Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti says the US city “would be stupid” not to agree to stage the 2028 Olympics, leaving Paris poised to secure the 2024 Games. Garcetti’s comments all but confirmed the French capital as the successors to Tokyo in 2020, with LA waiting a further four years for its turn. The International … Read more
The security industry needs to worry less about technology and more about people, said Facebook’s security boss. Alex Stamos scolded the security industry in the opening keynote of the 2017 Black Hat conference. He said there was too much focus on technically complex “stunt” hacks and not enough on finding ways to help the mass … Read more
The White House has not yet decided how it will implement the president’s ban on transgender people serving in the US military. Mr. Trump’s surprise Twitter announcement on Wednesday has been met with criticism from rights groups. Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the administration would work alongside the Pentagon to decide how to proceed. It is … Read more
South Korean President Moon Jae-In has welcomed a new member into his family: Tory, a black mutt who was reportedly headed for the dinner table before being rescued two years ago. The pooch’s previous owner was an old man notorious for abusing dogs and eating them, according to CARE, the animal rights group responsible for … Read more
Two chants emerged as hallmarks of Donald Trump’s campaign rallies as he made his improbable run for the White House. One was “Build the wall!” and the other was “Lock her up!” The plan for a wall on the border with Mexico has been slow getting off the ground, but Trump as president has revived … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late Wednesday he wants to expel Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera from Israel amid tensions over a sensitive Jerusalem holy site. “The Al-Jazeera channel continues to incite violence around the Temple Mount,” Netanyahu wrote in a Facebook post, referring to the Haram al-Sharif compound in Jerusalem, known to Jews as the … Read more
Facebook on Wednesday reported that its quarterly profit leapt 71 percent from a year ago to $3.9 billion as it dished out money-making ads to its more than two billion users. Revenue in the recently-ended quarter climbed 45 percent to $9.3 billion, Facebook said in a stronger-than-expected earnings report for the second quarter. Facebook shares … Read more
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that transgender people may not serve “in any capacity” in the US military, upending a key policy from Barack Obama’s administration and drawing swift condemnation. Announcing the major policy change on Twitter, Trump said the military should be focused on “overwhelming victory,” and not burdened with the “tremendous” medical costs … Read more
Steve Scalise, the US congressman shot last month by a gunman angry about President Donald Trump, has been released from the hospital and will undergo extended rehabilitation, the hospital announced Wednesday. “Yesterday, he was discharged from MedStar Washington Hospital Center and is now beginning a period of intensive inpatient rehabilitation,” the hospital said in a … Read more
Controversial dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale, says he and his wife are not bothered by the intended plan by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to demolish their facility among other structures lying along the East Legon Green Belt Zone. The facility has been earmarked for demolition. Although on social media, some of their fans yesterday sympathised … Read more
Ten Chinese Super League clubs say they have paid off debts related to player wages, bonuses and transfers after 13 of them were threatened with expulsion. Shanghai Shenhua, who signed Argentine striker Carlos Tevez in January on what are believed to be among the highest wages in world football, and Oscar’s Shanghai SIPG are among … Read more
Lawyer Dr Maurice Ampaw, has called on the police to immediately arrest 19-year-old Rashidatu Mohammed, popularly known as ‘Rashida Black Beauty’, and Christabel Ekeh for indecent exposure. He said Rashida and Ekeh should not be allowed to walk free after releasing a naked video and pictures of themselves on social media. Recently, Ghanaian-Nigerian actress Ms Ekeh released her nude … Read more
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, has sued the lawyer of the so-called staff of the Electoral Commission who are seeking her removal from office by the President. In a suit intercepted by Starr News, the EC boss, among others, is asking the court to restrain Maxwell Opoku Agyemang from making comments which will further … Read more
Residents of Tamale and its suburbs were thrown into a state of panic Tuesday afternoon as a heavy down pour that lasted for over two hours culminated in life threatening flooding in the area. The Tamale flooding saw many communities of the metropolis submerged in flood, with lives [humans and livestock] and valuable properties, including houses … Read more
At least 26 Afghan soldiers have been killed and 13 wounded in a Taliban attack on a military base in Kandahar province, the defence ministry said Wednesday, the latest blow to struggling security forces. The militants “attacked an army camp in Karzali area of Khakrez district of Kandahar last night,” MoD spokesman General Dawlat Waziri … Read more
Adobe to kill off Flash plug-in by 2020 Adobe Systems has said that it plans to phase out its Flash Player plug-in by the end of 2020. The technology was once one of the most widely used ways for people to watch video clips and play games online. But it also attracted much criticism, particularly … Read more
A group of old pals trot onto the pitch for what looks like an ordinary football match in Vietnam. But it is actually a sly act of subversion in the authoritarian state, where this team of political dissidents has turned to football to circumvent government efforts to block their meetings. The game lasts just 45 … Read more
The scar above John McCain’s eye and purplish bruise on his face stood as evidence that all was not normal in the US Senate. But the veteran Republican lawmaker, who announced last week he was suffering from brain cancer, nevertheless made a triumphant and emotional return Tuesday, showing glimpses of the fiery passion that has … Read more
Adobe on Tuesday said its Flash software that served up video and online games for decades will be killed off over the next three years. The software giant said in a blog post its software, once considered a standard, was being supplanted by open standards such as HTML5 which have matured and become viable alternatives … Read more
Visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg were trading jabs on social media over artificial intelligence this week in a debate that has turned personal between the two technology luminaries. Musk, the founder of Tesla, SpaceX and other ventures, on Tuesday claimed Zuckerberg’s knowledge of artificial intelligence was “limited,” two days after the … Read more