INTERNATIONAL

King Charles III has been crowned at London’s Westminster Abbey at a solemn Christian coronation steeped in 1,000 years of history and tradition, but adapted to reflect 21st-century Britain. The build-up to the ceremony — the religious confirmation of Charles’s accession after the…

The UK Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) says it will probe the registrations of 512 Nigerians who passed its exams at a computer-based test (CBT) centre in Ibadan. The test of competence is deployed by the NMC to assess people applying to join…

British pop phenom Ed Sheeran did not plagiarize Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” when composing his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud,” a US jury ruled Thursday. Sheeran stood up and hugged his team after jurors ruled that he “independently” created his song,…

Shareholders of Adidas have filed a class action against the giant sportswear brand over the costly failure of the company’s partnership with popular rapper, Kanye West. In the suit filed on Friday at a Portland U.S. District Court, the shareholders alleged that the…

Elon Musk on Saturday announced a plan for his Twitter platform to allow media publishers to charge users on a per-article basis with a single click. “This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per…

Three Nigerian nationals accused of operating an international fraud scheme have been extradited to the Southern District of Florida to face federal charges. A release issued by the United States Department of Justice yesterday said that one of the suspects, Kennedy Ikponmwosa, was…

A Dutch court on Friday banned a man from donating any more of his sperm after he fathered at least 550 children in the Netherlands and other countries and misled prospective parents about the number of offspring he helped to conceive. A judge…

The BBC’s chairman on Friday announced his resignation after his involvement in a loan for then UK prime minister Boris Johnson raised questions about the broadcaster’s vaunted impartiality. Britain’s Conservative government has long been accused of seeking to muzzle the publicly funded BBC,…

Famous Talk Show Host, Jerry Springer, has died, aged 79. The controversial presenter hosted The Jerry Springer Show for nearly three decades from 1991. Springer died peacefully on Thursday at his home in Chicago, his publicists confirmed to BBC News. In a statement, Jene Galvin,…