Afcon 2017: Equatorial Guinea go out after

Afcon 2017: Equatorial Guinea go out after Mali forward Mustapha Yatabare scored an 89th minute winner against Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea, who hosted last year's Africa Cup of Nations, became the first team to be eliminated from the qualifiers for the 2017 tournament in Gabon after a 1-0 home defeat to Mali.Mustapha Yatabare hit Mali's winner in the 89th minute in...

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FBI vs. Apple Isn’t Over

The FBI and Apple reached a cease-fire last week, but it can’t last, because it leaves unresolved the future of reasonable searches under the Fourth Amendment. It would be a...

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Justice Dept. withdraws legal action against Apple over San Bernardino iPhone

SAN FRANCISCO — Although the government officially withdrew from its battle against Apple Monday, many observers sense the tech privacy war is just getting started. "This lawsuit may be over, but the Constitutional and privacy questions it raised are not," Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who had criticized the Justice Department's suit against Apple, said in a statement Monday. The...

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Egyptair passenger plane hijacked, forced to Cyprus

ATHENS, March 29  - An Egyptair domestic flight from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked on Tuesday and landed in Cyprus, state radio said.The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation reported that 55 people were on board, with a crew of 7. There were earlier reports of about 80 to 81 people on board.At least one man was thought to be armed. The hijacking occurred in Cyprus's flight information region and the airliner was diverted to Larnaca.(Reporting...

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Lionel Messi on missed meeting with Barack Obama's daughters

A meeting with President Barack Obama's daughters is news to Lionel Messi. As was disclosed earlier in the week it would appear there is a limit to U.S. President Barack Obama's powers, specifically the ability to arrange a sit-down meeting with Barcelona's Lionel Messi. Indeed, President Obama claimed that his daughters had asked to meet Messi during a recent visit to Buenos Aires but that...

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Barack Obama reveals his daughters wanted to meet Lionel Messi

Argentina have called up Lionel Messi for the first time in a struggling 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign. Not everyone can meet Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi -- not even the daughters of the President of the United States, Barack Obama. Obama was speaking at the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Town Hall in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and revealed that his daughters Sasha and Malia had asked him if they could...

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Johan Cruyff, Dutch football legend, dies at the age of 68

The Holland football legend Johan Cruyff has died of cancer at the age of 68. The Dutchman, who on three occasions was voted the world player of the year, guided Holland to the World Cup final in 1974 and as a manager he spent eight years in charge of Barcelona. World Cup: 25 stunning moments … No25: the Cruyff Turn is born in 1974 Scott...

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“I Thought He Had AIDS” Diamond’s Manager Reveals after Intervening to Help Ailing Musician .

Diamond Platnumz and Tip Top Connection have managed to gain incredible success with the help of their manager Hamisi Taletale a.k.a Babutale. Now musician Chidi Benz has a new lease on life after Babutale offered to take him to rehab after coming across photos of him looking worn-down and emaciated. Chidi Benz is now at the  Life and Hope Rehabilitation Organization in Tanzania looking to...

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Obama’s historic visit to Cuba

President Obama embarked Sunday on a historic trip to Cuba, where a government that has vilified the United States for decades prepared a red carpet welcome. The three-day trip, the first by a sitting U.S. president in 88 years, is the culmination of a diplomatic opening announced by Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro in December 2014, ending a Cold War-era estrangement that began when...

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Donald Trump throws a thumbs-up to supporters at a campaign rally Saturday in Fountain Hills, Arizona

Donald Trump easily won Arizona’s Republican presidential primary Tuesday, adding another key winner-take-all state in his push toward the GOP nomination. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz picked up a win in Utah, where he had been polling ahead of Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Yet the key point of intrigue in that race – what his margin of victory will be – remained early Wednesday morning as votes...

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Heavy security presence in Zanzibar instilled fear: EAC

  The East African Community (EAC) elections observer team to last Sunday’s rerun of the general election in Zanzibar has said the presence of tight security was intimidating.   It said in its preliminary report wired to media houses across the region that although the voting exercise was generally “peaceful and calm”, the number of security personnel deployed was “somehow intimidating”.The...

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Tanzanian journalist abducted, beaten for Zanzibar election coverage

Unknown assailants abducted Salma Said, a reporter with the Kiswahili-language Mwananchi ("Citizen") newspaper and a correspondent for Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle, shortly after the journalist arrived at Dar es Salaam's Julius Nyerere International Airport on March 18, 2016, according to news reports and a statement she made to the Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRD)....

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Cars May Soon Warn Drivers Before They Nod Off

The dangers of drowsy driving have been widely documented. Most recently, a study found that car crashes become more likely in the few days after we adjust our clocks for daylight saving time and lose an hour of sleep. But it’s difficult to prevent people from driving while sleep deprived because there is no benchmark for sleepiness like there is for drunkenness — even though the...

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