Toddler shoots 2
A toddler shot and wounded two 3-year-old children with a handgun at a Michigan home where a woman was babysitting several youngsters, police and local media said on Thursday. The shooting on Wednesday in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn occurred after the toddler got access to a handgun, Dearborn police said in a statement.
Poll date
ABUJA – Nigeria’s next presidential and parliamentary election will be held on February 16, 2019, the Independent National Electoral Commission said on its official Twitter account on Thursday.
Genetic glitch
CHICAGO – A single genetic change that occurred in 2013 may explain how Zika acquired the ability to attack foetal nerve cells, causing a severe birth defect in babies whose mothers were infected while pregnant, Chinese and US researchers reported on Thursday.
‘Lack of oxygen’
American student Otto Warmbier, who had been imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months, died from lack of oxygen and blood to the brain, an Ohio coroner said on Wednesday.
Snap election
TOKYO – A fledgling party led by popular Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike gained momentum on Thursday ahead of an October 22 election as the biggest opposition Democratic Party said it would step aside to let its candidates run under her conservative, reformist banner.
