Stevie Wonder told thousands of fans watching him perform in London on Saturday (July 6) night he is due to have a kidney transplant in September.

The singer, songwriter and musician told the crowd at an event in Hyde Park that he had a donor lined up, and was making the announcement to avoid rumors spreading about his health.

“I’m going to have surgery, I am going to have a kidney transplant in September of this year,” he said as he finished his performance, according to footage posted on Twitter by those at the concert.

The sixty-nine-year-old, who has won more Grammy awards than any other artist and whose hits include “Superstitious”, “I Just Called to Say I Love You” and “Isn’t She Lovely”, did not reveal what was behind him needing the transplant.

“I’m all good, I’m all good, I’m all good. I have a donor it’s all good,” he added after a supportive cheer from the crowd. (REUTERS)

The body of a man thought to have been a stowaway who fell from the landing gear of a Kenya Airways flight on its way into Heathrow Airport has been found in a garden in London, police said as they continued to determine the identity of the man on Tuesday (2 July).

London’s Metropolitan Police said they were called to a home in Clapham in south London on Sunday (June 30) after the body was found.

A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out and the man has not yet been identified.

In a statement, police said they believed the man ”was a stowaway and had fallen from the landing gear,” adding that some items including a bag and supplies had been found once the plane had landed. (REUTERS)

Police in Northern Ireland released CCTV footage on Sunday (January 20) showing the moment a car bomb exploded in Londonderry on Saturday (January 19) evening outside the city’s courthouse.

Footage showed the driver, wearing dark clothing, parking before running away from the vehicle. A crowd of people are later seen walking past the parked car.

Two men were arrested early on Sunday over the car bomb attack in Londonderry and police were looking into whether the New IRA militant group was responsible, officers said.

The men in their twenties were detained hours after the explosion, Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton told a news conference.

Hamilton said the main focus of the investigation was on the New IRA – one of a small number of groups opposed to a 1998 peace deal that largely ended three decades of violence in the British-run province. They have carried out sporadic attacks in recent years.

Saturday’s blast came at a time when police in both Northern Ireland and European Union-member Ireland have been warning that a return to a hard border between the two after Brexit, complete with customs and other checks, could be a target for militant groups.

Politicians from all sides – including Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the nationalist Irish Republican Army (IRA) – condemned the explosion. — Reuters