...as Gov Imoke wins award for reforms
SAN FRANCISCO, August 21, (THEWILL) – The State of Maryland in the United States of America and Cross River State, yesterday in Annapolis, the capital of Maryland, signed a Sister-State agreement.
While Governor Liyel...
Syrian activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of launching a gas attack that killed nearly 500 people on Wednesday, in what would, if confirmed, be by far the worst reported use of chemical arms in the two-year-old civil war.
An...
Deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will leave jail as early as Thursday after a court ruling that jolted a divided nation already in turmoil seven weeks after the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
Convening on Wednesday at the Cairo...
SAN FRANCISCO, August 21, (THEWILL) – A group, Joint Investigation Team, made up of defence investigators on Tuesday said all Boko Haram members currently being detained should be tried in a court of law for the crime they have...
Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May defended on Wednesday the involvement of the nation's most senior civil servant in ordering the Guardian newspaper to surrender leaked documents related to British and U.S. surveillance programs.
May said it was appropriate for top...
British Prime Minister David Cameron ordered his top civil servant to try to stop revelations flowing from the Guardian newspaper about U.S. and British surveillance programs, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
News that Cabinet Secretary Jeremy...
Stock index futures dipped in thin trading Wednesday amid investor caution ahead of the publication of the minutes of the latest Federal Reserve policy-setting meeting.
The S&P 500 rose on Tuesday to cap a four-day losing streak, but remained under...
The long-running rivalry between Microsoft Corp and Google Inc is turning into a schoolyard brawl.
Microsoft on Wednesday opened a new front against the world's No 1 search provider by piloting an ad-free offering for educational users of Bing, its...
Facebook Inc's (FB.O) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has enlisted Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS), Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) and four other companies for a project aimed at bringing Internet access to people around the world who can't afford it, mirroring...
Mexican telecoms group America Movil said it has put in place financing to buy the rest of Dutch group KPN even though its offer may be too late to influence the sale of KPN's German unit in October.
The Mexican...
