Librarian leaves $4m to school he worked at for 50 years

A University of New Hampshire librarian and alumnus Robert Morin who spent almost 50 years of his life working at the Durham campus’s Dimond Library, who died last year at the age of 77 left $4 million to the school.
Morin, who was known to “live simply,”amassed his wealth through the stock market but kept his job as a janitor until his death. Even fewer knew he then gifted his fortune to his alma mater.

UNH announced in a statement Tuesday that the unexpected benefactor Robert Morin left $4 million to the school.

“Bob’s demonstrated commitment to UNH through his philanthropy is tremendously inspiring,” President Mark Huddleston said in a statement. 

Mum convinces husband to pay for £6,000 boob job then becomes glamour model and dumps him

Glamour model Victoria Duckworth

A mum sensationally dumped the dad of her two children after he'd reluctantly forked out £6,000 on a boob job for her.

Beautician and glamour model Victoria Duckworth, 25, finally convinced her boyfriend of six years Mark Dalziel, 25 to pay the hefty fee for surgery.

Victoria from Warrington got her wish and went from a 32A to 32E during the three-hour operation at Manchester Transform.

Mark said he had had always preferred Victoria as a natural beauty, but agreed to part with the money to keep her happy.

American student who was declared dead in 2004 'was kidnapped in China, made Kim Jong Un's personal tutor, and now lives in North Korea with a wife and two children'

A US student who supposedly died in China in 2004 has reportedly turned up alive in North Korea after being kidnapped to serve as Kim Jong Un's personal tutor.

David Sneddon of Brigham Young University disappeared in Yunnan Province aged 24, in what Chinese police said was probably a hiking accident.

But the reality, according to Choi Sung-yong, head of South Korea's Abductees' Family Union, is that he was kidnapped to be an English tutor to the then-heir to North Korea Yahoo News Japan reported Wednesday.

Vanished: David Sneddon (pictured) disappeared in 2004 while in Yunnan Province, China. Chinese police said he likely died by accident while hiking, but his body was never found

Breaking: FACEBOOK SpaceX rocket exploded at its Cape Canaveral launch pad

A SpaceX rocket exploded at its Cape Canaveral launch pad Thursday morning, destroying the rocket and the satellite it was due to launch on Saturday.

SpaceX said there were no injuries as a result of the explosion, which it described as an "anomaly." SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the explosion happened while the rocket was being fueled, but that the cause of the blast is still unknown.

The rocket was carrying a satellite to be used by Facebook (FB, Tech30) to bring internet access to Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

Facebook is in a partnership with French satellite firm Eutelsat Communications. The satellite, called Amos 6, was owned by Israeli company Spacecom.

2 Canadian women busted with cocaine worth $22m in Australia while on worldwide cruise

Two Canadian women 23-year-old Melina Roberge and 28-year-old Isabelle Lagacé, who were on a dream world wide cruise were on Monday arrested by the police in Australia, according to a release by the Australian authorities.
Authorities say approximately 95 kilograms of cocaine were allegedly found in the suitcases of the two friends and another Canadian man, 63-year-old man, Andre Tamine who was travelling with them when they arrived in Sydney on a cruise ship. All three were arrested in Australia.

Photos from 'An evening with Jidenna' event

Singer Jidenna had an evening with various guests including Banky W., Toke Makinwa,

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, Timi Dakolo and a host of other fans and Nigerian celebrities. More photos after the cut...

Julius Agwu diagnosed of brain tumor

This is JULIUS AGWU guess we all know him, don't we? He is a well known Nigerian comedian, he is presently going through pains now in one of the hospitals in London, he was diagnosed of brain tumor and he is presently being operated upon. 
Let's pray for him and others in hospitals all over the world. Your "AMEN" can save lives, let's type AMEN for our own JULIUS AGWU.

BREAKING: An Igbo man wins again as the President of Gabon.

The Igbo born Ali Bongo, the current President of Gabon has been re-election for a second term in office.

