• Spagna

    Nadal, Pliskova face double duty to reach semi-finals

    Once and future number one Rafael Nadal and top-ranked Karolina Pliskova were doing double duty Friday at the WTA and ATP Cincinnati Masters, preparing for quarter-final matches after afternoon victories. Spain’s Nadal, assured of being atop the rankings come Monday for the first time since July 2014, defeated compatriot Albert ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria produces less than 3% of potential honey output

    An official of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development says the country cannot export honey because it produces less than three per cent of its current needs. A Director in the Department of Veterinary and Pest Control Services of the ministry, Dr Gideon Mshelbwala, made the statement in Abuja on Friday on ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria to start bee export by 2018

    Nigeria will start exporting bees to other countries next year, the National President, Federation of Bee keepers Association of Nigeria, Dr Bidemi Ojeleye, has said. Ojeleye on Friday said that a European Union team had visited Nigeria for training and guidelines on the residue monitoring plans for bee export. Ojeleye, who ...

  • Belgio

    Partner opgepakt van vrouw die dood aangetroffen werd in Seneffe

    De partner van de 47-jarige vrouw die maandag dood aangetroffen werd in het kanaal Brussel-Charleroi, is na bekentenissen aangehouden voor

  • Finlandia

    Two dead, six hurt in Finland knife attack

    Updated 8.35pm A man with a knife killed two people and wounded at least six in a stabbing rampage in a market square in the Finnish city of Turku today, police said. Police shot the suspected attacker in the leg and arrested him. They said they had yet to establish the ...

  • Malta

    Drug mule lied under oath, says man caught in cocaine sting

    A man sentenced to 13 years behind bars for conspiring to import cocaine has filed an appeal, claiming the jury's star witness lied under oath and that the guilty verdict had been reached on the basis of assumptions. Last month, Stephen Egbo, 39, of San Ġwann, was found guilty by 7 votes ...

  • USA

    Donald Trump fires strategist Steve Bannon

    Updated 8.50pm President Donald Trump today fired Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist in the latest high-level White House shakeup, removing a powerful and controversial figure known for far-right political views. Bannon was a force behind some of Trump's most contentious policies, including a travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority nations, ...

  • USA Finlandia

    Updated (3): Finnish police shoot man who stabs 8 people in Turku; 2 dead

    A man stabbed eight people today in Finland's western city of Turku, killing two of them, before police shot him in the thigh and detained him, police said. Authorities were looking for more potential suspects in the attack.A suspect — a man whose identity was not known — was being ...

  • Malta

    Man sentenced to 13 years jail files appeal based on ‘credibility’ of star witness

    Lawyers have filed an appeal on behalf of Stephen Egbo, a Nigerian man fighting a 13 years jail term accompanied by a €30,000 fine for being found guilty to conspiring to import cocaine from the Netherlands in 2010.The defence team is making the case that the jury’s lead witness is ...

  • Malta

    Godfrey Farrugia ‘not interested’ in Partit Demokratiku leadership

    Partit Demokratiku MP Godfrey Farrugia says today that he is not interested in the race for the party leadership.Writing on Facebook, Farrugia says that “at this stage , I am not interested in contesting the Leadership of this party, not least because we have capable others willing and able to ...