Revealed: The peer who claims £300 A DAY to walk just 200 yards to work. After cocaine and call girls, how Lords cash in on taxpayer-funded expenses

Peer Baroness Wilcox lives in a £4m home 200 yards from House of Lords But she still bills the taxpayer up to £5,700 a month for her walk to work Scores of peers can do the same despite living in and around Westminster None has broken rules but are accused of exploiting new tax-free payment

17 mind-blowing psychology findings that explain the baffling choices you make every day

Flickr/opus moreschiMind. Blown.

If you assume that you understand why you think and act the way you do, you're probably wrong.

Decades of psychological research suggest that people behave in ways that are mysterious and perplexing — even to themselves.

We sifted through the Quora thread, "What are some mind-blowing facts about social psychology?" and pulled out the most fascinating findings. (Some fall outside the realms of social psychology, but we thought they were worth including.)

Nigerian rapper Splash puts her nipples on display in beach photo

The rapper shared the photo on instagram...

TWITTER GETS KILLED

Twitter beat Wall Street's Q2 financial targets but the company's gloomy outlook for user growth sent the company's stock skidding. 

Shares of Twitter, which had popped as much as 6% after the earnings beat, quickly reversed course during the conference call and were trading down more than 12% after the earnings call ended.

15 year old boy arrested for the murder of an 8 year old girl

A 15-year-old boy lured an 8-year-old girl into his apartment and killed her before hiding her body in a recycling bin at the housing complex for artists where they lived, authorities said Tuesday.

Santa Cruz Police Chief Kevin Vogel told reporters that Madyson Middleton went willingly into the apartment and was probably dead even before she was reported missing Sunday evening.

Boy, 8, who lost limbs to gangrene becomes youngest person to receive a double-hand transplant

• Zion Harvey lost both of his hands and feed at the age of two, after the became infected with gangrene
• Earlier this month, the now 8-year-old became the youngest patient ever to undergo a double-hand transplant 
• A team of 40 at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia labored for 11 hours to complete the breakthrough procedure
• Zion is now learning to use his new set of hands, exercising them by picking up light objects and making small movements

20-month-old baby stolen at naming ceremony

A 20-month-old child, Opeyemi Ogundele, was reported stolen on Sunday during a naming ceremony in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that the incident happened at Mile 2, Iyana Concord, Akorede Estate, Ilugun Inukosegba Community in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of the state. Community members, however, besieged the residence […]

Conley Thompson choked on his own clothes after getting stuck in a drain pipe

Tragic: Conley Thompson, pictured with his mum, choked on his own clothes after getting trapped

The boy found dead on a building site had his breathing restricted by his clothes after he got stuck in a pipe, police have revealed.

Conley Thompson’s clothes were pushed up tightly around him as he fell down the plastic tube.

Game Recognize Game: Hip Hop giants finding value in Africa’s elite

In addition to blessing us with tech innovations like social media, the information age has made the world ridiculously smaller. Nowhere is this concept more prevalent, at the moment, than in the entertainment industry. What once was an anomaly (of sorts) is now commonplace in artists looking to improve branding & expand their international presence by reaching new audiences overseas.

HOT NEW EVENT : SMOOTH SUMMER SPLASH

This Summer , get ready for unprecedented experience , as the top most Nigerian Dj's team up with some of Naija's finest Artistes to thrill fans at the first ever official summer party in Nigeria brought to you by Dj Smooth  . 

Birdman Admits Lil Wayne Is a Homosexual Who Is In Love With Drake (The Reason Why Drake Wrote “Doing It Wrong”)

NEW ORLEANS - In the wake of the Lil Wayne and Birdman drama, Birdman has publicly admitted that rapper Lil Wayne is a homosexual, presuambly an attempt to ruin the image of the Young Money rapper.

Gunfight at Afghan wedding kills at least 22

At least 22 people were killed when a gunfight broke out at a wedding party in northern Afghanistan, officials said Monday, highlighting the fragile security situation in the war-torn country.

The province has recently been plagued by growing insecurity as the Taliban insurgency rapidly spreads north from its southern and eastern strongholds.The clash, allegedly triggered by quarrels between guests over a young "dancing boy", erupted late Sunday in Deh Salah district in the once-tranquil province of Baghlan.

Rita Ora and pals pictured with bag of suspicious looking herbal substance at London dinner party

Rita Ora and her pals have been photographed with a bag of a suspicious looking herbal substance.

The 24-year-old singer and actress enjoyed a meal with friends on Saturday night and a picture from the gathering shows a plastic resealable bag filled with what appears to be a green plant on the table under a packet of cigarettes.

'X Factor' judge Rita is sitting at the opposite end of the crowded table and there is no indication that the bag is hers. 

