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Forbes released the annual World’s Billionaires list on Wednesday and beauty mogul Kylie remains the planet’s youngest self-made billionaire at aged 22. In 2019, the star unseated Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, 35, as the youngest-ever self-made billionaire – he was 23 ...

Ronaldinho has been released from prison in Paraguay and placed under house arrest following his fake passport scandal. The Brazil legend, 40, was thrown behind bars for allegedly trying to enter the South American nation with forged documentation. But he ...

President Trump went after the World Health Organization in a tweet Tuesday, calling it too ‘China centric’ and threatening to trim U.S. funding from the body. ‘The W.H.O. really blew it,’ Trump wrote. ‘For some reason, funded largely by the ...

The US recorded the most coronavirus deaths in a single day with more than 1,800 fatalities reported on Tuesday. It brings the total number of deaths in the country to nearly 13,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The ...

Boris Johnson has spent a second night in intensive care as he continues to receive treatment for coronavirus. Mr Johnson is being kept in St Thomas’ Hospital in London “for close monitoring”, Downing Street said. The PM is “comfortable, he’s ...

Grammy-winning country folk singer John Prine has died at the age of 73 from coronavirus. The singer, who was one of the most influential songwriters of his generation, died on Tuesday after a short battle with the virus. Prine was ...

A yet-to-be identified man reportedly slumped and died at the popular Igbudu Market in the Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State on Tuesday. It was learnt that the man had gone to the market to buy foodstuffs when ...

The mum of a teen thought to have taken his own life during the lockdown in the UK has urged families to tell their kids “it’s okay not to be okay”. Talented 15-year-old kickboxer Kian Southway died on March 31 ...

The Ogun State government has deployed a mobile application for residents to undergo assessment on an individual basis in the event of being infected with COVID-19. This comes a month after the state launched an updated mobile application for health ...

Management of Benue State University Teaching Hospital says it issued sack letter on only three, not 30 doctors, as the Association of Resident Doctors have claimed. The association at the hospital has threatened to go on strike if the hospital ...

A few hours after the inauguration of a 60-bed isolation centre for Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, says it has admitted four patients with the virus. Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, the LUTH Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee, disclosed this ...

The Lagos State Police Command has released on bail the governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party in the state in the 2019 gubernatorial election, Babatunde Gbadamosi, and his wife. The couple were released on Tuesday alongside Naira Marley, after ...

A 30-something New Yorker seeking a “germ free” girlfriend during the coronavirus pandemic has hung dating flyers along city running paths, including in Central Park, as a more “targeted” alternative to searching online apps. The man who prefers to only ...

Israel’s health minister has been accused of flouting his own lockdown rules after continuing to attend group prayers – despite a ban on gatherings. Yaakov Litzman has tested positive for Covid-19, causing chaos in Israel’s highest political office as leaders ...

The “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star told her mother, Kris Jenner, in a sneak peek at Thursday’s episode that she is “not even thinking” about dating since her split from Tristan Thompson, the father of her 1-year-old daughter, True. ...

The result of COVID-19 second test done for the chairman of the governing board of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Ibrahim Shetima, has returned positive. Shetima had been in isolation at a special ward in the UCH after he tested ...

A Virginia pastor who criticized the “mass hysteria” surrounding the coronavirus pandemic has died of the illness. Landon Spradlin, of Gretna, a small town halfway between Lynchburg and Danville started to feel sick while in New Orleans, where he went ...

Sickening footage shows a postman wipe his nose and rub it around a doorway while a person self-isolates inside. The clip has been doing the rounds on social media, where viewers have expressed their outrage. Royal Mail say they have ...

The Katsina State Government has lifted the suspension on Friday congregational prayer with immediate effect. This was announced by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Mustapha Inuwa, in a statement made released Tuesday in Katsina. The statement said: “Following ...

Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey said Tuesday he was committing $1 billion to coronavirus relief through his philanthropic fund. Dorsey said in a series of tweets that he would transfer his equity in his digital payments group Square to ...

Grandaughter Jade Elrick, 26, said: “We obviously weren’t allowed to see her – the hospital said she was in a room which she didn’t like, she didn’t understand why we weren’t able to visit. “We tried to call but the ...

Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has announced the death of the state’s first COVID-19 patient. He is Dr. Aminu Yakubu, a Daura based private Medical practitioner who recently returned from Lagos to the state.

Oyo state has recorded two additional cases of coronavirus. The disclosure was made by the State Chairman of COVID-19 Task Force who also double as the State Governor, Seyi Makinde. According to the Governor, one of the new cases is ...

Spring graduation ceremonies in Japan have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but students at one school were able to attend remotely by controlling avatar robots while logged on at home. The robots, dubbed “Newme” by developer ANA Holdings, ...

WhatsApp on Tuesday placed new limits on message forwarding as part of an effort to curb the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. The new policy limits users to forwarding certain messages to one “chat” at a time, aiming ...