Creature from the deep surfaces in Japanese harbor

It isn't every day that a mystery from the deep swims into plain sight. But on Christmas Eve, spectators on a pier in Toyama Bay in central Japan were treated to a rare sighting of a giant squid.

The creature swam under fishing boats and close to the surface of Toyama Bay, better known for its firefly squid, and reportedly hung around the bay for several hours before it was ushered back to open water.

It was captured on video by a submersible camera, and even joined by a diver, Akinobu Kimura, owner of Diving Shop Kaiyu, who swam in close proximity to the red-and-white real-life sea monster.

"My curiosity was way bigger than fear, so I jumped into the water and go close to it," he told US.

Kelvin Okusanya Wonga? Mastermind of the scam that tricked payday lender of out £3million is jailed for six years after he was caught because he used the same password on 19,000 applications

The mastermind behind a £3million Wonga scam which used the identities of thousands of innocent members of the public to withdraw cash has been jailed for six years.

Kelvin Okusanya, 32, was part of a gang which exploited the company's website algorithms to make more than 19,000 loan applications from April 2012 to June 2013 using the same password 'Bengali90'.

The cash was then laundered through hundreds of bank accounts by the fraudsters while the unsuspecting victims were left facing paying the one per cent a day interest payments.

Okusanya was convicted of fraud after the Old Bailey heard he personally made 82 false applications involving 30 victims.

The judge, Mr Recorder Sells QC, said: 'The names and details of wholly innocent members of the public were used to make fraudulent loan applications on a massive scale.

'Some were even contacted by Wonga for the loans they had not applied for and knew nothing about.

'Such offences are corrosive of the trust which people hold in the financial services sector. They are increasingly prevalent, they are easy to commit and hard to detect.'

The judge told Okusanya: 'You were described during the trial as the mastermind and one of the controlling minds of the whole of this fraud.

'I am satisfied that you were a leading member of a criminal enterprise which intended to get many millions of pounds.'

Eight others were convicted of laundering the proceeds of the cash through bank accounts under their control. 

Prosecutor Richard Hearnden told the court: 'The criminals netted over £3million by targeting one of Britain's most controversial institutions, the pay day lender Wonga.

'Wonga paid out on thousands of payday loans. Each of these loans was only for a few hundred pounds but added together these loans amounted to millions.

'The fraud came about by stealing the names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, mobile phone numbers and debit card numbers of literally thousands of ordinary members of the public.

'The fraudsters that were operating this scam probably bought ready-made lists of potential victims and their personal financial data. How precisely this data was secured is not known.'

The 13 richest people in tech

Almost one-fourth of the 50 richest people on earth made their extraordinary fortunes founding and building today's largest tech companies.

Together, the 13 billionaires have a net worth of about $450 billion. That includes Microsoft visionary Bill Gates, the richest person on earth with a fortune of $87.4 billion, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest tech CEO in the world with a fortune of $56.6 billion.

This comes from new data provided to Business Insider by Wealth-X, a company that conducts research on the super-wealthy. Wealth-X maintains a database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high-net-worth people, using a proprietary valuation model to discern the size of their fortunes.

Although the American tech scene is home to the most billionaires on our list — nine of the top 50 — the emerging economies in China and India are starting to churn out enormously rich tech moguls of their own.

Read on to learn about the richest tech titans in the world.

THE GAME LOSES $10 MILLION SEXUAL ASSAULT CIVIL CASE

It has been reported that The Game has lost the $10 million lawsuit filed against him by VH1reality show She Got Game contestant Priscilla Rainey.

Rainey filed the lawsuit in August 2015, claiming that the Compton rapper inappropriately touched her in May of the same year. She alleged that The Game “forcefully reached his hand inside her dress to rub her bare vagina and buttocks.”

Because he did not attend the hearing to fight the accusations, The Game, whose real name is Jayceon Taylor, loses the suit by default and must pay Rainey, but whether he has to pay the $10 million has not been confirmed.

The next hearing is scheduled later this month on the 24th.

US government sources: Al Shabaab was behind a suspected bomb attack on a Somali passenger plane

Investigators believe a bomb most likely caused the explosion aboard a plane that was forced to return to the Somali capital of Mogadishu for an emergency landing on Tuesday, two US government sources said on Wednesday.

Investigators also suspect the Al Shabaab jihadist group was behind the attack, although no organization has taken credit for the apparent bombing.

There was no immediate comment from Al Shabaab, which has waged a gruesome insurgency against the Western-backed Somali government and a multinational African Union military force.

One person died Tuesday when the Daallo Airlines Airbus A321 carrying 74 passengers was forced to return after a blast tore a hole in the fuselage. Local authorities in the Balcad area, about 30 kilometers north of Mogadishu, said the body of a man, believed to have been sucked out of the plane, was found in the area.

Former FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed’s 25yr old son, Abdullahi, Buys N800m sports car, evades duties…Sons worth N35 Billion

Abdullahi, the exuberant, unbelievably wealthy 25 year old billionaire son of a former Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Bala Mohammed, is in the news again.

Abdullahi Ibrahim, a man with no clear means of livelihood, has cars in his fleet worth over N2 Billion, was recently busted by the Nigeria Customs Service for evasion of duties worth about N124million.

The two children of Bala  Mohammed, all under 30 years old,  are alleged to have stashed about N35billion in Unity Bank, UBA and an offshore account in Dubai.

