Creature from the deep surfaces in Japanese harbor

It isn't every day that a mystery from the deep swims into plain sight. But on Christmas Eve, spectators on a pier in Toyama Bay in central Japan were treated to a rare sighting of a giant squid.

The creature swam under fishing boats and close to the surface of Toyama Bay, better known for its firefly squid, and reportedly hung around the bay for several hours before it was ushered back to open water.

It was captured on video by a submersible camera, and even joined by a diver, Akinobu Kimura, owner of Diving Shop Kaiyu, who swam in close proximity to the red-and-white real-life sea monster.

"My curiosity was way bigger than fear, so I jumped into the water and go close to it," he told US.

Kelvin Okusanya Wonga? Mastermind of the scam that tricked payday lender of out £3million is jailed for six years after he was caught because he used the same password on 19,000 applications

The mastermind behind a £3million Wonga scam which used the identities of thousands of innocent members of the public to withdraw cash has been jailed for six years.

Kelvin Okusanya, 32, was part of a gang which exploited the company's website algorithms to make more than 19,000 loan applications from April 2012 to June 2013 using the same password 'Bengali90'.

The cash was then laundered through hundreds of bank accounts by the fraudsters while the unsuspecting victims were left facing paying the one per cent a day interest payments.

Okusanya was convicted of fraud after the Old Bailey heard he personally made 82 false applications involving 30 victims.

The judge, Mr Recorder Sells QC, said: 'The names and details of wholly innocent members of the public were used to make fraudulent loan applications on a massive scale.

'Some were even contacted by Wonga for the loans they had not applied for and knew nothing about.

'Such offences are corrosive of the trust which people hold in the financial services sector. They are increasingly prevalent, they are easy to commit and hard to detect.'

The judge told Okusanya: 'You were described during the trial as the mastermind and one of the controlling minds of the whole of this fraud.

'I am satisfied that you were a leading member of a criminal enterprise which intended to get many millions of pounds.'

Eight others were convicted of laundering the proceeds of the cash through bank accounts under their control. 

Prosecutor Richard Hearnden told the court: 'The criminals netted over £3million by targeting one of Britain's most controversial institutions, the pay day lender Wonga.

'Wonga paid out on thousands of payday loans. Each of these loans was only for a few hundred pounds but added together these loans amounted to millions.

'The fraud came about by stealing the names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, mobile phone numbers and debit card numbers of literally thousands of ordinary members of the public.

'The fraudsters that were operating this scam probably bought ready-made lists of potential victims and their personal financial data. How precisely this data was secured is not known.'

The 13 richest people in tech

Almost one-fourth of the 50 richest people on earth made their extraordinary fortunes founding and building today's largest tech companies.

Together, the 13 billionaires have a net worth of about $450 billion. That includes Microsoft visionary Bill Gates, the richest person on earth with a fortune of $87.4 billion, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest tech CEO in the world with a fortune of $56.6 billion.

This comes from new data provided to Business Insider by Wealth-X, a company that conducts research on the super-wealthy. Wealth-X maintains a database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high-net-worth people, using a proprietary valuation model to discern the size of their fortunes.

Although the American tech scene is home to the most billionaires on our list — nine of the top 50 — the emerging economies in China and India are starting to churn out enormously rich tech moguls of their own.

Read on to learn about the richest tech titans in the world.

THE GAME LOSES $10 MILLION SEXUAL ASSAULT CIVIL CASE

It has been reported that The Game has lost the $10 million lawsuit filed against him by VH1reality show She Got Game contestant Priscilla Rainey.

Rainey filed the lawsuit in August 2015, claiming that the Compton rapper inappropriately touched her in May of the same year. She alleged that The Game “forcefully reached his hand inside her dress to rub her bare vagina and buttocks.”

Because he did not attend the hearing to fight the accusations, The Game, whose real name is Jayceon Taylor, loses the suit by default and must pay Rainey, but whether he has to pay the $10 million has not been confirmed.

The next hearing is scheduled later this month on the 24th.

US government sources: Al Shabaab was behind a suspected bomb attack on a Somali passenger plane

Investigators believe a bomb most likely caused the explosion aboard a plane that was forced to return to the Somali capital of Mogadishu for an emergency landing on Tuesday, two US government sources said on Wednesday.

Investigators also suspect the Al Shabaab jihadist group was behind the attack, although no organization has taken credit for the apparent bombing.

