Soccer boss Neil Lennon’s mistress has told of their relationship – and how he made a knife threat to her when she told him she would tell his partner.
It is a story the Bolton boss and BBC pundit tried to ban after he claimed he was the victim.
But today we can reveal how he had a year-long romance with the woman – 20 years his junior – behind his long- term partner’s back.
He began dating the girl after meeting her in a pub. But she claims their affair soured when she found Lennon had started seeing a third woman.
It was then that she threatened to go to his partner – only for Lennon to turn nasty, telling her someone “could” put a knife to her throat if she spoke out.
A New Jersey man may spend the rest of his life in prison after refusing to spend $700 to pay his friend after losing a Super Bowl bet in 2013. Eddie Roberson killed Talif Crowley instead, Essex County prosecutors argued this month, and on Wednesday, a jury agreed, finding Roberson guilty of murder,NorthJersey.com reports. Roberson, 31, is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 22.
He was new on the job, trying to find out why morale was so low. In a gathering with two senior managers, he asked what they didn’t like about their work.
“I hate that we dump,” one of them confided.
“What do you mean?” Blake Percival asked.
The answer — that the company was cutting corners performing the federal background checks used in granting security clearances — put him on a collision course with his superiors and eventually turned him into one of the government’s most significant whistleblowers in years. That confrontation not only cost him his job and dignity, it left him in such financial distress that at the beginning of this week, he had just $54.51 in his bank account, hoping he would make it to his next payday.
Chris Hurst wakes up in the two-bedroom condo he shared with slain WDBJ7 reporter Alison Parker. He picks out his wardrobe inside a closet lined with her dresses. He makes smoothies in their kitchen where the whiteboard shows her unerased message: “I ♥ U!”
Now, on a mid-November morning, the 28-year-old anchor stands before a mirror inside the CBS station in southwest Virginia where they met and fell in love. He tightens the magenta tie she picked out at a Men’s Wearhouse, adjusts the striped socks she selected on a trip, then pads into WDBJ’s brand new “Studio A,” the letter “A” signifying a posthumous honor.
Between 2000 and 2014, nearly half a million Americans died from overdoses involving these drugs, which research suggests act similarly in the brain.
The most commonly prescribed opioid painkillers — like oxycodone and hydrocodone — were involved in more overdose deaths than any other type of the drug. Those deaths rose by 9%.
"The increasing number of deaths from opioid overdose is alarming," CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a press release.
In a Facebook post shared on Tuesday, December 15, Armaan Singh Sarai's cousin Ginea Haer said that a student at his school in Dallas, Texas, accused him of possessing a bomb which led to Sarai being taken out of school and sent to a juvenile detention center without his parents being told. Since then, however, Arlington, Texas, police said they indeed went to Nichols Junior High School on Friday after a student told a teacher that Sarai told him he was planning to blow up the school. Sarai's family insists he was framed. Read her post after the cut...
A Colorado man who spent almost three decades in prison after a woman 'dreamed' that he raped her may soon go free. Denver District Court Judge Kandace Gerdes overturned Clarence Moses-El’s 1988 conviction, after he has served more than half of his 48-year sentence.
An Australian supermarket chain has pulled Miranda Kerr's racy Harper's Bazaar magazine cover from its shelves.
The former Victoria's Secret beauty stripped completely naked for the latest issue of the monthly glossy, and it appears to have caused quite a stir - and not the good kind.
The magazine hit newsstands just days ago, on December 14, but Coles supermarket has already reportedly removed around 3,000 copies of the magazine from its 800 stores.
A spokesperson for Coles supermarket told The Sydney Morning Herald that customer feedback was the reason for the ban.
From Apple launching its first wearable to Tesla rolling out its (almost) driverless car, there were a lot of major events that not only captured the attention of the masses, but also helped spur big changes in the advancement of new technologies.
Here's a look at the 15 defining tech moments that changed our world in 2015.
