UNSC set to vote on Palestinian resolution

Security Council to vote on ending Israel's occupation and a peace deal within a year at 22:00 GMT on Tuesday.

United Nations Security Council is expected to vote shortly on a Palestinian draft resolution  that calls for a peace deal with Israel within a year and an end of the Israeli occupation of  Palestinian territories by late 2017. Jordan's UN Ambassador Dina Kawar said Arab delegations had agreed the draft should go  to a vote as soon as possible. It was later announced that the vote would take place at 22:00 GMT.

Gmail access disrupted in China

Google's popular e-mail service remains blocked while pro-state media blames Internet giant for the shutdown.

China operates the world's most extensive and sophisticated Internet censorship system

China has blocked the last remaining way to access Google's popular e-mail service, Gmail, experts have said, as authorities work to establish "Internet sovereignty" by controlling what enters the country via the web. Gmail, the world's biggest e-mail service, has been largely inaccessible from within China since the run-up to the 25th anniversary in June of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.

Gunmen kill 15 in northeast Nigerian town

Suspected Boko Haram fighters open fire in Kautikari village, near the Cameroon border, witnesses and police say.

Gunmen believed to be from Boko Haram have opened fire in a remote town in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 15 people, witnesses and a security source have said. The attack on Monday night targeted Kautikari, near the Cameroon border, just 10 kilometres from the village of Chibok, where more than 200 schoolgirls, who still remain captives, were abducted in April.

Bangladesh sentences Islamist leader to death

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Azharul Islam found guilty of war crimes committed during 1971 independence war against Pakistan.  Azharul Islam was found guilty for the killing of more than 1,200 people in Rangpur [Mahmud Hossain Opu/Al Jazeera]

Bangladesh's war crimes court has sentenced a leading Islamist leader to death for rape, mass murder and genocide during the country's 1971 liberation war.

Lagos Countdown 2014: A party like never before on December 31st

Organizers of the 2014 Lagos Countdown has assured all fun lovers that this year’s event will be the
 mother of all shows. Speaking at a press parley today, the Managing Director of Lagos State Signage

Two-Year-Old Boy Playing With Infected Bats Spread Ebola

According to a recent discovery by scientists, the most likely cause of the deadly outbreak of Ebola in West Africa was a young boy playing near a colony of virus-infected bats.

AIT reports that the scientist said the two year old boy described as patient zero became infected and was the first to die in his village in Meliandou, Guinea in December 2013.

‘Patient zero’ was Emile Ouamouno, and he was described as a playful toddler by his father Etienne.

Before his death, on December 6, 2013, Emile had been near a tree housing the free tailed bats.

Jonathan Will Come Out Victorious – Dickson

Bayelsa state governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson has projected that current President, Goodluck Jonathan will defeat Buhari come 2015 national elections.

The governor told voters from all regions of the nation to go out and get their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) and get ready for the general election.Seriake Dickson asked bayelsans to pray for their former governor so he could overcome the difficult circumstances facing the administration.