There was no immediate comment from Al Shabaab, which has waged a gruesome insurgency against the Western-backed Somali government and a multinational African Union military force.

One person died Tuesday when the Daallo Airlines Airbus A321 carrying 74 passengers was forced to return after a blast tore a hole in the fuselage. Local authorities in the Balcad area, about 30 kilometers north of Mogadishu, said the body of a man, believed to have been sucked out of the plane, was found in the area.

Former FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed’s 25yr old son, Abdullahi, Buys N800m sports car, evades duties…Sons worth N35 Billion

Abdullahi, the exuberant, unbelievably wealthy 25 year old billionaire son of a former Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Bala Mohammed, is in the news again.

Abdullahi Ibrahim, a man with no clear means of livelihood, has cars in his fleet worth over N2 Billion, was recently busted by the Nigeria Customs Service for evasion of duties worth about N124million.

The two children of Bala  Mohammed, all under 30 years old,  are alleged to have stashed about N35billion in Unity Bank, UBA and an offshore account in Dubai.

The two sons who are said to be notorious for harassing and getting contracts from various agencies and staffers of the FCTA using fronts and proxies.

The first son, Shamsudeen was reported to have crushed a 22 year-old citizen of the FCT, Mark Musa, to death along the Shehu Musa YAr’Adua expressway opposite the National Health Insurance Scheme headquarters. He is fond of sponsoring a ring of his nouveau riche friends in car racing competitions on Abuja streets.

Photos: Top Naija Music Awards

Check out some photos from the just concluded Top Naija Music Awards Presentation Ceremony, Held at Monty Buffet, VI, Lagos on Saturday 30th Jan, 2016.

To God Almighty and Mother Mary Be The Glory!

Plane crash kills 3 in South Africa

Three people have been confirmed dead after a light aircraft crashed into the shacks of Benoni in Johannesburg, South Africa this afternoon. The three victims were the only passengers on the aircraft. "Paramedics found the bodies of three people lying inside the aircraft," ER24 medical service told News24 website

Lagos Crash : Bristow helicopter crashes, all occupants reportedly survive

A Bristow helicopter crashed inward the Murtala Mohammed International Airport this morning Feb. 3rd. All 11 passengers on-board survived as they all floated on water with the help of their life jackets

This incident comes a few months after a Bristow helicopter crashed in August 2015 at the Oworonshoki end of the Lagos Lagoon. That incident claimed 6 lives.

Student still can't ORGASM after spending THREE YEARS trying to achieve one

Unsatisfied: Megan Ward has spent three years trying and failing to orgasm

A student fears she will never have an orgasm after spending more than three years trying and failing to give herself one.

Megan Ward, who lives in Birmingham, has used an array of sex toys every day since early 2013 in a bid to achieve satisfaction.

She has also attended countless therapy sessions - but her attempts so far have not worked.

The 20-year-old suffers from anorgasmia, a condition that sees sufferers constantly fail to achieve climax.

Shockingly, as many as one in five British women suffer from the illness - but most do not speak openly about it.

Megan first disclosed her condition in late 2014 - and now, she has revealed she is still yet to experience an orgasm.

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Medical Doctor 'killed husband with hammer after they had threesome sex with teenager'

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Charged: Chamari Liyanage is accused of killing her husband with a hammer

A female doctor is accused of killing her husband with a hammer after they engaged in a threesome with a teenage girl.

Chamari Liyanage is alleged to have murdered Dinendra Athukorala over fears their sexual activity could burden her career.

The Sri Lankan couple had threesomes with a number of other women, including a 17-year-old girl.

Liyanage is on trial charged with killing her spouse, also a doctor, with his own hammer.

When police arrived, the walls were splattered with his blood and she was curled up beside the bed, it is alleged.

The jury at the Supreme Court of Western Australia heard how the defendant was at breaking point and had become fed up of her "controlling" husband.

She had told police how he was physically violent, forced her to engage in sexual acts and controlled her finances and kept tabs on where she went.

HOW DO YOU ESCAPE ?

 

       
                   I'm sure everyone has been there at different points and stages of our lives , where you get to your breaking point ,where you tell yourself i have had enough, those moments when  your thoughts become like tidal waves taking you to the bottom of an ocean , where you wish time would stand still because you aren't prepared for the next day.
            "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me " dylan thomas
                 
                  That point when the beast and the madman have taking over and an eternal battle is going on in your mind.You just want to run away from home, get a moment of silence, or go to a place no-one knows you and start a fresh.
                    But, how do you run away from yourself, from your mind , is that even possible, some try to take their lives and some actually succeed, do they actually escape? to me that's a battle that's been lost.
                    The only form of escape is the music.... 