Brave: Nadia Murad Basee was treated as a sex slave for three months
A young Yazidi woman who was tortured and treated as a sex slave for three months by ISIS fighters has bravely revealed her horrific ordeal.
"Rape was used to destroy women and girls and to guarantee that these women could never lead a normal life again," Nadia Murad Basee Taha, 21, told the UN Security Council.
The young woman, who was abducted in August last year from her village in Iraq, added: "Islamic State has made Yazidi women into flesh to be trafficked in".
Nadia described her horrific ordeal, saying how she was taken by bus to a building in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, where thousands of Yazidi women and children were exchanged by militants as gifts.
A new hydrogel-based condom that contains antioxidants has been invented by a team of Indian-American scientists at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center. Not only does it contain plant-based antioxidants, which kills the HIV-virus in case of condom breakage but it also uses antioxidants to enhance pleasure. Experts say it is the new big player to join the fight against AIDS
"We are not only making a novel material for condoms to prevent the HIV infection, but we are also aiming to eradicate this infection if possible. Supercondom could help fight against HIV infection and may as well prevent unwanted pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases. If we succeed, it will revolutionize the HIV prevention initiative"
Farook’s former neighbour Enrique Marquez, accused of supplying the couple with assault rifles, told investigators he and the 28-year-old killer planned earlier mass casualties, according to prosecutors.
US Attorney Eileen Decker said the two men conspired to commit "vicious" assaults on targets including a California community college and a state highway during rush hour.
She said: “Even though these plans were not carried out, Mr Marquez's criminal conduct deeply affected San Bernardino… and the entire United States when the guns purchased by Marquez were used to kill 14 innocent people and wound many others.
The plan has been devised to ruin revenue ISIS gains from oil and antiquities sales, ransom payments and other depraved criminal activities.
ISIS - also known as Daesh - is already subject to UN sanctions under resolutions dealing with al-Qaeda.
The resolution, supported by the US and Russia, elevates the barbaric death cult to the same level as al-Qaeda.
It calls for a financial freeze on ISIS, along with a travel ban and arms embargo.
US treasury secretary Jacob Lew branded the savage terror group "a challenging financial target" because unlike other organisations it gets a relatively small share of its funding from donors abroad.
ISIS controls a large swath of Syria and Iraq, including oil and gas fields, though bombing campaigns by the US-led coalition and ground forces have enabled Iraq to regain some territory.
Unsuspecting: Amber didn't know what Jeffrey was capable of
A mum whose rapist ex-fiance ripped her teeth out with pliers will be able to smile again, thanks to a kind-hearted dentist.
Brave Amber, 48, told how sick Donald Jeffrey demanded she “Get the f******g pliers” before yanking out her front teeth and then making her pose in front of a mirror.
But now Amber will have her smile restored after the offer from Glasgow dentist Mark Skimming, who saw the shocking images of her missing teeth.
Amber said: “When I was told that a dentist had heard my story and wanted to help, I was over the moon.
“It’s hard to live with as every time I see my reflection I’m still faced with the past.
“I’ve been to the NHS and to the dental hospital, who told me that I hadn’t suffered enough trauma to warrant having them done. So now this means the world and instead of being reminded of the past, I can concentrate on my future.
“I’m just so grateful and I can’t thank them enough. I’ll be able to smile again.”
Horrific: Amber was made to pose in front of a mirror
Mark, of Dentistry on the Square in Glasgow, said: “The terrible abuse Amber suffered was highlighted to us by a number of our team and patients.
“We are looking forward to helping put the experience behind her by restoring her smile and giving her the confidence to live her life without the constant reminder of this extremely traumatic event.”
Mum Amber, from Glasgow, was one of two women who came forward to put Jeffrey in jail for at least 10 years.
She had had been friends with the thug for more than 23 years before they became a couple in 2008.
They got engaged in December 2009 but within months Jeffrey began to show his controlling and abusive side.
During a horrifying five-year campaign of violence, Jeffrey raped and beat her and threatened to throw her out of a 17th-floor window in March 2013.
