Facebook IPO: Africa is home to 37.7 million active users
At 37.7 million, Facebook has massive opportunities for expansion on the African continent as this represents a 3.6% penetration rate.
China: Deadly bus crash kills 28 in one day
At least 28 people reported killed and dozens injured in three bus crashes in one day in southern China, a state media reported Sunday.
Nigerian-born “U.S underwear bomber” appeals life sentence
Nigerian man who was given a life sentence for trying to blow up a packed jetliner using a bomb sewn into his underwear on Christmas Day 2009 has appealed the punishment.
France and Britain signs nuclear power deals
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron put recent disputes behind them Friday to unveil a nuclear power deal and renew their own sometimes shaky political alliance.
Nigerian-born ‘Christmas day bomber’ sentenced to life by US court
Nigerian-born Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was yesterday sentenced to life in prison by a US district court for his role in trying to blow up a packed Detroit airliner on Christmas Day of 2009.
African Giant land snails invades Miami, Southern Florida of the United States
No one really knows how they actually arrived, but an invasion of African giant snails has southern Florida in a panic over potential crop damage, disease and general yuckiness surrounding the slimy gastropods.
Nigerian Christmas day bomber to be sentenced in Detroit, USA
A United States federal judge is set to decide on Thursday if the Nigerian offender who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit in 2009 will spend the rest of his life in prison or not.
Investigators look into Whitney Houston’s death
LOS ANGELES, (AP) FEB 13 – Whitney Houston’s life of glorious song and unnerving self-destruction apparently ended in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Grammy weekend, but it could be weeks before investigators know exactly why she died.
Snoop Dogg the dogg father arrested for marijuana again
Hip-Hop Rapstar Snoop Dogg was arrested over the weekend after border control agents found what they said was a small amount of marijuana on his tour bus.
