50,000 evacuate German city over unexploded WWII bombs

More than 50,000 people were evacuated from Germany's northern city of Hanover on Sunday in one of the country's largest post-war operations to defuse unexploded World War II-era bombs.

Residents in a densely populated part of the city were ordered to leave their homes for the operation, planned since mid-April, to remove several recently discovered unexploded bombs.

Authorities had expected to remove at least five explosive devices, but only three were found. Two were defused successfully, while the third required special equipment to be made safe.

At two other sites, only scrap metal was found.

16 Psychological Reasons Good People Do Bad Things

"The line between good and evil is permeable," said psychologist Philip Zimbardo, "and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces." 

As Zimbardo and other social scientists have shown in a range of experiments, actions we deem evil — cheating, lying, stealing, and worse — don't spring from people's character, but the situations they find themselves in. 

To better understand why, we examined research from the fields of psychology and ethics. Here's what we found. 

Injured Liverpool star Daniel Sturridge caught puffing on shisha pipe, just hours before team's defeat

ootball star Daniel Sturridge peers through a haze of smoke as he sucks on a shisha pipe hours before his team flopped to defeat.

The 25-year-old England international, who has struggled with injuries all season , was snapped puffing away with a female companion in the VIP booth of a nightclub.

A single session on the powerful Middle Eastern tobacco pipes is said to be the equivalent of smoking 200 cigarettes.

The next day, striker Sturridge – currently nursing a hip injury – was at Anfield watching his Premier League teammates lose 2-1 at home to lowly Crystal Palace.

BankyW & Adesua Etomi are stunning in official photos from their wedding Introduction

These are official photos from the wedding introduction between the families of Banky W and Adesua Etomi, which held in Ikoyi, Lagos this evening. They are currently having a poolside after party. See more pics of the lovely couple after the cut...

The incredible life and career of Warren Buffett, the billionaire every investor looks to for inspiration

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will host its annual meeting on Saturday.

The event draws huge interest in the financial world and is sometimes called "Woodstock for Capitalists" or "Buffettpalooza." Business Insider will cover it, and you can check back on Saturday for a blow-by-blow of the day.

Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger will answer five hours of questions. Typically, the crowd pays closer attention to Buffett's words of investing wisdom rather than Berkshire Hathaway's operations.

That's no surprise considering Buffett's vast wealth and lifetime of accomplishments.

Following are interesting things we've gleaned from the billionaire's eventful, 86-year-long life.

Tied up in the bush, body pierced with nails and beaten to confess - Two children branded witches in Cross River narrates their shocking ordeal

Two sisters, Aniema, 10 and 13-year-old Mary, who were accused of witchcraft have narrated their ordeal and their near death experience in the hands of their uncles in Akpabuyo Local Government of Cross River State.

The children were branded witches after their stepsister, one Adiaha Akpan said she had a dream where Mary and Aniema came to take her child away and wanted to kill her.
The CrossRiverWatch tracked the children to Asanting village in Ikono local government area of Akwa Ibom State, where their father relocated them after their near death experience in the hands of persons they referred to as “Uncles”.

"That faithful day I was taken to Church and accused of being a witch. Uncle Victor asked that I confess that I am a witch or else when we get back to the house he will beat me up and use nails to pierce my body, but I told him that I was not a witch". Mary narrates.
She further stated that, "The next day Adiaha Akpan (who is their step sister) said she had a dream where I and Aniema my sister came to take her child away and that I wanted to kill her. She told Uncle Victor about the dream and he came and took us to the bush and started flogging us”.
Aniema added that, “When they went away I managed to untie myself and ran away but a broken bottle pierced my feet but I kept on running. The uncle caught up with me and continued with the flogging using big sticks and I was crying. They took me from one house to the other and some people joined them to flog me.”

Groom, 28, attacked his new wife, 29, on their wedding night before repeatedly raping her because he wanted to be a father

A bride has revealed how her ex-husband attacked her on her wedding night before subjecting her to routine rapes when he decided he wanted to a child.

Charlotte Walford, from Northampton, thought her husband Spencer Walford was the man of her dreams. But, hours after exchanging vows, the violent 28-year-old began subjecting her to brutal attacks.

The campaign of abuse, which started at the couple's wedding reception, continued for months until she finally reported the abuse to police.

Surreal photos of China's failed 'city of the future'

Raphael Olivier

Ordos, China, once flush with cash, has been called the world's largest ghost town.

In the early 2000s, a coal-mining boom led the local government to throw money at urban development in the hopes of creating a new epicenter of culture, economy, and politics.

Ordos New Town, also known as Kangbashi, would hold 1 million people and be known for its massive abstract architecture projects, residential towers, and state-of-the-art sports venues. (Developers later scaled back the concept city to accommodate 300,000 people.)

But high property taxes and poor construction deterred people from settling in Ordos. In 2016, some 100,000 people lived and worked there — leaving the city two-thirds empty.

"The whole city feels like a post-apocalyptic space station straight out of a science fiction movie," says the photographer Raphael Olivier, who captured the city in a series titled "Ordos — A Failed Utopia."

