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A rule banning unmarried Nigerian police officers from getting pregnant and ensured their sacking if they did, has been scrapped. In a landmark case, a judge ruled the regulation was discriminatory as it did not apply to male officers who got co-workers pregnant.

The case was brought by a corporal who was sacked in 2021 after getting pregnant. The woman was awarded 5m naira (£9,100) in compensation.

Peter Pottinga has been appointed as the General Manager of the soon to open InterContinental Chiang Mai Mae Ping hotel. A well-respected hospitality veteran, he will oversee all aspects of the hotel’s pre-opening and opening phases.

A native of Holland, Pottinga began his career in hospitality in 1997 with Des Indes InterContinental, The Hague, and the InterContinental New Orleans working his way up from Night Manager to Rooms Division Manager.

Jamaica Tourism Minister is urging players in the private sector to invest in the highly successful Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Festival.

This as Hon. Minister Edmund Bartlett revealed that the Jamaica Tourism Ministry is seeking to hand-over the event, which is the Caribbean’s only coffee festival, to private sector entrepreneurs within the next two years.

A 400-year-old Bible taken to the New World by the founder of a Massachusetts town has sold for £20,000 at an east Belfast auction. It sold above its £5,000 to £10,000 valuation by Bloomfield Auctions.

Printed in 1615, it was taken to what is now the United States by Elizabeth Pole in 1633. The Geneva Bible was the first mechanically printed, mass-produced Bible available to the public. It was first published in 1560 - half a century before the King James Bible.

Africa’s fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala has graduated as a police constable in Kenya's police service.

He was among 2,881 constables who graduated from the National Police College in an event presided over by President William Ruto.

A Pakistani man, who has three wives, has reportedly become a father for the 60th time and has no plans to stop. In a tweet, 50-year-old Sardar Jan Mohammad Khan Khilji welcomed a son and named him Haji Khushhal Khan.

Jan is a doctor who lives near the Eastern Bypass of Quetta City. He is married to three women and is known in the community for his massive family.

The 2022 Best of Jamaica survey results were announced at the Best of Jamaica 2022 Results Show aired on the Facebook and YouTube pages of Jamaicans.com. The winners of the Best of Jamaica awards were selected by the readers and staff of Jamaicans.com who were surveyed about their favourites of the year 2022 in the categories of “Jamaican Person,” Jamaican Sports Personality,” “Jamaican Reggae Artist,” “Best TV Personality Host in Jamaica,” “Best Jamaican Radio or Online Personality”, “Best Jamaican Patty”, “Jamaican Restaurant” and more.

After his son passed away, Pooranchand, 67, was living alone at his house in Bhogal in south-east Delhi. About two months ago, his daughter-in-law allegedly barged into the house accompanied by a group of people and claimed that the property belonged to her.

“She came with 5-6 people, and they turned violent. They even slapped my father. Thankfully, someone advised us to file a case under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act and we did it online,” Jyoti, Mr. Pooranchand’s eldest daughter, said.

Tens of thousands of U.S. soccer fans traveled to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. But the ways they celebrate the world’s most popular sport — even what team they cheered — are as diverse as their home country, fans said.

“We met Iranian fans last night from Ohio. We met Mexican fans from Texas,” Chase Kania of Seattle said in Doha. “That all speaks to our unique culture.”

Google has alleged that India's competition watchdog "copied" parts of an EU ruling in its order to fine the firm, Reuters has reported.

The tech giant said this in a filing to an Indian appeals tribunal, the report said. The tribunal will hear Google's appeal against the penalty on Wednesday.

Having drawn thousands of people for his funeral, Pope Benedict XVI was buried in a crypt beneath St Peter's Basilica - which holds the tombs of more than 90 of his predecessors -  according to Benedict's final wishes.

Beginning in a traditional ceremony at St. Peter’s Square, in Vatican City, Benedict was named pope emeritus during the funeral, as the language of some prayers was different because he was not the reigning pope when he died.

American football star, Damar Hamlin, who had a heart attack during an NFL game is still in intensive care in a critical condition, his team has said.

The Defensive Back (DB), 24, collapsed on the field and was given CPR for about 10 minutes after he was injured after making a tackle during a match against the Cincinnati Bengals. He collided with Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins in the incident on Monday night.

Setting a new record, the OPEC Fund for International Development has approved more than US$500 million in new financing at the most recent meeting of its Governing Board and in the final quarter of 2022.

The 15 new projects approved reflect the OPEC Fund's launch of a US$1 billion Food Security Action Plan and the adoption of its first dedicated Climate Action Plan earlier this year.

A local hospital in northern Ghana told 29-year-old Sulemana Abdul Samed during one of his recent check-ups that he had reached the height of 9 ft 6in (2.89m).

This would make him the tallest man in the world, but there was a catch - the rural clinic could not be sure of his height because it did not have the correct measuring tools.

After five years, Ghanaian music and cultural festival Afrochella will not return, its organisers have said. The shock announcement was made at the very end of the two-day festival.

"This is the last Afrochella," said co-founder Abdul Abdullah to the thousands of people still in the El-Wak stadium in the capital, Accra. He did not give any reason.

New year celebrations were in full flow in parts of the world where 2023 already arrived. The Pacific nations were the first to welcome in the new year, as thousands gathered in Sydney for the Australian city's renowned fireworks display.

New Year 2023 was first welcomed by the easternmost island of Oceania first wit the tiny Pacific island nations of Tonga, Samoa, and Kiribati entered on January 1, 10 am GMT or 3.30 pm IST on December 31.