Woman fined $500 for saving free Delta snack

A "free" airline snack turned into a $500 headache for one woman.

She was just returning to the United States from France and was fined $500 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for bringing an apple into the country that was given to her by Delta Airlines while she was on the plane.

It was a free snack, and according to Fox News, was handed out in a plastic bag with a Delta logo.

Crystal Tadlock, who lives near Denver, told local channel Fox 31 News that when she went through customs, her bag was randomly searched.

Dilly motors boss, Okwudili Umenyiora, arrested for attempted murder of singer Runtown

Record label owner and boss of Dilly motors, Okwudili Umenyiora, was this evening arrested by the police from Force CID, Alagbon, at the gym and taken to the station.



He was arrested for threat of life of his former label artist, singer Runtown, with a gun. He has also been charged with attempted murder.

Record label owner and boss of Dilly motors, Okwudili Umenyiora, who was arrested this evening by the police from Force CID, Alagbon for the attempted murder of singer, Runtown has been released on bail and is to report to the police on Monday.

He released a video of himself in his house 'relaxing

Europa League trophy stolen in Mexico after being swiped from a vehicle before being returned safely, UEFA confirm

Arsene Wenger's hopes of winning the Europa League with Arsenal before bowing out at the end of the season very nearly took a huge blow when the trophy was stolen in Mexico.

According to reports, the glittery prize was swiped from a vehicle during an event in the city of Leon, before it was safely returned, UEFA confirmed.

The state prosecutor's office took to Twitter to upload an image of the trophy to prove it had indeed been recovered by police.

UEFA's official website claims the trophy: "Remains in UEFA's keeping at all times," and that clubs receive replica ones. However, the efforts to recover the trophy suggest that the one that was swiped was the real McCoy.

Avicii's death was PREDICTED by fellow DJ in 2015 after boozy partying left him looking 'terrible

His sudden death has shocked fans and critics alike.

But the unexpected demise of chart-topper Avicii hasn't surprised one person - his fellow DJ friend, Laidback Luke, real name Lucas Cornelis van Scheppingen.

Eerily, the Dutch-Filipino performer predicted the musician's death back in 2015 after claiming the demands of touring and excessive boozing left him looking "terrible".

Speaking to Billboard magazine, he warned the star - personally known as Tim Bergling - would die in his late twenties from the ravages of a rock-n-roll lifestyle.

He said: "The first few years of heavy touring can have a major impact on a person's life, health and sanity.

BREAKING: Unidentified Persons Invade Senate, Snatch Mace.

BREAKING: Unidentified Persons Invade Senate, Snatch Mace. more updates coming soon

One dead, woman almost sucked out of a plane window after engine exploded at 32,000ft (Photos)

  

According to the National Transport Safety Bureau Chairman, Robert Sumwalt one person is dead after an engine exploded on a Southwest Airlines flight today, sending a piece of shrapnel flying back into a window which caused the woman sitting next to it to be nearly sucked out of the aircraft.

The injured woman has since been taken to the hospital immediately after the flight from New York to Dallas made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport at 11.27am.

There were unconfirmed reports from other passengers that someone else suffered a heart attack on the plane and died. Twelve others were assessed and seven of them had minor injuries.

Australian surf event cancelled after shark attacks

A major surfing tournament in Australia has been called off following two shark attacks in the area.

The World Surf League (WSL) said the final days of the Margaret River Pro event in Western Australia would be cancelled due to safety concerns.

On Monday, two recreational surfers survived separate attacks in Gracetown, about 6km (3.8 miles) from the event.

The first man was treated for serious leg injuries. The second man suffered a minor bite to his thigh.

The event had been suspended for an hour after the first attack on Monday.

Remembering The tragic story of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese Panama Papers journalist assassinated in a car bombing

Reuters, in association with other media outlets, has produced an in-depth report about Daphne Caruana Galizia, the Maltese journalist who was killed in a car bomb in October 2017.
Caruana Galizia had been using the Panama Papers to investigate corruption on the tiny island nation, and her blog would sometimes get hundreds of thousands of views per day.
For years leading up to her death, she had been threatened and harassed, and three of her dogs had been killed.
He ran towards the burning car barefoot across the field, oblivious to the mud and stones. The explosion had blown the grey Peugeot 108 clear off the road. Now the twisted remains sat ablaze about five meters into the field, a metal pyre of flame and smoke.

Matthew Caruana Galizia could feel the heat on his face and eyes. The fire was making a roaring sound and the car's horn was blaring. Through the flames he caught sight of a mother and child by the roadside crying and screaming: "What can we do, what can we do?"

He couldn't see his own mother, Daphne, whose car it was.

"I looked into the car and there was nothing," said Matthew. "It was just fire. I expected to see something like the shadow of a person or something, but there was nothing."

