Quote of the day
“If you want something you never had You have have to do something you’ve never done.”
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Don’t Fear Death
Don’t fear death in earthly travels. Don’t fear enemies or friends. Just listen to the words of prayers, To pass the facets of the dreads. Your death will come to you, and never You shall be, else, a slave of life, Just waiting for a dawn’s favor, From nights of poverty and strife. She’ll build…
DetailsA girl sang a song
A girl sang a song in the temple’s chorus, About men, tired in alien lands, About the ships that left native shores, And all who forgot their joy to the end. Thus sang her clean voice, and flew up to the highness, And sunbeams shined on her shoulder’s white — And everyone saw and heard…
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POPULAR NIGERIAN ACTRESS, MOJI OLAIYA PASSES AWAY AGED 42.
It was gathered that days after the delivery of her new baby, she fell ill and was asked to remain at the hospital, where she later died. Olaiya was raised by veteran jazz singer, Victor Olaiya. She was said to have adopted the name Olaiya to honour the musician who raised her since she was…
DetailsSyrians’ suffering persists after returning to former ISIL-held town
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, a coalition of armed groups, are closing in on the ISIL stronghold of Raqqa about a week after they captured the strategic town of Tabqa. Source : Al Jazeera.
Details74-year-old Puerto Rican nationallist, Oscar Lopez Rivera has been released from house arrest after 36 years in custody
Lopez was considered a top leader of Puerto Rican militant group that said it was responsible for more than 100 bombings in several U.S. cities and Puerto Rico during the 1970s and early 1980s. The attacks killed six people and wounded scores. He wasn’t convicted of any role in the bombings. But those who lost…
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10-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated by her stepfather to have an abortion.
The pregnancy came to light last week after the girl’s mother suspected her child was pregnant and took her into see a doctor, who confirmed that she was between 18 to 22 weeks pregnant. A local court sitting in New Delhi, India ruled on Tuesday that doctors were free through conduct an abortion on a…
DetailsFacebook fined £95m for ‘misleading’ WhatsApp takeover information
Facebook has been fined €110m (£94.5m) by EU competition regulators in relation to its takeover of WhatsApp. Officials said the penalty was being imposed after the social network was found to have given “incorrect or misleading” information in 2014. The European Commission said Facebook had informed its anti-trust body, in submissions ahead of the $19bn…
DetailsCHRIS CORNELL DEAD AT 52.
Chris Cornell, who gained fame as the lead singer of Seattle grunge rock band Soundgarden, has died aged 52. The musician’s representative described his death on Wednesday night as “sudden and unexpected”, and said his wife and family were shocked by it. Cornell, who rose to fame with the 1990s grunge band Soundgarden, went on…
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