BREAKING NEWS:Former WWE legend Vader collapses

                       

Former WWE Superstar Vader, who says he has fewer than two years left to live, collapsed during a live wrestling show in Japan on Thursday after being dropped on his head.

The 61-year-old, whose real name is Leon White, was pictured passed out in the ring during the Dradition show in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan after competing in a six-man tag team match with Keiji Muto & AKIRA against Tatsumi Fujinami, Riki Choshu & Shiro Koshinaka.

 

The former WCW and WWE heavyweight received treatment in the ring from his teammates, but soon confirmed on Twitter that he was ok and was suffering from the effects of being accidentally dropped on his head.

BREAKING NEWS:Lagos Seals 126 Illegal Pharmacies, 34 Hospitals

                                 

                                      Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.

 The Lagos State government of Nigeria said it has raided and sealed 126 illegal pharmaceutical outlets over unwholesome practices in the last one year.

The state's Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who disclosed this, added that 34 private hospitals were shut down for similar offences.

Dr. Idris said the hospitals were closed down following petitions received by the ministry's health facility monitoring and accreditation unit.

The commissioner was addressing a press briefing to mark two years in office of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.

"Two hundred and sixty-eight patent medicine shops were inspected and 295 applicants recommended and approved for licensing, while 80 patent medicine store vendors were trained on the use of the rapid diagnostic test (RDT) for malaria," Idris said.

He added that the ministry also embarked on a campaign against drug abuse and trafficking in three public secondary schools.

The commissioner also disclosed that, in the year under review, 5000 patients had so far benefited from the state's Eko free health medical mission.

China launches first unmanned cargo spacecraft

                        

China has launched its first cargo spacecraft, making further progress in its goal of establishing a permanently manned space station by 2022.

The Tianzhou-1 cargo resupply spacecraft lifted off on Thursday evening on a Long March-7 Y2 rocket from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre in the southern island province of Hainan.

State television broadcast the launch live.

Minutes later, as the spacecraft cleared the atmosphere, the mission was declared a success by administrators at ground control on the outskirts of the capital, Beijing.

BREAKING NEWS:American State carries out first execution in 12 years

Arkansas has carried out its first execution in 12 years, according to local news media reports.

The southeastern US state executed Ledell Lee on Thursday at its Cummins Unit in Grady, which houses the state's death chamber.

Lee was pronounced dead four minutes before his death warrant was due to expire at midnight.

The US Supreme Court had cleared the way earlier in the day for Arkansas to conduct the execution by removing holds on the lethal injection, just 30 minutes before the state's death warrant expired.

Lawyers for Lee, 51, who had maintained his innocence for years, had launched last-minute appeals to halt the execution with federal courts and the Supreme Court.

The US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in St Louis considered a last-minute request from Lee for DNA testing, and had issued a stay until 9:15pm on Thursday (01:15 GMT Friday).

Lee was convicted and sentenced to death for beating Debra Reese to death with a tyre iron in 1993.

Reese's relatives were at the Cummins Unit prison and told local reporters that Lee deserves to die for a crime that upended their lives.

Syria still possess Chemical weapons- James Mattis

                                           

                                                       James Mattis

Syria still possesses chemical weapons, the Pentagon chief has said, in a fresh US warning against the banned munitions being used again.

Speaking in Tel Aviv on Friday during a visit to Israel, James Mattis said that in recent days the Syrian air force has dispersed its combat aircraft.

The implication is that Syria may be concerned about additional US air strikes following the cruise missile attack earlier this month in retaliation for alleged Syrian use of sarin gas.

"There can be no doubt in the international community's mind that Syria has retained chemical weapons in violation of its agreement and its statement that it had removed them all," Mattis said.

The US defense secretary said he did not want to elaborate on the amounts Syria possesses in order to avoid revealing intelligence sources.

"I can say authoritatively they have retained some, it's a violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions and it's going to have to be taken up diplomatically and they would be ill-advised to try to use any again, we made that very clear with our strike," said Mattis.

Israeli defence officials said this week that Syria still has up to three tonnes of chemical weapons in its possession.

Police arrest man smuggling semen into Laos

                        

Thai police have arrested a man attempting to smuggle six vials of human semen into Laos.

Authorities found a nitrogen tank containing the vials in the man's bag when he was crossing the border at the northern Thai town of Nong Khai.

Police said the man confessed that the semen was bound for a fertility clinic in the capital of Laos - Vientiane.

Laos has seen a boom in commercial surrogacy after neighbouring Thailand and Cambodia banned the practice.

The smuggler, a Thai national, told police he had done 12 similar trips in the past year where he would collect semen from Bangkok clinics and transport them to the clinic in Laos, reported The Bangkok Post newspaper.

He said he had also done several deliveries to a hospital in Cambodia, the paper reported.

In 2015, Thailand banned foreigners from paying Thai women to act as surrogates following a string of scandals in the once thriving industry. Cambodia followed with a total ban last year.

Kenya to launch Nairobi-Victoria Falls flights on May 1

                           

One of Africa’s largest airlines, Kenya Airways, has brought forward the launch of its maiden flight into Victoria Falls to May 1, joining some of the biggest carriers on the continent landing in the resort town.

Kenya Airways had originally planned to introduce flights into the resort town, which will also connect to Cape Town in South Africa, on May 18.

However, a statement from the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) said the first Kenya Airways jet would land in Victoria Falls on Workers’ Day, two months after South African Airways (SAA) introduced the first wide boarded plane on the destination, an Airbus A330.

Last month Africa’s largest airline, Ethiopian Airways, also introduced flights into Victoria Falls, with three weekly frequencies that also connect into neighbouring Botswana.

SA Airlink has indicated that it will start flights into the town in July this year.

“Kenya Airways will be launching a direct service to Victoria Falls from 1 May 2017”.