How Spain was dragged into Nigeria's 'tomato emergency'

Photos of Spain's annual tomato fight have irked Nigerians who have seen prices rocket as crops fail.

The streets of the eastern Spanish town of Bunol turn red and gooey every year on the last Wednesday of August, as tens of thousands of people gather to celebrate La Tomatina. It's not an event that has caused much of a stir on social media outside the country, but in the past few days Nigerians have been been distracting themselves from their own tomato crop crisis by making good-humoured jabs aimed at the European festival.

Osborne letter pledging to scrap tuition fees surfaces after 13 years

It's not exactly breaking news. But 13 years after it was written a letter by George Osborne to one of his then constituents is being widely shared on social media.

In the letter Mr Osborne wrote passionately about his opposition to the £3,000 a year university tuition fees introduced by the Labour government of the day. "Very unfair" and a "tax on learning" were two of the phrases used by Mr Osborne - then only two years into his role as a Conservative MP for Tatton - to describe the charges.

Muslim woman's cheeky selfie with anti-Islam group goes viral

When hijab-wearing Zakia Belkhiri saw members of a far-right anti-Islam group protesting outside an Islamic lifestyle event she was attending in Belgium she responded like a true Millennial.

China bans 'erotic' banana-eating live streams

 

  

Chinese authorities don't want "suggestive" banana-eating to feature online



Chinese live-streaming services have banned people filming themselves eating bananas in a "seductive" fashion.

LA police testing knife found on old OJ Simpson property

 

Image caption Simpson was acquitted of the murders in 1995

Los Angeles police are testing a knife found at the former home of OJ Simpson, whose acquittal at his 1995 murder trial captivated the US.