He narrowly defeated his opponent Jean ping, having scored 49.80% of the vote against 48.23% Interior Minister Pacome Moubelet-Boubeya told reporters on wednesday.

Bongo won by 5,594 votes out of 627,805 registered voters. Turnout was 59.46 percent nationwide but soared to 99.93 percent in one of the country’s nine provinces — the Haut-Ogooue, heartland of Bongo’s Teke ethnic group — in a result hotly contested by the opposition. 

Highpoints from Mark Zuckerberg’s town hall meeting in Lagos, Nigeria

The vibrant developer and entrepreneurial ecosystem attracted Mark Zuckerberg to Lagos. Earlier today at Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, Mark had his signature town hall meeting with developers and entrepreneurs working out of Lagos.

Mark in his opening remarks pointed out that in Lagos, and across the continent, things are changing really quickly. The economy is shifting from a resource based economy to an entrepreneurial and knowledge based economy and Nigerians are the ones leading that change, not only in remaking Lagos, Nigeria, but shaping the whole continent and influencing how things are going to work around the world for the next generation.

Mark Zuckerberg Lounges in Lagos #Crashes Music Video Shoot #Runs on Lagos Bridge

Mark Zuckerberg

7 hrs · Lagos · 

Quick run this morning across the Ikoyi Bridge with entrepreneurs in the Lagos Road Warriors running club. Best way to see a city!

Mark Zuckerberg

2 hrs · 

 

Visited Nollywood, crashed a hip hop music video, and met some of Nigeria's biggest stars.

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff removed from office by Senate

Brazil's Senate has voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for manipulating the budget.

It puts an end to the 13 years in power of her left-wing Workers' Party. Ms Rousseff denied the charges.

Sixty-one senators voted in favour of her impeachment and 20 against, meeting the two-thirds majority needed to remove her from the presidency.

Acting President Michel Temer will serve out Ms Rousseff's term, which ends on 1 January 2019.

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Mr Temer, from the centre-right PMDB party, is expected to be officially sworn in later on Wednesday.

'See you soon'

Ms Rousseff did win one battle on Wednesday - a Senate vote on banning her from public office for eight years failed to pass, meaning she could in theory return to politics.

Saudi Arabian court sentences a man to 10 years in jail, £4k fine and 2,000 lashes for tweeting that he was an atheist

In Saudi Arabia there's a law that places atheists and atheistic beliefs as 'terrorism', hence a man who tweeted that he was an atheist has been fined £4,000 and sentenced to 10 years in jail with 2000 lashes of the cane by a high court in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia's Islamic police found over 600 tweets by the 28 year old man denying the existence of God, ridiculing Koranic verses, accusing all prophets of lies and saying their teaching fueled hostilities, and after the Islamic court gave him all this punishments the man has refused to 'repent' saying he only aired his beliefs and he still stands by them.

In 2014 the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia issued royal decrees aimed at clamping down on all forms of political dissent and protests that could “harm public order”.

One of the articles of the decrees defined terrorism as “calling for atheist thought in any form, or calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based”.

Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director of Human Rights Watch, said  “Saudi authorities have never tolerated criticism of their policies, but these recent laws and regulations turn almost any critical expression or independent association into crimes of terrorism.”

Source: The Sun UK

50 Cent's take on Chris Brown and the alleged assault claim

Rapper 50 cent took to his IG page to give his thoughts on Chris Brown's alleged assault case...

The first US passenger flight to Cuba in over 55 years just landed

Water cannons are deployed as Jet Blue Flight 387 departs from Fort Lauderdale International Airport, for Santa Clara, Cuba, inaugurating the first regularly scheduled commercial flight between the US and Cuba in more than half a century, on August 31, 2016.

For the first time in more than 50 years, an American airline provided a passenger flight to Cuba.

This historic flight took place this morning from Fort Lauderdale, Florida and arrived in Santa Clara, east of the capital Havana. The successful flight took an estimated 51 minutes.

