Zika: Health Experts Warn On Travel To Miami

Pregnant women have been told to avoid travelling to the Miami area affected by the Zika virus, as 10 new cases are confirmed.

The warning comes as officials confirm a total of 14 cases in the state, all thought to have been spread by local mosquitoes.

The world's largest SSD is now shipping for $10,000

Even with today's latest SSDs, sometimes you just need a little more space.

That’s where the Samsung PM1633a SSD comes in, clocking in at a massive 15.56 terabytes (or 15,360,000,000,000 bytes) of storage. Such power comes at a price, however, with preorders for the 15.56 terabyte behemoth coming in at around $10,000. The 15.56 TB size is not only the largest SSD ever made, but the largest single hard drive ever, finally breaking the 10 TB barrier that spinning disk drives seem to be capped at.

The Latest: WADA fires back over Russian doping scanda

The split between Olympic leaders and global anti-doping officials over the Russian doping scandal continues to escalate.

The World Anti-Doping Agency fired back on Monday, a day after IOC President Thomas Bach suggested the agency was to blame for the last-minute chaos over the participation of Russian athletes in the Rio de Janeiro Games.

Bach said the agency should have acted sooner on evidence of state-sponsored doping rather than release the damning report by Canadian investigator Richard McLaren so close to the games, which open on Friday.

Russian helicopter shot down in Syria

Moscow: A Russian military transport helicopter was shot down Monday in the Syrian province of Idlib, killing the three crew members and two officers on board in the deadliest episode for the Russian military since it intervened in the country, Russian officials said.

Australian Brain family fight on to stay in Scotland

Gregg, Kathryn and Lachlan Brain meet Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, second from left, 

An Australian family living in Scotland faces deportation unless they can find a job before midnight on Monday, local time – Tuesday morning in Australia.

We will abide by ICJ’s decision on Nigeria/Cameroon border demarcation – Buhari

President Buhari

Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that his administration will abide by the decision of the International Court of Justice on the Nigeria- Cameroon border.

A statement issued by the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said Buhari gave the assurance on Monday in Abuja when he received a United Nations Mission led by a Special Representative of the Secretary General, Mohammed Ibn Chambers.

FG to reduce importation of items to by 201

The Federal Government is targeting to reduce the costs of its annual importation of various items into Nigeria from N9.85 trillion in 2016 to N8.79 trillion by 2019.

This is part of the proposal the Federal Government plans to make in the 2017-2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework to be submitted to the National Assembly in October.

Talk911 Nigeria obtained the document from a source at the Ministry of Budget and National Planning on Monday in Abuja.

According to the document, this shows a decrease of about N1.05 trillion in import bill from 2016 to 2019.

Robbers Storm Lagos Bank, Kill Inspector, Civilian

A four-man armed robbery gang on Monday trailed two bank customers, including a police inspector, to the premises of a new generation bank at the Idimu area of Lagos, robbed and killed them in cold blood.

Talk911 Nigeria gathered that unknown to the inspector and the civilian, who wanted to withdraw money from the bank’s ATM and banking hall respectively, the robbers were lying in wait for them to finish their transactions.

Dogara in trouble as Jibrin submits petition to EFCC

Former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Monday, made true his threat to submit a petition against Speaker Yakubu Dogara and three principal officers of the House to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Jibrin was sighted at the Yellow House headquarters of the EFCC this afternoon in Abuja to formally deliver his petition against his colleagues for allegedly padding the 2016 budget with as much as N40b.

The lawmaker had earlier stated on his twitter handle that he would be visiting some anti-graft agencies in a bid to substantiate his allegation of budget padding against the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara and other principal officers of the House.

Jibrin had recently accused the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Yusuf Lasun, Chief Whip, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, and the Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, of attempting to pad N40bn into the 2016 budget.

Jibrin said his aim of visiting the various anti-corruption agencies is to ensure that Dogara and the other principal officers are brought to justice.

According to the former Chairman, he will fully cooperate with investigators to enable them understand the depth of budget fraud and abuse of office by the Speaker.

Hotel bombing is latest to rock Kabul

The Taliban took credit for an explosion that targeted a Kabul, Afghanistan, hotel early Monday morning, the latest of a series of bombing attacks seeking to further destabilize the war-torn nation.

After the explosion, three armed suicide attackers tried to gain entry into the hotel, but were engaged by police, Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry told Talk911 Nigeria.

Yuriko Koike elected Tokyo's first female governor by landslide

Koike, who previously broke glass ceilings as Japan's first female defense chief, is one of only three women currently serving as governor of one of the country's 47 prefectures.

In her campaign, Koike referenced Joan of Arc and anime character Sally the Witch, and vowed to overcome childcare shortages and push female-friendly policies "so that both women and men can shine in Tokyo."

Japanese society is still heavily male-dominated in both politics and business. The World Economic Forum ranks the country 101st out of 145 in terms of gender equality, and only 9.5% of Japan's House of Representatives are women, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.