Italy breaches rights over gay marriage - European court

Italy violates human rights by failing to offer enough legal protection for same-sex couples, a European court has ruled.
Judges said the government had breached the rights of three gay couples by refusing them marriage or any other recognised form of union.

World first bionic eye implant

Surgeons in Manchester have performed the first bionic eye implant in a patient with the most common cause of sight loss in the developed world.
Ray Flynn, 80, has dry age-related macular degeneration which has led to the total loss of his central vision.

5 questions Nigerians want Amanpour to ask Buhari

Buari with Obama

CNN’s chief international correspondent and anchor of Amanpour nightly foreign affairs programme on CNN International, Christiane Amanpour, will by 7pm Nigerian time be interviewing President Muhammadu Buhari, who is in the US to meet with US President, Barack Obama.

Food competition: Man eats to ‘death’ over N625 stake

A middle-aged man, Juma Kabigi, has emerged champion of a food competition in Uganda, reports The Daily Monitor, one of the country’s newspapers.

The Daily Monitor, in a series tweets, said Kabigi ate among other things – three loaves of bread, eight chapatis, 10 eggs, two raw cabbages, four apples and two bundles of raw green vegetables.

Mr Kabigi was reported winning  10, 000 Ugandan shillings ( $3, £2, N625) for all his trouble.

I am alive, hale and hearty — Detained Jonathan’s ex-CSO

Gordon Obua

The Department of State Security, DSS has presented Gordon Obua, the detained former chief security officer (CSO) to former President Goodluck Jonathan to the press for an impromptu conference.

At the impromptu press briefing on Tuesday afternoon at the headquarters of the Department of State Services (DSS), Obua said that he is “alive and well”.

Scott Walker: 'I don't know' if being gay a choice

Scott Walker

(CNN)In a weekend interview with Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker about whether the Boy Scouts should allow gay troop leaders, CNN's Dana Bash asked Walker, "Do you think being gay is a choice?"

Detained Jonathan’s ex-CSO faints

Gordon Obua, the detained former chief security officer (CSO) to former President Goodluck Jonathan, fainted on Monday, according to Online Magazine,
Obua, who has been detained by the SSS in Abuja since the night of July 16, had embarked on hunger strike to protest the conditions of his detention. He was denied access to outsiders, including his doctor,