(WARRI, Nigeria) — More than 50 people are missing after a leaking oil pipeline exploded and caused a stampede in southern Nigeria, a local official said Saturday.

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(TOKYO) — A Japanese spacecraft touched down on a distant asteroid Friday on a mission to collect material that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on Earth.

(HANOI, Vietnam) — President Donald Trump said he walked away from his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un because Kim demanded the U.S. lift all of its sanctions, a claim that North Korea’s delegation called a rare news conference in the middle of the night to deny.

(WAGAH, Pakistan) — Pakistan handed over a captured Indian air force pilot to Indian officials at a border crossing on Friday, a “gesture of peace” by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan aimed at defusing a dramatic escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbors over the disputed region of Kashmir.

We now know the news behind Elon Musk’s cryptic tweets. Some of them, at least.

(Bloomberg) — YouTube said it’s banning comments on some videos featuring minors, responding to criticism and the loss of advertisers after the service was used by potential predators to exploit children.

(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — SpaceX closes in on human spaceflight with this weekend’s debut of a new capsule designed for astronauts.

(Bloomberg) —Elon Musk is delivering on one big promise — a $35,000 Model 3 — while warning Tesla Inc. may not be able to pull off a quarterly profit as projected earlier.

For a peek at the cutting-edge smartphones you can expect to see (and even buy) later this year, look no further than Mobile World Congress, the annual Super Bowl of the handset world. And one clear trend from this year’s MWC, which wraps up Feb. 28, is the rise of “foldable” smartphones. 

China on Wednesday congratulated Muhammadu Buhari on his re-election as President of Nigeria.

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Some prominent senators in the Eighth National Assembly will not be returning in the next assembly, having lost at the polls on Saturday.

HANOI, Vietnam — President Trump and Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, abruptly ended their second summit meeting on Thursday after talks collapsed with the two leaders failing to agree on any steps toward nuclear disarmament or measures to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Pakistan carried out airstrikes and shot down two Indian jets on Wednesday, Pakistani officials said, a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a war in 1971, prompting leading powers to urge both sides to show restraint.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer told Congress on Wednesday that Trump knew ahead of time that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, and he testified that Trump is a "racist," a "conman" and a "cheat."

On February 23, Nigerians across the country trooped out to elect the president who will lead the country for the next four years.

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, has called the just concluded presidential elections a grand theft of the will of Nigerians.

Former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has promised to challenge his loss in the February 23 National Assembly elections.

“Election is not war, and should never be seen as a do or die affair,” President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday.

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have been given their certificate of return as President-elect and Vice President-elect following their victory at last Saturday’s election.

President Trump shook hands with Kim Jong-un on Wednesday night in Hanoi, Vietnam, beginning their second summit meeting in eight months. The two leaders then sat down to a formal dinner with top aides. 

R. Kelly has posted bail after spending the weekend in a Chicago jail on sex abuse charges, authorities said Monday. Video at the scene showed the singer leave jail, amid a crowd of reporters, just before 5:30 p.m. local time.

Selena Gomez has been dethroned as the queen of Instagram.

                                                                                              Columbian singer, actress and dancer Shakira  Pop star Shakira has been summonsed to court to be quizzed over an alleged multi-million pound tax fraud. The mother-of-two partner of Barcelona footballer Gerard Pique has been told to appear before a Spanish judge in Espluegues de Llobregat near the Catalan capital on June 12.  The hearing will take place behind closed doors, as is normal in Spain where only trials are held in public. Colombian-born Shakira, 42, is being investigated on suspicion of committing six separate counts of tax fraud against the Spanish Treasury totalling more than £12.5 million ($23 million AUD). Spanish state pro...

Supporters of the opposition clashed over the weekend with Venezuelan security forces on the borders with Colombia and Brazil, leaving four people dead.                                 

PRAYAGRAJ, India — The holy man had seen a lot in his day. It was evident in his long, white beard and naked, skeletal frame.

Shehu Sani, the lawmaker currently representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, has lost his bid to return to the Senate.

The results from Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, where President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had 72,745 votes, have been officially recorded, the state collation officer, Aniefiok Essien, has indicated.

The dust raised by Governor Okorocha’s emergence as Senator-elect may not settle soon. This is as he has called out on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer, Professor Innocent Ibeawuchi, who accused him of manipulating the February 23 polls, describing the latter as mentally challenged and criminally minded.

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis ended  a landmark Vatican meeting  on clerical sexual abuse by calling “for an all-out battle against the abuse of minors” and insisting that the church needed to protect children “from ravenous wolves.”

LOS ANGELES — “Green Book,” about a white chauffeur and his black client in segregation-era America, won best picture and two other trophies at the 91st Academy Awards, overcoming a series of awards-season setbacks and mixed critical notices.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has been declared the winner of the House of Representatives election for Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency of Bauchi State.

Unrest and violence continues to take its toll on some states within the country over the elections, as hoodlums invaded a police barracks polling unit in Lafia at about 10pm on Saturday where the first lady of Nasarawa state, Salamatu Almakura was casting her vote.

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Deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu has won the National Assembly election held on Saturday to continue as a lawmaker in the Senate.