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June 16, 2021

Nicki Minaj: whacky pop star's footwear goes viral

Once again Nicki Minaj is breaking the internet. But this time it’s because of Crocs not anacondas. The 38-year-old rapper has been sporting the foam clogs on her Instagram to promote a new...

Ireland's gay vote: newspaper howler about PM

Great news that the once illiberal Catholic country of Ireland has become a trailblazer for the rest of the world by voting to legalise gay marriage. It's the first time same sex matrimony has been voted on in a national referendum.

Polls show that young people - who have been at the hearet of the Yes campaign - enrolled to vote in their tens of thousands and turned out in huge numbers to support gay marriage.

Did the West put deadly Ebola in Africa?

What I’ve found remarkable about the Ebola pandemic in West Africa is the amount of distrust there is among not just Black people about the West’s role in it.There are projections from medical experts of a devastating million and half peo ...

Record-breaking magician David Blaine dazzles BBC staff

American magician and endurance stuntman David Blaine wowed BBC executives and office workers yesterday afternoon with an impromptu performance of card tricks at London's New Broadcasting House.The 40-year-old New Yorker was in town to tie-up a deal w ...

New puppets: Egypt's once hated military and street protestors

When I visited Tahir Square last year, days after Mohammed Morsi had become Egypt's first democratically elected president, graffiti everywhere denounced the military which had taken power after the overthrow of dictator Hosni Mubarak.Now the very ...

Police 'spied on me 24/7 to dig for dirt'

There has rightly been shock and horror expressed from the British prime minister downwards following revelations that undercover police spied on the family of murdered Black teenager Stephen Lawrence 20 years ago to dig up stuff about their priv ...

Happy Diwali from The-Latest

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Campaigners slam Big Brother in the classroom

Anthony RadwanCivil liberties campaigners have condemned the introduction of CCTV into classrooms at a British school.Education chiefs in south London have spent  £60,000 putting cameras at Stockwell Park High School. But Liberty, the civil rights org ...

Venezuelan president and UK MP unite to break Gaza siege

Outspoken British Member of Parliament George Galloway is planning a new aid convoy to the besieged Gaza Strip with controversial Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez..According to a report published by the Ma'an news agency, Galloway is currently in Egypt a ...

Window dressing: mannequins caught on the loo

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