-Anietie UdobitThe Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen continues her reign as the world’s highest-paid model, according to Forbes. Bundchen, 36, who recently featured in the opening ceremony at Rio, has topped the list since 2002 and last year amassed $30.5million (approximately £23.3million). According to the finance magazine the majority of her income
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Britain would “welcome” Apple to the UK after the European Commission said the company should pay €13bn (£11bn) in unpaid taxes to the Irish state, Downing Street said on Tuesday. The comments will fuel speculation that Britain – which could have left the EU within three years – is hoping that
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A private mining group headed by Mr. Hugh Morgan, has made a potentially “high grade” Nickel discovery in Nigeria, The Australian reports. The discovery of Titan is rumoured to be close to Dangoma, a small farming town in the outskirts of Kaduna State. According to the newspaper, the discovery is unusual
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-Anietie UdobitWayne Rooney has confirmed that he will retire from international football after the 2018 World Cup in Russia, providing he is selected for the tournament by new England manager Sam Allardyce. Rooney captained England to the embarrassing Euro 2016 last-16 defeat by Iceland in the summer, but has been retained
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-Anietie UdobitThe world’s oldest man has been named as Indonesian Mbah Gotho, who is 145 years old, with documentation that says he was born in 1870. Mr Gotho said he began preparing for his death in 1992, even having a gravestone made, but 24 years later he is still alive.
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Dogs understand what some human words mean, according to a study published in the prestigious journal Science. In a world-first experiment, academics in Hungary trained 13 dogs to voluntarily lie in an MRI scanner to monitor what happened in their brain when the researchers spoke to them. They discovered that dogs’ brains
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-Anietie UdobitZika can “wreak havoc” on the brains of adults and cause major, lasting damage, according to a new study. The research could overthrow the assumption that the virus is only of major worry to pregnant women. Until now, the mosquito-borne infection has been primarily linked to microcephaly, a serious defect
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-Anietie UdobitA court in Ireland has ordered Facebook to reveal the identity of a user who is accused of defaming a Ugandan lawyer, The Daily Monitor reports. The judge ruled that revealing the identity of the user would allow the lawyer to sue him in a Ugandan court, the report
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-Anietie UdobitIreland should recover up to €13bn (£11bn) from Apple in back taxes, the European Commission has ruled. After a three-year long investigation, it has concluded that the US firm's tax benefits are illegal. The Commission said this enabled it to pay substantially less than other businesses, in effect paying a corporate
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The Niger Delta Avengers has announced that it will halt its hostilities. The Avengers have been responsible for a series of attacks in recent months which have damaged the country's oil output. The attacks have also been cited as a cause of an uptick in the price of oil. The group on its
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