International

Google has barred the world’s second biggest smartphone maker, Huawei, from some updates to the Android operating system, dealing a blow to the Chinese company. New designs of Huawei smartphones are set to lose access to some Google apps. The move comes after the Trump administration added Huawei to a …

Talks between Labour and the government aimed at breaking the Brexit impasse have ended without an agreement. Jeremy Corbyn said the discussions had “gone as far as they can”, blaming what he called the government’s “increasing weakness and instability”. Theresa May said the lack of a “common position” over a …

President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency to protect US computer networks from “foreign adversaries”. He signed an executive order which effectively bars US companies from using foreign telecoms believed to pose national security risks. The order does not name any company, but is believed to target Huawei. The …

A security analyst Emmanuel Kutin, has advised churches to take their security into their own hands instead of relying on state security apparatus. Speaking in an interview on TV3 Midday Live following the terrorist attack in neighbouring Burkina Faso, Mr. Kutin who is the Executive Director of African Centre for …

Parents in Zimbabwe who cannot afford school fees can offer livestock such as goats or sheep as payment, a government minister has said. The country’s education minister Lazarus Dokora told the pro-government Sunday Mail newspaper that schools will have to show flexibility when it comes to demanding tuition fees from parents, and …

An Indian voter says he chopped off his index finger after realising he had voted for the “wrong” political party. Pawan Kumar says he accidentally ended up voting for the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in a video that has gone viral. He wanted to vote for a regional party …

Jaime Lannister may finally have to answer for his crimes. HBO released new photos from the second episode of the final season of “Game of Thrones” on Wednesday, and it doesn’t look good for the “Kingslayer.” In the season premiere Sunday, we last saw Jaime arriving in Winterfell and terrifyingly locking eyes with Bran Stark. …

A US woman who died at 99 of natural causes unknowingly lived with her organs on the wrong side of her body due to a rare congenital condition. Rose Marie Bentley, a pet feed store owner who passed away in October 2017, donated her body to research at a university …

Notre Dame, a survivor of wars and revolutions, has stood for centuries as not merely the greatest of the Gothic cathedrals and a towering jewel of Western architecture. It has stood, in the words of one shell-shocked art expert, as “one of the great monuments to the best of civilization.” …

The former Nottingham Forest player is seen having a good time. In the video, Agogo is seen dancing his heart out with a piece of cigarette in his left hand. Pulse Sports reported earlier that Agogo is struggling to write with his right hand after suffering the stroke in 2015. …