Through its locked-down operating systems and App Store ecosystem — as well as its noteworthy staring contest with the FBI —  Apple   has long positioned itself as the face of security and privacy. But if recent rumors about the forthcoming iPhone are to be believed, the company may have a new look when it comes to unlocking its future hardware: your mug, or at least a 3D-scan of it. According to   a

By  Nick Wood , Total Telecom Orange, Vodafone reportedly frontrunners to acquire troubled operator. The crisis at Etisalat Nigeria deepened this week after CEO Matthew Willsher and CFO Wole Obasunloye resigned.

Nigeria's Kanu on saving lives through his heart foundation

The senate went into a rowdy session on Tuesday after Enyinnaya Abaribe, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator from Abia state, said that there was a vacuum in government because Acting President Yemi Osinbajo was not in the country. Osinbajo is currently attending the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In his contribution to a motion sponsored by Ahmed Yerima, senator representing Zamfara west, Abaribe said the country was in a “serious problem” because “we have nobody in Nigeria who is at the head of the government”.

Amnesty report describes atrocities including torture and rape, as advisers urge UN to protect civilians in ‘treacherous killing fields’ The government of  South Sudan  and its militias are behaving with vicious brutality in the country, with reports of men being locked in huts and burned to death, and of machete attacks being carried out in remote villages. The atrocities are just one of the causes of the major refugee crisis in the region, with almost  a million people fleeing to Uganda .

This  story  originally appeared on   ProPublica . In the past few years, many seniors and disabled people have eschewed traditional Medicare coverage to enroll in privately run health plans paid for by Medicare, which often come with lower out-of-pocket costs and some enhanced benefits. These so-called Medicare Advantage plans now enroll more than a third of the 58 million beneficiaries in the Medicare program, a share that grows by the month.

We expect the Pound to Dollar rate to ultiamtely extend its upside bias with the proviso that there is a possibility of a short-term pull-back now that sturdy resistance has been met at the 1.3000 level. The pair is moving up within a rising channel on the daily chart; the short-term trend is bullish and expected to extend. It has broken above the peak of the early June highs and moved up to 1.3025 as we forecast in an earlier report . The R1 monthly pivot at 1.3026

Bitcoin startup Bitwage, which focuses on the international payroll market, is expanding its European footprint with a launch in the UK. The company announced its push into the UK market today . Through their platform, which launched in 2014, workers in the UK can accept their wages through settlement options like BACS, CHAPS, Faster Payments or SWIFT into their local British pound-denominated bank accounts.