Syrian native describes what daily life is like in ISIS' de facto capital

A Syrian native wrote two columns this week describing what day-to-day life has become in Raqqa, Syria — the de facto capital of the terrorist group ISIS.

He wrote of a city where a person's appearance could get him or her arrested if it's not in line with ISIS rules, where people are forced to attend indoctrination classes at mosques, and where residents have become so desensitized to airstrikes that they no longer bat an eye at them.

Many Syrians vowed to stay after the start of the country's civil war in 2011. For the past five years, rebels have been fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been known to commit atrocities against civilians as he tries to hang onto power. Jihadist groups have also moved into Syria to take advantage of the power vacuum that has opened up amid the chaos.

Commercial sex workers takes to the street to protest the murder of one of their members.

Commercial sex workers on Friday, January 15, took to the streets the streets of Nakuru town, Kenya, to protest the murder of their colleague identified as Grace Wangari. Although details are still sketchy, Mpasho tv reports that the deceased Grace was found dead at Tumaini house in the town. Her body has been deposited at the Nakuru mortuary. More photos after the cut...

Breaking News : Burkina Faso attack, Reports of car bombs and gunfire at hotel 'used by UN and Westerners'

Scene: Burning cars outside the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso

Car bombs have exploded and gunfire has been heard during a suspected Islamist attack on a hotel in Burkina Faso.

Masked gunmen stormed the Splendid Hotel in the capital Ouagadougou at around 7.30pm tonight following a series of explosions.

The hotel is frequently used by UN staff and Western visitors.

There are reports of hostages being taken.

ice hotel made entirely out of ice and snow that opens only in winter

The Hotel de Glace in Quebec Canada is an amazing edifice made out of ice and snow and attracts millions of visitors yearly. The hotel made of 30,000 tones of ice churned together has beds made out of ice, has 44 rooms and suites and has been open since 2001. 

Feyenoord footballers furiously kick & hit each other during training

Feyernoord, one of Holland's most popular clubs took advantage of their league's winter break and sent the squad to a winter training camp in Albufeira, Portugal but teammates Miquel Nelom and Tonny Vilhena have risked disciplinary action from the club after a fight broke out between the pair during a training drill on Thursday. The players could be seen furiously punching and kicking each other with metallic stud boots while teammates and coaches tried to separate them. 

Adolf Hitler 'faked his death then fled to Tenerife' CIA veteran claims

A veteran CIA agent claims to have proof Hitler faked his own death in his bunker at the end of the Second World War.

The team have used a collection of never-before-seen documents to develop the theory that Hitler did not actually kill himself and instead fled to the Canary Islands.

Veteran CIA agent Bob Baer said: "The narrative the government gives us is a lie. if you look at the FBI files it throws open the investigation.

"What we are doing is re-examining history, history that we thought was settled that Hitler died in the bunker but the deeper we get into it, it's clear to me we don't have any facts for it."

Mr Baer's team have access to 700 pages of newly declassified information.

One document states: "American Army officials in Germany have not located Hitler's body nor is there any reliable source that Hitler is dead."

The team claim Hitler 'easily' faked his own death through the use of a double, as the corpse found by Russians was said to be five inches shorter than Hitler and with a smaller skull.

The Weeknd Arrested For Fighting Man Who Said His Hair Looked Like “A Musty Palm Tree”

TORONTO – After the release of his highly anticipated album “Beauty Behind The Madness”, The Weeknd has been reportedly arrested for assaulting a man at a Toronto nightclub Friday night.

The fight started after a random man told the Weeknd: “How you got a new album but you still got that old musty palm tree on ya scalp bruh”. At which point, The Weeknd began throwing punches and the fight began. The Weeknd was arrested for aggravated assault. The Weeknd also reportedly “lost” the fight, according to witnesses, after the Weeknd got punched in the face several times and even fell to the ground. Upon being arrested, The Weeknd began screaming “I can’t feel my face.

Obama debated a bunch of people opposed to his new gun actions, and it was fascinating

President Barack Obama engaged in a spirited an enlightening debate on gun control Thursday night, often with members of a CNN audience who disagreed with his views on the issue.

Obama verbally tussled with opponents of his executive action on guns earlier this week during a town-hall event moderated by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. 

He received questions from the widow of a former US Navy SEAL who was shot dead at a shooting range, a rape survivor, and a Republican sheriff from Arizona running for a seat in Congress.

Breaking News: Liverpool city centre 'bomb scare' sparks evacuations as cops negotiate with man 'holding suspect package'

Police have sieged an office block in Liverpool city centre where negotiators are seeking "direct contact" with a man who claimed to have a "suspect package".

