An investigation is under way after three people and a dog died following an early-morning blaze at a hotel in Perth and Kinross. Emergency services were called to the New County Hotel in Perth just after 5am on Monday. Police…
3 gunmen killed, 2 foreigners injured in Kabul hotel attack
Armed men opened fire on Monday inside a hotel in central Kabul popular with Chinese nationals in an attack that ended when at least three gunmen were killed by security forces, the Taliban-run administration said. Two foreigners were injured while…
At least 4 reportedly killed as al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants storm hotel in Somalia’s capital
At least four people were killed in an ongoing attack by Al-Shabaab militants who laid siege to a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu overnight, a security agency official told AFP on Monday. Gunfire and explosions could still be heard…
Armed al-Shabab militants storm hotel in Somali capital
Somali security forces were attempting to flush out armed assailants from a hotel in the Somali capital, a police spokesman said Sunday, after the extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. There has been no immediate word of any…
Iconic Winston Churchill photo vanishes from Canada hotel
In a mystery worthy of a Hollywood film, a famous photograph of Winston Churchill snapped in 1941 has gone missing from an Ottawa hotel and replaced with a fake. The photo – known as “the Roaring Lion” – was taken…
I almost died from Covid -19 in a hotel room
I travel a lot from London to Lagos and to Abuja for business; my family isnt in Nigeria so when I flew to Abuja on the 20th of May; I decided to stay a few days in Abuja after I…
I don’t know the father of my 19-year-old daughter and I don’t care
When I got into the university I was practically fending for myself. You see, I had no sponsor. My parents were aged; they didn’t have money to support me in school; my elder siblings also had their own families to…
Free sex and free nudes that’s how I entered wahala
As you’re seeing me so, I almost finished secondary school. If not for bad friends, I almost did my waec and I swear, I could have passed! But I didn’t finish school, I joined bad gang and I steal phones…
Chef arrested for allegedly killing lawyer in Lagos hotel (Punch)
A chef, Joshua Usulor, has been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly killing a 34-year-old lawyer, Feyitayo Obot, who came to Lagos for a business meeting and lodged at a hotel in Opebi, Ikeja area…