Taylor Swift gave a powerful Grammys speech to young women — and fired back at Kanye

Taylor Swift gave a powerful speech when accepting album of the year for "1989" at the Grammys Monday night.

Along with stating that she's the first woman to ever win album of the year twice — the last was for her second album "Fearless" — she provided inspiring words specifically to young women:

"There will be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame," she said, "but if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, some day when you get where you're going, you'll look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you that got you there and that will be the greatest feeling in the world."

Giant £10million 404-carat diamond found in Angola

Huge: The 404-carat diamond measures 7cm

A giant diamond, thought to be one of the biggest ever found, has been discovered in southern Africa.

Miners from an Australian company unearthed the virtually flawless white diamond in a remote part of Lunda Norte province in northeastern Angola.

The gemstone is thought to be 404 carats and valued at around £10million, according to the Lucapa Diamond Company.

Company chairman Miles Kennedy told Australian news outlet ABC the diamond - the largest ever found in Angola - is valued at around $14million US dollars.

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I THOUGHT I'D BE KILLED IF I OPENLY CONFESS CONVERTING TO CHRISTIANITY - ADEWALE AYUBA

Only very few friends, family members and fans of popular Fuji musician, Adewale Ayuba knew that he has converted to Christianity since 2010.

The ex-staunch Muslim, in an open confession in Redeemed Christian Church of God admitted that he is now a full proud Christian.

According to him, he has been a Christian since 2010, but hasn't been practicing it for fear of been killed.

Hear him: "I have been a Christian for so long, even my family members especially my kids are all going to church but I make sure I go every December 31st. If I don't, I will presume the New Year would be filled with dangers that will lead to my death.

I was always scared of admitting to the world that i'm Christian, for fear of been killed, but now I have the courage to say it boldly, i'm a born-again Christian. I'm no more a Muslim,' he said.

CHARLIE SHEEN MY MAYBACH IS FIT FOR THE POPE ... But Could Be Yours

Charlie Sheen's unloading an old Maybach on eBay -- and Prez Obama and the Pope might think about bidding because the whip's BULLETPROOF ... and not cheap.

Charlie's black 2009 Maybach Landaulet 62S was just listed for a mere $200. Before you get too excited, the buy-it-now price is much higher -- $325,000. 

Still, it could go for way less than a new one. Base price for a Maybach 62 (built to order, of course) is $400k.

Charlie's reason for dumping the whip is cryptic -- "Done dodging bullets. An expired fear mongering caucus lost their vote."

What's far more clear ... after 7 years in service of Charlie, the thing's gotta be partyproof, as well as bulletproof.

Janet Jackson Resurfaces with Her "Sweetie" Following Mystery Illness

Janet Jackson fans, you can all relax for a bit -- Janet’s on the mend, and raring to go back on tour!

The iconic songstress, one of three singers to have a Billboard #1 album in each of the last four decades, posted an adorable photo to Facebook on Friday, in which she can be seen beaming alongside her husband, Qatari business magnate Wissam Al Mana.

"Took a break from tour prep to attend 10th Anniversary of Lazarides Gallery n [sic] London with my sweetie... See you soon," she captioned the cute snapshot.

The mention of tour prep ought to be exciting news to Janet’s acolytes, inasmuch as it follows a string of axed concert dates over the past few months.

Last October Janet tweeted, "Hey you guys, I must rest my vocal chords. Doctor's orders... Will be rescheduling Salt Lake and Denver."

Then, on Christmas Eve, she pushed back her entire Unbreakable Tour, named after her new album "Unbreakable," until "the spring."

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Did Raven-Symone Really Get "Slapped" to Make Room for Kendall Jenner on Red Carpet? Watch Video of the Moment Right Here!

Raven-Symone says she was "slapped upside the chest" twice during a red carpet interview this week -- after a producer wanted her to get out of the way so they could talk to Kendall Jenner instead.

But video of the moment in question tells a slightly different story.

toofab has exclusively obtained video of "The View" host's chat with StarShop App reporter Alicia Quarles -- and, while she's definitely booted in lieu of the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star, it wasn't quite as hostile as Raven made it sound.

