3 Navy SEALs reportedly beat an Afghan to death during an interrogation — and the incident was quietly closed

On May 31, 2012, three Navy SEALs along with an Afghan Local Police unit reportedly beat more than half a dozen Afghan detainees during an interrogation, The New York Times reports.

The beatings were serious enough that one local died from his injuries later in the day, according to the investigative report.

After the beating, despite sworn testimony from four US soldiers on the scene and Afghan witnesses, the case was cleared in a closed court that is routinely used for minor disciplinary infractions.

Since the case, the Navy SEALs involved in the incident have faced no repercussions, and "two of the SEALs and their lieutenant have since been promoted," The Times notes.

The Navy acknowledges that the beatings took place but says they were carried out solely by Afghan forces.

A Harvard psychologist describes a simple exercise to reduce your anxiety in stressful situations

If your strategy for calming down before a job interview or big presentation is to pace up and down, muttering, "You got this!" until you almost, sort of believe it, then we've got good news.

There's a simpler and more effective way to beat anxiety. The trick? Remind yourself of what you value most.

Japanese porn stars let fans touch their boobs for a 'good cause

Japanese porn stars are saving the world through the strength of eroticism by donating their chests to charity. The porn stars were groped for a good cause on a Japanese TV marathon called "24-Hour TV: Eroticism Saves the Earth".

Supermodel Bar Refaeli and her mother arrested on charges of tax evasion on millions in income

Bar Refaeli, one of the most well-known supermodels in the world, was arrested Wednesday on charges of tax evasion in Israel,Agence France-Presse has reported.

Refaeli was arrested in a home raid. She's suspected of lying about where she lived to avoid reporting millions of dollars in income.

She's also charged with accepting free accommodations in the form of luxury apartments and cars not registered in her name, according to Israel's Tax Authority.

Refaeli's mother, Zipora, was also arrested on suspicion of tax evasion.

Nigerian court sentence 9 foreign nationals to 20yrs in prison for crude Oil theft

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos today sentenced 5 Filipinos identified as Axel Joseph Gibo Jabone, Juanito Camireno Infantado, Suarin Fernado Alave, Gatila Jaypee Gadayan and Rolando Jose Commendador and four Bangladeshis identified as Md Zahirul Islam, Islam Shahinul, Islam Rafiqul and Shaikn Shibli Nomany, to 20 years imprisonment each, with fine options of N20million per person for crimes relating to crude oil theft in Nigeria.

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Mom who says her job is 'Being The Best Mom' arrested after children were found dead in a storage

6 year old boy and 3 year old girl, dead

A woman who was arrested after the bodies of a three-year-old girl and six-year-old boy were found shoved inside plastic tote containers hidden a storage locker said her career was: 'Being The Best Mom I Can Be'.

Tami Joy Huntsman, 39, and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Gonzalo Curiel, are behind bars and facing charges of felony child abuse, torture, and mayhem, after the gruesome discovery in Redding, California, on Monday night.

Police were led to the remains after they discovered a 'severely abused' nine-year-old girl at an apartment Huntsman was taken. The youngster was taken into surgery suffering multiple injuries.

 

Sheriff Greg Hagwood said she weighed about 40 pounds, had broken bones in her shoulder, broken fingers, a dislocated jaw, and teeth that were missing or loose. 

 

Neither them or the nine-year-old girl had been enrolled in local schools.

Huntsman is a relative of the two homicide victims but not their mother. Her Facebook page lists her work as "Being the Best Mom I Can Be."

8 people were injured after a Southwest Airlines plane skidded off the runway in Nashville

A Southwest Airlines jet landed off the runway at Nashville International Airport on Tuesday evening.

At least eight people were injured, according to a report from WTVF-TV in Nashville.

Southwest Airlines Flight 31 had been traveling to Nashville from Houston when it skidded off the runway.

Here are the best moments from the Republican debate

Nine candidates took the stage on Tuesday for the fifth prime-time Republican debate of the year.

Here are the candidates who were onstage: Real-estate mogul Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.

For the second consecutive debate, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) was relegated to an earlier, "undercard" debate.

Saudi Arabia forms ‘Islamic Military Coalition’ of 34 countries to end terror group

The end of Islamic State terrorists may be just around the corner after 34 countries formed a new military task force to finish the death cult once and for all.

Saudi Arabia announced this morning that it had brokered the formation of a 34-state Islamic military coalition to combat terrorism.

