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A man gave his life while trying to save a group of children from the world’s second most poisonous snake.   Jeremy Brookes, 47, died on March 19 after he ran to the rescue of a childcare centre in Deeragun, Townsville, north Queensland, Australia, where he was bitten three times …

There are budgets that fall apart within minutes of the chancellor delivering his Commons speech: think of George Osborne’s pasty tax, one of many missteps that meant his 2012 budget will be forever known as an omnishambles. Then there are the “poison pill” budgets: the ones that come at the …

The husband who strangled his wife in Suleja, Niger state, has also died from complications after he consumed a poisonous substance.   Mr Adeniyi Jose, from Akure, Ondo State, strangled his wife-of-eight years, Chidinma Gloria Ibeh, from Imo state, with a rope and also suffocated her with a pillow.   …

The Federal Operations Unit (FoU), Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ikeja, Lagos, has intercepted over 1,000 bags of foreign parboiled rice smuggled into the country through Benin Republic.   Speaking during a press briefing in Lagos on Thursday, May 5, the acting Comptroller, FOU, Zone A, Hussein …