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IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionBill Cosby looked frail as he slowly walked to waiting media outside his house, supported by his legal team US comedian Bill Cosby has left prison hours after his sexual assault conviction was overturned by Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court. The judges said there had been a “process violation” by …

Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel Nartey George says the threats on his life for pushing against LGBTQI promotion in the country is unending. He said the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Gregory Andrews is one of such persons who has threatened to jail him if he [Sam George] …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionWestern Canada and the US Pacific north-west have seen days of baking temperatures Dozens of people have died in Canada amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed temperature records. Police in British Columbia have responded to almost 70 sudden deaths since Monday, the majority of them involving elderly …

Pope Francis met Spider-Man at a general papal audience in Vatican City on Wednesday. Mattia Villardita, the 28-year-old who dressed up as Peter Parker’s superhero persona, said it’s his mission to bring joy to children in the hospital. “This all came about from a personal story. I was a patient for 19 …

The Queen has been left with a £10million shortfall in her finances as a result of the pandemic. Buckingham Palace revealed yesterday that it had lost just over half its annual income outside of Government funding after closing to visitors. It meant the royal household was forced to break into its savings. …

miasm At least one person has died and dozens are missing after the collapse of a 12-storey residential building north of Miami, Florida, officials say. The number of people who have been located now stands at 102, while 99 are still unaccounted for, according to Miami-Dade Mayor Danielle Levine-Cava. It …

Five people have been hospitalised with non-life-threatening injuries after a pedestrian bridge that was in “poor condition” collapsed onto a busy Washington, D.C., highway. The incident occurred before noon on Wednesday, June 23,  on DC-295 near Polk Street. The collapse was caused by a collision, D.C. Deputy Mayor for Public …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionIn recent weeks, people have placed children’s shoes at memorials to mourn those who died at Canada’s indigenous schools An indigenous group in Canada says it has found hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan province. The Cowessess First Nation said …

US pop star Britney Spears has launched a blistering attack on the “abusive” conservatorship that has controlled her life for 13 years at a court hearing. Speaking in open court for the first time in the case, she accused her father of controlling her “100,000%”. She said she had been …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERS Anti-virus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to the US to face tax evasion charges. The Catalan Justice Department said prison medics tried to resuscitate him, but were not successful. It said …