Tag: wedding

Mass wedding for Nigeria orphans sparks outcry

The planned mass wedding of about 100 orphans has sparked widespread outrage across Nigeria. The orphans, some of whom are feared to be underage girls, are set to be married off on 24 May in the north-western state of Niger. They have all lost parents to attacks by armed bandits, who regularly target civilians across […]

German couple, aged 102 and 98, celebrate 80th wedding anniversary

For Gottfried Schmelzer, it was love at first sight. “We hit it off from the very first moment,” says the 102-year-old in his flat in Bad Sobernheim, south-west of the German city of Mainz. He met his wife Ursula while working for an administrative authority in Berlin. They married soon afterwards – exactly 80 years […]