Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Crows have proved they are anything but bird-brained on dozens of occasions, but some incredible new research shows that the dark masters of the avian world are perhaps even smarter than we ever realized. A new study has found that New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) …

THIS WEEK; Jay Bolsonaro is Brazil’s next President Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It is a hard time for liberals in Brazil as Jay Bolsonaro, dubbed by some as Latin America’s Doanld Trump, won the presidential election on a campaign to radically reform Brazil’s socio-economic structure. Bolsonaro is known for …

THIS WEEK: e-passports for January Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has said Ugandan citizens will start receiving electronic (biometric) passports beginning January 2019. “Uganda is ready to migrate from the current machine readable passports to e-passports in January 2019,” Dr Benon Mutambi, the Internal Affairs ministry’s Permanent Secretary, …

THIS WEEK: Pre-entry exams will frustrate new LDC centres- minister Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kahinda Otafiire, the minister for justice and constitutional affairs says pre-entry exams for students who wish to do a bar course will frustrate the government’s efforts at decetrnalising Law Development Centre (LDC); the institution accredited …

THIS WEEK: 60 FDC leaders quit FDC for Muntu’s group Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) is dealing with another defection after 60 district leaders announced they had quit the party to join Mugisha Muntu’s New Formation at an event held in Mbarara. The leaders led …

THIS WEEK: Bamugemereire attacks judges over land evictions Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Catherine Bamugemereire (Pictured), the chairperson of the commission of inquiry into land management has attacked fellow judges for “catalysing rising land distress, grabbing of protected and fragile areas causing landlessness and a state of lawlessness.” Bamugemereire …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |Mauricio Pochettino has promised to stay at Tottenham until he restores the club to the dominant force they were in the 1960s. Tottenham manager Pochettino has been linked with a move to Real Madrid following Julen Lopetegui’s sacking. The 46-year-old had already been forced to …

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Jamie Vardy has urged his Leicester teammates to honour the memory of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha as they prepare to return to action following their owner’s shocking death in a helicopter crash. Vichai and four other people died when his helicopter plummeted to the ground just …

New York, United States | AFP | Apple shares tumbled Friday a day after quarterly results showing strong profits but weaker-than-anticipated iPhone sales and a disappointing outlook for the key holiday period. In midday trade, Apple skidded 7.3 percent to $206.07, slipping below the $1 trillion milestone it topped in …

Varna, Bulgaria | AFP | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday condemned the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in his first comments on the affair, but stressed the need for stability in Saudi Arabia. “What happened in the Istanbul consulate was horrendous and it should be duly dealt …