The graveyard where planes go to die in the Arizona desert

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Rows upon rows of once-majestic aircraft are lined up in the baking heat of Arizona's Tucson desert, left abandoned to the elements in piles of rusting metal. Pictured here are B-52s

Cameroonians March Against Boko Haram

Cameroonians March Against Boko Haram

'Half-ton killer' loses 800lbs: Bed bound woman who falsely confessed to killing nephew by rollling on him turns life around to find new love. Had 11 surgeries to lose weight

+The newly slimmed  on her official Facebook page, which has over 18,000 followers, Rosales posted photographs with what appears to be a new boyfriend. She revealed on the page that she divorced her husband Bernie in 2013

Crowd gathers to watch a couple after husband is rumoured to have cast spell.

Police had to be called in to restore order after a crowd gathered to see a cheating wife and her lover locked together during sex after the rumour spread that her husband had asked a witch doctor to put a curse on her private parts.

Star Trek star legend Leonard Nimoy dies aged 83. Millions of sci-fi fans mourn the original Mr Spock

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Dedicated: Despite his struggle, the actor maintained his connected to his fans right up until his death, urging them to support the franchise

Mother of four who tortured domestic help with a hoover is jailed for six years.

A Hong Kong woman who tortured her Indonesian maid in a case that sparked worldwide outrage has been handed a six-year jail sentence.

Law Wan-tung was sentenced after her conviction earlier this month on eight charges of assault, grievous bodily harm and criminal intimidation against 24-year-old Erwiana Sulistyaningsih.

The brutal case highlighted the vulnerabilities of migrants working as domestic staff across Asia and the Middle East.  

Law Wan-tung has been found guilty of torturing her Indonesian maid, Erwiana Sulistyaningsih - who is pictured above at a hospital in Sragen,

Ramsey Noah, Mercy Johnson storm London's launch 'Thy will be Done'

Ramsey Noah at Film Premiere

Trafficked Nigerian Girl Dies In Burkina Faso  

Published on February 26, 2015 by pmnews   ·  

By Simon Ateba/Lagos

Gift in in Ouagadougou
Photo: Simon Ateba

A Nigerian girl who was trafficked to the West African country of Burkina Faso has been found dead barely a month after an investigative report exposed the awful conditions she and other Nigerian girls are subjected to in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.

A news correspondent, Ateba, travelled to Ouagadougou in early January to unravel the booming human trafficking business in the landlocked country.

What he discovered was a sophisticated human trafficking ring that takes girls from Nigeria with false promises of making their lives better in Europe via Burkina Faso.

The victim, known as Gift, was sold the same promises but ended up working as a sex slave in ‘Bar Dancing Petit Ouaga’, a brothel in Toudoubweogo village in Ouagadougou.

Our correspondent met her on 12 January this year during his investigation but she was found dead mid February.

Gift who hails from Edo state in Nigeria, narrated how she had travelled with someone for three days to get to Burkina Faso in April 2014.

But, instead of going straight to Ouagadougou, she travelled to Dori where gold is being mined manually. Dori is about 271 kilometres from Ouagadougou.

She claimed she was 18 years old but she appeared younger than that. Most girls who are trafficked are taught to say they are 18 years and above.

During the conversation with our correspondent, Gift expressed hope that once she has paid the traffickers some money, she would be free to move on with her life.

But she died a week ago, two activists said, as many other trafficked Nigerian girls who have died there far away from their family members, and not close to their dream lives.

Face of Jihadi John Revealed

Nigeria: President Jonathan today visited 

Mubi, Baga & Maiduguri to address troops 

fighting Boko Haram 

Michael Schumacher sells Norwegian mountain holiday home for £2million as he continues to recover from his horrific ski injuries 

Michael Schumacher has sold his Norwegian mountain holiday home for £2million as he continues to recover from his horrific ski injuries.

The sale of the retreat, in Trysil, north of Oslo, comes after it was revealed last year that his family was planning to build a £10million 'hospital' room for the Formula One star at their home in Switzerland.

The 46-year-old had owned the 6,940 sq ft lodge since the 1990s and used it as a base for family skiing trips.

