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A mum has denied faking she had ovarian cancer so she could get money. Nicole Elkabbass, 40, is accused of lying to people on gofundme so she could receive pledges worth £45,000. She allegedly said she needed … Read more via Metro – http://bit.ly/2wQkuSw Get more World News

Former NFL player Kellen Winslow, Jr., raped a 58-year-old homeless woman a San Diego court ruled Monday. The woman, identified in court as Jane Doe 2, testified that she was familiar with Winslow Jr., 35, who had given her food and money in the past, according to The Washington … Read more...

Air Namibia is being forced to scale down on regional and domestic routes due to a liquidity crisis that stems from an ongoing court case against the now-defunct Belgian carrier, Challenge Air. The legal tussle with the liquidated European-based airline, which is demanding N$400 million...

Huawei confirms it has built its own operating system just in case US tensions disrupt use of Google’s Android Unfortunately or fortunately, being put on a U.S. Department of Commerce blacklist has a way of forcing a company’s hands. Huawei could reportedly introduce a new operating system...

Wall Street should stop worrying about China retaliating Against American companies doing business in China. There’s little chance that Beijing will exercise this option to get even with Washington’s sanctions against Huawei. That’s according to Jeff Yastine, senior equities analyst at Banyan...

Google’s Gmail email service is used by upwards of 1.5 billion people. The Google Calendar app, meanwhile, has been downloaded more than a billion times from the Play Store. Security researchers have this week warned that threat actors are exploiting the popularity of both in order to target...

President Donald Trump let fly a jaw-dropping lie in a chatty interview with CNBC Monday, saying that because of his get-tough trade war with China, the Asian nation’s economy has lost ″$15 to $20 trillion in value since the day I was elected.” The Chinese economy is worth … Read more via...

Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, was a CIA informant before he was assassinated in Malaysia in 2017, a report has claimed. Citing an unnamed “person knowledgeable about the matter.... Read more via the Guardian – http://bit.ly/2MG0AVn Get more World News

A helicopter crashed onto the roof of a 54-story building Monday afternoon in Midtown Manhattan, killing the pilot. No one else was injured in the crash, which officials said appeared to be an accident — not an act of terrorism. The crash sparked a two-alarm … Read more via Welcome To Ladun...