Officers said workers in Silkhouse Court, a 14-storey office block, activated the fire alarm and chose to evacuate the building at around 10.30am.

An ordinarily busy area in and around Tithebarn Street has been cordoned off after police said the man was found "acting suspiciously" in the building.

Specialist officers are now negotiating with the man - reported to be white and middle-aged - inside the block.

A bomb disposal unit has arrived at the scene.

Armed police have also entered a building opposite Silkhouse Court.

A boat insurance company is believed to be at the centre of the scare.

TRUMP: 'I will get rid of gun-free zones on schools' my first day in the White House

Real-estate mogul Donald Trump ended his Thursday-night campaign rally by calling for an end to so-called gun-free zones on schools and US military bases.

"I will get rid of gun-free zones on schools — you have to — and on military bases on my first day. It gets signed my first day," the Republican presidential front-runner told his supporters in Burlington, Vermont.

"You know what a gun-free zone is to a sicko?" Trump asked. "That's bait."

Trump's rally was occurring at the same time as US President Barack Obama's televised town-hall forum addressing gun violence. Obama has repeatedly called for gun-control measures after recent mass shootings and took executive action this week to expand background checks on gun buyers, among other things.

woman stabbed on the cheek by her husband

 

. 32-year-old Fatuma is now scheduled to be airlifted to Nairobi for surgery at the Kenyatta National Hospital. Her husband Mohamed Deeq is in police custody and will be arraigned in court tomorrow. According to reports, the mother of four had a family dispute with her husband and out of rage, he stabbed her in the face.

Mohammed’s brother reported the matter to the police who took action immediately by sending an ambulance to take her to Wajir General Hospital where doctors were unable to remove the knife because it has been logged too deep into the cheek bone.( Above is the Xray)

BILL COSBY WILL NOT BE CHARGED IN PLAYBOY MANSION ASSAULT

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced yesterday that the alleged victim did not provide enough evidence for them to file any charges against the controversy embroiled comedian Bill Cosby.

The 25 year old accuser, Chloe Goins, is still going forward with a civil lawsuit, claiming that when she was 18, she attended a party at the Playboy Mansion, where she says that Cosby gave her a drink and she immediately felt sick. Her suit says that she woke up naked with her breasts “wet and sticky as if someone had been licking them.”

Investigators have reviewed the footage from the mansion at the August 2008 party and found no footage of Goins or Cosby in attendance. Further evidence showed that Cosby was in NYC on the weekend that the party occurred.

Also, the L.A. DA refused to charge Cosby for another woman’s claims, who said the 78 year old comedian raped her in 1965, in which the statute of limitation has long expired in these accusations.

TheSource.com will continue to bring you updates to this story as it develops.

MAN WITH CLEAVER SCREAMING “ALLAH U AKBAR” KILLED OUTSIDE PARIS POLICE STATION

On the anniversary of the Charlie Hedbo attacks, a cleaver-style knife weilding man shouting“Allahu Akbar” was shot and killed by police attempting to enter a northern Paris police station.

The attempted attack close to the police station in Goutte D’Or in Barbes took place on the one year anniversary of the first terrorist attack in the French capital known as the Charlie Hedbo killings.

In that tragedy, two gunman entered the French gonzo-journalism magazine, killing twelve people for the publication’s propaganda against Islam and the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

With Parisians already paranoid on a highly sensitive anniversary, wondered as to whether the attacker was a “one off” terrorist, a disturbed individual or possibly the first wave of the kind of coordinated attacks that struck in November.

People keep emailing Apple to say the Apple Watch saved their life

The general consensus in the tech world is that the Apple Watch has not yet become a blockbuster hit for Apple. Revenue is so small that the company isn't sharing sales figures, although one estimate put total shipments at 7 million.

But there's one guy who gets up every day thrilled about it: Apple COO Jeff Williams.

The longtime Apple executive was just promoted to chief operating officer last month. He's the person in charge of the Apple Watch project, as well as Apple's other health-tech projects, like ResearchKit.

Thug who killed dad-of-six for his MOBILE PHONE in violent robbery is jailed

Caged: Lewis Thornton

A thug who killed a dad-of-six for his mobile phone in a brutal robbery has beenjailed.

Lewis Thornton, 24, punched 54-year-old Stephen Phillips, as he stole his phone on either Derry Road or Birmingham Road, in Wolverhampton , in March 2014.

Mr Phillips’ body was later discovered in his Dudley Road flat by his son on March 12. An initial post-mortem found that his injuries were not consistent with a fall but as a result of an ‘accelerated fall backwards’ after having been assaulted.