In the clip above, we see Symone and Quarles talking about beauty must-haves, as Kendall lingers in the background. Before Raven's even allowed to answer, she gets cut off by a producer just off-camera. "Alicia," the woman interjects, before motioning to Jenner.

"Oh, that's O.K., someone's more important, so I'll let them go ahead," the former "Cosby" star quips, before you hear someone else say, "Sorry, we're gonna go with Kendall."             It's embarrassing for Raven, sure, but here's how she described the incident on "The View" earlier this week:

The US Navy's 'ghost hunter' to set sail: 132 foot long robo-boat will scour seas for silent enemy submarines for months at a time - without a single person on board

The US Navy is set to unleash an army of 'ghost boats' to scour the coasts for enemy submarines.

They hope to end the growing threat of quiet, diesel powered enemy submarines entering American waters undetected.

Bosses revealed the first 132 foot long ship, officially named 'The Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel' will take to the water on April 7th.  

The first 132 foot long ship, officially named 'The Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel' will take to the water on April 7th. It could be used for counter-mine missions, reconnaissance and resupply.

THE SILENT ENEMY SUBS

Diesel-electric submarines, with their nearly-noiseless engines, are incredibly difficult to track from afar. 

They're also cheap at $200 million to $300 million apiece, making them affordable to the likes of Iran, which claims to have a fleet of 17. 

Darpa director Dr. Arati Prabhakar and deputy director Dr. Steve Walker revealed the craft.

'Imagine an unmanned surface vessel following all the laws of the sea on its own,' Walker told media, 'and operating with manned surface and unmanned underwater vehicles.'

The robot boats will go to sea for us to three months at a time.

It will be christened in April in Portland, Oregon, and then begin to demonstrate its long-range capabilities over 18 months in cooperation with the Office of Naval Research and the Space and Naval Systems Warfare Command. 

We think the real cost savings will be in operating this vessel at sea compared to how we operate vessels today,' he added. 

'It could be used for counter-mine missions, reconnaissance and resupply.'

The project began in 2010, when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced that they were building a 132-foot autonomous boat to track quiet, diesel-powered submarines. 

Saudi Arabia will send fighter jets to Turkish base in preparation for anti-ISIS bombing campaign as the conflict threatens to escalate in the region

Saudi Arabia is set to move fighter jets to its base in Turkey in preparation for a possible bombing campaign against ISIS jihadists in Syria.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu confirmed the potential plan and suggested Turkey were also considering military options against ISIS.

'If there is a strategy (against ISIS) then Turkey and Saudi Arabia could enter into a ground operation,' Mr Cavusoglu said after the Munich Security Conference.

Saudi Arabia is set to move fighter jets to its base in Turkey in preparation for a possible bombing campaign against ISIS jihadists in Syria

Russia suggested it might not stop its air strikes, even when the cessation of hostilities takes effect in a week

'Saudi Arabia is also sending planes to Turkey, to (the base of) Incirlik,' he said.

'They (Saudi officials) came, did a reconnaissance of the base. At the moment it is not clear how many planes will come.'

The news comes as two Syrian rebel commanders told Reuters they had been sent 'excellent quantities' of ground-to-ground Grad missiles by foreign backers.

The missiles have a range of 20 km (12 miles) and are expected to be used to confront the Russian-backed offensive.

'New cold war inches closer' after Turkey bombs targets in Syria just hours after Russia's chilling threat

'A new cold war?' Vladimir Putin is furious with Turkey's action in Syria

Turkey's military has provoked Russian president Vladimir Putin by bombing targets in Syria - just hours after the Kremlin warned that such action could lead to a "new cold war".

The country's army targeted Kurdish militia near the town of Azaz in northern Syria.

A Turkish government source confirmed the attack, despite the Kermlin's warning earlier today that Turkey and Saudi Arabia's proposed anti-ISIS action in the country could lead to a major world conflict.

The source said: "The Turkish Armed Forces fired shells at PYD positions in the Azaz area" referring to the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which Turkey regards as a terrorist organisation.