According to a New York Times report, JetBlue's executive vice president Marty St. George explained that a propeller plane was used the last time a US airline regularly scheduled flights to the communist country.

Mark Zuckerberg visits Co-Creation Hub in Nigeria Lagos

Mark Zuckerberg visits CcHUB— at Co-Creation Hub.

Next stop: Lagos! This is my first trip to sub-Saharan Africa. I'll be meeting with developers and entrepreneurs, and learning about the startup ecosystem in Nigeria. The energy here is amazing and I'm excited to learn as much as I can.

Our first stop is the Co-creation Hub Nigeria (CcHUB) in Yaba. I got to talk to kids at a summer coding camp and entrepreneurs who come to CcHub to build and launch their apps. I'm looking forward to meeting more people here!

Woman Who Says Chris Brown Pulled Gun Speaks Out

At some point, Chris Brown will surrender to police on suspicion that he pulled a gun on a woman who was a visitor at his home early this morning. But probably not until the cops — who have already found a gun on his property —  get a warrant.

You can check out a livestream of the standoff in front of Brown’s LA home here.

Baylee Curran, the woman in question, defended calling the cops on Breezy in this video:

More ugly warning signs are popping up in Saudi Arabia

Saudi youths demonstrate a stunt known as "sidewall skiing" (driving on two wheels) in the northern city of Tabuk, in Saudi Arabia December 3, 2014.

A bunch of warning signshave been bubbling up in Saudi Arabia's economy over the past few months.

The Saudi economy grew at just 1.5% in the first quarter compared to the prior year, its slowest rate since 2013. And while the oil sector grew by 5.1% year-over-year, the non-oil sector shrank by 0.7% - the weakest reading in at least five years.

Moreover, output in the construction sector shrank by 1.9% year-over-year in July.

And, most recently, a note from Al Rajhi Capital pointed out that the Saudi Interbank Offered Rate, or Saibor, has nearly tripled - to about 2.3% from less than 0.8% - over the past year and is now facing a "liquidity squeeze in the market."

But over the last few days, a couple of other signs have emerged that economists are keeping an eye on.

Shkodran Mustafi signs for Arsenal

The 24-year-old defender has been with the Spanish club for two seasons, making 64 league appearances. He began his senior career by coming through the academy at Everton before spending two years with Sampdoria in Serie A.

Shkodran, who is currently on international duty with Germany, becomes our sixth signing of the summer. Lucas Perez, Granit Xhaka, and the young trio of Rob Holding, Takuma Asano and Kelechi Nwakali have all recently joined.

Kefchild – Erin wo (Tribute To Oba MFS Olobayo) @kefchild

Kefchild the oluwa crooner who recently dropped the video to his second single man which was shot in the uk is back but with unfortunately  a deep and touching tribute song to his late dad, his royal majesty oba mfs olobayo the obaro of kabba kingdom in kogi state who passed  15th may 2016,  this brought tears to my eyes even though I didn’t understand all he said but it was touching, if you love your dad or you’ve ever lost someone you love, 

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These photos show the desperate daily plight of migrants trying to enter Europe

Migrants, most of them from Eritrea, jump into the water from a crowded wooden boat during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea, about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya.AP

Europe's migrant crisis is getting worse. The wave of poverty, political strife, civil wars, and religious persecution in countries in Africa and the Middle East has driven thousands of civilians to seek refuge in Europe.

While the largest number of migrants traveling by boat hail from war-torn Syria, migrants from Eritrea form the second largest group, according to numbers compiled by The Economist. Eritrea's government is reputed to be a repressive regime "where individuals are routinely arbitrarily arrested and detained, tortured, disappeared or extrajudicially executed," according to a UN Human Rights Council report.

Libya is also seeing a flurry of people leaving its shores as the country faces its own political crisis.

On Monday, thousands of migrants — mostly from Eritrea — were rescued at sea, 13 miles away from Libya. These photos show just how dangerous the journey across the Mediterranean is for those who attempt to cross it.