HILARY DUFF, MIKE COMRIE DIVORCE FINAL Rich Property Split

Hilary Duff is now a single woman, and former NHL star Mike Comrie's a single guy, because their divorce is now final.

According to new legal docs making the divorce official, Hilary must pay Mike $2,408,786 to settle their financial split. She gets to keep their Bev Hills mansion and other property as well.

Hilary and Mike get joint custody of their 3-year-old son Luca. They split the child-rearing costs and neither gets spousal support.

In the docs, obtained by 3m360, Hilary gets to keep her interest in a Malibu mobile home -- it's a very ritzy thing among the rich.  

He gets to keep his 2014 Bentley coupe, a 2013 Mercedes G-Class SUV and a bunch of jewelry.

Homicide : Man allegedly stabbed to death by his wife in their home in Ibadan (Graphic)

Lowo Oyediran Ajanaku, 38, was brutally stabbed to death early this morning allegedly by his wife Yewande Oyediran nee Fatoki, at their Akobo estate home in Ibadan in the wee hours of today Feb. 2nd. The woman is said to be a lawyer and a Staff of Directorate of public prosecution at the Ministry of Justice, Ibadan, Oyo state.

Lowo was allegedly stabbed after a domestic dispute at their home. According to a person in the know, Yewande was found with dislocated shoulders, swollen head and bruised body and was taken to the hospital for treatment where she was later discharged and arrested by police. She's presently detained at the state CID Iyaganku, Ibadan. The man's corpse has been deposited at the mortuary while his friends are mourning him on social media. See more photos after the cut + also a pic of him after he was stabbed...

Man 'screamed "you stole my blood" after stabbing ex-girlfriend to death in health store'

Victim: Mairead Moran was stabbed to death

A mentally ill man stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death as she finished work in a health food store, a court heard.

Shane Smyth, 29, is believed to have been suffering from a psychotic illness when heallegedly murdered Mairead Moran, 26, in May 2014.

Smyth, from Evans Lane, Kilkenny, pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms Moran by reason of insanity in court on Tuesday, the Irish Mirror reported .

Prosecution counsel Mr John O’Kelly SC said the factual evidence of the case would not be disputed and the “major factor in the case” is whether or not Smyth was suffering from a mental disorder at the time.

He said that two consultant psychiatrists had prepared reports indicating that Smyth was suffering from a form of psychosis.

Mr O’Kelly told the court that the evidence in this case will be that Smyth attacked Ms Moran with a knife and stabbed her repeatedly at the Market Cross Shopping Centre in Kilkenny City.

Bomb horror on passenger jet: Burning man is sucked out of plane at 14,000ft after explosion rips open the fuselage

An unidentified man was sucked out of a passenger jet at 14,000 feet after a suspected bomb blasted a hole through the side of the fuselage just five minutes after the Airbus A321 took off from Mogadishu. 

Eyewitnesses claim the badly burned body of an elderly man fell to the earth about 15 miles away from the airport at the time of the blast. 

AIrline officials claim two people were injured by the blast which punched a hole in the aluminum fuselage about six foot by three foot in size.

A explosion blew a hole in the side of the Airbus A321 just 15 minutes after it left Mogadishu in Somalia 

One passenger is believed to have fallen out of the hole in the fuselage caused by the suspected bomb 

The crazy life of billionaire socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein

Jocelyn Wildenstein, 75, is just as famous for her immense divorce settlement as she is for her looks.

The Swiss-born socialite was awarded $2.5 billion (£1.7 billion) in one of the biggest divorce settlements in history from her former elite art dealer and horse racing husband Alec in the late 1990s.

But the bumper payout wasn't the only thing that got her worldwide press — her penchant for surgery to make her face more "feline," allegedly to please her husband, has been widely reported.

There's more than meets the eye, though. Wildenstein is an accomplished hunter and pilot, and her love for "decoration" led her to meet her long-term boyfriend, French designer Lloyd Klein.

Check out her amazing life ...

