A Harvard psychologist describes a simple exercise to reduce your anxiety in stressful situations

If your strategy for calming down before a job interview or big presentation is to pace up and down, muttering, "You got this!" until you almost, sort of believe it, then we've got good news.

There's a simpler and more effective way to beat anxiety. The trick? Remind yourself of what you value most.

Japanese porn stars let fans touch their boobs for a 'good cause

Japanese porn stars are saving the world through the strength of eroticism by donating their chests to charity. The porn stars were groped for a good cause on a Japanese TV marathon called "24-Hour TV: Eroticism Saves the Earth".

Supermodel Bar Refaeli and her mother arrested on charges of tax evasion on millions in income

Bar Refaeli, one of the most well-known supermodels in the world, was arrested Wednesday on charges of tax evasion in Israel,Agence France-Presse has reported.

Refaeli was arrested in a home raid. She's suspected of lying about where she lived to avoid reporting millions of dollars in income.

She's also charged with accepting free accommodations in the form of luxury apartments and cars not registered in her name, according to Israel's Tax Authority.

Refaeli's mother, Zipora, was also arrested on suspicion of tax evasion.

Nigerian court sentence 9 foreign nationals to 20yrs in prison for crude Oil theft

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos today sentenced 5 Filipinos identified as Axel Joseph Gibo Jabone, Juanito Camireno Infantado, Suarin Fernado Alave, Gatila Jaypee Gadayan and Rolando Jose Commendador and four Bangladeshis identified as Md Zahirul Islam, Islam Shahinul, Islam Rafiqul and Shaikn Shibli Nomany, to 20 years imprisonment each, with fine options of N20million per person for crimes relating to crude oil theft in Nigeria.

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Mom who says her job is 'Being The Best Mom' arrested after children were found dead in a storage

6 year old boy and 3 year old girl, dead

A woman who was arrested after the bodies of a three-year-old girl and six-year-old boy were found shoved inside plastic tote containers hidden a storage locker said her career was: 'Being The Best Mom I Can Be'.

Tami Joy Huntsman, 39, and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Gonzalo Curiel, are behind bars and facing charges of felony child abuse, torture, and mayhem, after the gruesome discovery in Redding, California, on Monday night.

Police were led to the remains after they discovered a 'severely abused' nine-year-old girl at an apartment Huntsman was taken. The youngster was taken into surgery suffering multiple injuries.

 

Sheriff Greg Hagwood said she weighed about 40 pounds, had broken bones in her shoulder, broken fingers, a dislocated jaw, and teeth that were missing or loose. 

 

Neither them or the nine-year-old girl had been enrolled in local schools.

Huntsman is a relative of the two homicide victims but not their mother. Her Facebook page lists her work as "Being the Best Mom I Can Be."

8 people were injured after a Southwest Airlines plane skidded off the runway in Nashville

A Southwest Airlines jet landed off the runway at Nashville International Airport on Tuesday evening.

At least eight people were injured, according to a report from WTVF-TV in Nashville.

Southwest Airlines Flight 31 had been traveling to Nashville from Houston when it skidded off the runway.

Here are the best moments from the Republican debate

Nine candidates took the stage on Tuesday for the fifth prime-time Republican debate of the year.

Here are the candidates who were onstage: Real-estate mogul Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.

For the second consecutive debate, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) was relegated to an earlier, "undercard" debate.

Saudi Arabia forms ‘Islamic Military Coalition’ of 34 countries to end terror group

The end of Islamic State terrorists may be just around the corner after 34 countries formed a new military task force to finish the death cult once and for all.

Saudi Arabia announced this morning that it had brokered the formation of a 34-state Islamic military coalition to combat terrorism.

A statement read: "The countries here mentioned have decided on the formation of a military alliance led by Saudi Arabia to fight terrorism, with a joint operations centre based in Riyadh to coordinate and support military operations."

Arab countries involved include Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, together with Islamic countries Turkey, Malaysia, Pakistan and Gulf Arab and African states.

Philip Chism murder trial: Teenager who raped and killed his maths teacher faces life in prison

Trial: Philip Chism was just 14 when he committed the sickening crime

A teenager who raped and killed his maths teacher while at school faces life in prison after being convicted.

Jurors today found Philip Chism guilty of first-degree murder in the death Colleen Ritzer as Danvers High School in Massachusetts.

The teenager’s defence lawyers claimed he was in the midst of a psychotic episode when he stabbed her 16 times in the neck in the women's bathroom.

Prosecutors said the schoolboy, who was 14 at the time, used a box cutter to brutally stab the 24-year-old, before using a recycling bin to take her body into the woods.

Once there he raped her and violated her with a wooden stick before abandoning her half-naked.

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Teacher: Colleen Ritzer

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Dad who juggled two jobs to raise children fell asleep at the wheel killing Oxford University professor

A divorced dad who juggled two jobs to raise his three children and pay off mortgage debts crashed his car and killed a renowned professor after falling asleep at the wheel.

Simon Westcarr, 51, had finished his nine-and-a-half hour night-shift in a warehouse and was on his 53-mile journey to start his day-shift at a museum when he collided with a car driven by 67-year-old Oxford University Professor Martin Brasier.

Prosecutor Peter Coombe told Oxford Crown Court that Prof Brasier, renowned for his discovery of the oldest microfossil at 3.4 billion years old, was killed in the collision and his wife, Cecilia, suffered serious injuries which required surgery.

Westcarr was jailed for 32 months for causing death by dangerous driving and 16 months for causing serious injury, to run concurrently.

Personal trainer who infected 2 unsuspecting women with HIV jailed for 5 years

Jailed: Simon James has been locked up for five years

A personal fitness trainer who infected two unsuspecting women with HIV has been jailed for five years.

Simon James, 46, did not inform his victims that he was HIV-positive before having sex with them on a number of occasions.

He later admitted he had the virus but insisted the medication he was taking eradicated any risk of the women contracting it.

Bristol Crown Court heard James refused to wear condoms as he claimed he was allergic to them, they were uncomfortable and did not fit him.

James was not taking medication or attending hospital appointments during the time he had unprotected sex with the women, between 2007 and 2013.

He denied two counts of grievous bodily harm by recklessly transmitting HIV but was convicted by a jury following a five-day trial in October.

Man shot dead by police and two arrested yards from court building 'as armed officers stopped gun-toting gang from trying to spring convicted car-jacker from custody'

A man was shot dead by police after he ‘came out firing’ as armed officers thwarted an audacious bid to spring a convicted carjacker from a nearby court.

Two other men were arrested as the drama unfolded at 9am just yards from Wood Green Crown Court in north London.

Police are believed to have been tipped off that an attempt would be made to free Turkish nationals Erwin Amoyaw-Gyamfi and Erun Izzet as they attended court to be sentenced for carjacking and firearms offences.

Another two men were arrested in a nearby street in connection with the incident. 

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A man was shot dead by police after he ‘came out firing’ as armed officers thwarted an audacious bid to spring a convicted carjacker from a nearby court

Abuja MISS DEE is back?

Its Miss Dee fashion and events outfit... yes the abuja designer Stephanie Nwodo, the renowned philanthropist in abuja who runs a sickle cell foundation by name Miss Dee for sickle cell foundation, she used to run an annual fashion show called fashion for life in Abuja for sickle cell. well yea you get the gist.. shes been on the low for a while now but she back and better. shes re-opening her fashion house which was closed for 2 years in Abuja.

The new store will house different brands like lala & k, Dace, CM Hair and Golden hair.