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Miss Universe Ghana 2017, Ruth Quashie has already hit the road running after winning the enviable crown.

Ms. Quashie and her team have visited the office of Maybelline on the Spintex Road in Accra to show her appreciation to the international make-up brand for supporting her and the pageant.

TV host Ellen DeGeneres has purchased a $18.6 million '5 bedroom, 6.5 bath' beachfront home in Carpinteria, a quaint coastal community in California. The new house which is a little under 6,000 square feet, has a clay tennis court, plunge pool and a guest house.

Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba has told South Africa's Eyewitness News he wants to enforce the deportation of undocumented foreigners in the city by taking action in court.
Mr Mashaba criticised South Africa's home affairs ministry: 
"We’re under chaos now, people are running all over the show with no documentation, so I want to bring back the rule of law.”

German personal care company, Nivea, has defended its Natural Fairness Body Lotion campaign following a heavy backlash on social media started by UK-based Ghanaian artist, Fuse ODG.

Fuse in a series of social media posts which tagged NIVEA’s campaign billboards as promoting skin bleaching used the hashtag #PULLITDOWNNOW.

MultiChoice Tanzania (MCT) the country’s first Pay TV Company has reached an exiting milestone as the company celebrates 20 years of changing lives through innovative delivery of ground-breaking content. The celebration will involve a two days special exhibition set to take place at the Mlimani City in Dar es Salaam where the public will get to witness first-hand MultiChoice Tanzania’s journey.

A pastor who had claimed God told him President Robert Mugabe would die on Tuesday has now said "God has changed His mind", Times Live reports. The news site reports Pastor Phillip Muguzada as saying:

Serena Williams was in high spirits as she attended Bruno Mars concert in Miami on Wednesday night, with her fiance Alexis Ohanian.
The Tennis champion who welcomed her first child last month showed off her impressive post-baby body while documenting the event in a series of Snapchat videos.

South African singer and ex-MP Jennifer Ferguson has accused the country's football boss Danny Jordaan, 66, of raping her nearly 24 years ago. 
He "overpowered" her and "painfully" raped her in a hotel in Port Elizabeth city, she has alleged in a blog.

Reacting to US President, Donald Trump's intention to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has described Trump as "foul-mouthed" and someone who "pretends to be an idiot."  
He spoke before a group of what was described by his office as "hundreds of young elites and outstanding scientific talents" saying that the European opposition to Trump's decision was "good, but not enough."

Cosmetics giant Nivea is under fire for marketing a skin lightening product in West Africa.
Billboards and TV adverts for the "natural fairness" moisturiser - starring former Miss Nigeria Omowunmi Akinnifesi - have appeared in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Senegal.

About thirty  Kindergarten pupils escaped death on Wednesday, October 18 at Mensakrom, a community in the Eastern Region following the collapse of their classroom block.

A couple have been sentenced to several months in prison in Tunisia after they were caught naked in their car.
Nassim Ouadi, a 33-year-old French-Algerian, and his 44-year-old Tunisian girlfriend were sentenced on Wednesday by a judge at the Carthage district court, having been convicted of public indecency, intoxication and insulting a public official.

Most of us can but dream of rocking up to the club and casually meeting a member of a royal family. 
But, that's what happened to Ariana Austin on the dance floor of Washington D.C. nightclub Pearl back in December 2005 when she met Joel Makonnen, a.k.a. Prince Yoel. 

A wanted Michigan man has turned himself in after losing a bet he made with police on Facebook.
Michael Zaydel had promised to give himself up to police if a Facebook post about an existing arrest warrant received more than 1,000 shares.

The new instalment of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, has been released in Johannesburg.
Dare Not Linger tackles his five years as South Africa's president after the collapse of apartheid and gives his view of the country's first multi-racial elections in 1994.

Ghanaian Rapper and Host of YFM’s Myd Monring Show, Trigmatic over the weekend set the stage on fire as he performed with the Safoa Band at the 2016 Felabration at The Shrine in Nigeria.

Trigmatic put up a spectacular performance for patrons at the show. He rocked the stage with live performance of most of his hit songs.

Chelsea was stunned on Wednesday night by AS Roma football club, who through star striker, Edin Dzeko, delivered a stunning brace to give Chelsea their worst result in this season's Champions league- a dramatic 3-3 draw at Stanford Bridge.

President Trump is not a fan of the media and he never misses an opportunity to attack them. In recent weeks he's even suggested revoking the license on some media houses who carry 'fake news' about him.