The two sons who are said to be notorious for harassing and getting contracts from various agencies and staffers of the FCTA using fronts and proxies.

The first son, Shamsudeen was reported to have crushed a 22 year-old citizen of the FCT, Mark Musa, to death along the Shehu Musa YAr’Adua expressway opposite the National Health Insurance Scheme headquarters. He is fond of sponsoring a ring of his nouveau riche friends in car racing competitions on Abuja streets.

Photos: Top Naija Music Awards

Check out some photos from the just concluded Top Naija Music Awards Presentation Ceremony, Held at Monty Buffet, VI, Lagos on Saturday 30th Jan, 2016.

To God Almighty and Mother Mary Be The Glory!

Plane crash kills 3 in South Africa

Three people have been confirmed dead after a light aircraft crashed into the shacks of Benoni in Johannesburg, South Africa this afternoon. The three victims were the only passengers on the aircraft. "Paramedics found the bodies of three people lying inside the aircraft," ER24 medical service told News24 website

Lagos Crash : Bristow helicopter crashes, all occupants reportedly survive

A Bristow helicopter crashed inward the Murtala Mohammed International Airport this morning Feb. 3rd. All 11 passengers on-board survived as they all floated on water with the help of their life jackets

This incident comes a few months after a Bristow helicopter crashed in August 2015 at the Oworonshoki end of the Lagos Lagoon. That incident claimed 6 lives.

Student still can't ORGASM after spending THREE YEARS trying to achieve one

Unsatisfied: Megan Ward has spent three years trying and failing to orgasm

A student fears she will never have an orgasm after spending more than three years trying and failing to give herself one.

Megan Ward, who lives in Birmingham, has used an array of sex toys every day since early 2013 in a bid to achieve satisfaction.

She has also attended countless therapy sessions - but her attempts so far have not worked.

The 20-year-old suffers from anorgasmia, a condition that sees sufferers constantly fail to achieve climax.

Shockingly, as many as one in five British women suffer from the illness - but most do not speak openly about it.

Megan first disclosed her condition in late 2014 - and now, she has revealed she is still yet to experience an orgasm.

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Medical Doctor 'killed husband with hammer after they had threesome sex with teenager'

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Charged: Chamari Liyanage is accused of killing her husband with a hammer

A female doctor is accused of killing her husband with a hammer after they engaged in a threesome with a teenage girl.

Chamari Liyanage is alleged to have murdered Dinendra Athukorala over fears their sexual activity could burden her career.

The Sri Lankan couple had threesomes with a number of other women, including a 17-year-old girl.

Liyanage is on trial charged with killing her spouse, also a doctor, with his own hammer.

When police arrived, the walls were splattered with his blood and she was curled up beside the bed, it is alleged.

The jury at the Supreme Court of Western Australia heard how the defendant was at breaking point and had become fed up of her "controlling" husband.

She had told police how he was physically violent, forced her to engage in sexual acts and controlled her finances and kept tabs on where she went.

HOW DO YOU ESCAPE ?

 

       
                   I'm sure everyone has been there at different points and stages of our lives , where you get to your breaking point ,where you tell yourself i have had enough, those moments when  your thoughts become like tidal waves taking you to the bottom of an ocean , where you wish time would stand still because you aren't prepared for the next day.
            "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me " dylan thomas
                 
                  That point when the beast and the madman have taking over and an eternal battle is going on in your mind.You just want to run away from home, get a moment of silence, or go to a place no-one knows you and start a fresh.
                    But, how do you run away from yourself, from your mind , is that even possible, some try to take their lives and some actually succeed, do they actually escape? to me that's a battle that's been lost.
                    The only form of escape is the music.... 

HILARY DUFF, MIKE COMRIE DIVORCE FINAL Rich Property Split

Hilary Duff is now a single woman, and former NHL star Mike Comrie's a single guy, because their divorce is now final.

According to new legal docs making the divorce official, Hilary must pay Mike $2,408,786 to settle their financial split. She gets to keep their Bev Hills mansion and other property as well.

Hilary and Mike get joint custody of their 3-year-old son Luca. They split the child-rearing costs and neither gets spousal support.

In the docs, obtained by 3m360, Hilary gets to keep her interest in a Malibu mobile home -- it's a very ritzy thing among the rich.  

He gets to keep his 2014 Bentley coupe, a 2013 Mercedes G-Class SUV and a bunch of jewelry.

Homicide : Man allegedly stabbed to death by his wife in their home in Ibadan (Graphic)

Lowo Oyediran Ajanaku, 38, was brutally stabbed to death early this morning allegedly by his wife Yewande Oyediran nee Fatoki, at their Akobo estate home in Ibadan in the wee hours of today Feb. 2nd. The woman is said to be a lawyer and a Staff of Directorate of public prosecution at the Ministry of Justice, Ibadan, Oyo state.

Lowo was allegedly stabbed after a domestic dispute at their home. According to a person in the know, Yewande was found with dislocated shoulders, swollen head and bruised body and was taken to the hospital for treatment where she was later discharged and arrested by police. She's presently detained at the state CID Iyaganku, Ibadan. The man's corpse has been deposited at the mortuary while his friends are mourning him on social media. See more photos after the cut + also a pic of him after he was stabbed...