'Muhammad Ali Was My Pen Aal For 30 Years'

Stephanie Meade and her pen pal Muhammad Ali

Stephanie Meade from Seattle, Washington first wrote to Muhammad Ali when she was 10 years old. More than 30 years later, they were still corresponding. Here, she tells BBC News about how these letters changed her life.

MH370: Blaine Gibson's One-man Search For Answers

Blaine Gibson made his latest find in Madagascar - a TV monitor case he believes is from MH370

In March 2014, Blaine Gibson was sitting in the living room of his childhood home, surrounded by memories.

Nigeria Army 'Killed Biafra Protesters'

Many ethnic Igbos feel Nigeria's central government does not represent their interests

Nigeria's military has killed at least 17 supporters of Biafran Independence, according to Amnesty International.

Niger Delta Avengers Threaten Secession From Nigeria

A militant group in Nigeria’s oil heartland of the Niger Delta has threatened secession from the West African country.

The move came as attacks on oil pipelines continue to deplete Nigeria’s output.

Zoo Incident: Mother Off The Hook

The mother of a 3-year-old boy who got into the Cincinnati Zoo’s gorilla exhibit last month will not face charges, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters announced Monday.

"I've never seen the attention given to a family endangering case as this," Deters said.

Hanging with Jane Sanders!!!

Jane Sanders picks me up at the Burlington, Vt. airport in her light green 2011 Subaru Forester with a “Bernie 2016” sticker in the window and a child’s booster seat in the back. No entourage, no driver, no hint that the wife of a presidential candidate is at the wheel.

Nigeria's Massive Refinery To Solve Energy Crisis?

Nigeria has a problem: The country is one of the world's top oil producers, but it doesn't have enough gasoline to fuel its struggling economy. 

On the outskirts of Lagos, Africa's richest man is building what he says is a solution to the country's fuel crisis: A massive, 650,000 barrel-per-day refinery that is designed to turn the country's crude oil into gasoline for hungry consumers.

Nigeria Is Fantastically Corrupt But These 18?????

Every year, Transparency International, the global anti-corruption coalition, releases its Corruption Perceptions Index, a survey into the countries people perceive as the most corrupt on earth.

As Transparency International notes, there is no hard-and-fast way "to assess absolute levels of corruption in countries or territories on the basis of hard empirical data." This is basically because, by its very nature, corruption is usually hidden from the public.

China's Faster High Speed tTrains With Adjustable Wheels For Different Gauges

China is developing a next-generation bullet train that can run at 400 kilometers an hour and is suitable for cross-border services, a senior researcher with the nation's high-speed rail program said on Sunday.

Leahy Law: Weapons To Human-Rights Abusers?

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with newly sworn-in Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. Wikimedia Commons/Department of State

Earlier this month, the Obama administration revealed that it is poised to sell up to twelve light attack aircraft to Nigeria in a bid to support the country’s fight against Boko Haram.

MacArthur Foundation: 100&Change

New MacArthur Competition to Award $100 Million to Help Solve a Critical Problem of Our Time

Published June 2, 2016

A new competition launched today will award a $100 million grant to a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem affecting people, places, or the planet. The Foundation’s competition, called 100&Change, is open to organizations working in any field of endeavor anywhere. Applicants must identify both the problem they are trying to solve, as well as their proposed solution. Competitive proposals will be meaningful, verifiable, durable, and feasible.

British Airways Too

An Airbus A320 passenger aircraft, operated by British Airways, prepares to land in London. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg)

British Airways is evaluating its routes to Nigeria, adding to aviation-industry pressure on the government as sister carrier Iberia and U.S. competitor United Airlines halt flights to the oil-based market as traffic stutters and currency controls delay access to revenue.

Nigeria Currency Crisis!

                                     Governor Godwin Emefiele

Nigeria’s central bank may soon give bond and stock investors what they have been pleading for: a weaker Naira.

Harvard's 'The Most Powerful' Graduation Speech, Ever

It's the speech Harvard University is calling "the most powerful, heartfelt" speech "you will ever hear."

NATO At War With Russia?

New Russian military vehicles, including the T-14 Armata tank, making their way to Red Square.

A new book by Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO's deputy supreme allied commander for Europe from 2011 to 2014, evokes a potential scenario that leads to a devastating future war with Russia.

Hmmmmm! Na Waoh!!! United Airlines Cancels Houston-to-Nigeria Route:See Why

United Airlines will stop flying to Nigeria next month, ending the carrier’s only route to Africa because of weakness in the energy sector and difficulty in collecting money from tickets sold in that country.

In Hiroshima, Obama hHonors 'Silent Cry' Of Bombing Victims

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — 

President Barack Obama paid tribute Friday to the "silent cry" of the 140,000 victims of the atomic bomb dropped 71 years ago on Hiroshima, and called on the world to abandon "the logic of fear" that encourages the stockpiling of nuclear weapons.

Buhari's Battle To Clean Up Nigeria's Oil Industry

The revelation by Nigeria's auditor general that $16bn (£11bn) of oil revenue went missing in 2014 has emphasised the scale of the task facing President Muhammadu Buhari in his efforts to clean up the oil sector. Neil Ford, an expert on oil, crime and security in Nigeria, outlines some of the ways in which huge amounts of money are stolen and assesses the president's chance of success.

Boko Haram battle: On Combat Patrol With Nigeria’s Army

 Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari won elections in March partly on a promise to crush the militant Islamist group Boko Haram - and gave his military chiefs until the end of the year to beat the insurgents. Ahead of the deadline, the BBC's Martin Patience joined the army on patrol in the combat zone.

Buhari’s First Year: Five Ways Nigeria Has Changed

President Muhammadu Buhari came to power promising Nigerians "change". Novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani gives five examples of what has changed in Nigeria since 29 May 2015 when he was sworn in.

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1. Are we safer? 

Those of us who travel regularly in Nigeria's north-east had become used to what should be a 15-minute journey turning into an hour-long ordeal.

'Incredibly Rare' 19th Century Shipwreck in Boston Construction

A 19th century shipwreck buried underground in Boston is being excavated today after it was unearthed by chance late last week.

Iran Could Destroy Israel in ‘Minutes’: Commander

An Iranian military adviser has said that Iran could wipe out Israel “in less than eight minutes” if the order was given by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Privacy For Facebook CEO's House

Even social-media billionaire Mark Zuckerberg draws a line at oversharing.

Divorsed Within 24 Hours!

A bride’s decision to reply to congratulatory text messages from relatives and friends following her wedding ceremony resulted in the demise of her marriage, Gulf News reports.

Japan's Inustrialization

What supported the startling industrialization of Meiji Japan was not the direct import of vain invocations from the West. It was individual businessmen of strong character who, burned with zeal and the proud engineers, who absorbed new learning like a sponge absorbs water and raced around the machines that equipped the factory floors. Japan during the period of its industrial revolution was very much like a living museum packed with energetic industrialists.