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Michael Schumacher has sold his Norwegian mountain holiday home (pictured) for £2million as he continues to recover from his horrific ski

Anti-Buhari protesters now at Royal Institute Of International AffairsChatham house, London.

Anti-Buhari protesters have arrived Chattam House to protest against the APC presidential candidate. We were warned to expect it...:-). More photos after the cut..

Woman gives birth to baby without arms, husband absconds, landlord evicts.

The baby

The arrival of a baby in every home heralds joy. But this was not the case for Mr. Mudashiru Sheriffdeen of Bosun Street, Ifo in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State.

The wife, Taiwo, was on Tuesday delivered of a baby boy who had no arms.

The baby boy, our correspondent gathered, was born around 2pm at a private hospital, Majotal Medical Clinic at the Ilogbo area of Ado/Odo-Ota Local Government Area of the state.

General Buhari’s Speech at London Chatham House – Nigeria’s Transition

General Buhari’s Speech at London Chatham House – Nigeria’s Transition

Read the speech below...

Permit me to start by thanking Chatham House for the invitation to talk about this important topic at this crucial time. When speaking about Nigeria overseas, I normally prefer to be my country’s public relations and marketing officer, extolling her virtues and hoping to attract investments and tourists. But as we all know, Nigeria is now battling with many challenges, and if I refer to them, I do so only to impress on our friends in the United Kingdom that we are quite aware of our shortcomings and are doing our best to address them.

The truth is: 80 percent of women do not shower everyday, some only shower once a week

• It seems having a shower is not quite as common as we thought
• A new survey shows a third of women go for three days without washing
• In light of this, FEMAIL talks to five women about their bathroom habits 

By ANTONIA HOYLE FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 22:01, 25 February 2015 | UPDATED: 08:11, 26 February 201

Having a shower is a necessary chore and a simple pleasure. But it seems it is not quite as common as we might have thought.

A survey this week found an astonishing four out of five women don’t shower every day. A third even admit they go for up to three days without washing, with tiredness and lack of time cited as the reasons.

Here, five women with very different habits reveal how often they shower.

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ONCE A WEEK

Michelle McCann, 36, a social media consultant from Brighton, is married to Gary, 40, a data analyst. They have two children, Isobel, five, and Luke, seven months. Michelle has just one shower a week because she says she’s too busy with motherhood to have one more often.

Every morning after I’ve buttered Isobel’s toast, prepared her packed lunch and settled Luke on his playmat, I rush off to get myself ready.

I pass one of my son’s wet flannels under each armpit before giving my arms, hands, face and intimate area a cursory once over. Then I’m ready for the school run.

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Michelle McCann, 36 (pictured), from Brighton, showers just once a week and says her hectic lifestyle as a mum of two is to blame

As a busy mum, I never seem to have the time to shower, so I use microfibre baby flannels every day instead. They’re just as efficient as showering and I can also remove my make-up, all in a fraction of the time. You wash them after each use and they come in packs of 30.

It may sound grim, but I can assure you I don’t smell, as my husband — who has a shower every other morning — will attest.

People are too fussy about showering frequently. When I was a child, I was given only one bath a week.

Epic moment at UK Brit Award 2015- The Material girl takes a plunge- Madonna

• Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith are the biggest winners at the 2015 BRIT Awards as they take home two gongs each
• Rita Ora and Ellie Goulding go all out in the battle of the pop princesses as they display extreme cleavage in racy plunging gowns
• A Peri-Peri nice surprise! Kanye West gets his priorities right as he enjoys a Nando's ahead of the BRIT Awards

Madonna was pulled off the stage backwards live on Wednesday night's BRIT Awards 2015. With the final, much-anticipated performance of the night with I'm Going To Carry On, Madonna failed to untie her cape in time for her dancer's to rip it away. The 56-year-old looked shocked after she fell backwards down a set of stairs but picked herself back up and continued to the end. Ironic lines including 'pick me up' and 'I'm gonna carry on' featured in the singer's performance as she battled to the end in her elaborate matador costume. Karlie Kloss was seen turning to best friend Taylor Swift with a mortified look as audience members watched the stage veteran complete her performance. Earlier, Swift opened the show at London's O2 Arena strutting onto the stage as she performed her single Blank Space to great fanfare, putting on a jaw-dropping and sexy show.

