Obama: 'I cannot believe the commissioner of football gets paid $44 million a year'

President Obama sat down with HBO's Bill Simmons for a lengthy interview published in GQ on Tuesday, and among the numerous topics discussed was NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

Simmons, who has been vocal in his criticisms of the commissioner, broached the subject of Goodell by bringing up a hypothetical situation in which three of the major sports leagues were looking for a new commissioner.

Simmons asked Obama whether he would be interested in any of them:

Simmons: Baseball, football, basketball, all the commissioner jobs open up next year. Which one would you want?

Obama: Well, I'm best suited for basketball. But I cannot believe that the commissioner of football gets paid $44 million a year.

Horrific photos from the Dangote trailer accident in Asaba *viewer discretion advised*

Yesterday a Dangote truck was involved in a fatal accident along Benin Asaba Express way opposite the Asaba airport which took the lives of at least 18 people, many of whom were burnt beyond recognition. The bodies were taken to the Federal Medical Center Asaba...the photos are horrific. *viewer discretion advised*

3 arrested, 3 detained in Europe in connection with Paris attacks

Two countries arrested and detained several individuals Saturday as authorities continue their search for those linked to last week's terror attacks in Paris that killed at least 130 people.

Police in Turkey have detained three suspected Islamic State militants, including a 26-year-old Belgian of Moroccan descent, according to Turkey's state-run news agency. 

Belgium shuts down its metro and raises the terror alert to its highest level because of a 'threat of an attack ... in the capital'

Belgium raised its terror alert to the highest level in the capital Brussels on Saturday, also shutting down the metro and warning the pubic to avoid crowds.

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on Saturday said the decision to raise the terror threat level in the capital Brussels to the highest possible mark was linked to a threat of imminent attacks.

"This was due to a threat of an attack by individuals with explosives and weapons at several locations in the capital," Michel told a news briefing in Brussels.

Brave bride marries her lover just days after being told she is dying from cancer

Wish: Lorraine Green has married her partner a year early after being diagnosed with cancer

A bride has fulfilled her dying wish by tying the knot just days after being told she has weeks to live.

Brave Lorraine Marsh had planned to wed her partner Shane Green next summer but the service was rushed forward after the 53-year-old was told she had terminal cancer.

Lorraine had gone to her doctors last Friday with what she thought was gallstones, but was stunned to be told she had pancreatic cancer that had spread to her liver.

After fearing she would not have enough time left to marry 54-year-old Shane, friends and family rallied around to donate £2,300 to the couple and even gave Lorraine a wedding dress so they could bring the service forward.

American woman killed in Mali hotel attack

An American woman who died in the Mali terror attack at Radisson Blu hotel yesterday has been identified as Anita Datar. The 41-year-old was born in western Massachusetts and grew up in northern New Jersey. She graduated from Columbia University's Joseph Mailman School of International and Public Health and served two years in the Peace Corps in Senegal.

Chilling footage shows teen killer stalking maths teacher through school halls 'before raping and murdering her'

Haunting footage of a maths teacher's final moments before she was raped and killed show her alleged murderer following her down a school corridor.

The body of Colleen Ritzer, 24, was found dumped in woods behind Danvers High School in Massachusetts in October 2013.

Student Philip Chism, 16, is standing trial charged with rape, murder and robbery.

He is accused of twice sexually assaulting his maths teacher before slashing her throat with a box cutter.

He is later said to have bought a Wendy's meal with the dead teacher's credit card.