23-year-old Nigerian man stabbed to death in London

23-year-old Seun Isaiah McMillan was stabbed to death in Southgate, London on Tuesday night, May 2.

Homicide detectives believe he was attacked four miles away in a playing field at Masefield Crescent, close to his family home.


Witnesses said they alerted police after an argument broke out "over money" between a group of young men gathered in the park.

A post-mortem examination on 4 May gave his cause of death as a single stab wound to the chest.

On Tuesday, 2 May, police were called to Barnet Hospital at about 19:30hrs to reports that a man - later identified as Seun - had self-presented at the hospital, suffering stab injuries. Seun was later pronounced dead at around 20:20hrs that evening.

Detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command are investigating. Detective Chief Inspector Lee Watling, who is leading the investigation for the Homicide and Major Crime Command, said:

Three-foot 7in pantomime dwarf is elected Britain's shortest politician as he wins Welsh council seat for the Tories

New Tory councillor James Lusted was today elected as the Conservative party’s shortest politician - at just 3ft 7in tall.

James, 29, hopes to stand up for the little people as he takes up the ballot box battle.

The part-time pantomime actor pledges to measure up to the challenge of politics - despite being more than two feet shorter than 5ft 8in PM Theresa May.

He was today elected as a county councillor in his hometown of Rhos on Sea in Conwy, North Wales.

James said: 'I will ensure that I listen to the residents, not just the younger or the older generation, but every generation from whatever background - everyone will have a voice.'

Married James is a committed Christian and also performs in Christmas pantomimes of Snow White.  

Pepsi advert with Kendall Jenner pulled after huge backlash

Pepsi has bowed to pressure and is “pulling” a controversial advertfeaturing Kendall Jenner at a protest.

The video has been removed from YouTube and in a statement, the company said: "Pepsi was trying to project a global a message of unity, peace and understanding.

"Clearly, we missed the mark, and we apologise. We did not intend to make light of any serious issue.

"We are pulling the content and halting any further rollout. We also apologise for putting Kendall Jenner in this position."

The advert was widely criticised for appearing to trivialise demonstrations aimed at tackling social justice causes. It was also said to be insensitive due to its apparent mirroring of a picture from a Black Lives Matters protest. 

California police left puzzled after finding 'mermaid' walking down the street

Police in California have been left puzzled after finding a self-declared mermaid wandering the streets.

Officers were called to help uncover the identity of the woman, who said only that her name was Joanna and that she was a mermaid. When she was found in the city of Fresno, about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, she had wet hair and said she had been in the water in a nearby lake. 

Upon inspection, police discovered the woman had webbed toes on both feet. She was unable to provide any further information about her identity, saying simply “I don’t know” in response to most questions.Fresno Police sources confirmed to The Independent that the woman had been found walking on a road near a lake at around 3am on Tuesday, 4 April. 

Ahmed Musa £17million Premier League football star is arrested on suspicion of beating his wife after police swoop on his £850,000 five-bed home at 1am

Leicester City footballer Ahmed Musa has been arrested on suspicion of attacking his wife.

The Nigerian striker, 24, who cost the Premier League club a record fee of £16.6million, was quizzed by police at his £850,000 five-bedroom home in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire. Officers swooped at his home on Tuesday night in response to a domestic abuse complaint, just hours after his side's 2-0 win over Sunderland.

Leicester City footballer Ahmed Musa has been arrested on suspicion of attacking his wife Jamila

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Leicester City footballer Ahmed Musa has been arrested on suspicion of attacking his wife

When they found no one in they made inquiries with surprised neighbours.

The former CSKA Moscow forward was finally arrested at 1am yesterday, by two plain-clothed policewomen, after he returned home. 

The father-of-two Musa was grilled for allegedly beating his wife Jamila and was released without charge.

A spokesman for Leicestershire Police said: 'A 24-year-old man was arrested yesterday morning at his home address near Leicester on suspicion of common assault.

Rick Ross reaches plea deal in kidnapping & assault case, charges to be completely erased from his record (photos/video)

On Tuesday, rapper and music label executive, Rick Ross appeared in court over

 the kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated battery among other charges case in 2015 where he allegedly held two of his employees captive on his property and allegedly forced and pistol whipped them into a guesthouse at gunpoint.
Rick Ross came back from a journey and found the groundskeepers throwing a party in his house while he was away, and then allegedly assaulted them with one victim even telling police he was pistol whipped and left with a chipped teeth and a jaw injured so badly he was “restricted to soft foods and liquid diet.” 

Thank God I am with you - no one else would want you." Mel B gives detailed account of abusive marriage in a 20-page document and it's highly pathetic

If the account given by Mel B in this new document is true, then that means she went through hell and back again. The former Spice Girl submitted to the court a 20-page document detailing in her words all that she suffered during her 10-year marriage to Stephen Belafonte.

It's hard to believe that one person endured all that Mel did for ten good years. Her main reason for staying back is because he blackmailed her with sexually explicit videotapes, threatening to destroy her career and gain full custody of her children by releasing the videos if she tried to leave. Read the documents as sent to Daily Mirror after the cut...