Revealed: Captain of crashed 737 Max 8 plane untrained
The captain of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight did not practise on a new simulator for the Boeing 737 MAX 8 before he died in a crash with 157 others, a pilot colleague said....
Category: International
US town elects goat as ‘mayor’
In a divided America where politics seems increasingly to get people’s goat, a small town in Vermont has taken the concept to heart — this week electing one as mayor. He may be a...
United States launches new policy, criticises China and Russia
The Unites States on Thursday launched a new policy initiative for Africa, that emphasises accountability in trade and peacekeeping, as opposed to the ‘predatory’ Chinese and Russian involvement on the continent. In a speech...
Slovenia appoints a woman as chief of military for 1st time
Slovenia’s government on Tuesday appointed a female officer as the head of the armed forces, a first for the small country which is a member of NATO and the European Union. Maj. Gen. Alenka...
1 year after Mugabe fall, Zimbabwe asks ‘what has changed?’
One year ago, the unthinkable happened in Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe fell from power. Tanks rolled in the streets of the capital, Harare, on Nov. 14, 2017, and the military put Mugabe under house arrest,...
Dutchman, 69, brings lawsuit to lower his age 20 years
A Dutch “positivity trainer” has launched a legal battle to change his age and boost his dating prospects. Emile Ratelband, 69, wants to shift his birthday from 11 March 1949 to 11 March 1969,...
Facebook Announced Its New “Election War Room” On the Same Day a WhatsApp Scandal Hit Brazil
Brazil’s biggest newspaper, Folha, released a bombshell report on Thursday that local media firms have been buying bundles of phone numbers and using them to mass-WhatsApp voters anti-leftist propaganda. The report was released the same day that WhatsApp’s...
The Paris park where Nigerian women are forced into prostitution
A row of dirty vans is parked on a broad, tree-lined avenue in the outskirts of Paris. In the dark of night, fluttering candles light up the faces of the women in the front...
Parents forget 5-year-old daughter at German airport
Police in Germany say a couple left their five-year-old daughter behind at the airport after returning from a holiday. Reutlingen police said that officers spotted the child wandering aimlessly and alone around the terminal...
Catholic bishop Mulakkal rapes nun
The Roman Catholic Church already enmeshed in sexual abuse scandals in several parts of the world faces another embarrassment in India, with Bishop Franco Mulakkal being arrested for raping a nun. Bishop Mulakkal was...
