Contrary to what fairy tales may tell you, relationships take work.
So we collected some of the best social science findings about what makes them last.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Take a look inside the dirty process that produces one of the world's most valuable illegal drugs
Coca plants grow just two months a year amid the lush greenery of the Colombian countryside. But the cocaine those plants produce powers a multibillion dollar industry that has spread around the world.
Despite the reputation for decadence and sophistication that has been built up around cocaine, the production process is simple.
Local farmers, sometimes families aided by neighbors, pick leaves by hand and then put them through a complex and noxious process to eventually turn those leaves turned into coca paste.
That paste can then be sold to traffickers, either Colombia's left-wing rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) or one of the many gangs that have proliferated in the 20 years since the fearsome and powerful Medellin cartel of Pablo Escobar disintegrated in the wake of Escobar's ignominious death in 1993.
Despite intense and often violent efforts by Colombia (with strong backing by the US) to reduce coca cultivation, the trade has seen a resurgence in recent years.
The photos below, taken by the Associated Press' Rodrigo Abd, document the coca-paste-production process, revealing the humble beginningsof one of the world's most lucrative illegal drugs.
Three men shot at point blank range inside a car and it was caught on Facebook live video
After the gun shots are heard, the camera falls to the ground and you start to hear people asking to call an ambulance. This is not the first time a shooting will be caught live on video. Watch the video after the cut...
Former Burundi minister, Hafsa Mossi assasinated
“Hon. Mossi assassinated 10.30 in Gihosha in the east of Bujumbura by two criminals in a vehicle,”Narrating what happened, a close relative said
“She was inside her car near her home when a tinted car knocked her from behind. She went out to see what happened and was shot twice”.Mossi was Burundi’s information minister and government spokeswoman between 2005-2007, and was, at the time of her death, a member of the East African Legislative Assembly. Said to be in her 50s, Mossi was a trained journalist.
Turkey is undergoing a 'seismic foreign policy shift' — and it could have 'unprecedented' consequences
In the past month, Turkey has moved to normalize relations with Israel, Russia, and now — according to comments made by Turkey's new prime minister, as well as a Foreign Policy reportpublished Wednesday — with the Assad regime in Syria.
"It is our greatest and irrevocable goal: Developing good relations with Syria and Iraq, and all our neighbors that surround the Mediterranean and the Black Sea," Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Wednesday.
"We normalized relations with Russia and Israel," Yildirim said. "I'm sure we will normalize our relations with Syria as well. For the fight against terrorism to succeed, stability needs to return to Syria and Iraq."
A new report published the same day in Foreign Policy claims that two members of Turkey's Homeland Party — a nationalist movement "with an anti-Western and anti-American platform" — have been meeting with Syrian government officials over the past year to discuss "how to prepare the ground for Turkey and Syria to resume diplomatic relations and political cooperation."
They say they have been relaying the outcomes of these meetings to high-ranking Turkish military and Foreign Ministry officials.
Theresa May's Cabinet reshuffle: Boris Johnson made Foreign Secretary in PM's new top team
Theresa May is unveiling a major Cabinet reshuffle, making Philip Hammond Chancellor amid George Osborne's resignation in a major shakeup of her top team.
It comes after she gave her first, three-minute speech as Prime Minister declaring to the poor: "Together we will build a better Britain".
Mrs May strolled with husband Philip through the black door of Number 10 just 90 minutes after David Cameron gave an emotional farewell address - group hugging his wife Samantha and children Elwen, Florence and Nancy on the doorstep.
Mr Cameron said serving as Prime Minister had been "the greatest honour of my life" before making the short trip to Buckingham Palace to hand in his resignation at 5pm.
Mrs May was invited to form a government by the Queen just after 5.30pm in a swift changeover and was due to give her first speech on the steps of Downing Street.
13 hobbies highly successful people practice in their spare time
The most successful people know there is more to life than simply eating, sleeping, and working.
Everyone needs to enjoy some downtime every now and then, and making the most of your free time by taking up a hobby can even help make you more successful.
Playing a musical instrument, for example, can stimulate your creativity, analytical skills, and fine motor skills.
For a little inspiration, here are the hobbies of 13 highly successful people:
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Can't get Pokemon Go in your country yet? Here's how to download it now
Now that Pokemon Go has been officially released, there are reports of virtualPokemon being captured around the globe. Some are even coming from the UK, even though the augmented reality game is yet to be released here. Do you wonder how?
For Android phone users it's actually quite simple. We detail below the steps you can take to download and play the game, even though it's not yet officially available. And we explain a bit about it, including some of the funniest places where Pokemon have been found in the real world.
What is Pokemon Go?
Pokemon Go is an AR game that sends you out in the real world to find hidden virtual Pokemon.
UNIBEN’s Black Axe becoming a leading drug gang in Italy
Black Axe, a fraternity that started at the University of Benin in the 1970s, is on its way to becoming one of the leading drug gangs in Palermo, Italy.
