Cambridge University backs academic who tweeted "White Lives Don't Matter" and promotes her to professor

A lecturer of the University of Cambridge has been promoted to a professor after she received abusive messages and death threats for tweeting "White Lives Don't Matter". Dr. Priyamvada Gopal, 51, who teaches in the Faculty of English at Churchill College, took to the social media platform on Tuesday evening, June 23, to write: "I'll say it again. White Lives Don't Matter. As white lives."

Doctors baffled as rare "two-headed" baby is born in Uzbekistan

A “two-headed baby” is in intensive care after being born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The baby, who has two heads with two sets of organs but only one genital organ, is fighting for survival.

350 Elephants die mysteriously in Botswana

Hundreds of elephants have died mysteriously in Botswana in a matter of weeks, in what conservationists have described as a ‘conservation disaster’. Though the cause of death is still not known, it was gathered that at least 350 elephants have died since the beginning of May in the Okavango Delta.

Dog mauls newborn twin sisters to death while their mother who had struggled to conceive for 9 years briefly left the room to talk to a neighbour

Newborn twin sisters were mauled to death by a family dog when their mother briefly left the room to talk to a neighbor.

Nigeria, US, others excluded from list of travellers permitted to enter Europe from July 1

Ahead of the planned reopening of its borders to international travelers on July 1, the European Union Commission has released a list of 54 countries that qualify for travels into Europe and Nigeria is conspicuously absent.Schengenvisainfo.com reports that citizens from Nigeria, Brazil, Qatar, the US, and Russia would not be allowed to travel into Europe until the epidemiological situation in their countries with regards to COVID-19 improves.