Benin, A Ponzi Scheme and A Long Wait For Answers
Sadiatou used to be a well-off trader of traditional cloth at the market in Benin's economic hub of Cotonou but ...
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Coronation Street Actor Roy Barraclough Dies Aged 81
Comic actor Roy Barraclough, who played Rovers Return landlord Alec Gilroy in Coronation Street, has died aged 81. Julie Goodyear, ...
Pessimism Rife In Working-Class Tehran Ahead of Poll
In a working-class district of Tehran teeming with porters, motorbikes and pickup trucks, residents have little enthusiasm about next week's ...
More Trouble Ahead For Taiwan’s Tsai After Rocky Year
It has been a turbulent first year in power for Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen as relations with Beijing have soured ...
I Can’t Wait For Election of MMDCEs
The need for election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), by universal adult suffrage has never been so ...
Actor Tim Pigott-Smith Dies Aged 70
British actor Tim Pigott-Smith, who was best known for his Bafta-winning role in 1984 TV series The Jewel in the ...
Salesman In Court Over Armed Robber
The Koforidua Circuit Court ‘A’ has remanded into Police custody a 28-year-old suspected armed robber, Daniel Dzidzor, and has also ...
Reverend Azigiza Jnr To Be Honored At 2017 Rush Ghana DJ Awards
Reverend Azigiza Jnr., known for his overwhelming triumph in 1991 as the Best West African DJ, Best African DJ in ...
Belgian Altar Boy Goes To Fight For ISIS, Then Returns On Welfare
With his blue eyes, brown hair and beaming smile, young Michael Delefortrie looked every inch the angelic altar boy. But ...
Taiwan Court Hears Landmark Gay Marriage Case
Taiwan's constitutional court began hearing a landmark case Friday that could make the island the first place in Asia to ...
African American Oscars Triumph Masking Real Diversity Woes
The triumph of black artists at the Oscars was seen as a signal that predominantly white Hollywood was making a ...
In India, A New Banking System To Reach the Masses
At a furniture store outside India's capital, a salesman scans the manager's ID and takes her fingerprint on a biometric ...
Streaming Industry In Historic Win At Oscars
In a first for the streaming industry, Amazon Studios and Netflix walked away with Oscars, underlining their emergence as major ...
Key Oscars Moments You May Have Missed Amid Envelope-Gate
Described by breathless commentators as an "epic flub," the best picture mix-up at Sunday's Oscars is being talked up as ...
Amazon, Netflix Grab A Share of Oscar Glory
Silicon Valley crashed Hollywood's biggest awards show on Sunday as Amazon.com Inc (AMZN. O) and Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) collected the ...
Wrong Film Named Best Picture At Oscars
Moonlight has won best picture at the Oscars – but only after Faye Dunaway initially said La La Land had ...
Hollywood Takes On Trump At Oscars With Message of Inclusion
Hollywood seized the global platform of the Oscars to take on Donald Trump, but stars kept the tone light and ...
Wrong Film Named Best Picture At Oscars
Moonlight has won best picture at the Oscars – but only after Faye Dunaway initially announced La La Land had ...
Iran’s ‘The Salesman’ Wins Oscar, Director Absent In Protest
Iranian film "The Salesman" on Sunday won the Oscar for best foreign language film, with director Asghar Farhadi skipping the ...
London Open-Air Screening Backs Oscar Boycott Director Farhadi
Thousands of film buffs were expected to gather in London's Trafalgar Square Sunday for a screening of "The Salesman" by ...