Prosecutors in the Sicilian capital of Palermo are warning that a new alliance between the mafia and “Nigerian criminal gangs moving in from Libya” could herald a new era of organised crime, UK Guardian is reporting.
“The neighbourhoods under mafia control have changed profoundly in recent years due to the growing presence of foreigners, especially Nigerians coming on boats,” Leonardo Agueci, Palermo’s deputy chief prosecutor, was quoted to have said.
“Among them, there [are a small number] of people who want to transfer their illegal trafficking, linked to prostitution and drug dealing, to Sicily. And the mafia was quite happy to integrate them into their criminal business.”
In Ballarò, a mafia stronghold market area in the historic centre of the city, a whistle is traditionally used by Italian dealers working for Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia, to attract customers, who are offered hashish, marijuana and cocaine.
Second Metro Nashville police officer decommissioned within week for inappropriate Facebook post, changes profile picture to Black Panthers photo
Two Nashville police officers have been decomissioned within a week of each other for posts on their personal Facebook accounts.
Christopher Taylor was decommissioned Sunday after posting a Black Panthers photo as his profile picture.
The 11-year veteran changed his photo during Thursday night’s shooting in Dallas to a black-and-white image of two Black Panthers holding guns,according to Fox 17.
Taylor said that he frequently changes his photo and adds historical information, especially during Black History Month, which takes place in February.
Woman in stunning, viral Baton Rouge protest photo is nurse and mom
A woman among more than a hundred people arrested while protesting police brutality in Baton Rouge, La., was the epicenter of calm juxtaposed with two riot gear-clad cops in a stunning photograph taken Saturday.
The protester was later identified by friends and arrest records as Ieshia L. Evans, 35, a nurse and mother to a young boy.
The strangely serene moment — Evans’ sun dress fluttering in the breeze outside Baton Rouge Police Headquarters — was captured by freelance photographer Jonathan Bachman, who described the woman’s powerful “stand” against heavily armored officers to the Atlantic.
Fans of new smartphone game Pokémon Go take over Central Park to catch hidden creatures
Poké-mania has taken over the city, the nation — and, perhaps soon, planet Earth!
Obsessed fans of the new smartphone game Pokémon Go are flooding city landmarks by the dozens, chasing and catching the virtual creatures hidden throughout Central Park, Union Square Park and other spaces.
The wildly popular free “augmented-reality” game requires fans to move around in real life using their phones’ cameras and GPS to hunt for Pokémon that appear on their screens. The game encourages players to interact and explore their surroundings. It has also caused Nintendo’s stock to surge — 25% percent on Monday.
Near E. 66th St. in Central Park, teenagers from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens walked around in groups, hunting for the creatures that tended to lurk near statues of the author Walter Scott, the legendary sled dog Balto and a memorial to the 107th Infantry in World War I.
Teresa May is a glamour model who appeared in Smack My Bitch Up - not the new Prime Minister
Theresa May will be our new Prime Minister - but not everyone has figured out how to spell her name just yet.
Teresa May has been trending on Twitter since Andrea Leadsom announced she was quitting the Tory leadership battle.
#Leadsom, Gove and Eagle have all made it onto Twitter's trending list, as the volumes of tweets about Mrs Leadsom's resignation statement, Michael Gove's backing of Mrs May and Angela Eagle officially launching her Labour leadership bid circulated.
But there is no sign of Theresa May spelled with an "h", the woman who will take over from David Cameron imminently and is the daughter of a vicar.
Instead a very different woman is trending - Teresa May: glamour model, soft porn actress and veteran of the Prodigy's video for Smack My Bitch Up.
Prolific thief who bragged he made £1,000-a-week shoplifting is jailed
One of the UK's most prolific thieves has been jailed after bragging that he makes a £1,000-a-WEEK shoplifting .
Shameless Jamie Forbes, 38, added six further offences to his previous list of 296 crimes - admitting burglary, shop theft and breaches of previous court orders.
Grimsby Crown Court heard that after being stopped by a security guard at an Asda he boasted: "I can get a grand a week out of you lot."
Sentencing Forbes to 21 months in jail, Recorder Simon Jackson QC said: "You are one of the most persistent offenders that has appeared recently at this court."
Prosecutor Claire Holmes told the court how Forbes went into the Asda superstore in Holles Street, Grimsby, on May 21, breaching a previous antisocial behaviour order imposed in 2014 for three years.
Mother jumps on car bonnet as thief drives off with her kids inside
San Bernardino police Lt. Rich Lawhead said, at around 11:30pm late Sunday night, a mother who had her 2 young children strapped in their car seats in the back of the vehicle, ran into a convenience store to buy them some drinks. The woman left her car running, the air conditioner on and parked directly in front of the market window so she could see the car from inside the store.
Unknown to her, a local transient, 21 year old Steven Young, was watching her from outside. As soon as the mother took her eyes off the car for a minute, Young jumped into the vehicle and began to reverse the car. The mother who was leaving the store just as the gray sedan was backing up, jumped on the bonnet of the car to try and stop the driver from fleeing with her children in it.