Then he saw her. Parts of her. A leg and other bits of body lay scattered around him in the field. Daphne Caruana Galizia, journalist, blogger and crusader against corruption and cronyism on the island of Malta, had finally been silenced.

Company director crushed to death by his own 29ft yacht after it fell on him in dockyard

A yachtsman has been crushed to death by his own boat which fell on him while he worked on it at a yacht club.

The 56-year-old man was carrying out general repairs beneath the 29ft sailing yacht when it suddenly toppled over on to him.

He was found under the half-a-ton wooden vessel and although ambulance paramedics tried to save him, he was pronounced dead at the Weymouth Sailing Club in Dorset.

Members there said the victim, thought to be a company director, had joined the club a year ago after moving to the area.

He lived close to the sailing club and took his boat out of the harbour last week to carry out two weeks of maintenance to it.

Man believes painkillers turned him gay

A man claims that he has turned gay because of painkillers that he had been taking. Scott Purdy, 23, started taking the drug after breaking his foot while go-karting and quickly lost his sexual attraction to women.
He broke up with his girlfriend of six months and said that he had developed an attraction to men. He said: ‘I noticed my libido for women had gone and I was wanting male attention. I was with a girlfriend I had been with for around six months. ‘I had never been interested in men. When I was younger I was a little bit curious but a couple of weeks after I started taking it I turned around and said I didn’t find her physically attractive anymore. She knew I was taking Pregabalin.

EFCC Recovers N216m From “Swiss Golden”

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has recovered a total of N216,402,565.05 (Two Hundred and Sixteen Million, Four Hundred and Two Thousand, Five Hundred Sixty Naira, Five Kobo) only from Swiss Golden Investment, an online investment that purportedly deals in buying and selling of Gold Bars.
The recovery was sequel to a petition the Commission received from thousands of complainants who alleged that they invested in Swiss Golden Investment which was advertised as an online investment that deals with buying and selling of Gold Bars. The petitioner further alleged that after investing over a billion naira into the business, the company refused to pay them any dividend or pay them back their capital.

Breaking news : shooting in Maitama axis. Police is currently shooting at the Shiite protesters

Can’t confirm but I trust my source
Everyone should please avoid the Maitama axis. Police is currently shooting at the Shiite protesters. It's very bad. There are currently around NCC.  Just confirmed from my boy who works there,  said stray bullets are flying into their office and tear gas is every where in the air. Just be cautious

7 inmates dead, 17 injured in South Carolina prison fighting

A South Carolina prisons spokesman says seven inmates are dead and 17 others required outside medical attention after hours of fighting inside a maximum security prison.

Prisons spokesman Jeff Taillon announced the grim outcome after State Law Enforcement Division agents helped secure Lee Correctional Institution around 3 a.m. Monday.

Taillon said no officers were wounded after multiple inmate fights broke out at 7:15 p.m. Sunday.

Full Metal Jacket drill sergeant R Lee Ermey dies aged 74

Actor R Lee Ermey, known for his role as foul-mouthed Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket, has died aged 74.

The former US Marine Corps soldier turned award-winning actor played a host of military men during his career.

Ermey's manager, posting to the actor's Twitter account, said he died from "complications of pneumonia".

"He will be greatly missed by all of us," the message read. "Semper Fi, Gunny. Godspeed."

Born in 1944 in Kansas, Ermey was a staff sergeant in the marine corps in the 1960s and early 1970s, serving tours in Japan and Vietnam. He also served as a real-life drill sergeant.

US recalls more than 200 million eggs over salmonella fears

Nearly 207 million eggs from a farm in North Carolina are being recalled from nine U.S. states after 22 people fell ill, the federal Food and Drug Administration has said.

It is the largest recall of eggs in the United States since 2010, the Food Safety News website reported.

The eggs may have been contaminated with salmonella braenderup, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems, the FDA said on Friday in a statement.

2 dead in L.A. music studio fire

Firefighters discovered two people dead and two injured in a greater-alarm blaze at a music recording studio in Universal City Saturday morning, 3m360 Los Angeles reports. The Los Angeles Fire Department arrived just before 7 a.m. to a one-story commercial building to find heavy smoke, with flames burning inside a 75-foot by 50-foot music studio.

Two males were discovered dead at the scene, Los Angeles police Capt. William Hayes said at a Saturday afternoon news briefing. Two others, a male and a female, were rushed to nearby hospitals in critical condition. Firefighters initially said a third person had been hurt, but Hayes later clarified that only two had been hurt. No names were immediately released.

