Uninstalling this one app will boost your iPhone battery by 15%

If you’re desperate to make your iPhone’s battery last longer but don’t want to shell out for one of Apple’s official battery cases – there is another way.

Unfortunately, this particular trick might not go down well with social networking fans.

All you have to do is uninstall Facebook’s app from your phone and use the Safari browser to access the mobile website instead.

The trick has been shown to work on Android phones and testing by the Guardianconfirmed that making this small switch saved up to 15% of battery life on iPhones too.

Late last year, Facebook was confronted by software experts and technology journalists over its mobile app which appeared to run processes in the background that ate away at valuable battery life.

The tech company acknowledged the problem and promised to resolve it by rejigging its mobile app.

Man convicted of stomping 14 year old girl to death after trying to kidnap and rape her

On Monday, a Michigan jury found a 34-year-old man guilty of the 2014 murder, kidnapping and attempted sexual assault of 14-year-old April Millsap, PEOPLE confirms.
James VanCallis will likely be punished to spend the rest of his life behind bars when he is sentenced on March 30, according to court officials.
April's body was found along a hiking trail in Armada, Michigan, on July 24, 2014, and medical examiners were able to determine she died from blunt force trauma and neck compression. Police claim April's bra had been ripped off and that she was found in a wooded area with her pants and underwear around her ankles. 

Tennis Super star Andy Murray celebrates becoming a father after wife Kim gives birth to a baby daughter

Andy Murray has become a father after his wife Kim gave birth to a daughter, the couple's first child.

The tennis star had promised to fly home from the Australian Open if his wife went into labour during the tournament, and after losing in the final he said he would be on 'the first flight home' in an emotional message.

The Murrays' daughter was born on Sunday night, according to reports.

The baby girl, whose name has not yet been revealed, is the youngest member of Britain's foremost tennis family.

Mr Murray's brother Jamie won the Australian Open doubles championship last month, while his mother Judy is a successful coach who captains the British women's tennis team.

The new parents have been together since they were teenagers, and they married last April in Mr Murray's hometown of Dunblane before announcing the pregnancy in the summer.

Among the hundreds of fans congratulating the couple today was Angus Robertson, the SNP's leader in Westminster, who tweeted: 'Congratulations to Andy Murray and Kim Sears on the birth of their daughter.'

Germany train crash: 'several killed' and multiple casualties following head-on collision between two passenger trains

Four have died and 100 injured following a head-on collision between two local trains 

in southern Germany.

Among the casualties, 15 are "seriously injured" according to police.

Eyewitness reports indicate that the trains are “wedged together”.

It is understood that the rescue efforts could last all day.

We’ll be bringing you the latest at 11pm GMT, when police are set to hold a press conference.

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Local carnival cancelled following 'tragic event'

A planned carnival in Rosenheim has been cancelled.

City management chief Sabrina Obermoser has just made the announcement.

Man left to die inside tomb discovered alive by shocked family

This is the dramatic moment a man who had been thrown down a tomb and left to die was discovered alive by a grieving family.

The man, only known by his initials VSFM, had apparently been attacked and thrown down the tomb in Caju Cemetery in Brazil.

He was discovered when relatives of a person buried close by went to pray beside the grave - and found bloodstains on the edge of the cover.

Firemen who rushed to the scene opened up the tomb to find the 33-year-old alive but severely injured.

Buses toys on Jiji.ng – Buy cheaper!

Among a diversity of car models you can notice some models of busses. They will look good in your kid’s collection of toys and fit into a toy garage really well. So if we speak about must-have toys for boys, buses are in the list.

Open Jiji.ng and look for buses toys by entering this word combination in a search line. You can also check out the whole list of toys represented. Actually, Toys is only a part of the bigger category filled with stuff for kids and babies. The website is divided into twelve categories (which are also divided in subsections), including Computers and Laptops, Electronics, Fashion and Beauty, Animals and Pets, Vehicles, Property and so on. Each of them is represented by thousands of offers posted by people from different cities. Due to the ability to do it for free the number of users keep growing and the service keeps improving. And smart convenient interface brings even more advantages.

One more important thing is prices at Jiji. Here everything is cheaper than in other shops or online stores. All users communicate with each other directly and don’t have to pay additional price for assistants’ services. As a result, prices are often negotiable. And if not – they are affordable for sure. Everything to make your happy!

