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At least six people were killed in a fire that tore through a four-storey hostel in the early hours of Tuesday in New Zealand’s capital. Towering flames and thick smoke could be seen pouring from the roof of the Loafers Lodge hostel in central Wellington during the night, as 80...

According to US officials on Thursday, a YouTuber pilot who intentionally crashed his plane into the ground in mid-flight to increase the number of viewers on his channel could spend up to 20 years in prison. In the “I crashed my aeroplane” video, which has been viewed by almost three...

Workers of Arby’s restaurant in Louisiana, United States have found a female colleague’s body inside a freezer at their place of work. Police revealed that the body of a female staff member was discovered around 6 pm on Thursday in one of the fast food chain’s outlets in New Iberia,...

A van carrying oxygen cylinders exploded in Milan on Thursday, destroying around a dozen cars but causing no injuries beyond light burns to the driver, officials said. Television footage showed flames metres high and black smoke sweeping across the Porta Romana residential neighbourhood south-east of the Italian city’s cathedral, Duomo....

A 23-year-old British Internet hacker, Joseph James O’Connor, also known as PlugwalkJoe, has pleaded guilty to hacking into over 100 Twitter accounts, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian, Elon Musk, and other celebrities. Daily Mail reports that O’Connor admitted guilty to the crime of cyberstalking and other schemes committed...

Twitter Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, on Wednesday announced a series of new features for the social platform. He revealed that Twitter, in its latest version, will come with support for direct message replies, voice/video chats, and encrypted DM 1.0. Musk made this known on his Twitter page. He wrote,...

A New York jury ruled Tuesday that former United States president, Donald Trump, was liable for the sexual abuse of an American former magazine columnist in the mid-1990s, multiple US media reported. The nine jurors decided following a civil trial that the ex-president did not rape E. Jean Carroll, but...

Music star, Divine Ikubor aka Rema, received a warm welcome upon his arrival in Mumbai on Tuesday ahead of his India tour. On his Instagram account, he posted videos of the moment he arrived in the country and how he was welcomed. The ‘Calm Down’ crooner is set to perform...

Former Pakistan prime minister, Imran Khan, was arrested on Tuesday for multiple pending corruption cases during a court appearance in the capital. Khan arrest follows after the powerful military rebuked the former international cricketer for alleging a senior officer had been involved in a plot to kill him. Officials from...

The Libyan Criminal Investigations Agency has revealed that it busted a human trafficking gang from Nigeria and rescued five Nigerian girls forced into prostitution in Tripoli. This was made known by the Libyan Observer on its Twitter page on Sunday Sharing a photo, the Libyan Observer said, “The Libyan Criminal...