A statement read: "The countries here mentioned have decided on the formation of a military alliance led by Saudi Arabia to fight terrorism, with a joint operations centre based in Riyadh to coordinate and support military operations."

Arab countries involved include Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, together with Islamic countries Turkey, Malaysia, Pakistan and Gulf Arab and African states.

Philip Chism murder trial: Teenager who raped and killed his maths teacher faces life in prison

Trial: Philip Chism was just 14 when he committed the sickening crime

A teenager who raped and killed his maths teacher while at school faces life in prison after being convicted.

Jurors today found Philip Chism guilty of first-degree murder in the death Colleen Ritzer as Danvers High School in Massachusetts.

The teenager’s defence lawyers claimed he was in the midst of a psychotic episode when he stabbed her 16 times in the neck in the women's bathroom.

Prosecutors said the schoolboy, who was 14 at the time, used a box cutter to brutally stab the 24-year-old, before using a recycling bin to take her body into the woods.

Once there he raped her and violated her with a wooden stick before abandoning her half-naked.

Reuters

Teacher: Colleen Ritzer

Are You In Abuja ? Today is the Krump Old school costume Dance Party @djled_abuja

getito the xmas groove and come out this evening in your old school attires and lets bring back our ever green memories at Abuja most anticipated old school party , it is certified to be a blast  with DJ LED on the wheels of steel ,loads of comedians and freebies 

 event kicks off by 6pm , red carpet 

Venue: 3js hotel utako, mafemi street beside eden garden 

Dad who juggled two jobs to raise children fell asleep at the wheel killing Oxford University professor

A divorced dad who juggled two jobs to raise his three children and pay off mortgage debts crashed his car and killed a renowned professor after falling asleep at the wheel.

Simon Westcarr, 51, had finished his nine-and-a-half hour night-shift in a warehouse and was on his 53-mile journey to start his day-shift at a museum when he collided with a car driven by 67-year-old Oxford University Professor Martin Brasier.

Prosecutor Peter Coombe told Oxford Crown Court that Prof Brasier, renowned for his discovery of the oldest microfossil at 3.4 billion years old, was killed in the collision and his wife, Cecilia, suffered serious injuries which required surgery.

Westcarr was jailed for 32 months for causing death by dangerous driving and 16 months for causing serious injury, to run concurrently.

Personal trainer who infected 2 unsuspecting women with HIV jailed for 5 years

Jailed: Simon James has been locked up for five years

A personal fitness trainer who infected two unsuspecting women with HIV has been jailed for five years.

Simon James, 46, did not inform his victims that he was HIV-positive before having sex with them on a number of occasions.

He later admitted he had the virus but insisted the medication he was taking eradicated any risk of the women contracting it.

Bristol Crown Court heard James refused to wear condoms as he claimed he was allergic to them, they were uncomfortable and did not fit him.

James was not taking medication or attending hospital appointments during the time he had unprotected sex with the women, between 2007 and 2013.

He denied two counts of grievous bodily harm by recklessly transmitting HIV but was convicted by a jury following a five-day trial in October.

Man shot dead by police and two arrested yards from court building 'as armed officers stopped gun-toting gang from trying to spring convicted car-jacker from custody'

A man was shot dead by police after he ‘came out firing’ as armed officers thwarted an audacious bid to spring a convicted carjacker from a nearby court.

Two other men were arrested as the drama unfolded at 9am just yards from Wood Green Crown Court in north London.

Police are believed to have been tipped off that an attempt would be made to free Turkish nationals Erwin Amoyaw-Gyamfi and Erun Izzet as they attended court to be sentenced for carjacking and firearms offences.

Another two men were arrested in a nearby street in connection with the incident. 

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A man was shot dead by police after he ‘came out firing’ as armed officers thwarted an audacious bid to spring a convicted carjacker from a nearby court

Abuja MISS DEE is back?

Its Miss Dee fashion and events outfit... yes the abuja designer Stephanie Nwodo, the renowned philanthropist in abuja who runs a sickle cell foundation by name Miss Dee for sickle cell foundation, she used to run an annual fashion show called fashion for life in Abuja for sickle cell. well yea you get the gist.. shes been on the low for a while now but she back and better. shes re-opening her fashion house which was closed for 2 years in Abuja.

The new store will house different brands like lala & k, Dace, CM Hair and Golden hair.

