Australia's triple Olympic gold medalist Stephanie Rice announced her retirement from competitive swimming at the age of 25 on Wednesday.
Rice had a stunning Olympic debut at Beijing's Water Cube in 2008, winning the 200 and 400 meters individual medley...
Australian officials said on Wednesday that two new "ping" signals had been detected in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, boosting confidence after more than a month of fruitless searching for the missing jetliner.
The signals, which could be...
NATO will triple its usual number of fighter jets patrolling over the Baltics next month to beef up its eastern European defenses due to tension with Russia over Ukraine, a NATO military official said on Tuesday.
Four NATO fighters are...
Mattress maker Angel Lopez is both a problem and an opportunity for the Puerto Rican government.
His one-man business works off the books as part of a vast underground economy, which doesn't directly pay into the treasury's coffers and is...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 09, (THEWILL) – Tragedy struck on Tuesday in Warri, Delta State, as a bulldozer belonging to the Delta State Government rammed into a tricycle, killing one person in the process.
The bulldozer was said to be on...
Toyota Motor Corp will recall 6.58 million vehicles globally to fix faults in the steering and seats, a company draft statement showed on Wednesday, in one of the largest recalls to date in the global auto industry.
The world's biggest...
The World Bank has approved $140 million additional support for community development in Nigeria.
Twenty six out of 36 states of the federation are to benefit from the project which will focus on the most vulnerable households in the country.
A...
BEVERLY HILLS, CA, April 09, (THEWILL) – A witness in the on-going trial of Rocky Energy Limited and four others implicated in a N789.6million subsidy scam Tuesday told a Lagos State High court presided over by Justice Lateefa Okunnu...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 08, (THEWILL) – Issues bordering on corrupt practices, unemployment, restructuring of the country into federating units, economic development and national security topped deliberation on Tuesday at the on-going National Conference in Abuja.
A release signed by Mr....
In the years after 1960 Nigerian Independence and many other African nations’ independence, the most resented action in Africa was “meddling in Nigeria’s or African Affairs” by “Colonial Powers” or other nations. No foreign power would comment on Nigerian/...