Tears as Bayelsa buries burnt female politicians

Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson

Many shed tears in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, on Tuesday as the remains of eight female politicians burnt to death on February 14, were buried at the Gloryland Cemetery in Azikoro Village.

The female politicians, including wife of the Secretary to Bayelsa State Government, Elizabeth Oguru, were burnt to death in a multiple motor accident after visiting the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience.

The accident at Ahoada in Rivers State involved a Toyota Sienna car, an SUV and a bus with the inscription, Peoples Democratic Party Women Initiative.

Buhari pictured during London Lecture

Buhari’s UK visit becomes an item  

Published on February 25, 2015 by pmnews   ·  

Muhammadu Buhari at an interactive session with Nigerians in London

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Much has been made of Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate’s visit to the United Kingdom but more images from his trip reveals that he is not bed-ridden has some people have claimed.

Here are more pictures of his visit to UK posted on Twitter by his daughter Zahra

New King has been crowned in Saudi Arabia, hands out an incredible £20.7 billion to his people as he celebrates taking the throne in oil-rich country

• King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud celebrates coronation with handout
• All state employees - as well as pensioners and students - to receive cash
• Delighted Saudis celebrate by splashing out on luxury goods and holidays

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Popular: King Salman has handed out an estimated £20.7 billion to the Saudi Arabian people, who are now splashing out in celebration

The new monarch of Saudi Arabia has handed out billions of pounds to the country's citizens to celebrate his coronation.

King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud made the remarkably generous gesture, estimated to total almost £21 billion, to mark taking the throne in the oil-rich country.

In a message on Twitter - that has now been shared more than 350,000 times - the King wrote: 'Dear people: You deserve more and whatever I do will not be able to give you what you deserve.'

What not to do with a DIY drill. Mother's skin, eyebrows and eyelids are ripped off her head after getting her hair caught in power tool in the Czech Republic

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Mother-of-four Petra Novotna was scalped after her ponytail became tangled in a spinning electric drill

Exceptional cold weather forces forces Americans to move around in snow tunnels !

A Canadian couple got nearly two stories of snow in their backyard, so they only way to get to their cars was to dig. 

Marcel Landry of Prince Edward Island was out digging for nearly seven hours before completing a snow tunnel that reached his car.

The tunnel Landry created was 25-feet long and six-feet high in some places, the Journal Pioneer reported. 

He originally started with a smaller tunnel, but realized it could collapse on him.

In order to determine which direction to dig, he used the emergency button on his keys to make his car horn go off. 

NIGERIA ELECTIONS :INEC, security chiefs fine-tune plan for elections

FEBRUARY 24, 2015 BY NIYI ODEBODE AND OLUSOLA FABIYI 58 COMMENTS

Prof. Attahiru Jega

Representatives of the nation’s security agencies on Monday met with the Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Attahiru Jega, over preparations for the rescheduled general elections.

The PUNCH gathered that the meeting specifically assessed the security situations in the North-East in view of recent successes recorded by the military against the insurgents.

It was learnt that the meeting, which came under the aegis of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security, emphasised the need for a strong military presence, particularly in the North-East, during the elections.

The military had recently said that it had librated many communities, in the North-East, including Baga and Mubi, from Boko Haram.

The PUNCH gathered from a senior security official at the meeting that “security agencies argued in favour of deployment of the military for the elections.”

The official added, “They said the recent threat by   Boko Haram leader, Abubakar   Shekau, should not be taken lightly.

“Besides, there have been suicide bombings in Yobe and only the presence of soldiers can allay fears of voters. Even residents of Maiduguri, Borno State, have been applauding the latest development. How do you tell soldiers to leave during elections.”

The legality of deploying soldiers for the elections has pitted the All Progressives Congress against the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, had on Thursday said President Goodluck Jonathan would deploy soldiers during the elections, but the APC insisted that two courts had barred the military from being part of the exercise.

Investigations by The PUNCH showed that the meeting which held at the INEC office looked into ways the government could assist displaced persons to return to their towns so that they could be a part of the elections.

When contacted, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman,   Kayode Idowu, declined to give details of the meeting which he described as operational.

