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Tipping Point fans were scratching the heads of two contestants didn't know the acronym C.A.R stood for the Central African Republic. Contestants Sue and Norman didn't know the answer when host Ben Shephard asked them the Geography question based on countries in Africa.

faking his own death to land him and his wife an insurance payout of £1million.The 35-year-old is said to have traveled to DR Congo back in 2016, having played for several lower league German clubs after leaving Schalke back in 2007.Having retired following a spell with YfB Huls, Kamba's death was reported, leading to his 41-year-old wife Christina von receiving the huge insurance payout.The insurance policy of £505,000 had to be doubled in the event of accidental death, with Kamba's wife also receiving over £80,000 from his former employer Evonik.After his faked death in a car crash, VfB Huls even wrote an obituary for their former player, stating: "He represented the ideas and values of our club like few others."His demise will leave a

attack by an Islamist military group has left at least five people dead, with 'many others kidnapped'. Witnesses say that those carrying out the attack also set fire to a health centre and six residential houses.The incident occurred today in the Beni region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with reports suggesting it was carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group.The ADF is part of the arm of Islamic State that operates in central Africa.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRichard T. Jones is launching an independent production company dubbed Prophecy Pictures Entertainment, Variety has learned exclusively.Jones is starting the company with producing partners Jeremy Loethen and Kristy Horiuchi.

Celtic flop Youssouf Mulumbu claims he knocked back an approach from Rangers before joining their bitter rivals.

drug created with exhaust filters is turning users into zombies and wreaking havoc in a city.“Bombe” is being sold across Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Derived from crushed vehicle exhaust filters, it causes users to stand motionless for hours or sleep for days.In August police rounded up and paraded nearly 100 alleged dealers and Bombe users, which translates to “powerful” in the local Lingala language.Cedrick, a 26-year-old gang leader, told the Reuters news agency: "We used to drink very strong whiskey...we were restless and we would hurt people."But with bombe, it calms you down, you get tired, you stay somewhere standing up or sitting down for a very long time.“When you're done, you go home without

Nicholas Kristof, who has written a column for The New York Times for the past two decades, has left his post as he weighs whether to run for governor of Oregon next year,

A mum and her unborn baby girl died after being rushed to hospital for an emergency c-section, an inquest heard.

EXCLUSIVE: The story of NBA champ Serge Ibaka is set to be turned into an animated kids series after the LA Clippers center struck a deal with Studio71.

Coltan, short for columbo-tantalite, is an ore containing the metal element tantalum, which due to its resistance to corrosion and high permittivity is used in capacitors essential to the functioning of smartphones, laptops, and other high-tech devices. It is found chiefly in Africa, most abundantly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, where foreign corporations, and the cronies they install in corrupt local governments, rely on local (often child) labor subsisting on poverty wages and working in incredibly unsafe sites, to carry out a program of unsustainable ecological destruction.

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A world-famous gorilla who starred in a hilarious selfie has died in the arms of the man who rescued him.Ndakasi became a celebrity in 2019 after appearing in a selfie taken by animal rescuer Andre Bauma.The 12-year-old gorilla puffed her chest out in the funny photo alongside buddy Ndeze.Mr Bauma rescued Ndakasi after her mum was killed by an armed militia in Virunga National Park, Congo, the oldest in Africa.For more than a decade, Andre and his colleagues cared for Ndakasi and helped her recover from the trauma of losing her mum.Because of that, she could never be released back into the wild.But Ndakasi did enjoy a happy life with Ndeze and other orphaned mountain gorillas at the

BBC Radio 1Xtra has announced it will broadcast a weekly Official UK Afrobeats Chart Show, launching on Sunday, September 26. 

Jeff Bezos is pitching in to help.

Richard Kuipers Revenge is a dish served with considerable style and imagination in “Saloum,” a fast and furious crime-horror-thriller that twists and turns its way around the mangroves, islets and inlets of Senegal’s Sine-Saloum coastal region. Centered on a trio of mercenaries holed up in a strange holiday camp that harbors a diabolical secret, the second feature by Congolese filmmaker Jean Luc Herbulot freely mixes and marries the cinematic languages of spaghetti Westerns, samurai dramas and classic monster movies to tell an exciting and distinctly African story.

South Africa's Moonchild Sanelly shared her latest video, "Undumpable," a thumping ode to refusing to let things go. Produced by her Transgressive Records label mate Débruit of Congolese collective KOKOKO!, the track finds Sanelly defiantly demanding her would-be ex stick around to mend a strained relationship.

Ashley Judd was seen on Tuesday in new images shared to her Instagram account for the first time in a month.The movie star was pictured walking without any crutches at a public event six months since she shattering her leg in four places while traveling in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The Kiss The Girls actress, 53, still needed to use a heavy brace on her leg, however. Walking!Ashley Judd was seen walking without any crutches at Fenway Park in Boston six months since she shattering her leg in four places while traveling in the Democratic Republic of CongoThe star had on a white and blue cotton dress that fell below her knee.One leg had the brace attached as she added a white tennis shoe.

Ashley Judd was seen on Tuesday in new images shared to her Instagram account for the first time in a month.The movie star was pictured walking without any crutches at a public event six months since she shattering her leg in four places while traveling in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The Kiss The Girls actress, 53, still needed to use a heavy brace on her leg, however. Walking!Ashley Judd was seen walking without any crutches at Fenway Park in Boston six months since she shattering her leg in four places while traveling in the Democratic Republic of CongoThe star had on a white and blue cotton dress that fell below her knee.One leg had the brace attached as she added a white tennis shoe.

Ashley Judd was seen on Tuesday in new images shared to her Instagram account for the first time in a month.The movie star was pictured walking without any crutches at a public event six months since she shattering her leg in four places while traveling in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The Kiss The Girls actress, 53, still needed to use a heavy brace on her leg, however. Walking!Ashley Judd was seen walking without any crutches at Fenway Park in Boston six months since she shattering her leg in four places while traveling in the Democratic Republic of CongoThe star had on a white and blue cotton dress that fell below her knee.One leg had the brace attached as she added a white tennis shoe.

Lee 'Scratch' Perry’s cause of death has not yet been revealed,  however, Jamaica’s prime minister Andrew Holness tweeted of the artist’s passing.

Lee “Scratch” Perry has sadly died.

Reggae producer, singer and genre legend Lee “Scratch” Perry died in a Jamaica hospital today. He was 85 and no cause of death was given.