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A US Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan has been deported to Mexico, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. The deportation follows an earlier decision by US authorities to deny Miguel Perez’s citizenship application because of a felony drug conviction, despite his service...

As users continue to delete their Facebook accounts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a number are discovering that the social network holds far more data about them than they expected, including complete logs of incoming and outgoing calls and SMS messages. Read more via the...

The father of Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, says it was “God’s plan” for him to have a baby with his own stepdaughter. Errol Musk, 72, described the 10-month-old baby boy he had with Jana Bezuidenhout, 30, as “exquisite”. Read more via The Telegraph – https://ift.tt/2I2ZUC4...

Phillip Schofield was left red faced on This Morning when he interviewed three women who had undergone countless procedures to increase the size of their boobs, with one having a port on the side to keep them topped up. Mary, Dolly and Lilly weren’t happy with the size of their breasts and so...

Indian PM Narendra Modi’s official mobile application has been criticised for sending personal user data to a third party without their consent. A security researcher had tweeted that the app was sending personal user data to a third-party domain that was traced to a US company. Mr Modi’s...

A year two senior student of the Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, has said she will not return to the school even after Boko Haram returned nearly all 110 students kidnapped from the school. Rakiya Adamu, SS2, who was among the lucky few that escaped on February 19, when...

An aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, on Monday told a Federal High Court, Lagos, that he was not aware of the appointment of the former First Lady, Patience, as a Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa State. Mr Dudafa made the assertion under cross examination in a suit...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it has registered 1.5 million students to write its 2018 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). The Council’s Director of Public Affairs, Mr Damianus Ojijeogu, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday...

The National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC), on Monday opened its NYSC Portal for the registration of 2018 Batch ‘A’ prospective corps members. The NYSC in a statement enjoined all 2018 Batch ‘A’ prospective corps members to commence online registration as from Monday, 26th March as the...

South Korea said on Monday that it had won an exemption from United States steel tariffs after the two countries agreed to amend their free-trade deal. Read more via The New York Times – https://ift.tt/2GtiJBm Get more World News

Mozambican media say 23 people were killed when a vehicle veered into a crowd attending a party in the capital of the southern African nation. Radio Mocambique says the vehicle was traveling at high speed when it hit the crowd early Sunday in Maputo. The radio station describes it as an...