Jocelyn Wildenstein was born as Jocelynnys Dayannys da Silva Bezerra Périsset on August 5, 1940 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

An American man who believes rape should be legalised may be barred from Australia

Daryush Valizadeh, a US citizen with a degree in microbiology, thinks rape should be legalised on private property, according to this essay he wrote on the topic.

The blogger — who was called "the web's most infamous misogynist"by The Daily Dot — runs the Return of Kings website, which champions what he calls neomasculinity. He is planning to come to Australia this week and hold "tribal meetings" in a number of capital cities — Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth — this Saturday.

Valizadeh, 36, told ABC he would be making a "last-minute trip" to Australia "to personally conduct a meet-up in Canberra."

Why did two parents murder their adopted child?

Asunta Fong Yang was adopted as a baby by a wealthy Spanish couple. Aged 12, she was found dead beside a country road. Not long after, her mother and father were arrested

One day in late June 2001, Rosario Porto, a petite, dark-haired lawyer from Santiago de Compostela, northern Spain, sat nervously on a flight to China beside her husband Alfonso Basterra, a quiet man from the Basque country, who worked as a freelance journalist. The couple, both in their mid-30s, were on their way to adopt a baby girl. Porto swallowed two tablets of Orfidal – a common anti-anxiety medicine that she had used before then – but remained too agitated and excited to sleep.

The couple had had no trouble persuading local Spanish authorities that they would make good parents and that their child would be surrounded by a loving extended family. Porto’s father was a lawyer who had been honorary consul for France in Santiago, and her mother was a university lecturer in history of art. They had given their daughter a flat that occupied a whole floor of a four-storey block in what some call Santiago’s “VIP zone”, home to the city’s upper middle class. The flat was decorated in the bold tones – blues, greens and yellows – that Porto liked, and full of art, curiosities and colourful rugs from around the world. The child’s bedroom would have wallpaper covered in clouds and suns.

India to review ruling on law criminalising homosexuality

Latest chapter in legal battle between social and religious conservatives and gay community over law passed by British

India’s supreme court has agreed to re-examine a previous judgment that upheld a law criminalising homosexuality, offering hope to gay rights organisations that have been holding vigils and demonstrations in Delhi.

A panel of three judges said the ruling in 2013 would be revisited by a larger bench of judges.

“It is definitely a step forward,” lawyer Anand Grover said as activists gathered outside the courtroom cheered.

The 2013 judgment reinstated colonial-era legislation that in effect outlawed gay sex and stunned many in India, overturning decades of slow progress andprompting protests.

The referral to a large bench of judges is the latest chapter in a long-running legal battle between India’s social and religious conservatives and the gay community over the law passed by the British in the 1860s.

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Scottish tourist killed by elephant in Thailand

A Scottish tourist on holiday in Koh Samui in Thailand's Surat Thani province has been killed by an elephant.

According to a government official, the 36-year-old man was riding the male elephant as part of a trekking tour with his daughter when the animal suddenly got angry and shook the pair and their mahout (trainer) from its back.

The man was then trampled on and gored to death by the elephant's tusks.

His 16 year-old daughter suffered minor injuries and is recovering in hospital.

Wongsiri Promchana, governor of Surat Thani, told CNN police are now investigating the trek operator, Island Safari Tour, which is legally registered to offer elephant treks.

cops train eagles to hunt drones

As authorities scramble for effective and advanced ways to counter the increasing number of rogue drones buzzing around our skies, Dutch National Police have come up with something a little more unusual: the mighty eagle.

In what Dutch company "Guard from Above" calls a "low tech solution for a high tech problem," bald eagles have been trained to swoop in and neatly dispose of any unwanted electronic interlopers.

"Two of the most impressive characteristics of birds of prey are their speed and their power," said Guard From Above co-founder Ben de Keijzer in a media release.

MEEK MILL I GOT $68,000 ON MY WRIST But I May Not Be Allowed to Wear It

Meek Mill dropped $68,000 over the weekend on a Rolex ... which might become an antique before he's able to wear it, because they don't allow fancy watches in the slammer.

Meek bought the piece from Joe the Jeweler aka "Shyne." It's a custom-made Presidential Rolex with 23 carats of white round diamonds. 

Here's the problem ... Meek has a hearing Friday in his probation violation case. You'll recall he left the state of Pennsylvania without permission. There are also allegations he tried to cheat a drug test. The judge could send Meek to prison for the violation.

Meek might need a fortified safety deposit box for his collection.