Bon Jovi Take Center Stage at 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

The Cars, Dire Straits, The Moody Blues, Nina Simone & Sister Rosetta Tharpe were also inducted at 33rd annual ceremony.
The Moody Blues’ Graeme Edge expressed the thoughts of many of the members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2018 during the 33rd annual induction ceremony on Saturday night (April 14) in Cleveland’s Public Auditorium. Acknowledging the Moodys’ long period of eligibility before finally being nominated, thanks in part to aggressive campaigning on behalf of the band’s fans, Edge -- the oldest living inductee of the evening at 77 -- said, “It was so long that we were eligible and didn’t make it that I got a real sour grapes [feeling] for everything about it. … When it actually became something for us all to appreciate and have, I did realize that it means the world to me.”

I’m now convinced that the depression-serotonin connection is a myth created by drug companies to sell their selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs

Most doctors will still tell you depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain that leads to low serotonin levels. The theory is more than 60 years old.

And I have to admit, I believed it for a long time. I’ve even written to you about it…

But I’m now convinced that the depression-serotonin connection is a myth created by drug companies to sell their selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs.

Big Pharma has made a fortune on our modern epidemic of depression. Most doctors are quick to offer not just one but two or even three pills for everything from low mood to major depression.

The serotonin myth has been a huge marketing success. Doctors write more than 250 million prescriptions for SSRIs like Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil every year.

But when researchers took a look at 38 clinical trials covering 3,000 depressed patients on these drugs they found that 75% of mood improvement came from the drugs’ placebo effect.

In other words, you could take a sugar pill and get the same benefits.

In one animal study, researchers knocked out the part of the brain that makes serotonin. You would think that would produce some very depressed mice. But the mice with no serotonin were no more depressed than a control group.1

And in another study, researchers tested serotonin levels in spinal fluid taken from two groups of people. One group was depressed patients. The other group had no depression. Results showed both groups had the exact same levels of serotonin.2

It’s no wonder that studies show SSRIs and other depression drugs don’t work.3

For years I’ve been saying that depression is not as simple as low serotonin. It’s more likely to be caused by inflammation.

Let me explain…

A study from Emory University found a clear link between inflammation and depression. Patients with major depression had more inflammation. Researchers also found that reducing inflammation may lift depression in patients.4

And our modern grain-based diet is at the root of that inflammation. The inflammatory protein gluten in many grains has been linked to depression…

In a study from Australia, 22 people on a gluten-free diet were given gluten, whey or a placebo for just three days. Then they were tested for their mental state. Those getting gluten scored much higher on the depression scale than the others.5

I don’t prescribe antidepressants. Instead, I advise my patients to avoid grains and get back to what I call a “primal way of eating.” Our primal ancestors never ate grains. And they weren’t chronically depressed.

To eat like our ancestors, get most of your calories from fat and protein. Look for grass-fed beef and dairy products, wild-caught cold-water fish and poultry and eggs from pastured animals. Choose traditional healthy fats like olive oil, butter and coconut oil.

Relieve Depression without Big Pharma’s Fake Drugs

And if depression does strike, I recommend some natural compounds to lift your mood. Here are three of the best I’ve found.

SAMe. This co-enzyme is one of the main building blocks your brain needs to produce neurotransmitters. It’s been used in Europe to treat depression for over 20 years. In a Harvard study, psychiatrists treated 30 patients with major depression who didn’t respond to Big Pharma’s drugs. They gave the patients 800 mg to 1,600 mg of SAMe daily. After just six weeks 50% of the patients responded to SAMe. And a remarkable 43% even had a remission of their symptoms!

I recommend you take 200 mg a day to start. If after two weeks you don’t see a big improvement, increase to 400 mg.

Omega-3 Fats. Studies show omega-3 fats help ward off depression. People who take in more omega-3s have increased gray matter in the areas of the brain that control depression, emotions and mood. Even bipolar patients who don’t respond to drugs have been shown to improve with omega-3s.

Over the years I’ve found that it’s almost impossible to get enough omega-3s from your diet. I recommend krill oil and squid oil to my patients. To prevent depression take at least 2,000 mg per day. If you already have depression, a dosage of up to 4,000 mg of omega-3s per day helps lift mood.

Magnesium. Low magnesium in the brain is linked to serious depression that resists most drugs. But taking magnesium can rapidly terminate stubborn depression. Research shows it works better than the common antidepressant imipramine. And it doesn’t have the bad side effects.

Case histories show magnesium supplements can lift major depression in less than seven days. All it took was 125 mg to 300 mg of magnesium with each meal and at bedtime.

I recommend taking between 600 mg and 1,000 mg of magnesium per day. Look for the glycinate or taurinate forms.
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Some surprising things you didn't know about North Korea

North Korea has a reputation for reclusivity, and is commonly called a "hermit kingdom" due to its reclusivity.
North Korea has one of the largest militaries in the world, employing approximately 4.7% of the total population.
Drug use is rampant with an estimated 30% of North Koreans using substances ranging from marijuana to methamphetamines.
Considering that North Korea — formally (and ironically) known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea — is commonly referred to as a "hermit kingdom," quite a lot is known about this reclusive, isolated nation of 25 million people.