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Prison worker accused of helping killers escape due in court

York prison worker accused of smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to two killers who later broke out and spent more than two weeks on the run is due in court Tuesday for arraignment.

The 10 biggest tech billionaire yachts on the high seas

When it comes to buying a yacht, bigger is always better.

Megayachts belonging to tech billionaires like Larry Ellison, Mark Cuban, and Paul Allen are among the biggest privately owned boats in the world. 

They have some pretty out-of-this-world features, too. One even has a special deck that can be transformed into a nightclub, while others have multiple helicopter landing pads and submarines nestled inside.

We've ranked the biggest yachts owned by executives in tech. 

Nigerian boy survives being crushed to death after moving car drags him on a UK street

5 year old Nigerian boy, Omobolade Ogundare, was hit by a car on Bennett Street in Gorton and dragged along the street for a few kilometers on Saturday July 25th. He survived being crushed to death after two men stopped the car and managed to lift the vehicle off him.

Take a tour of the most expensive house for sale in America

Courtesy of Christie’s International Real Estate

The property's woodlands and nearby pond serve as a habitat to swans,

egret, heron, and other wildlife.

This 1930s-built estate, called "Briar Patch," in East Hampton, New York, is the most expensive home for sale in the US, according to Zillow Group, the largest real-estate network on the web.

Perched on a well-manicured knoll, the $140 million property skirts 1,156 feet along Georgica Pond and offers views of the Atlantic Ocean. Built in 1931 and renovated in 1990 by renowned architect Peter Marino, it has even earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. 

The current owners, Chris Whittle and his wife Priscilla Rattazzi, bought the 10,000-square-foot home in 1989. Once the publisher of Esquire magazine, Whittle is the co-founder of Avenues: The World School, an elite private school in Manhattan. Peter Turino of Brown Harris Stevens, associated with Christie’s International Real Estate, holds the listing for the Briar Patch.

Killer robots: Tech experts warn against AI arms race

Stephen Hawking has warned about the dangers of artificial intelligence.

More than 1,000 tech experts, scientists and researchers have written a letter warning about the dangers of autonomous weapons.

In the latest outcry over "killer robots", the letter warns that "a military AI [artificial intelligence] arms race is a bad idea".

Horror : 16yr old kills 4yr old boy in Lagos, removes his intestines, kidney & penis (graphic photo)

This has got to be one of the most painful/heartbreaking news I've heard in a while. A 16-year-old boy named Tajudeen Azeez, lured his 4 year old neighbour to a primary school in the Ijaniki area of Lagos, stabbed him, strangled him and removed his intestines, his kidney and cut off his penis. He did because a man named Osho had approached him and asked him to get him fresh human parts and would pay him N50,000. N50,000 is what a human is worth to some. N50k. Unbelievably sad!

Birdman Gay, tweets suspcious photo with a half naked man.

Birdman tweeted this photo of him and this other dude on twitter and it's got everyone talking. Homosexual tales have followed the music label exec for years and he seems to be making matters worse...lol. Plus he is holding a KY Jelly, which is for lubrication. Is it his way of coming out? lol

Muammar Gaddafi's son sentenced to death over war crimes

A court in Libya has sentenced one of the sons of former Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and eight others to death over war crimes committed during the 2011 revolution.

Female rapist faces jail after being found guilty of running paedophile ring which subjected five young children to horrific abuse over more than a decade Marie Black, 34, of Norwich, found guilty of running a paedophile ring

• Ten people - including six women - stood trial for the child sex abuse
• Black denied 26 offences but was convicted of 23 of them including rape, conspiracy to rape and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity
• She played an instrumental role using children as 'sexual play-things'

The 'little' things - by Rubie Targema-Takema

   I recently just discovered something, as little and as insignificant as it sounds, it is the absolute truth. As human beings there are a lot of things we seem to take for granted, a lot of times we're not even conscious of it. We don't see it worthy enough to appreciate it by even a 'thank you'.

An engineer spent 3 years building the ultimate high-tech man cave

Jono Williams, a plastics engineer and graphic designer based on the north island of New Zealand, has built the ultimate man cave. 

Dubbed the "Skysphere," his getaway is a stunning steel tower surrounded on all sides by glass. 

The Skysphere makes an ultra-futuristic statement in a field ringed by trees. The tower's lighting and security system can be controlled using an app Williams built for Android.

Sex worker who shot attacker dead 'may have unintentionally killed serial killer'

Dead: Police are investigating whether Neal Falls was responsible for the murders of female escorts

A woman who shot her attacker dead may have inadvertently killed a serial killer, police have said.

Neal Falls died last week after being shot with his own gun by a sex worker he had tried to strangle, American media reported.