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What are the ways to reduce crime rates in the United States? Gun control, counseling programs, crackdown on drugs… that list could go on, but you probably didn’t think legalizing marijuana. According to a new study by a three-member team of economists, the introduction of medical marijuana has...

At least 14 children have been hurt in a stabbing incident at a school in the Siberian city of Perm. Russian police said the stabbings began after two students at the city’s School No. 127 started fighting with knives. According to police, a teacher and other pupils tried to break … via ABC...

A burning Iranian oil tanker that exploded and sank off China on Sunday has left a 10-mile long flaming oil slick, according to local media, while an Iranian official has admitted that there was no hope of finding survivors. The tanker, named Sanchi, had been adrift and ablaze after crashing...

Glenn Carstens-Peters/Unsplash A Swiss woman was fined £1,150 after being found guilty of reading her husband’s emails without permission. The unnamed woman became suspicious when her partner created a new email account on their shared computer. According to the Aargauer Zeitung newspaper, she...

By Laleye Dipo in Minna No fewer than five people were feared killed and scores of others injured in a conflict between two Islamic sects in Munya Local Government Area of Niger State last weekend The injured were said to have been treated for gunshot injuries in private hospitals in Sarkin-pawa...

Awka Two soldiers on Monday slumped at the 2018 Armed Forces and Remembrance Day held at the Dr Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka, Anambra State. The two military personnel slumped while participating in a parade. Medical team including the Anambra State commissioner for Health, Dr Josephat Akabuike...

Uganda’s health ministry on Monday confirmed an outbreak of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in the central district of Nakaseke, State Minister for Health, Sarah Opendi, said. The minister told Xinhua that the laboratory results of the samples taken from a nine-year-old suspected case who...

A former Imo State Governor, Ikedi Ohakim, has noted that people doing Mortuary business in the state are now making a lot of money due to the poor condition of health facilities in the state. The former governor decried what he described as “the increasing degree of government imposed … via...

Mr Yusuf Garba, the Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission ( FRSC ) in Niger said on Monday that seven persons died in an accident on the Bida-Minna road. Garba told our reporter in Minna that four persons were also injured in the incident which occurred on Monday … via The...

In the divorce case between a sexagenarian, Mr Muyili Oshode, and his wife, Ibidunni, the Igando Customary Court in Lagos State on Monday dissolved the 44-year marriage on the ground that the wife turned her husband into an impotent person. The court’s president, Mr Akin Akinniyi, delivering his...

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a busy street market, officials said. via The Boston Globe – http://ift.tt/2mHlHHn Get more World News

St Stephen’s primary school, in Newham, east London, has banned hijabs and fasting from its classrooms Google Maps The UK’s top state primary school has banned hijabs and fasting, calling on the government to issue firm guidelines to schools across the country on these matters. St Stephen’s...

It has been five decades since Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, but his words still carry power for activists, politicians, journalists, and everyday Americans, despite them being consistently misattributed. King wrote five books and delivered around 450 speeches a year, according to...

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Monday that a U.S.-made Aegis missile-defense system that Japan has decided to acquire could be used for offensive purposes because its missile launching system is dual-purpose. Japan last month formally decided it would expand...

By Chidi Nkwopara, OWERRI. The immediate past Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, has decried what he called “the increasing degree of government imposed poverty and the comatose state of Medicare in the state, which has claimed several lives”. Ikedi Ohakim Ohakim, who made his feelings...

Timing is everything. Especially when safety’s involved. Transport for London (TfL) is that lesson the hard – but hilarious – way. Londoners are going crazy over announcements telling them to “hold on” in the city’s buses. The full message, which says “hold on, the bus is about to … via...

Relations with North Korea had been going from bad to worse until this past week when the North suddenly agreed to send a delegation to next months’ Winter Olympics in South Korea. But one thing – the most important thing – hasn’t changed. North Korea insists … via More Top Stories – Google...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Four Pakistani soldiers were killed on Monday in shelling by Indian forces in the disputed Kashmir region, the Pakistani army said, the latest clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours who have also been exchanging heated challenges. A decades-old dispute over the mostly...