Young allegedly swerved left and right until the mother was shaken off, then he sped off with the car with the children in it, police said.
UK's biggest ever haul of class A drugs as £512m of cocaine found in North Sea boat
Three tonnes of cocaine worth £512million, the UK’s biggest class A drugs haul , were found on a boat seized in the North Sea.
The captain and first officer of tugboat MV Hamal were yesterday found guilty of drug trafficking.
It had left Turkey for Guyana in South America where drugs were loaded.
In April 2015, after a tip by French authorities, Royal Navy and Border Force vessels boarded the Hamal 100 miles off Aberdeen.
In port it took three days to find all the drugs.
The owner of the convenience store where Alton Sterling was killed is suing the police
The convenience-store owner who witnessed the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling last week is alleging in a lawsuit that Baton Rouge police officers illegally took surveillance footage from his store.
Abdullah Muflahi, who owns the Triple S Food Mart where Sterling was shot, alleges that police also confiscated his cellphone and detained him in a police car for four hours, according to The Daily Beast.
Muflahi claims in the lawsuit that, after the shooting, officers Howie Lake and Blane Salamoni had two other police officers remove the "entire store security system" despite Muflahi's demands to see a search warrant.
3 people dead, 1 injured after shooting at Michigan courthouse
Three people have been shot and killed after a shooting at the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Joseph, Michigan, on Monday, Berrien County Sheriff Paul Baileyconfirmed at a news conference.
Two court bailiffs and the shooting suspect were killed, Bailey said. A deputy sheriff was also shot but is being treated and is in stable condition at a nearby hospital.
Several other people were injured.
The shooting occurred at 2:25 p.m. local time.
A Berrien County commissioner told ABC57 reporter Vahid Sadrzadeh that the shooter was a man on his way to jail who took a gun off an officer and began shooting.
Monday, July 11, 2016
LIL WAYNE HOSPITALIZED AGAIN FOR SEIZURE
Lil Wayne has suffered yet another seizure.
After two emergency landings last month due to similar health scares, the Young Money boss was hospitalized last week after a severe seizure, according to TMZ.
The latest episode was so serious that Weezy was forced to cancel his TAO Nightclub performance in Las Vegas at a pre-UFC 200 bash. The seizure struck as he was gearing up to hit the stage.
According to the report, Wayne believes this is a medication issue as doctors continue figuring out his dosage balance.
Tunechi, who’s revealed struggles with epilepsy in the past, was taken to the ICU and released the following morning. He is now recuperating in Miami.
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UFC Reportedly Sold for $4 Billion
The ownership of the UFC is reportedly changing hands.
TMZ Sports first reported WME/IMG bought the company for about $4 billion, and WME/IMG confirmed its purchase Monday morning, per ESPN.com's Darren Rovell:
According to the New York Times' Michael J. de la Merced, WME/IMG will be the main investor along with private equity firms Silver Lake and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and an investment firm belonging to Michael S. Dell.
TMZ reported UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta will step down from his post and retain a minority stake, while Dana White will stay on as president.
Draymond Green Arrested: Latest Details, Comments, Reaction on Warriors Star
Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was arrested Sunday in East Lansing, Michigan, after allegedly committing an assault.
Brendan F. Quinn of MLive.com first reported the news. Police later confirmed the arrest, per Evan Sernoffsky of the San Francisco Chronicle. Zach Frydenlund of Complex spoke to police about the arrest, saying the incident involved a male victim, but no injuries were suffered.
The altercation was recorded at 2:28 a.m. local time, according toDiamond Leung of the Bay Area News Group, who added that Green was released on $200 cash bond. Green is scheduled for arraignment on July 20, per SportsCenter.
Innocent man who was wrongly named as Dallas shooting suspect is forced to go into hiding after receiving hundreds of death threats
The rifle wielding protester sought by Dallas police as a suspect during last week's riots that left five cops dead says he has been forced into hiding after receiving 'thousands' of death threats.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown described Mark Hughes, without naming him, as 'a person of interest who witnesses at the scene say was involved in the shooting' during a panicked news conference while the city was in meltdown.
An image of him carrying an AR-15 during the Black Lives Matter protest was then shared on Twitter by the force, being retweeted tens of thousands of times.
S. African twins plotted to blow up US embassy: police
Johannesburg (AFP) - Two South African brothers arrested on terrorism charges were plotting to blow up the US embassy in Pretoria and Jewish institutions, and planned to join the so-called Islamic State, police said Monday.
The 23-year-old twins, Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie, appeared briefly in a Johannesburg magistrate court after being arrested at the weekend.
"It is alleged that they wanted to bomb the US embassy and Jewish facilities in the country," Hangwani Mulaudzi, spokesman for South Africa's elite police, the Hawks, told AFP.
The United States and Britain warned last month of possible imminent "terrorist" attacks by Islamic extremists in South Africa's major cities.
The two men, who are accused of planning to join the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, will remain in custody and return to court on July 19 to allow for further investigation.
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