Rapper 50 Cent has denied allegations that he raped and physically abused his ex-girlfriend, Daphne Joy. This comes shortly after model Daphne Joy shared a post on her Instagram Story, in response to news that she is accused in producer Lil Rod’s lawsuit against Diddy of being Diddy’s sex worker. …
Read More »Reps seek 5 months leave for widows
A bill seeking to grant five months leave for female and male workers who lost their spouses has scaled second reading at the House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Sa’idu Musa Abdullahi (APC, Niger) was titled, “A Bill for an Act to make Provision for Widowhood Leave …
Read More »Baroque’s off: my mission to seek out Vienna’s modernist masterpieces
The 20th century was unkind to Vienna. The capital of the Habsburg empire until 1918, it was, by early 1989, a bleak and battered outpost within touching distance of the iron curtain. Now that the city has undeniably recaptured its glory of old (symbolically, its population grew to two million …
Read More »Chelsea report: £80-100m Lautaro Martinez bid to be ACCEPTED, as Blues seek clinical world-class striker
Chelsea have been told they can end their long-awaited search for a clinical No.9 by signing Lautaro Martinez this month. The Blues splashed out £100 million on Martinez’s partner from Inter Milan’s last Scudetto win in 2021, Romelu Lukaku, when Thomas Tuchel thought he had the missing jigsaw piece for …
Read More »Russian President Vladimir Putin announces he will seek re-election in 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will seek re-election in March 2024, state news agency TASS reported on Friday, December 8. Putin made the announcement after a ceremony at the Kremlin, the official residence of the Russian president, TASS said, a move that could see him retain power until at …
Read More »Dean Phillips, Democrat Challenging Biden, Won’t Seek Re-election
Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, a Democrat who began a long-shot primary challenge to President Biden last month, said on Friday that he would not run for re-election next year. Mr. Phillips, 54, a moderate third-term congressman who represents a district that includes suburban Minneapolis, renewed his call for generational …
Read More »Biden and Xi to Seek to Stabilize Relations in California Meeting
President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China plan to meet in California on Wednesday, for a discussion that Mr. Biden’s advisers say is meant to stabilize relations even as it features a host of topics on which the two fiercely competitive countries disagree. The Biden administration, which formally announced …
Read More »Denmark to seek legal means to prevent Quran burnings
Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen says gov’t will consider possibility of intervening in ‘special situations’ where ‘other countries, cultures, and religions are being insulted’. The Danish government will try to find legal means that will enable authorities to prevent the burning of copies of the Quran in front of other …
Read More »As Climate Shocks Multiply, Designers Seek Holy Grail: Disaster-Proof Homes
John duSaint, a retired software engineer, recently bought property near Bishop, Calif., in a rugged valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The area is at risk for wildfires, severe daytime heat and high winds — and also heavy winter snowfall. But Mr. duSaint isn’t worried. He’s planning to live in …
Read More »Trump Lawyers Seek Indefinite Postponement of Documents Trial
The first discovery disclosure, they said, contained more than 833,450 pages of material, including about 122,650 emails and 305,670 other documents. The lawyers said that after subsequent troves of evidence were handed over, they would most likely make more requests to the government for further information. They also pointed to …
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