Fallen American music icon R Kelly to serve 30 years in jail for sexual abuse and racketeering offences

Fallen American music icon R Kelly to serve 30 years in jail for sexual abuse and racketeering offences

Disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison for using his fame to sexually abuse young fans, including some who were just children, in a systematic scheme that went on for decades. Through tears and anger, several of Kelly’s accusers told a court, and...

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Prophet Mohammed: Filmed retaliatory murder of tailor by Muslim men sparks a religious row in India

Prophet Mohammed: Filmed retaliatory murder of tailor by Muslim men sparks a religious row in India

The victim, a tailor named Kanhaiya Lal, was killed in Udaipur district on Tuesday by two Muslim men, who filmed the act and posted it online. They claimed the act was in retaliation for the victim’s support for controversial remarks made by a politician on the Prophet Muhammad. The police...

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Thai team confirms cats just as hamsters, are spreaders of Covid, prescribes masks for pets  

Thai team confirms cats just as hamsters, are spreaders of Covid, prescribes masks for pets  

First there were sneezing hamsters, now sneezing cats. A team in Thailand reports the first solid evidence of a pet cat infecting a person with SARS-CoV-2, adding felines to the list of animals that can transmit the virus to people. Researchers say the results are convincing. They are surprised that...

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Devil in Gunners’ magazine: Filibustering Arsenal may be gazumped by bullish Man United – again!

Devil in Gunners’ magazine: Filibustering Arsenal may be gazumped by bullish Man United – again!

Arsenal are in danger of being gazumped for a second transfer target after Manchester United made a rival offer to sign Ajax defender Lisandro Martinez, according to reports. The Gunners moved into the driving seat to sign the Argentine after submitting an improved £34.5 million bid earlier this week, although...

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Why Cameroon remains wedded to demobilisation of Ambazonia separatists in anglophone south

Why Cameroon remains wedded to demobilisation of Ambazonia separatists in anglophone south

Ambazonia fighters – separatist insurgency in anglophone Cameroon – many of whom had missed critical years of schooling, were encouraged to surrender and take advantage of skills programmes – from computer training to poultry farming and tailoring. The idea was that they would then graduate as young entrepreneurs, capable of...

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Broken promises: Cameroon’s plan to lure separatist fighters stutters as ex-guerrillas feel cheated

Broken promises: Cameroon’s plan to lure separatist fighters stutters as ex-guerrillas feel cheated

John Ngah* is a keen amateur footballer, but at the end of each game, when his team mates head off to their families, he heads back to the Buea Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Centre (DDRC) – his home for the past two years. The 22-year-old is a former combatant in...

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Ukraine war: How Western aeroplanes ae falling apart in Russia as sanctions against Moscow bite

Ukraine war: How Western aeroplanes ae falling apart in Russia as sanctions against Moscow bite

An Airbus A320-232 with the tail number YU-APH made its first flight on December 13, 2005. Since then, the aircraft has clocked millions of miles, flying routes for Air Deccan, Kingfisher Airlines, Bingo Airways, and Syphax Airlines before being taken over by Air Serbia, the Eastern European country’s national flag...

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Smell a friend: Evidence shows human beings ‘click’ instantly with people with similar body smell

Smell a friend: Evidence shows human beings ‘click’ instantly with people with similar body smell

People with similar body odours are more likely to ‘click’ and become instant friends, according to several experiments. When people meet others for the first time, they sometimes experience an “immediate strong click that makes us feel as if we have already been good friends for years,” says Inbal Ravreby...

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English Premier Leagues top 10 teams that splashed big bucks to acquire mediocrity

English Premier Leagues top 10 teams that splashed big bucks to acquire mediocrity

Manchester United spent £140 million to go from fourth to fifth and crash out of the Champions League at the group stage while playing the most turgid football imaginable under Louis van Gaal. If the previous summer’s acquisition of Angel Di Maria for £67 million marked the start of United’s...

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The rich also cry: Moneyed Man United summer transfer spurges ranks it top of 10 EPL wasteful spenders

The rich also cry: Moneyed Man United summer transfer spurges ranks it top of 10 EPL wasteful spenders

t’s a good one this, because it’s both an absurd summer of spaffing that in textbook fashion contributed to a manager failing to see out the year but also produced a season where one of those overpriced signings scored the winning goal in the Champions League final. Classic slice of...

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