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The New Year’s Eve Service with the man of God, Reverend (Dr.) Chris Oyakhilome, was one of the most televised events in the world and launched many millions into a glorious 2020.  The event was hosted from the LoveWorld Convocation Arena in Lagos, Nigeria and transmitted LIVE by all LoveWorld Network stations, several terrestrial TV/radio stations across the globe and via several internet platforms to many millions around the world.  Further Millions also gathered at Loveworld Churches globally and viewing centers in different cities and towns around the world to thank God for a most luminant 2019 and to receive…

Iran’s most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, has been killed by a US airstrike in Iraq. The 62-year old spearheaded Iranian military operations in the Middle East as head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. He was killed at Baghdad airport, alongside local Iran-backed militias, early on Friday in a strike ordered by US President Donald Trump. Under his leadership, Iran had bolstered Hezbollah in Lebanon and other pro-Iranian militant groups, expanded Iran’s military presence in Iraq and Syria and orchestrated Syria’s offensive against rebel groups in the country’s long civil war. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said “severe…

A series of new records for high temperatures were broken in the UK in 2019, concluding a record-breaking decade, the Met Office has said. The last decade was the second hottest in the past 100 years in the UK, with eight new high-temperature records set. Four new UK records were set last year alone, including the highest winter and summer temperatures ever recorded: Last year, a maximum of 21.2C was reached on 26 February, in London – the hottest February day ever recorded and on 25 July, temperatures then reached 38.7C in Cambridge – the UK’s highest-ever recorded temperature. The…

Britain’s Prince William launched a multi-million-pound prize to encourage the world’s greatest problem-solvers to find answers to Earth’s biggest environmental problems, saying the planet was now at a tipping point. The Earthshot Prize, described in its publicity as the “most prestigious environmental prize in history”, will be awarded to five winners a year over the next decade with the aim of producing at least 50 solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. A film to coincide with Tuesday’s launch was narrated by veteran British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough, who has been making nature programmes such as the popular Blue…

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Tens of thousands of holiday makers fled seaside towns on Australia’s east coast on Thursday ahead of advancing bushfires, as military ships and helicopters began rescuing thousands more trapped by the blazes. Fueled by searing temperatures and high winds, more than 200 fires are burning across the southeastern states of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, threatening several towns. Long queues formed outside supermarkets and petrol stations as residents and tourists sought supplies to either bunker down or escape the fires, emptying shelves of staples like bread and milk. More than 50,000 people were without power and some towns had…

British factory output fell in December at the fastest rate since 2012 as a tepid global economy hurt demand and businesses further reduced stocks of goods they had built up in case of a no-deal Brexit, a survey showed on Thursday. The output gauge in the IHS Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 45.6 from 49.1 in November, its lowest since July 2012. Readings below 50 denote contraction. The broader headline PMI, which combines gauges of output, employment and orders, fell to 47.5 from 48.9 – revised up only slightly from a preliminary reading of 47.4 and…

Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers were left without mobile and online banking for hours on New Year’s Day. Banks in the Lloyds group suffered an outage on the app and website which took several hours to fix. Some customers voiced their frustration on Twitter with one saying: “Banking app is down! Just when I was feeling brave enough to check my balance after Xmas!” In a statement issued in the early afternoon, Lloyds Bank apologised and said internet and mobile banking had gone back to normal. Account holders were able to use cash points and telephone banking services…

The lawyer for a man accused of going on a stabbing rampage during a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home north of New York City said his client has “severe psychiatric issues.” Federal prosecutors filed hate crime charges against Grafton Thomas. Thomas was arraigned on five counts of attempted murder in a state court on Sunday. Thomas is accused of stabbing five people on Saturday night with what the criminal complaint described as a “machete” after bursting into a Hanukkah celebration that included dozens of people at Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg’s home in Rockland County, about 30 miles (48 km) north…

Thousands of tourists and residents swarmed to beaches on Australia’s east coast to escape fierce wildfires bearing down on several seaside towns at the peak of the summer holiday period. People have been agonising over whether to evacuate or stay, as fires approached the coastal town of Batemans Bay in New South Wales. Footage obtained by Reuters showed people at the south coast of Batemans Bay evacuating heading for the beach from their homes at midday. The huge bushfires have destroyed more than 4 million hectares (10 million acres), with new blazes sparked into life almost daily by extremely hot…