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Former US President, Barrack Obama, has revealed what he did to a former classmate who called him a racial slur. The 44th president shared in an episode of his Spotify podcast with Bruce Springsteen, "Renegades," that he broke a schoolmate's nose after the then-friend called him a racial slur during a locker room fight. "Listen, when I was in school, I had a friend. We played basketball together," Obama told the "Born in the U.S.A." singer during a wide-ranging conversation on race. "And one time we got into a fight and he called me a c---," Obama said about 13 minutes into the episode before quipping of his Aloha State upbringing to chuckles from Springsteen, "Now first of all, ain’t no c---s in Hawaii, right?"   "It’s one of those things that — where he might not even known what a c--- was — what he knew was, 'I can hurt you by saying this,'" Obama, 59, continued. The country's first Black preside...

A 33-year-old woman from Chinhoyi in Zimbabwe has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly stabbed a 13-year-old boy who had assaulted her minor son. Monalisa Choguya of 188 Single Quarters was accused of stabbing Tonderai Kamhuka of 1644B Single Quarters, Mpata with a knife for beating her 7-year-old son for trespassing.  The suspect reportedly stabbed the teenager on the back of the head and in the stomach after her son reported the incident to her.  Mashonaland West police spokesperson, Inspector Margaret Chitove said the incident occurred on the 23rd of February 2021 around 10 am. Tonderai sustained a deep wound in the stomach which left his bowels protruding and a deep gush on the back of the head following the heinous attack.  The accused also sustained a cut on her left hand. While Tonderai was rushed to Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital for treatment before being transferred to Parirenyatwa, Choguya was arrested and tak...

At least 67 inmates have died in prison riots across Ecuador as inmates used blood and knives to attack each other.   The violence was said to have broken out over a power dispute between criminal gangs, according to local media.   In a tweet, Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno said gangs had carried out "simultaneous acts of violence in several prisons in the country".     According to authorities, riots erupted in prisons in the cities of Guayaquil, Cuenca and Latacunga.   Police General Commander Patricio Carrillo said on Twitter on Tuesday that additional security forces had been dispatched to the prisons to regain control of them following the riots.     He added that the riots had involved high-security prisoners.   Images and videos circulating on social media show inmates gathered on a prison rooftop with police officers on motorcycles and in patrol cars surrounding the prison.     Other horrifying fo...