He said, “The agenda was routine technical evaluation and planning for elections.

“The meeting of the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security is a routine operational platform that deliberates on technical (not policy) aspects of security provisioning for elections. It was not personally attended by the National Security Adviser (Sambo Dasuki), though his office co-chairs the committee with the INEC Chairman.”

The Defence Headquarters, Army, Air Force, Department of State Services as well as the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps are represented in the committee. They also sent representatives to the meeting.

INEC had on February 7, shifted the general elections from February 14 and 28 to March 28 and April 11.

   Its chairman said the postponement followed reports by   Dasuki     and the service chiefs that their agencies would   not be able to guarantee security of INEC personnel in some parts of the country.

Meanwhile, immediate-past National Youth Service Corps members will still be engaged for election duties.

Idowu said despite not being under the NYSC any longer,     INEC remained disposed to engaging them owing to the election training they underwent.

He said the NYSC had earlier “kept these people in camps because of the elections. But now that there is a shift, there is no basis for you to keep on holding them in camps.

“Yes, they kept them in camp for INEC because of the elections and when elections are rescheduled, you can’t hold them in camps for six week.

“The   corps members themselves, as many as have been trained and are available to take up the job for which they have been trained, they would still be there. Those that were trained and have passed out, as many as they are there, they would still be engaged. They have been trained for the job.”

Asked of the implication of engaging the discharged corps members since they are no longer under the scheme, he said, “They are the same people who were recently in the NYSC. The only difference is that because of the time of the rescheduling, they are no longer in the camps of the NYSC.”

Europe's biggest solar eclipse since 1999 is on its way - and 84 per cent of sunlight could be blocked out over London

A solar eclipse is set to block out nearly 90 per cent of sunlight across parts of Europe next month - and it will be the biggest event of its kind in 16 years. 

On 20 March, the moon's orbit will see it travel in front of the sun, casting a shadow over Earth. 

The eclipse will see up to 84 per cent of the sun covered in London - and around 94 per cent in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

Meanwhile, electricity system operators have warned the eclipse poses a serious risk of blackouts all over Europe as the continent increasingly relies on solar power.

The path of totality for next month's eclipse will travel from just beneath the Greenland peninsula, heading north into the Arctic Circle. The left-hand animation shows the totality of the 1999 eclipse. The right-hand animation shows how the shadow created by the eclipse on 20 March will travel over Europe

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Baby born still INSIDE his amniotic sac is hailed a 'medical miracle' by doctors

Legs and hands are clearly visible through the sack, what a miracle

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Until the bag was broken, Silas was still getting oxygen through the placenta. Doctors who delivered say the moment 'caught out breath'

His hands and feet were clearly visible - but baby Silas Philips was in no rush to enter the world.

Born still inside his amniotic sac, he has since been described as a 'medical miracle' by doctors. 

Silas was delivered three months prematurely at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in California.

And doctors performing the Caesarean section on his mother, Chelsea, were astonished to see he his amniotic sac was still intact.

Pictures show Silas curled up inside with the placenta and umbilical cord, his tiny hands and a leg clearly visible.

And until the bag was broken, he was still getting oxygen through the placenta, CBS reported.

The amniotic sac is a bag of clear, pale fluid inside the womb where the unborn baby develops and grows.

The fluid helps to cushion the baby from bumps and injury, as well as providing it with fluids it can breathe and swallow. It also maintains a constant temperature for the baby.

It was a moment that mesmerised Dr William Binder, who delivered Silas.

'Even though it sounds cliched, we caught our breath,' he said. 'It really felt like a moment of awe... and one that will stick in my moment for some time.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/

Conjoined baby twin girls who shared organs including lungs, liver and intestines survive complex 26-hour operation to separate them that was a world first 

Conjoined twins who were connected at the chest and abdomen have been separated after an operation that has never before been successfully attempted.

Knatalye Hope and Adeline Faith Mata were born in Texas last April and were welcomed by parents Elysse and John Eric.

The couple, from Lubbock, were told that their twin girls would be conjoined and when they were born it was found their shared the same chest wall, lungs, pericardial sac (the lining of the heart), diaphragm, liver, intestines, colon and pelvis.

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