American singer Toni Braxton confirms engagement to Birdman

American singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, actress, television personality, and philanthropist, Toni Braxton, has officially confirmed her engagement to Birdman.

The 50-year-old He Wasn’t Man Enough For Me crooner made the announcement in a teaser for the upcoming season of her WE TV show, Braxton Family Values.

Rumors have been swirling around the singer and the 49-year-old rapper since last year since Braxton’s sister, Tamar, addressed her as Mrs. Braxton-Williams after Birdman’s real name, Bryan Williams, on Instagram.

Florida School Shooting: 15-year-old student in 'bad shape' after taking five bullets shielding his classmates from the attacker’s shots

A 15-year-old student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is facing a “long road ahead” after he was hit five times shielding his classmates from the attacker’s bullets last week.

Anthony Borges, a soccer player, put his body between shooter Nikolas Cruz and his fellow students on Wednesday, according to survivors of the massacre that killed 17.
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“None of us knew what to do. So, he took the initiative to just save his other classmates,” his friend, Carlos Rodriguez, told ABC News. Rodriguez said that Borges was the last student who fled into a classroom to hide, and blocked bullets from hitting others by standing in the doorway as he tried to lock the room shut. Borges then called his father to tell him he’d been shot.

Paedophile football coach Barry Bennell is branded 'the devil incarnate' as he is jailed for 30 years

The former football coach Barry Bennell was branded “sheer evil” and the “devil incarnate” on Monday after being sentenced to 30 years in prison for subjecting junior players from Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra to hundreds of sexual offences.

Bennell, now facing complaints from another 86 former players, stared at the floor as the judge, Clement Goldstone QC, gave him prison sentences totalling 454 years, to run concurrently.

There were cries of “yes” from the public gallery at Liverpool crown court as he was sentenced to serve the longest individual term of 30 years, with another year on licence. He will be eligible for parole after 15 years.

The judge told Bennell, 64, he had considered imprisoning him for life because of the “trail of psychological devastation” suffered by the victims and said the severity of the sentence was, in part, because the former coach and talent-spotter had shown no remorse for the 12 former players he had raped and molested over several years.

“In one of your [police] interviews you said that, while it might be fair to describe you as manipulative, cunning and even predatory, you were not evil,” Goldstone told him. “You could not have been more wrong. Your behaviour towards these boys in grooming and seducing them to, in some cases, the most serious, degrading and humiliating abuse was sheer evil.

“You knew that to each of these boys football was their life – the career for which they would give anything. And it was the career for which you would take anything and everything they had to offer. You appeared as a god who had it in his gift to help fulfil their ambitions and realise their dreams. In reality, you were the devil incarnate. You stole their childhoods and their innocence to satisfy your own perversion.”

Winter Olympics PYEONGCHANG, South Korea 2018: Latest results

Last Updated Feb 19, 2018 10:23 PM EST

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who already have helped Canada win gold in the figure skating team competition, head into the ice dance free skate at the Pyeongchang Olympics in first place. Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron are in second after overcoming a wardrobe malfunction in the short program Monday.

The three American teams are right behind them. American champions Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue are in third, siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani are in fourth, and Madison Chock and Evan Bates are in seventh.

20 US presidents who belonged to shadowy secret societies

Secret societies always get the ominous treatment in fiction.
Are there any movies with remotely benevolent secret orders? Most fictional secret societies are usually more bogged down with dressing in outdated robes, chanting ominously, doing sacrifices, or hatching nefarious global plots.

So, to the paranoid mind, it probably sounds somewhat startling that 20 out of 45 US presidents have been affiliated with some kind of secret group. Just keep in mind that many of these societies function a bit like social clubs, charitable organizations, and business networks. In many cases, beneath the secret handshakes and mysterious rituals, they're kind of like adult frats (or actual frats, in the case of the college groups on this list).

Here are the presidents who have belonged to a secret society at some point:

Skydiving instructor plunged 1,600 feet to his death trying to save student

  

A skydiving instructor plummeted 1,600 feet to his death as he saved a student whose parachute failed mid-air.

Carl Marsh, 46, helped Dominic Leeds when a piece of equipment snapped as they emerged through clouds during a training drill.

When the dad-of-one aided Mr Leeds in releasing his reserve parachute, he became entangled in the student's principal chute.

Although he was able to cut himself free, it is thought Mr Marsh lost consciousness when his own parachute began spiralling to the ground at high speed and was unable to steer himself to safety.
He suffered multiple fatal injuries in the ensuing impact and died at the scene. His teenage son was working on the ground at the time.

As many as 17 killed as mountain of garbage collapses

Heavy rains triggered the partial collapse of a huge mound of garbage in Mozambique's capital on Monday, killing as many as 17 people who were buried by debris.

Authorities believe more bodies could be buried at the Hulene garbage dump on the outskirts of Maputo, and a search was underway. The garbage in the poor, densely populated area where the disaster happened rose to the height of a three-story building, according to the Portuguese news agency Lusa.

Twelve people died, Lusa reported. Radio Mocambique put the death toll at 17. Half a dozen homes were destroyed and some residents in the area fled for fear of another collapse.