In another attack the same year, he dropped dumbbells on to her and held her head under water in a freezing bath.
Amber bravely spoke out with Jeffrey’s other victim Jacqueline, 45. They told a jury of the violence they suffered at his hands during a harrowing trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
Former "Saved by the Bell" actor Dustin Diamond will start serving his four-month jail sentence with work release in January for an altercation at a Wisconsin bar.
WISN-TV and WITI-TV report that Diamond appeared in Ozaukee County court Wednesday and withdrew his appeal of a disorderly conduct conviction. The sentence starts Jan. 15.
Abdullah al-Zaher was arrested at the age of 15 and now faces being beheaded
A heartbroken dad has begged the world for help as Saudi Arabia prepare to behead and then crucify his teenage son.
Abdullah Al-Zaher was aged just 15 when he was arrested in the kingdom after attending a protest rally against the government.
Now just 19, he faces being executed and crucified along with 51 other people.
Speaking to the Guardian, his desperate dad Hassan Al-Zaher said: “Please help me save my son from the imminent threat of death. He doesn't deserve to die just because he participated in a protest rally.”
A convicted murderer who strangled a young mum to death with her own jumper has taken to Facebook to celebrate his release from jail.
Former taxi driver Merrick Rogers, 40, posted a photo of himself smiling and clutching a pint of Guinness after serving 15 years for the murder of Claire Streader, 24, in 1999.
Rogers - described as a 'dangerous young man' when jailed in 2000 - also took to Twitter.
Last week, about an hour before the Los Angeles Lakerswere to face the Timberwolves here at Target Center, Gary Vitti leaned against a wall outside the visitors’ locker room and exhaled. Vitti has been the Lakers’ athletic trainer for 32 seasons, but he has other responsibilities, too. He fields ticket requests. He helps manage the schedule.
“It’s like herding cats, man,” he said. “They’re all over the place.”
Vitti knew his biggest challenge of the night was still ahead: marshaling the players out of the arena and to the airport in a timely fashion. It had everything to do with Kobe Bryant, who was about to make his final appearance in Minneapolis on his farewell tour of N.B.A. arenas.
“The most disruptive thing is trying to get out of here after the game,” Vitti said. “He has to do his postgame therapy, and then he does his media, and then everybody wants a piece of him because they’re not going to see him again. I’m just trying to get these guys to the next city.”
HOURS after the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., on Dec. 2, and minutes after the media first reported that at least one of the shooters had a Muslim-sounding name, a disturbing number of Californians had decided what they wanted to do with Muslims: kill them.
The top Google search in California with the word “Muslims” in it was “kill Muslims.” And the rest of America searched for the phrase “kill Muslims” with about the same frequency that they searched for “martini recipe,” “migraine symptoms” and “Cowboys roster.”
People often have vicious thoughts. Sometimes they share them on Google. Do these thoughts matter?
Yes. Using weekly data from 2004 to 2013, we found a direct correlation between anti-Muslim searches and anti-Muslim hate crimes.
Japan’s highest court on Wednesday upheld a law dating back more than a century that requires married couples to share the same surname, rejecting a claim that it discriminates against women by effectively forcing them to give up their names in favor of their husbands’.
The ruling was a blow to Japanese women seeking to keep their maiden names after marriage. Some couples have chosen not to register their marriages — opting instead to stay in common-law relationships with fewer legal protections — in order to keep separate surnames.
This might look like an egregiously misplaced school of fish, but it's actually an example of what ornithologists (bird experts) call a murmuration:It's a flock of hundreds to thousands of tiny song birds called starlings. But exactly how the birds within these swarms decide to move and when is a complete mystery.
Within a murmuration, starlings are constantly on the move, so the shape is always changing.
But some photographers managed to capture some incredible, split-second moments of these flowing flocks that look strikingly similar to common shapes like a gigantic smoking pipe, goose, and sting ray. Check them out below:
