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The Chinese court has published a verdict on a case involving the Chinese smartphone maker Gionee. It seems that Gionee planted a Trojan Horse on more than 20 million devices to get money from unsolicited ads and other malicious activities without the user’s knowledge. The Shenzhen Zhipu Technology Co. Ltd., …

Margaret Keenan, the 90-year-old grandmother who became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine outside of a trial in Britain on Tuesday, has a message for others: “go for it” to beat the devastating disease. An early riser, Keenan, from Northern Ireland, received the Pfizer-BioNTech …

A 41-year-old Zimbabwean woman, identified as Moreblesing Maridza has been arrested and arraigned before a court for marrying another man while still married to another. According to the Sunday News, Moreblesing Maridza (41) of Platinum Park in Zvishavane, married another man after accusing her first husband of failing to be …

The United States Government has added Nigeria to its blacklist as one of the countries that have engaged in “severe violations of religious freedom.” The Trump administration had in December 2019, added Nigeria to a Special Watch List of countries tolerating violent crimes against religious freedom. Today, the United States Secretary of State, Mike …

At least one person has died and 227 have been hospitalised by an unidentified illness in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The patients had a wide range of symptoms from nausea to fits and falling unconscious, doctors said. Officials are still investigating the cause of the illness, which swept …

The Trump Administration Just Made the Citizenship Test Harder. How Would You Do? Test your knowledge on some of the topics from American history and government that prospective new citizens have to answer. The Trump administration adopted changes to the citizenship test that could make it more difficult to pass. The …

A man has finally had a coin removed from his nose after it was stuck for more than half a century. The 59-year-old unnamed Russian man was aged just six when he wedged the money into his right nostril. He was ‘too scared’ to tell his ‘strict’ mother about it …

Music-loving Dalmatian caught ‘playing’ the piano and even howls along. Dexter, two, was filmed standing on his hind legs, playing the piano and ‘singing’; his owner Esther Mason, 43, from Jersey, filmed his performance last week. Normally, the shy dog stops playing whenever his owners walk in the room Dexter, …

A Russian YouTuber was arrested following a sickening live broadcast in which his pregnant girlfriend died after he was paid to subject her to cruel abuse. Egged on by his online audience, Stas Reeflay allegedly forced Valentina Grigoryeva out on a balcony in sub-zero weather wearing only her underwear Reeflay, …

The Chinese expatriate, who was abducted by some unknown gunmen in Ado-Ekiti, has regained freedom, after payment of N100m ransom. The Chinese, simply identified as Wang, was one of the Engineers handling the dualisation of the new Ado-Iyin road. He was abducted last Friday evening at the site by gunmen …