Japan’s national football team paid a touching tribute to captain Wataru Endo during their FIFA World Cup match against the Netherlands after the veteran midfielder was forced to withdraw from the tournament through injury and subsequently announced his retirement from international football. In an emotional gesture, Japan placed Endo’s shirt on the team’s bench throughout…
The U.S.-Iran agreement to reopen Hormuz and lift the maritime blockade has pushed oil below $80, though risks remain if tensions in Lebanon escalate. China Slams the Brakes on Crude Refining – China’s crude throughput has plunged by a hefty 9.1% year-over-year to 12.7 million b/d, according to the country’s National Bureau of Statistics, marking one…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called for the enforcement of the conviction of former MASLOC Chief Executive, Madam Sedina Tamakloe Attionu. In a statement signed by Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, Co-Chair of the party’s Constitutional and Legal Affairs Policy Committee, the NPP accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of weakening the rule of law and…
A new play inspired by the life of late TV presenter Paul O’Grady is set to tour the country next year. Savage, which takes its name from O’Grady’s drag alter-ego Lily Savage, will launch at Leicester’s Curve theatre in February before moving on to other cities including Liverpool, Salford and Birmingham. O’Grady rose to fame…
A Nigerian migrant nicknamed ‘Spartan’ who tried to r@pe a woman after a night out has been jailed for five and a half years. Qudus Ajeyemi, 27, who was in the UK on a student visa, was convicted after his victim recorded him begging for forgiveness over the phone. Ajeyemi, of May Street in Hull, touched…
American Rapper Mystikal has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to r@ping a woman at his Louisiana home in 2022. The victim appeared before the court on Tuesday, June 16, and asked for the maximum sentence. She spoke of the incident where Mystikal “choked her, pulled braids out of her hair and forcibly r@ped…
Doubts swirled around the U.S.-Iran interim deal to end the war in the Middle East with warnings that shipping and energy exports could take weeks to recover, although U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the text would be made public soon. The interim deal would extend a tenuous ceasefire announced in April by…
U.S. President, Donald Trump said Russia should make peace with Ukraine, and that he would try to help, after Group of Seven leaders met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday, but there were few details of any concrete steps to raise the pressure on Moscow. Trump, who arrived at the G7 summit in the French…
Bandits have k!lled four farmers and abducted at least 12 others in a broad daylight attack on Gandi District in Rabah Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The attack occurred on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 while the victims were working on farmlands located on the outskirts of the community. Confirming the incident, a resident of…
A couple have been caught in an inappropriate position on a Ferris wheel ride in front of thousands of shocked festival-goers. The pair were spotted on the ride at Download Festival in Leicestershire on Saturday night, June 13, as revellers were waiting for Guns ‘n’ Roses to take to the stage. Footage of the pair was posted…
