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A seven-month ban on Twitter use in Nigeria was unlawful, according to a court ruling by West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS seen by AFP on Thursday. The Abuja government suspended Twitter in June last year after the social media giant deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari. It lifted the ban in January. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court issued its ruling following a suit brought by a Nigerian NGO called the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and rights campaigners. In a summing-up statement sent to AFP the court said the ban, which drew international approbrium, was unlawful, infringed freedom of expression and access to media, and ran counter to provisions both of the African Charter and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In declaring the ban unlawful the court also ordered the Nigerian authorities never to repeat it. Abuja lifted the suspension after talks with Twitter representatives but ...

Hollywood stars Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have got married in Las Vegas, Ms Lopez has confirmed. "We did it. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient," she wrote on her website. The nuptials come 17 years after they called off their first engagement. News of the couple getting back together last year sent fans into a spin, as they publicly displayed their rekindled love on social media. The Clark County Clerk's Office in Nevada - where Las Vegas is located - shows on its record system that Jennifer Lopez will change her name to Jennifer Affleck. Writing on her OntheJLo website, she said the couple had flown to Las Vegas on Saturday and queued for a marriage licence alongside four other couples. "They were right when they said, 'all you need is love'," she wrote. "We are so grateful to have that in abundance, a new wonderful family of five amazing children and a life that we have never had ...

The UK could have its hottest day on record this week, with temperatures forecast to hit up to 41C (106F). The Met Office has issued a red extreme heat warning on Monday and Tuesday in much of England, from London and the south-east up to York and Manchester. The current highest temperature in the UK is 38.7C, in Cambridge in 2019. High temperatures are also forecast across the UK - with amber warnings in the rest of England, all of Wales, and parts of Scotland. London is set to be one of the hottest places in the world on Monday, with temperatures soaring above the Western Sahara and the Caribbean. The capital is forecast to be hotter than Dakhla in Western Sahara (24C), Nassau in the Bahamas (32C), Kingston in Jamaica (33C), Malaga in Spain (28C) and Athens in Greece (35C). The hot weather will continue on Tuesday - with overnight temperatures warned to be in the mid twenties - before cooling on Wednesday. It is the first time the Met Office has issued a red warn...