Man admits murdering mum and daughter and killing their pet dog with a hammer

Karen and Jade Hales were found murdered at their home in Anfield

A man faces life in prison after admitting he murdered a mum and daughter and their pet dog with a hammer.Karen Hales, 53, and Jade, 28, were found dead at their home in Anfield, Merseyside, in June.

Police said they died as a result of "severe blunt force head injuries".

Their dog Tyson, a Staffordshire bull terrier, was also killed.

Showers was charged with two counts of murder and pleaded guilty when he appeared at Liverpool Crown Court today.

Prosecutor Richard Pratt QC said Jade was also raped shortly before, or after she died, but Showers did not face a separate charge because it was "part and parcel" of the murder.

Anthony Showers, 42, who has pleaded guilty to the murders of mother and daughter Karen and Jade Hales

Chris Brown Accused of Threatening Woman With Gun, Police Currently Surrounding His House

According to the latest TMZ update, police reportedly recovered at least one gun and unidentified drugs from a duffel bag Chris Brown threw from the window of his home.

UPDATE 11:52 AM: TMZ reports that the SWAT team is headed to the house and that the LAPD is trying to obtain a search warrant. Police are reportedly looking for a gun that matches the description the woman who made the report gave to the police. Brown has still reportedly not left the home.

When reached by phone, a spokesperson for the LAPD would not confirm whether or not a warrant was being obtained, but did say that police were currently investigating an incident at Brown's home. "All I can confirm right now is that our Robbery/Homicide Division is handling incident that occurred at Chris Brown's house earlier. There's no standoff or anything, just a matter of getting our Robbery/Homicide Division guys and our PIs down there to get some more information for you guys," said the spokesperson.

Brown posted a series of videos from inside his home decrying the police and media response, saying he is innocent and that the police don't come so quickly when he contacts them about stalkers at his house.

Gene Wilder dead at the age of 83: Legendary actor who played Willy Wonka passes away after battle against Alzheimer's

The legendary film actor Gene Wilder has died, his family announced Monday. Wilder's nephew said that the actor and writer died late Sunday in Stamford, Connecticut from complications from Alzheimer's disease. The frizzy-haired actor was a master at playing panicked characters caught up in schemes that only a madman such as Mel Brooks could devise, whether reviving a monster in 'Young Frankenstein' or bilking Broadway in 'The Producers'. But he also knew how to keep it cool as the boozy sheriff in 'Blazing Saddles' and as the charming candy man in the children's favorite 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'.

Astronomers have detected an 'interesting' and possibly alien radio signal coming from a sun-like star

The Allen Telescope Array in California.

If it sounds too good to be true it probably is, goes the famous adage - and so it goes with extraordinary claims of potential alien signals.

Still, astronomers are puzzling over an incredibly powerful burst of energy that seems to have emanated from the star HD 164595, located some 94 light-years away in the constellation Hercules.

"An international team of researchers has announced the detection of 'a strong signal in the direction of HD164595,'" book author Paul Gilster wrote at his blog Centauri Dreams, noting that a Russian radio telescope called RATAN-600 detected the signal last year.

"No one is claiming that this is the work of an extraterrestrial civilization ... But the signal is provocative enough that the RATAN-600 researchers are calling for permanent monitoring of this target," he wrote. The signal's discoverers are urging the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) to take a long, hard look at HD 164595.

Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, said that's exactly what the organization did Sunday night after it heard about the alleged signal, which was supposedly detected on May 15, 2015.

It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans

Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russia's troll factories were, at one point, likely being paid by the Kremlin to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media.

That is what freelance journalist Adrian Chen, now a staff writer at The New Yorker, discovered as he was researching Russia's "army of well-paid trolls" for an explosive New York Times Magazine exposé published in June 2015.

"A very interesting thing happened," Chen told Longform's Max Linsky in a podcast in December.

"I created this list of Russian trolls when I was researching. And I check on it once in a while, still. And a lot of them have turned into conservative accounts, like fake conservatives. I don't know what's going on, but they're all tweeting about Donald Trump and stuff," he said.