"There is killing everyday. I saw a man kill an innocent boy for no reason" Nigerian migrant

Traumatized Nigerian migrant Lucky (Right) said he regularly witnessed many killing in Libya. The 20-year-old is one of more than 118,000 people to have made the perilous journey from Libya to Italy so far this year. Nearly 15,000 have been picked up off the coast of Libya since 28 August.

"It was a nightmare, " said Lucky. If many people knew what was going on there, they would not dare come" 

This year alone, almost 3,000 have perished or been lost at sea. With so many arriving so quickly, southern Italy is feeling the pressure. At the port of Pozzallo in Sicily, a naval ship arrived carrying 700 men, women and children rescued from the Mediterranean Sea. If accepted, the interior ministry relocates people to various regions across Italy.

Four people shot, two fatally, as violence breaks out at J’Ouvert parade in Brooklyn

At least four people were shot, two fatally, as gunshots erupted at the bustling J’Ouvert celebration in Brooklyn despite NYPD doubling its patrols.

The annual West Indian heritage celebration was marred by deadly violence for a second consecutive year. Cops rushed to eastern Prospect Park before 4 a.m. following reports that four people had been shot in two separate incidents.

A man and a woman were fatally shot within minutes of each other along Empire Blvd. near Flatbush Ave. in Prospect-Lefferts Garden. The man — who is 18 to 20 years old — died of at least one gunshot wound in the chest while a bullet struck a 22-year-old woman in the head at Washington Ave., police said.

Lagos State Task Force officials allegedly harass, assault & detain some men and women (Photos/Videos)

In the early hours of September 3rd, some young Nigerians suffered from what can be described as a shocking abuse of power by officials of the Lagos state Task Force. Imagine going out to have fun after work on Friday at places without a curfew and then all of a sudden being manhandled, sexually harassed by men, thrown into a van and detained in a cell without knowing your offence? This was the fate of some women (including a heavily pregnant lady) and men in Lekki, Victoria Island and other places on Saturday, 3rd of September, 2016. LIB reached out to one of the victims (a woman), who cried bitterly as she recounted the horrific experience. Read after the cut...

The 9 most expensive cities to live in the world

Every year, the Economist Intelligence Unit releases two reports on which cities are the most expensive and the cheapest to live in.

The first of the reports, titled "Worldwide Cost of Living," looks at factors including food costs, fuel costs, and salaries.

And because of the strength of the US dollar and currency devaluations elsewhere, there have been a few major shifts in this year's rankings.

One of the editors of the survey, Jon Copestake, said: "In nearly 17 years of working on this survey I can't recall a year as volatile as 2015. Falling commodity prices have created deflationary pressures in some countries, but in others currency weakness caused by these falls has led to spiralling inflation."

Business Insider took a look at the nine most expensive cities in the world.

Man burns wife's mother and brother to death in Bayelsa State after she divorced him

A 37-year old man allegedly set the home of his in-laws on fire at Isampou in Ekeremor LGA in Bayelsa state, killing the mother-in-law, after his wife divorced him. The brother-in-law, who sustained first degree burns later died at the hospital.

 

According to Leadership Newspaper, the incident occurred on Thursday, at about 9pm. Angry mob from the community stormed the suspect's village in speed boats with the burnt corpses to carry out a reprisal attack by setting ablaze his family house ablaze in Bomadi, Delta State.

It was gathered that the suspect was having marital problems with his wife who later called off the marriage and returned to her parent's village. An Isampou indigene said:

"Yes I heard about the fire. We gathered that the wife left him some days ago insisting that she does not want to marry him anymore. The wife was living with her husband at Bomadi, Delta state before she left for her mother’s house at Isampou, Bayelsa"

Mum posts harrowing picture of 'lifeless' teen daughter in coma after vodka binge to warn other children

A mum has shared harrowing photos of her teenage daughter lying 'lifeless' in a coma in hospital after a vodka binge with her pals.

Melissa Aho posted the images of 15-year-old Ryleigh Ackles online in a bid to warn other children about the potentially fatal dangers of alcohol.

She said her daughter was left 'foaming at the mouth', repeatedly falling over and vomiting into her lungs after downing popular Cîroc vodka .

The teenager, who weighs less than 7 stone, nearly died after her blood alcohol content soared to a staggering .28 - a near-fatal level.

But fortunately, she survived after being rushed to hospital - after one of the girls she was with alerted her mum to her serious condition.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs on growing up: "I wanted to... shake up the world"

Sean "Diddy" Combs is not surprised by his success.

"When I was growing up I really felt that I would be somebody," Combs told us this week. "I felt like I wanted to come and shake up the world. I wasn't really surprised when I had reached a certain amount of success through hard work."

Combs, 46, tops Forbes' list of the wealthiest rappers with a staggering $750 million fortune. He's made that money in ways that go way past music. Combs' clothing line, Sean John, which he started in 1998, brings in a reported $525 million a year in revenue. He has a deal with Ciroc Vodka that pays him a hefty portion of its profits.

And those are only some of the businesses he has a hand in. Also part of his portfolio: Revolt Films and Revolt Media & TV, which launched in 2013; Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment; Combs Wine & Spirits; AQUAhydrate and a marketing and advertising firm, The Blue Flame Agency.