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The Deputy High Judge of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Leslie Samuels, has ordered that Swedish millionaire heiress, Louise Backstrom, 33, give her former husband, Martin Wennberg, 39, more than £6.5 million, following the breakdown of their six-year marriage. The couple had been entangled in a dispute over...

Canada has introduced faster temporary resident visa (TRV) processing and more considerate application measures. Sean Fraser, minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, announced the development on Friday. Fraser said most applications will be processed within 30 days, and applicants will benefit from processing measures specific to their circumstances as spouses...

Former Big Brother Naija reality show housemate, Kate Jones, popularly known as Ka3na, has broken her silence following the death of her ex-husband, Jones. She shared a video consisting of a compilation of throwback pictures and videos of her family on her Instagram account on Sunday. Ka3na revealed that he...

One of the world’s most wanted genocide fugitives, Fulgence Kayishema, has been arrested in South Africa after being on the run for 22 years, a special tribunal set up by the United Nations said Thursday. According to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Kayishema was arrested Wednesday in Paarl,...

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the plenary session of the second Eurasian Economic Forum of the Eurasian Economic Union via video link, May 24, 2023. /Xinhua Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for the joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative...

A member of the United Kingdom Parliament, Carol Monaghan, has kicked against the United Kingdom’s new visa policy preventing Nigerian students, and others studying in the UK, from bringing family as dependents except under specific circumstances. While speaking at parliament on Wednesday, Monaghan stated that students made valuable contributions to...

Former Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry has lost his bid to challenge the United Kingdom government over his security arrangements in the country. This was disclosed in a ruling published on Tuesday. The prince had asked for a legal review of a decision refusing him permission to pay for UK...

An 11-year-old judo star athlete, Albert Umbetyarov, was burnt to death after he was doused in petrol and locked in a shed that was set on fire by envious older children, Daily Mail reported on Monday. Russian investigative authorities confirmed that Umbetyarov was trapped in a shed in the woods...

Carrie, 35, wife of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, is pregnant with her third child. Carrie made the announcement via Instagram, Daily Mail reported on Friday. The latest addition, which is the third child of the couple, would make the ex-PM a father of eight Carrie...

United Kingdom supermarket giant, Tesco, said on Friday that its chairman, John Allan, would step down next month following newspaper allegations over his conduct towards women. “We are well advanced in our search for a new chair and will make an announcement in due course,” interim chair Byron Grote said...