Its recent ballistic missile tests made headlines around the globe, as have the tirades of its young leader, Kim Jong-un. Heartrending tales of the North Korean Famine of the 1990s still strike a chord today, while eccentric anecdotes about the three generations of DPRK leaders draw raised eyebrows.

Kim Jong-il, son of founder Kim Il-sung and father to the current head of state, is reported to have bowled a perfect 300 during his first game and to scored 38 under par playing golf, according to The Washington Post. He is also said to have written 1,500 books during his college years alone, The Telegraph reports.

Stolen Marc Chagall painting to be returned after 30 years

A Marc Chagall painting stolen from a New York couple's home in 1988 will be returned to the family's estate after nearly 30 years, the FBI says.

The 1911 painting, Othello and Desdemona, was taken from Ernest and Rose Heller's flat with more than a dozen other works of art and jewellery.

The Chagall was recovered last year after a Washington, DC gallery owner twice refused to purchase the painting.

He told the seller to contact the authorities for proof of ownership.

"We took the case from there," said Special Agent Marc Hess, a member of the FBI Art Crime Team.

The Maryland man who tried to sell the work had stored it in his attic for years in a customised box he fashioned out of a door jamb and plywood, according to Mr Hess.

Don’t ask whether Facebook can be regulated. Ask which Facebook to regulate.

What’s the right regulation for Facebook? That depends on which Facebook you’re talking about.

The Washington leg of Mark Zuckerberg’s “apology tour,” precipitated by Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica Scandal, has seen a tense two days of lawmakers grilling the Facebook founder about the extent of Facebook’s mounting privacy issues, its role in shaping the global democratic process, and what he is doing to solve its many woes.

During Tuesday’s joint congressional hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committees, lawmakers covered a wide range of questions from lawmakers. But none was more integral to understanding the issues and challenges facing Facebook — and those in favor of regulating it — than a single exchange between Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Zuckerberg.

Woman finds video of herself on PornHub having sex for an hour

A woman was horrified after a friend who she hadn’t seen for 20 years called her to say she’d seen a video of her having sex on Pornhub. Luke Brinson, 32, shared the hour-long video on the X-rated site as well as a ten-minute clip and a four-minute video. The videos had been watched a total of 3,000 times and was kept online for five months.

Brinson, from Shirehampton, was found guilty of disclosing sexual photographs with intent to cause distress at Bristol Crown Court. The court heard how Brinson had uploaded three videos of the victim to the porn site. Sam Jones, prosecuting, told the court: ‘The victim was contacted by someone from her childhood. They informed her she was aware of images of her and sent her a link.

‘She was very distressed. She contacted the website and days later the images were taken down. ‘Mr Brinson was arrested and interviewed and denied the offence.’ He was convicted after a trial at Bristol Magistrates’ Court.

Instagram model posts videos from plane minutes before it crashed, killing all on board (video)

    

6 people have died after a plane filled with Instagram stars crashed outside Scottsdale, Arizona, moments after passengers took videos and posted on social media.

Instagram model Mariah Coogan, from Santa Rosa, recorded a video of her and a friend, club promoter Anand "Happy" Patel, goofing around moments before the plane went down. She shared the video with her over 30,000 followers on Instagram and, moments later, she and others on board were dead.

Could alien life be hiding in the clouds of Venus?

According to a new study, the ever-changing appearance of Venus' clouds may indicate that microbial life can survive in the venusian atmosphere. This artist’s impression shows the clouds above the surface of Venus.
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When it comes to searching for life elsewhere in the solar system, astronomers typically fixate on Mars or the handful of ice-encrusted moons around Jupiter and Saturn. But according to a new study, to find extraterrestrial life, we may only need to look to our nearest neighbor — Venus.

In a paper published March 30 in the journal Astrobiology, an international team of researchers suggests that the thick and acidic atmosphere of Venus may actually serve as a potential safe haven for microbial life. In the hypothesis paper, they not only present multiple lines of evidence showing the venusian clouds could harbor extreme forms of life, but also show that airborne life on Venus would help explain the fluctuating appearance of the planet’s clouds — a mystery that has plagued astronomers for nearly a century.

Asteroid ‘Oumuamua an alien UFO? Scientists reveal latest findings

When astronomers spotted a bizarre cigar-shaped asteroid floating through the heavens earlier this year, they immediately launched a bid to find out if it was alien in origin. Now the latest results of a scan for signs that it Asteroid ‘Oumuamua was built by an extraterrestrial civilisation have been released. The strange object is twice as big as the Gherkin skyscraper, stretching to about 400 metres long, and is the first space rock observed in our Solar System after travelling here from elsewhere.