Farmer Allegedly Commits Suicide
The deceased was found on his farm on Tuesday dawn in a pool of blood Nwelgnel Yegbaja, 18, resident of Sangnayili, a farming community in the Nanumba North District of the Northern Region, has...
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Ritual Killing Hits Esiama
There is fear and panic among residents of Esiama, a commercial town in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region following an alleged ritual murder of a woman last Sunday. The body of the woman,...
Indian ‘murders Daughter In Suspected Honour’ Killing
An Indian father slit his daughter's throat with a meat cleaver and dumped her body on her boyfriend's doorstep in a suspected honour killing, police said today. The father is accused of knifing his...
Singapore Court Denies Full Compensation To Woman In IVF Mix-Up
A Singaporean woman inseminated with a stranger's sperm in a startling in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) mistake cannot be compensated in full for raising the child, the city-state's top court ruled...
Amend Asset Declaration Law – Emile Short
Former Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short has called for the amendment of the law on asset declaration to deal with corruption....
India Jails Hindu Radicals For Life Over Shrine Blast
An Indian court on Wednesday jailed two Hindu extremists for life over a deadly bombing at a Sufi shrine that has a huge following amongst both Muslims and Hindus. Police had initially blamed...
Hollywood Screenwriter Accuses Disney of Stealing Ideas For Zootopia
A Hollywood screenwriter and producer has accused Disney of copying the idea for its Oscar-winning animation Zootopia from him. Gary Goldman, whose credits include Total Recall and Minority Report,...
Germany To Clear Gays Convicted Under Nazi-Era Law
The German government Wednesday approved plans to quash the convictions of 50,000 men sentenced for homosexuality under a Nazi-era law which remained in force after the war, and offer compensation....
‘Sex Assault’ Streamed On Facebook Live
The alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl by five or six males was streamed on Facebook Live, according to Chicago Police. Around 40 people were said to have been watching the stream at one...
Kenya Revenue Authority ‘lost $39m To Hacker’
An IT expert has been charged with hacking into Kenya’s Revenue Authority and stealing $39m (£31m). Alex Mutunga Mutuku, 28, is accused of electronic fraud but he denies any wrongdoing. The...
Indian Murders Daughter In Suspected ‘honour’ Killing
Indian police Wednesday arrested a man for allegedly murdering his teenage daughter in a so-called honour killing after she was caught dating a local boy he did not approve of. The girl's father slit...
Two Flogged Mercilessly For Stealing Fowl
It is not immediately known which community the incident happened Two suspected fowl thieves have been flogged mercilessly by community elders in a video that has gone viral on social media. It is...
One Arrested For Attempted Human Sacrifice
One person is in the grips of the Takoradi Police Command for allegedly attempting to use a six-year-old girl for money rituals. According to an eyewitness who narrated the incident to Empire News’...
One Arrested For Attempted Human Sacrifice
One person is in the grips of the Takoradi Police Command for allegedly attempting to use a six-year-old girl for money rituals. According to an eyewitness who narrated the incident to Empire News’...
Chicago Sexual Assault Streamed Live On Facebook
US police are searching for five or six men or boys involved in sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in Chicago and posting the act on Facebook Live. None of the roughly 40 people who watched the...
US To Charge Malaysia Businessman In 1MDB Scandal
US authorities plan to lodge criminal charges against a businessman suspected to be at the centre of a corruption scandal that has embroiled Malaysia's prime minister, the Wall Street Journal...
Two German-Born Terror Suspects To Be Deported From Country
The pair, who investigators say were part of the radical Islamist scene in the central Germany city of Göttingen, have failed to win temporary legal protection from deportation. The 27-year-old...
ICC Poised To Make First Awards To War Crimes’ Victims
Judges at the International Criminal Court may Friday award the tribunal's first monetary sums to victims of war crimes, with lawyers estimating some $16.4 million in damages were caused by a 2003...
Ex-Congo VP To Be Sentenced For Bribing Witnesses
Former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba and four associates will be sentenced on Wednesday for bribing witnesses during his war crimes trial, in the first such case before the International...
S.Korean Ex-Leader Park Home After Marathon Interrogation
Ousted South Korean leader Park Geun-Hye returned home Wednesday after a marathon interrogation by prosecutors over the corruption and influence-peddling scandal that brought her down. Park -- the...