A petrol tanker has caught fire in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, killing at least nine people, officials say. More than 50 vehicles, including five buses, were set ablaze after the truck lost control and spilled its contents on a busy motorway during rush hour. The...
Rapper Akon is building a new futuristic ‘Crypto city,’ in Senegal, which will trade exclusively in his own digital cash currency called AKoin. The US-born singer, who is of Senegalese descent, says his futuristic city will be built on a 2,000-acre land gifted to him...
Lying in his hospital bed, he knew that something was very wrong. The world was rapidly closing off to him. He could hear muffled, indistinct sounds coming from doctors at the hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, but he couldn’t quite make out what they were...
Welcome to the family: the Duchess of Sussex begins life as a working royal under the mentorship of the Queen After marrying into the Royal family less than a month ago, the Duchess of Sussex is to embark on a lifetime of public service from...
Howard Schultz, the executive chairman of Starbucks, in Milan in 2016. Mr. Schultz’s decision to retire, a plan he said he privately outlined to the board a year ago, could stoke speculation that he is considering a run for president in 2020.Sergey Ponomarev for The...
ANSA/GIORGIO LAMBRI/QUOTIDIANO LIBERTA The man took the selfie as paramedics treated the Canadian woman on the tracks at Piacenza station When a Canadian woman was hit by a train and badly injured in northern Italy, rescue services quickly went to her aid on the tracks. But...
Barack Obama was six months into his post–White House life when Donald Trump found a new way to grab his attention. It was a Tuesday morning deep in the mid-Atlantic summer, and, feeling a world away from the Pennsylvania Avenue grind, the former president was...
Nigerian singer D’Banj performs at the inaugural MTV All Africa Stars Concert in Durban, South Africa, in 2013. Nigerian Afrobeats star D’banj has lost his only son in a drowning incident, according to local media. Daniel Oyebanjo III, who turned one in May, reportedly died...
Kate Spade Gregory Pace/BEI/REX/ShutterstockKate Spade’s father, Earl “Frank” Brosnahan Jr., has died. He was 89. Brosnahan died Wednesday night, less than 24 hours before his daughter’s funeral on Thursday, according to a family statement obtained by PEOPLE. “We are deeply saddened to announce that Katy’s father,...
As an African American woman who founded her own media company and became a cultural icon watched by millions of viewers around the world, Winfrey harnessed the power of the media to break down barriers, empower herself, and inspire others. Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey...
