November 20th 2017
Since the 1960s, there have been more than 200 military coups, with varying degrees of success, across 40 of Africa’s countries.
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At one point under Robert Mugabe’s rule, inflation in Zimbabwe reached 500 billion per cent.
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The US Navy has ordered an inquiry after one of its pilots used a jet’s contrail to draw a cock and balls in the sky. A spokesman said: ‘It has zero training value’.
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A doctor at Harbin Medical University in China has performed the world’s first successful human head transplant – on a corpse.
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Frankfurt police have found a car belonging to a 76-year-old man who forgot where he parked it 20 years ago.
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1 in 10 smartphones in the world is sold in India.