Baltimore man killed by white neighbour after court denies him protective order.

Friends and family in Baltimore are mourning the death of Tyrique Hudson, a 22-year-old software engineer who was gunned down by his white neighbour while leaving for work this month. Hudson, who had just earned a computer science degree at North Carolina University, had moved to his apartment complex outside of Baltimore to start his software engineer job at Northrop Grumman.

Family loses seven-year legal battle as loyal manservant inherits $24m estate from master after 30-year service.

At a will reading, every relative of the deceased present expects the lawyer to mention their name when the property is being distributed. For the family of Lord Glenconner, it came as a surprise when the lawyer allocated all his estates to his black manservant Kent Adonai.

Connecticut man jailed 27 years for crime he didn’t commit wins $1m for every year he was imprisoned.

A federal jury in Massachusetts has awarded $27 million to Mark Schand, a Connecticut man who spent 27 years in prison for a killing he maintains he didn’t commit. Schand spent 27 years behind bars trying to prove his innocence until his case caught the attention of a New-Jersey based ministry, which worked with his lawyers to free him from prison five years ago.

Florida woman goes all out in baby shoot with dissertation after completing her PhD.

Anyone would expect a baby reveal photoshoot to be of a real baby, but a Florida woman put her own spin to maternal baby shoots.

‘You should have caned them even more’ – Tanzania president John Magufuli endorses caning in schools.

At a time many African countries and governments are pushing for a departure from the use of canes as a correctional measure in schools across the continent, Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has absolutely no qualms in deploying canes in schools. Magufuli has backed a senior government official who caned a group of secondary school students, accused of charring their dormitories.

Rwanda scraps over 1,000 colonial-era laws passed by Germany and Belgium.

Rwanda has passed a law repealing over 1,000 colonial-era laws from its statutes. This comes after Rwanda’s Constitutional and Legal Affairs State Minister, Evode Uwizeyimana advocated for the scrapping of the colonial laws. Germany ruled Rwanda from 1900 to 1916.

The sad story of Jean-Pierre Adams, the French soccer star who has been in coma for 37 years after botched surgery.

The humbling, beautiful yet tragic end of Senegalese-French man Jean-Pierre Adams is as riveting as it is melancholic.

Will Smith is reportedly working an a Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air spin-off.

Will Smith is reportedly developing a spin-off series based on the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

The story of Bode Thomas, the iconic Nigerian lawyer who ‘died barking like a dog after insulting a king’

Few in Nigeria’s socio-political history rose swiftly on the ladder of prominence yet died not in the evening of their lives but rather in the noon when there was so much more to do.

Jason Weaver, voice of Lion King’s Simba shares story of how he declined $2m for eternal royalties

It pays to have good counsel and even better to heed them. For American actor and singer Jason Weaver, he has his mum to thank for the steady cheque he receives since featuring in Walt Disney’s 1994 feature animation film ‘The Lion King.’