A Frenchman sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia has had his sentence commuted to 19 years in jail, his lawyer and media have said. Félix Dorfin, 35, had been convicted of trafficking about 3kg (6.6lb) of various drugs…
Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the granddaughter of assassinated presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy, has died. Emergency services were called to the Kennedy residence in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts on Thursday. The 22 year old was pronounced dead at Cape Cod Hospital. She…
Katy Perry has been ordered to pay a Christian rapper $550,000 (£454,000) of her own earnings from her 2013 song Dark Horse by a US court. That amount is a part of the $2.7m (£2.2m) awarded to gospel artist Flame,…
Women in Saudi Arabia can now travel abroad without a male guardian’s permission, royal decrees say. The new rule announced on Friday allows women over the age of 21 to apply for a passport without authorisation, putting them on an…
Japan will remove South Korea from its list of trusted trade partners, deepening a bitter row between the two countries. The decision to strike South Korea off its so-called “white list” puts fresh trading restrictions on the country. South Korean…
Brazil captain and right-back Dani Alves has joined Sao Paulo on a free transfer. Alves, 36, left Paris St-Germain during the summer and joins the club he supports on a deal until December 2022. Sao Paulo referred to signing “the…
Libya plans to shut down three of its biggest migration detention centres, the country’s Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha has announced. The centres in question are in Misrata, Tajoura and Khoms. It follows criticism that migrants were being returned to Tajoura…
The US has formally withdrawn from a nuclear treaty with Russia, raising fears of a new arms race. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. It banned…
The President of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF), Ishaku Tikon has said that Nigeria would continue to raise the standard of table tennis with the hosting of major competitions in Africa. Nigeria is about to host the ITTF Africa…
No fewer than 1,795 police constable candidates will be sitting for a test as part of their academic recruitment screening at the Police Command in Enugu state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, SP Ebere Amaraizu, disclosed…
