, inflicting mass casualties on a soft target fraught with symbolic meaning.
The Monday night attack on the popular market by the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the heart of former West Berlin left 12 dead and 48 injured — the first mass casualty attack by

The wife of Nigerian Vice President in a Christmas attire

The wife of Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, her excellency, Mrs. Oludolapo dazzle in a beautiful photo as

26 Dead as Explosion Rips Fireworks Market Outside Mexico City

The chief prosecutor of Mexico State says 26 people have been killed in an explosion that tore through a fireworks market near Mexico City.
Alejandro Gomez is raising the toll from Tuesday’s blast from the previous nine dead, in comments broadcast on local television. The explosion and fire raged through the open-air San Pablito Market in Tultepec, in the State of Mexico, in the afternoon as it was crowded with

What a Wedding Photo

The husband is the head of the family while the wife is the NECK of family. She only doing her job here, carrying

How Leaked Nude Photos Cost Kenyan Model Her Title

City model Ms Roshanara Ebrahim was dethroned from her Miss World Kenya position in July after her ex-boyfriend sent her nude photos to the pageant organisers, court documents have revealed.

In the ruling, published on KenyaLaw.org, the model's ex-boyfriend, Frank Zahlten, sent the photos to Ashleys Kenya chief executive officer Terry Mungai without the beauty queen’s knowledge.

For that, the court has ordered Mr Zahiten to pay the model Sh1 million for

Today there were terror attacks in Turkey, Switzerland and Germany - and it is only getting worse. The civilized world must change thinking

Man Poses As Lady On Instagram to Dupe 33 Men

A 22 year-old suspect arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command has said he duped over 33 men while pretending to be a lady on Instagram.

Israel Falope, a Year One part time student of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Ogba, Lagos, was arrested when officials of the RRS decoy team, who had been monitoring him for some weeks, trailed him to a

Nigerian Singer Wizkid Faces Arrest in Uganda

Kampala — Court has ordered the International Police to arrest Nigerian musician Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun commonly known as Wizkid to stand trial over alleged offences of fraud.

The alleged offences stem from his failure to appear in Kampala for a concert dubbed 'Wizkid Live in Concert' which was slated for December 3 this year.

Grade One Magistrate, Mr Baligeya Moses Mufumbiro, sitting at the Law Development Center issued the arrest warrant on Friday.

"You are directed to arrest the said Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun aka Wizkid and

'ISIS terrorist' who killed 12 after hijacking HGV, murdering driver and ploughing into Berlin Christmas market is 'a Pakistani asylum seeker, 23, who has only been in Germany for a few months'

A Pakistani asylum seeker believed to have used a hijacked 25-tonne Polish lorry to murder 12 people and injure 48 more at a Berlin Christmas market last night had only been in Germany for months and was already known to police because of petty crime. The masked 23-year-old named as Naved B (pictured left being taken into a police station last night), who entered the country under a false name, turned off the truck's lights before