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Kacey Musgraves and Childish Gambino led the 61st Annual Grammy Awards with four wins each. Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover picked up the Best Music Video award for his socially-conscious single, “This Is America.” The song also won Best Rap/Sung Performance, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Glover did not attend the show. Country star Musgraves’s four ...

Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is the new Chairperson of the African Union (AU) for 2019. He takes over from Rwandan Leader, Paul Kagame who has been occupying the position since January 2018. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi according to Ashraf Swelam, who heads a think tank linked to the country’s foreign ministry, will likely focus less on “financial and administrative reform” ...

Up-and-coming UK rapper Cadet was killed in a car crash in England’s West Midlands region in the early hours of Saturday, police said. The 28-year-old, real name Blaine Johnson, was being driven to a gig at Keele University in Staffordshire at the time, Britain’s Press Association news agency reported. A statement on Cadet’s Instagram page, cited by PA, said: “We ...

The Ministry of Tourism has added curvy and sexy Ugandan women to the list of tourism products to attract tourists. Unveiling the initiative in Kampala Tuesday, the State Minister for Tourism, Mr Godfrey Kiwanda, said a beauty pageant dubbed ‘Miss Curvy Uganda’ has been launched to select sexy curvaceous women and the finalists will be selected in June. “We have ...

Liverpool’s Joe Gomez is to undergo an operation in the hope of aiding his recovery from a lower leg fracture, the Premier League leaders announced Monday. Gomez suffered the injury in a 3-1 victory at Burnley early in December. Liverpool’s initial assessment was that Gomez might be sidelined for six weeks, but have now refused to set a specific timescale ...

A small plane crashed into a home in California on Sunday, killing the pilot and four others, US officials say. The twin-engine plane came apart and caught fire mid-flight, witnesses told local media, before crashing in Yorba Linda, a suburb of Los Angeles. The flight went awry just minutes after taking off from a local airport, some 20 miles (32km) ...

Atlanta rapper 21 Savage has been arrested by immigration officials who say he is actually from the UK, reports say. The rapper, Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, came to the US in July 2005 aged 12 and failed to leave when his visa expired a year later, officials said. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesman said he was being held for ...

Just about any account you own on the internet is prone to being hacked, and one of the easiest ways to add an extra layer of security is to enable two-factor authentication. Also known as two-step verification or 2FA, the process gives web services secondary access to the account owner (you!) in order to verify a login attempt. Typically, this ...

FamilyTreeDNA, a popular at-home DNA test, is working with the FBI to help the agency solve violent crimes, the company acknowledged in a statement released this week. The policy appears to go beyond the privacy rules generally laid out by other major DNA testing companies. BuzzFeed News first reported on the FamilyTreeDNA policy. The company told the outlet it had ...

OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER should not get the Manchester United job full time even if he can lead his side to a top-four finish in the Premier League, claims Paul Ince. Solskjaer is now the favourite with the bookies to become the next permanent manager of Manchester United. The former striker has won eight of his nine games since taking interim ...