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  New York is settling lawsuits filed on behalf of two of the three men convicted of assassinating renowned civil rights leader Malcolm X, after their exoneration last year.   The judgment will see 83-year-old Muhammad Aziz and the family of the late Khalil Islam, who died in 2018, awarded a collective $36million, after the pair both spent decades in prison for their supposed part in the 1965 killing.      Following a nearly two-year investigation by their lawyers and the Manhattan DA, both men were exonerated in November after several doubts by historians and legal experts over inconsistencies in the case saw their conviction overturned.   New York officials have now agreed to pay $26 million for the wrongful convictions, with the state set to fork over an additional $10 million.   The decision to make good on the wrongful convictions comes after a 22-month investigation into allegations that prosecutors, the F...

Wales will consider changing its name to Cymru on the international stage after the World Cup.   Cymru, the Welsh name for Wales is already being used by the Football Association of Wales in its internal and external communications and by staff at the governing body's headquarters in the Vale of Glamorgan.   The FAW is reportedly planing to ask various stakeholders in Welsh football about the merit of changing the country's name in international competition, while informal discussions have already been held with UEFA on the subject.   'The team should always be called Cymru, that's what we call it here,' said FAW chief executive Noel Mooney ahead of Wales' first World Cup since 1958.   'Our view at the moment is that domestically we're clearly called Cymru. That's what we call our national teams.   'If you look at our website, how we talk about ourselves, we are very much Cymru.   'Internationally we feel we have a bit more wor...

Luiz ‘Lula’ da Silva, former Brazilian president, has defeated Jair Bolsonaro, the incumbent leader, in the country’s presidential elections. In the fiercely contested election, Lula as he is popularly known, raked in 50.9 percent of the votes compared to 49.1 percent for Bolsonaro, shifting Brazil’s political landscape from right wing to the left wing. Lula was announced the winner on Sunday, October 30. The result is more spectacular given that he was jailed and banned from running for office in 2018 after he was found guilty of receiving a bribe from a Brazilian construction firm for contracts with the country’s oil company.  Da Silva spent 580 days in jail before his conviction was annulled and he returned to the political fray. “They tried to bury me alive and here I am,” he said in his victory speech.  World leaders have taken to social media to congratulate the 77-year-old politician.   “I send my congratulations to Luiz Inácio Lula da Si...

Simon Cowell has recalled his wild behaviour when he was a pre-teen.   The TV mogul, who has an 8-year-old son named Eric, revealed he was already smoking and drinking from the age of eight and was arrested for hijacking a bus at age 12.   Simon, 63, said he got up to a lot of mischief in his childhood due to having a "low boredom threshold" and not being academic.   "I was so bad when I was Eric’s age. I was a nightmare," Simon confessed.   Speaking to The Sun On Sunday, he said: "I was drinking and smoking at eight, and I once nearly burned the house down."   Simon explained that he was trying to prove to his brother that Father Christmas didn’t exist, so he found the costume and set fire to Santa’s beard.   However, he dropped it on the sofa causing the whole room to catch fire.   Simon, who has three brothers, revealed that his eldest sibling caught wind of the smoke and called the fire brigade.   Simon w...

  Singer and actor Lee Ji Han is confirmed to have died at the age of 24 in the stampede at a Halloween party. At least 151 people are said to have been killed in the incident on Saturday night, October 29, as they gathered to celebrate the festivities. It was rumoured that the stampede began when a huge crowd of young people – mostly aged in their teens and 20s – poured into a narrow Seoul street to "see a local celebrity".  Lee Ji Han, who was best known as a contestant on Produce 101 Season 2, had got caught up in the stampede and died.   In a statement translated by Soompi, Lee Ji Han's agency, 935 Entertainment, said: "It’s true that Lee Ji Han passed away due to the accident in Itaewon on October 29.     "We also hoped that it wasn’t true, and we were very shocked to hear the news. The family is suffering immense grief right now, so we are being very cautious. May he rest in peace."  They later followed up with another statement which s...