Spain's embassy in Afghanistan is under attack

Thomson ReutersA member of the Afghan security force stands on top of a concrete barrier a day after attacks outside the Afghan parliament in Kabul

The Taliban claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on a guest house near the Spanish embassy in Kabul on Friday, and said fighting was still going on at the scene.

Gunfire was reported immediately following the explosion, in a heavily protected area of the capital close to many foreign embassies and government buildings. Officials said police were on the scene.

Pervert Man caught on video taking photos up a woman's skirt (photos)

A man was caught on CCTV taking photos up a woman's skirt in a a store. According to the police, the incident happened in a branch of the high street chemist in the Tandem Centre, Colliers Wood, south London. The Scotland Yard today, December 11 launched an appeal to trace the man. 

Here’s what the world will be like in 2045, according to DARPA’s top scientists

The world is going to be a very different place in 2045.

Predicting the future is fraught with challenges, but when it comes to technological advances and forward thinking, experts working at the Pentagon's research agency may be the best people to ask.

Launched in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is behind some of the biggest innovations in the military — many of which have crossed over to the civilian technology market. These include things like advanced robotics, global positioning systems, and the Internet.

So what's going to happen in 2045? 

10 People To Watch In 2016

A lot of good things will happen by this time next year. Albums will be dropped. New shoes will be got. Nights will be Netflixed and chilled, and rights to vote will be exercised. Bad things, too—the future is an invigorating and terrifying thing. But artists are there to keep an eye out, giving life to what lies ahead with new ideas and new ways to see them realized. These smart creators from the worlds of fashion, music, literature, sports, and art will start your year off right, as they lead us all into a better, brighter, weirder new year.

Chef killed after he fell on a wine glass and bled to death on family holiday

A chef was killed after he fell on his wine glass while on holiday, an inquest heard .

Father-of-two Sam Sommerville, 36, bled to death after the glass he was holding pierced his neck.

Mr Sommerville was on a seaside caravan park holiday, near Withernsea, East Yorks, with his family when the accident happened on August 15, this year.

An inquest into his death at Hull Coroner’s Court heard how he had been staying at his father and stepmother’s caravan at Sand Le Mere Caravan Park in Tunstall, where he was visiting with his wife and children.

Oklahoma ex-police officer accused of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women has been found guilty

After four days of deliberations, an Oklahoma jury reached a verdict in the case of a former police officer accused of raping and sexually assaulting 13 women while on duty.

Former Oklahoma City policeman Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty on 18 of 36 counts, including four counts of rape in the first degree.

Oklahoma's News9 channel is reporting that the sentences add up to 263 years in prison.

Sentencing is set for January. Holtzclaw could face life in prison.

krump Studios End Of Year Old school Party (@djled_abuja)

Enjoy Music & dance from the 60's, 70's, 80's 90's from the hottest Deejay and the coolest Dancers 

It's Krump Studio's End of Year Old Sch Costume Party and Awards Night|13th Dec| 3J's Hotel Utako Abuja | Time: 6pm | Tickets : N2,000 Only | Includes Cocktails . 

Party Old School Style 
Features: Performances from Donna Summers, Bobby Brown , Soul train and lots More! 

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Dress Code: Old Sch (Platforms,Bell Bottoms, Afros, e.t.c)
Have an Unusual experience this season.
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HOUSEHOLD CELEBRATES GRACE AT 25 …HONOURS ADADEVOH WITH KARIS AWARD

The annual GRACE Programme of the Household of God Church, Oregun, Ikeja. Lagos, will hold on 13th December, 2015 at the church’s five-star auditorium, from 5pm. GRACE is a charity-based programme conceived by the Pastor, Rev Chris Okotie in 1990, with the vision to give back to society by reaching out to the less privileged who are made to normally benefit from the compassion of Jesus Christ as expressed by the church’s outreach.

Bollywood star, Salma Khan acquited in a hit-and-run case

An appeal court on Thursday, December 10, has acquitted Bollywood star Salman Khan in a drunken-driving, hit-and-run case from more than a decade ago. The Bombay High Court on threw out an earlier conviction and five-year sentence given the 49-year-old actor.

 The Press Trust of India news agency quoted the judges as saying that prosecutors had failed to prove charges accusing Khan of driving while intoxicated in 2002 and running over five men sleeping on a sidewalk, killing one of them.