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INTRODUCING NIGERIAN STUDENTS AND YOUTH CORPERS DISCOUNT CARD #NSYCDC @nsycdc

"Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking, we can get on with creating the future as anxiety remains the maiden of creativity"

The Nigerian Students and Youth Corpers Discount Card as introduced by The Bridge Concept Nig. Ltd. to National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, is a systemic support system that will create an opportunity for Nigerian Students to maximize their little available resources to accomplish more, which will help in promoting the well being of students who are mostly challenged.

The scheme will work by providing discount for students on transactions, purchase, travelling, etc in any part of the country within the scope of numerous corporate partners. The accessibility to the benefit is an individual voluntary students mastercard that does not require recharge or renewal as long as you are a students.

The interaction between the leadership of NANS and The Bridge concept on 8th December 2015 at Crystal Hall, Chelsea Hotel, Wuse II Abuja; revealed that the scheme is philanthropic and a replicate of what students enjoy in other advance countries like US, UK, Kenya, etc, which the opportunity will be extended to all campuses and rural communities through Students Union leaders.

Leicester City uses Budist Voodo to win premiership matches

Dear football fans. Are we just going to sit here and pretend like Leicester City are not using juju?

Matt LeBlanc to be Top Gear co-presenter

Former Friends star Matt LeBlanc is to be one of the new presenters of Top Gear when the motoring programme returns to BBC Two in May.

The US actor will be the show's first non-British host in its 39-year history.

"Matt's a lifelong fellow petrolhead and I'm thrilled he's joining Top Gear," said Chris Evans of his new on-screen colleague.

Additional Top Gear cast members will be confirmed shortly, the BBC said.

"As a car nut and a massive fan of Top Gear, I'm honoured and excited to be a part of this iconic show's new chapter," said LeBlanc. "What a thrill!"

The 48-year-old is best known for his role as Joey Tribbiani in Friends and has more recently been seen, as himself, in BBC Two sitcom Episodes.

Reams Food Store Worker in Utah Dies After Getting Dragged Into Industrial Mixer

A 45-year-old grocery store employee in Utah died after she was dragged into an industrial-sized bakery mixing machine, officials said.

Investigators are still trying to determine how Carmen "Jackie" Lindhardt was pulled into the mixer in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy on Wednesday morning, Sandy Police Sgt. Dean Carriger told NBC News.

Lindhardt was using the appliance in the bakery department of a Reams Food Store when she became caught on a moving part that rotates to combine ingredients, Carriger said.

A coworker heard her scream and quickly ran over and shut off the mixer but it was too late.

Art Dealer Eric Spoutz Charged With Selling Dozens of Fakes of American Masters

Eric Ian Spoutz, a well-known Michigan art dealer listed as the donor of paintings by American masters to numerous top galleries, was arrested Wednesday in Hollywood on a federal charge of selling forged artworks.

According to a federal complaint filed last week in New York, Spoutz, 32 — also known as Chad Smith, John Goodman and James Sinclair — sold dozens of works of art that he falsely claimed were by famous artists like Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Joan Mitchell, using forged documents to convince buyers of their authenticity.

Sperm Whale Stranded On Hunstanton Beach

Coastguard and sealife experts are helping a 14m sperm whale that is alive and stranded on the beach at Hunstanton in Norfolk.

Councillor Kate Dunbar says people are pouring water on the mammal to try to make it comfortable, but the high tide is not expected until about 2pm.

"They've used a digger and dug a hole in the sand, the water has been welling in it and people have been back and forth with buckets of water to pour over the whale to make it more comfortable. It's a very sad sight," Ms Dunbar told Sky.

"The tide is about 40ft away perhaps. I think it's on the turn, on its way back... I think the high tide is about two-ish this afternoon... It's probably going to be too shallow for it to swim away safely."

Man Shot Dead In 'Targeted Attack' At Warehouse

A company boss has been shot dead during an attempted robbery at his warehouse in Birmingham.

Officers were called to Direct Source 3 Ltd just before 6.40pm on Wednesday after getting reports that several masked men were robbing the premises.

Response officers were immediately sent to the scene and found Akhtar Javeed, 56, who had suffered a gunshot wound.

Mr Javeed is listed by Companies House as a director of the food distribution business.

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.'