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Pop star Britney Spears has signed a USD 15 million book deal with publishing house Simon & Schuster for a tell-all memoir. According to Page Six, Simon & Schuster secured the deal for Spears' memoir after a massive bidding war involving multiple publishers. The book deal comes three months after the singer's 13-year conservatorship was terminated by a judge. In her public testimony last year about the conservatorship, Spears told the Los Angeles judge that she had been forced to work by conservators despite begging for breaks... Читать дальше...

Infant suffers cardiac arrest, post-Covid multi-organ failure; dialysis, CPR saves his life

A former students’ Union Government President in Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Bolaji Olaniyi, has accused management of the institution of deliberately withholding his result after graduation. Olaniyi, in a statement obtained in Osogbo, said his travails started in 2019, following a violent protest after a student of the institution, Hammed Sheu, slumped in the examination…

People infected with the omicron coronavirus variant are nearly 75 percent less likely to develop serious illness or die than those who contract the delta variant, real world data released on Monday

The Director of LAUTECH Open and Distance Learning Centre, Prof Tayo Arulogun, has blamed the increasing rate of graduate unemployment in Nigeria on the current paper-based traditional assessment method in the nation’s universities. Arulogun said the system had now become counterproductive and should be discarded. Arulogun said this in a statement on Monday after a…

The singer, who used the stage name Nightbirde, earned a coveted Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell on the US show

In keeping with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 the property will cater to myriad travelers, no matter their reason for visiting the area.

The owner of the zoo Pierre Thivillon laughs next to a chimpanzee on May 17, 2021, at the zoological park of Saint-Martin-la-Plaine, two days ahead of its reopening as part of France's latest step toward the ending of its third nationwide Covid-19 lockdown. (Photo by Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP Photo)

The Federal Government on Monday said it would soon launch a national sensitization campaign against the growing scourge of money rituals in Nigeria. The government said the trend “has already claimed many lives, especially of women and girls, in the country.” A statement issued by Segun Adeyemi, the Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of…

By Kate Holton and William Schomberg ASHFORD, England (Reuters) - After work in the evenings, Nicola Frape turns off the heating and huddles under a blanket with her daughter and a hot water bottle.

"I like the shiver," said Elina Makinen, who swims daily amid Finland's freezing temperatures. On some days the temperature can dip below -22 degrees Fahrenheit.

Canada's House of Commons voted 185 to 151 on Monday to authorize Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's invocation last week of the Emergencies Act to quell disruptive protests that used trucks and other large vehicles to blockade border crossings and paralyzed much of Ottawa for 23 days.

A total of 69,262 shares changed hands on the counter till 11:52AM (IST).

Former Bronx councilman Fernando Cabrera has landed a role at City Hall after all – where the controversial pastor will serve as a senior faith adviser in the newly created Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnership. Mayor Eric Adams confirmed the appointment in a Monday night statement shortly after Cabrera issued a lengthy mea culpa...

According to the foundation, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Sule, Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) MP N K Premachandran and Shiv Sena MP Shrirang Appa Barne will be awarded the 'Sansad Vishisht Ratna' award for their sustained outstanding performance.

The lawyer for Shane Tuck’s wife had previously claimed the coroner presiding over the inquest may have had a conflict of interest.

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The past few months of the Bravo series The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City have been a Stefon SNL sketch of chaos, a Mad Libs of reality-TV drama. There was a live Homeland Security raid and arrest, countless rumors about extramarital affairs, allegations that one housewife is secretly a cult leader, an ugly fight between dueling racists (neither is returning to the show next season), a manufactured sister-wife plot, and multiple explosive confrontations in a Sprinter van. And then, two episodes ago... Читать дальше...

Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth is back to work post Covid recovery

At meeting held on 21 February 2022

The high-decibel campaigning for this phase ended on Monday as sparring among political rivals intensified during the last-minute canvassing.

Further expand Group’s presence across Europe.

1. HSBC more than doubles full-year pre-tax profit  Financial Times
2. HSBC boosts staff bonus pool by a third to £2.6bn as profits soar in Covid crisis  The Guardian
3. HSBC Remains Long-Term Bullish on Hong Kong: CFO  Bloomberg Markets and Finance
4. HSBC doubles annual profits but eyes China woes on several fronts  Sky News
5. HSBC takes $500m hit from Chinese property crisis  The Telegraph
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