Earlier today the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he was fed up of Russia being accused of war crimes in Syria.

Adam Johnson's gf walks out of courtroom as attorney reads out text messages between the footballer and 15year old girl

28 year old Footballer Adam Johnson who was sacked by Sunderland F.C last night arrived Bradford Crown Court accompanied by partner Stacey Flounders to defend his remaining two charges of sex involving penetration with a schoolgirl contrary to Section 9 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 of the United Kingdom for which maximum sentence is 14 years.

During the hearing today...his girlfriend, who has so far shown him support, walked out of the courtroom as the prosecuting lawyer read out love messages between Johnson & the teenage superfan

Johnson admitted to two charges of child grooming and sexual activity with a minor but denied two other charges of sexual penetration with a 15 year old girl.

Game of Thrones season six spoilers: Teaser shots give clues ahead of fantasy epic's return

HBO has revealed 20 incredible Game of Thrones pictures from the upcoming sixth season.

The fantasy drama will return to screens in April, and now fans have been teased with hints and clues about the future with a nice blend of characters featured in the snaps.

Despite the constant speculation regarding Jon Snow's future after he was seemingly killed at the end of series five, the new images don't offer much in the way of information regarding his fate or role in the upcoming run.

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Myrcella Baratheon's death appears to be confirmed

Cancer drug could prevent Alzheimer's and dementia as scientists announce major breakthrough

Hope: The new breakthrough could help prevent Alzheimer's disease from developing

Scientists tonight hailed a major breakthrough in the war on dementia after discovering a cancer drug can prevent the disease.

The stunning development could pave the way for millions of Brits to be given "neurostatins" to slash their risk of Alzheimer's as they get older.

University of Cambridge researchers hope their findings will enable GPs to offer the drug like statins are prescribed to prevent heart problems.

Around 17 million adults - two in every five - are already eligible for cholesterol-busting statins.

And experts said similar numbers could be offered pills to protect against dementia, after finding a cancer treatment can halt the development of the disease.

Incredibly, they claim all Brits over the age of 30 could benefit.

The symptoms of Alzheimer's are caused by clumps of deformed proteins called amyloid in the brain. 

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are going to war as she tries to protect her 'firewall'

Hillary Clinton's campaign has brought out the firepower quickly after her crushing loss to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) on Tuesday night in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

"When you match up the record of Hillary Clinton with the record of Bernie Sanders, it simply is no comparison," Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) said Wednesday in a campaign conference call.

"Hillary Clinton has been at the dance from the very beginning of her career. [Sanders] is a new arrival at the dance. And for many of us, it simply lends no credibility for some of the things that are now being said at the twilight of his political career."

Bodies of a couple with their arms wrapped around each other found at the building toppled by earthquake in Taiwan

Rescue workers who were searching for life at a high-rise apartment complex in southern Taiwan which was toppled by a powerful earthquake on Saturday February 6, were brought to tears when they found bodies of a couple in each others arms.

The dead couple has been identified as Cai Meng and Huang Ruoxin, both college students from Kun Shan University.

I volunteered to fight in Syria … and ended up in a Kurdish prison

I had an opportunity to chat with a friend of mine, Red, who went to fight for the Kurdish Peshmerga, but ended up incarcerated after an unsuccessful attempt to cross the border into Syria.

SOFREP: So can you walk me through how it went down? Your arrest, I mean.

Red: Well, we were passed off near the border on the Syrian side to two guys in Pesh uniforms.

From there, we drove to the border, which we were told we would be able to get across just fine, so I assumed we’d be going to the YBS (Sinjar Resistance Units) base near Shengal.

Instead, they ended up taking us right to the legitimate border crossing. At that point, we were stopped like every other vehicle, but we had Westerners in the vehicle so they asked who we were, at which point the Pesh guys gave us right up and said they had no idea who we were.

Adult film star has shocking freak accident with his eggplant (photos)

According to a report by MediaTakeOut, adult film star Rico Strong was rushed to a hospital in Los Angeles yesterday, after a freak accident involving his penis. Doctors say that his penis was "severely damaged" and for a time, they suspected that he might even lose it...there are pictures after the cut..

