The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a Texas lawsuit to invalidate the November 3 presidential election results in four battleground states that President Donald Trump lost to his Democratic rival Joe Biden, all but ending Trump's effort to overturn the election outcome through the courts.
Nigeria on Friday registered 796 new cases, highest single -day COVID-19 infections in 24 hours, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) said on its verified website.
The US Supreme Court has rejected an unprecedented attempt to throw out election results in four battleground states that was backed by President Donald Trump.
Prominent Black Lives Matters activists and celebrities have written to Nigeria's president demanding justice over the treatment of people during protests against police brutality.
The US has charged a 27-year-old Cameroonian student with exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to scam people into buying puppies which didn't exist, the justice department said.
The United States on Monday added Nigeria to a blacklist on religious freedoms for the first time. The list also includes countries such as China, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
The mother of a nine-year-old girl who died following an asthma attack says she "would have moved" if she had known how dangerous local air pollution was.
In a 1995 interview with the BBC, Princess Diana lifted the lid on her failed marriage with Prince Charles. Her conversation with journalist Martin Bashir ignited criticism and changed the course of royal history. Now the BBC is reopening an investigation on whether it acted improperly to land the interview.
A Kenyan man who "came back to life" in a morgue where he had been taken after being presumed dead last week has died, this time for real, local media report.
European regulators have issued caution over the United Kingdom’s move to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use, saying their longer approval process was safer.
A senior member of the European Parliament from Hungary's ruling Fidesz party has resigned after he admitted to breaching Belgium's coronavirus lockdown to attend a private gathering described by national media as a "sex party."
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