Highpoints from Mark Zuckerberg’s town hall meeting in Lagos, Nigeria

The vibrant developer and entrepreneurial ecosystem attracted Mark Zuckerberg to Lagos. Earlier today at Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, Mark had his signature town hall meeting with developers and entrepreneurs working out of Lagos.

Mark in his opening remarks pointed out that in Lagos, and across the continent, things are changing really quickly. The economy is shifting from a resource based economy to an entrepreneurial and knowledge based economy and Nigerians are the ones leading that change, not only in remaking Lagos, Nigeria, but shaping the whole continent and influencing how things are going to work around the world for the next generation.

Mark Zuckerberg Lounges in Lagos #Crashes Music Video Shoot #Runs on Lagos Bridge

Mark Zuckerberg

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Quick run this morning across the Ikoyi Bridge with entrepreneurs in the Lagos Road Warriors running club. Best way to see a city!

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Visited Nollywood, crashed a hip hop music video, and met some of Nigeria's biggest stars.

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff removed from office by Senate

Brazil's Senate has voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for manipulating the budget.

It puts an end to the 13 years in power of her left-wing Workers' Party. Ms Rousseff denied the charges.

Sixty-one senators voted in favour of her impeachment and 20 against, meeting the two-thirds majority needed to remove her from the presidency.

Acting President Michel Temer will serve out Ms Rousseff's term, which ends on 1 January 2019.

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Mr Temer, from the centre-right PMDB party, is expected to be officially sworn in later on Wednesday.

'See you soon'

Ms Rousseff did win one battle on Wednesday - a Senate vote on banning her from public office for eight years failed to pass, meaning she could in theory return to politics.

Saudi Arabian court sentences a man to 10 years in jail, £4k fine and 2,000 lashes for tweeting that he was an atheist

In Saudi Arabia there's a law that places atheists and atheistic beliefs as 'terrorism', hence a man who tweeted that he was an atheist has been fined £4,000 and sentenced to 10 years in jail with 2000 lashes of the cane by a high court in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia's Islamic police found over 600 tweets by the 28 year old man denying the existence of God, ridiculing Koranic verses, accusing all prophets of lies and saying their teaching fueled hostilities, and after the Islamic court gave him all this punishments the man has refused to 'repent' saying he only aired his beliefs and he still stands by them.

In 2014 the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia issued royal decrees aimed at clamping down on all forms of political dissent and protests that could “harm public order”.

One of the articles of the decrees defined terrorism as “calling for atheist thought in any form, or calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based”.

Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director of Human Rights Watch, said  “Saudi authorities have never tolerated criticism of their policies, but these recent laws and regulations turn almost any critical expression or independent association into crimes of terrorism.”

Source: The Sun UK

50 Cent's take on Chris Brown and the alleged assault claim

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The first US passenger flight to Cuba in over 55 years just landed

Water cannons are deployed as Jet Blue Flight 387 departs from Fort Lauderdale International Airport, for Santa Clara, Cuba, inaugurating the first regularly scheduled commercial flight between the US and Cuba in more than half a century, on August 31, 2016.

For the first time in more than 50 years, an American airline provided a passenger flight to Cuba.

This historic flight took place this morning from Fort Lauderdale, Florida and arrived in Santa Clara, east of the capital Havana. The successful flight took an estimated 51 minutes.

According to a New York Times report, JetBlue's executive vice president Marty St. George explained that a propeller plane was used the last time a US airline regularly scheduled flights to the communist country.

Mark Zuckerberg visits Co-Creation Hub in Nigeria Lagos

Mark Zuckerberg visits CcHUB— at Co-Creation Hub.

Next stop: Lagos! This is my first trip to sub-Saharan Africa. I'll be meeting with developers and entrepreneurs, and learning about the startup ecosystem in Nigeria. The energy here is amazing and I'm excited to learn as much as I can.

Our first stop is the Co-creation Hub Nigeria (CcHUB) in Yaba. I got to talk to kids at a summer coding camp and entrepreneurs who come to CcHub to build and launch their apps. I'm looking forward to meeting more people here!