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One person was killed and seven injured, including children, in a roller coaster accident at the Grona Lund amusement park in the Swedish capital on Sunday, a park official and police said. Eyewitnesses said the park’s Jetline roller coaster had partly derailed during a ride, sending people crashing to the ground. “This is tragic and shocking, and regrettably, we’ve learned that one person has died,” Grona Lund spokesperson Annika Troselius told public broadcaster SVT. Ambulances, fire trucks, and a helicopter were seen arriving at the park, and police launched an investigation. Police said there were children and adults among those…

Hikers have found human remains in Southern California’s Mount Baldy wilderness, the mountainous area where British-born film actor Julian Sands went missing in January, local authorities said late on Saturday. The hikers contacted Fontana Station officials at about 10 a.m. on Saturday to report the discovery of the body, which was taken to the coroner’s office for identification, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. Sands was reported missing on Jan. 13 after he had gone hiking alone in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains, about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Los Angeles.…

Pope Francis on Sunday offered prayers and solidarity to the family of a Vatican schoolgirl who went missing 40 years ago in one of Italy’s most enduring mysteries. Emanuela Orlandi, the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican usher, failed to return home on June 22, 1983, after a music lesson in central Rome. The case has drawn renewed worldwide attention following the release of the Netflix series “Vatican Girl” late last year. Referring to the 40th anniversary of her disappearance, Francis said he wanted “to express once again my closeness to her family, especially her mother, assuring my prayers”. Delivering his…

A professor of Mass Communication at the School of Communication at Lagos State University (LASU), Lai Oso, is reportedly dead. Oso, aged 67, was reported to have died in a ghastly accident that happened on Saturday evening while returning from a conference in Abraka, Delta State. LASU aims to become best varsity in West-Africa — VC The Dean, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, LASU, Professor Sunday Olayinka Alawode, confirmed his death in a broadcast message sent to newsmen. Alawode wrote, “Good morning, family. I am constrained to inform us of the involvement of Professor Muraino Olayiwola OSO (we all…

Update your WhatsApp to get the chat edit feature Open WhatsApp and locate the chat you want to edit Long-press any of the WhatsApp chats you want to edit Select the edit option Save and send the edited message Final thoughts on how to edit WhatsApp chats WhatsApp is arguably the most popular messaging platform worldwide, and it offers a wide range of features to enhance your chatting experience. While editing messages after sending them was once impossible, WhatsApp has now joined the likes of Slack as it now allows users to edit their chats, fixing typos, mistakes, or adding…

Japan’s military is testing Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service with an eye to adopting the technology next fiscal year, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Sunday, citing unnamed government sources. The Ministry of Defence already has access to communication satellites in geostationary orbit, but the use of Starlink technology, operated by Musk’s SpaceX, would add a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit, the Yomiuri said. BREAKING: 6.2m earthquake hit northern Japan Countries around the world are seeking to build resilience against the risk of jamming communications or attacks on satellites in the event of conflict. Japan’s Self-Defence Forces have…

Greeks went to the polls on Sunday for the second time in little over a month to elect a new parliament, with voters expected to give former Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservatives a second term in office. Sunday’s election is being held in the shadow of a migrant shipwreck on June 14 in which hundreds of people are feared to have perished off southern Greece. One of the worst such disasters in years, it has shown the parties’ divisions over migration. 2023 Polls: Sierra Leoneans elect new president Mitsotakis’ New Democracy party won an election on May 21, 20 points…

The Nigerian Navy Victory boat rescued eleven medical students along the Calabar and Oron waterways on Saturday. An investigation revealed that they were in Calabar for the annual Nigerian Medical Students’ Association (NIMSA) health week. The group of visiting scholars embarked on a boat ride via the Calabar Marina Resort. Unfortunately, their boat capsized, but luckily the Nigerian Navy Victory Boat was close by, and frantic efforts were made to rescue them. As of the time this incident was reported, three of the students were still missing. Meanwhile, the Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu, has ordered an investigation into…

Mutinous Russian mercenaries and the Wagner army, who surged most of the way to Moscow, have agreed to turn back to avoid bloodshed, their leader said on Saturday, in a de-escalation of what had become a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power. The fighters of the Wagner private army were just 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the capital, said the leader, former Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin. The rebels had captured the city of Rostov hundreds of miles to the south before racing across the country. “They wanted to disband the Wagner military company. We embarked on a…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has adopted the National Minimum Tolerable Score for admission into universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education as 140, 100, and 100, respectively. The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this at the 2023 Policy Meeting of Tertiary Institutions in Abuja on Saturday. JAMB proposes use of mobile phones ‘BYOD’ for UTME He said that all institutions must abide by this rule and not go below the approved points. He also said that every tertiary institution must ensure its own minimum standard, especially as it relates to institutional screening and grading in the Senior…