Teacher shoots dead six colleagues at school in Saudi Arabia...

A teacher in southern Saudi Arabia opened fire on colleagues today, Thursday, Feb. 11, killing at least six people and wounding two.

The brief reports on the state television channel’s website and Twitter account did not elaborate or offer a reason for the shooting at an education department building. It quoted an unnamed police spokesman for the information and said the suspected shooter was in custody. 

State TV posted a still photograph that showed ambulances gathered outside the building where the shooting took place in Jizan province. 

 

Mass shootings are rare in the kingdom, though Saudi Arabia has faced a series of recent attacks by ISIL militants.

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Mum-of-four wrote heartbreaking Facebook post then killed herself after her children were taken into care

Tragic: She jumped off a bridge to her death, the inquest heard

A mother-of-four jumped 30 feet to her death off a bridge after her children were taken away from her due to an affair she had with a drug addict, an inquest heard.

The tragic mum was found by a passing motorist shortly afterwards on a road at the bottom of a bridge near her home in Blackburn, Lancs.

Hours before, Miss Rayson posted a message on Facebook which read: ''Night night everyone, I've had it. Love my babies back but I'm a failure''.

She died three days later in hospital from multiple injuries leaving behind children Ebony, 20, Atlanta, 16, Kai, 13 and Rylee, three.

Ebony is now looking after Atlanta and Kai, whilst Rylee's father has custody of him.

Messages she had posted in the days before her death revealed the extent of Miss Rayson's torment at the break up of her family.

She wrote: ''If I died would anyone care? My kids yes. It's just so hard when I u lost everything. I have a no life. I just want my babies back.''

The first discovery of 2 colliding black holes just fundamentally changed our perception of the universe

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A team of scientists just announced a groundbreaking discovery that encompasses everything from Albert Einstein's theories about the laws of physics to the fundamental way we approach our study of the universe.

On Thursday at a news conference in Washington, D.C., the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, made up of more than 1,000 scientists worldwide, publicly released results that had been secretly circulating among the scientific community for the past few weeks: the first detection of a phenomenon called gravitational waves that came from two colliding black holes.

This is the first time humans have detected the merging of two black holes, and it is also themost compelling evidence we now have that black holes truly exist.

Black holes are a mysterious breed of cosmic beast whose gravitational pull on their surrounding environment is so great that nothing escapes — not even light.

This makes them impossible to see with the naked eye, difficult to detect, and even tougher to study. As a result, black holes continue to boggle the minds of the most brilliant astrophysicists.

But now, thanks to a $620 million machine called Advanced LIGO, short for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, astrophysicists have a new tool to spy on these elusive creatures.

Russia warns of new WORLD WAR if Syria peace deal is not agreed

Bombing: Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces have been conducting a heavy bombing campaign in Syria

Russia has warned of a permanent World War if the conflict in Syria is not resolved.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also warned against any ground operations by U.S. and Arab forces.

Medvedev, on the eve of a security conference in Munich, said the United States and Russia must exert pressure on all sides in the conflict to secure a ceasefire.

Asked about Saudi Arabia's offer last week to supply ground troops if a U.S.-led operation were mounted against Islamic State, he said:

"This is bad as a ground offensive usually turns the war into a permanent one. Just look at what happened in Afghanistan and many other countries. I don't need to remind you what happened in poor Libya."

This $28-million yacht can run on all-electric power

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Wider has completed the first sea trials of the Wider 150 superyacht, an all-aluminum ship with a hybrid diesel-electric propulsion system.

Designed by Fulvio de Simoni and overseen by Tilli Antonelli, the 150-foot yacht functioned smoothly throughout each test and achieved its forecasted goals.

Wider 150 reached a top speed of 15 knots in diesel-electric mode and utilized new technology to reduce sound and vibrations to a minuscule level.

The battery banks that comprise the heart of the superyacht’s power system were carefully scrutinized. Supplied by ESTechnologies in the Netherlands, the batteries used in the Wider 150’s zero-emission mode were tested over several days to ensure the yacht is capable of running exclusively on battery and generator power.