The academic at the centre of the Facebook data scandal has said the social network is in full-on "PR crisis mode".
Aleksandr Kogan's remarks came as he faced a grilling over his role from MPs.
The social network was fully aware that its platform "was being mined by thousands of others", he...
Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority on Tuesday announced the revocation of the broadcasting license of a local radio station after airing a sermon that was perceived as discriminatory against women.
Amazing Grace Christian Radio, which is suspended for 30 days for the sermon, failed to...
An Egyptian military court on Tuesday sentenced the country’s former anti-corruption chief, Hisham Geneina, to five years imprisonment for allegedly insulting the state and military.
Mr Genena was arrested in February following incendiary comments he made in a television interview in which he...
Former US President George H W Bush is in a hospital intensive care unit with an infection, a week after the death of his wife, Barbara.
In a statement, a family spokesman said he had contracted an infection that spread to his blood, but was "responding to treatments".
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Former President George H.W. Bush was admitted to the hospital after contracting an infection that spread to his blood.
His office said in a statement that he appears to be recovering.
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A team of US doctors has successfully carried out the world's first total transplant of a penis and scrotum.
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, performed the operation on a soldier who had been wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan.
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Britain must permanently return all artefacts from Ethiopia held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Addis Ababa will not accept them on loan, an Ethiopian government official said.
The call comes after the museum, one of London’s most popular tourist attractions, put Ethiopian treasures …...
Britain’s Prince William leaves the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital in London following the birth of his third child, a son. (April 23)
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The United States would open its Embassy in the City of Jerusalem on May 14, to coincide with Israel’s Independence Day, spokesperson of the Israeli Embassy to Russia said on Monday.
In December, U.S. President Donald Trump announced his decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s …
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Kellyanne Conway says Melania Trump is a "superior" First Lady to Michelle Obama ... and the country is lucky to have her.
Yep, that's the word she used.
We spotted the White House counselor in D.C. and asked about reports that Melania has gotten the cold shoulder from U.S. magazines while...
Crystal Tadlock was given the free apple on a Delta Air Lines flight to the United States.
A woman says she is facing a $500 (£357) fine from the US customs agency after a free apple she was given as a snack …
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Saudi Energy Minister Khaled al-Faleh said Friday the global market has the capacity to absorb higher oil prices, drawing a swift reaction from US President Donald Trump who accused OPEC of inflating prices.
Faleh’s statement at a meeting of oil producers in Saudi Arabia came as crude hit the...
Zimbabwean Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy has summoned former president Robert Mugabe to appear before it on May 9, to explain his claim that more than 15 billion U.S. dollars worth of diamonds had been siphoned out of the country.
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Police arrested more than 180 people as opposition supporters staged sit-ins and attempted to block traffic in Armenia’s capital Friday, the latest in days of protests at what they are branding a power-grab by ex-president Serzh Sarkisian.
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An American, Walter Moody has been sentenced to death by the Court of Alabama after was convicted in 1991 of 71 charges after he killed the federal appeals judge Robert Vance and civil rights lawyer Robert Robinson in 1989.
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Belgium has opened an investigation against three companies for allegedly illegally exporting a chemical to Syria that could be used to produce the nerve agent sarin, Belgian Foreign Minister, Didier Reynders, said on Thursday.
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The king of Swaziland, one of the world’s few absolute monarchs, announced on Thursday that his country had changed its name to eSwatini to mark 50 years since independence from British rule.
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No criminal charges will be brought over the death of US musician Prince in April 2016, prosecutors say.
The singer, 57, died from an accidental overdose of the painkiller fentanyl, an opioid many times more powerful than heroin.
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An Italian priest has gambled away more than 620,000 dollars of his parish money, reports said on Thursday.
Flavio Gobbo, 48, negotiated a plea bargain for a suspended two-year jail term for embezzlement, according Corriere della Sera, a newspaper in Italy.
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Iran president, Hassan Rouhani says Iran is not producing weapons to attack its neighbouring countries but for defence of the country.
While he addressed the Tehran crowd and a live TV audience on Wednesday on air, Rouhani said,
“We tell the world that we will produce or acquire any weapons...
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