Astronomers have detected an 'interesting' and possibly alien radio signal coming from a sun-like star

The Allen Telescope Array in California.

If it sounds too good to be true it probably is, goes the famous adage - and so it goes with extraordinary claims of potential alien signals.

Still, astronomers are puzzling over an incredibly powerful burst of energy that seems to have emanated from the star HD 164595, located some 94 light-years away in the constellation Hercules.

"An international team of researchers has announced the detection of 'a strong signal in the direction of HD164595,'" book author Paul Gilster wrote at his blog Centauri Dreams, noting that a Russian radio telescope called RATAN-600 detected the signal last year.

"No one is claiming that this is the work of an extraterrestrial civilization ... But the signal is provocative enough that the RATAN-600 researchers are calling for permanent monitoring of this target," he wrote. The signal's discoverers are urging the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) to take a long, hard look at HD 164595.

Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, said that's exactly what the organization did Sunday night after it heard about the alleged signal, which was supposedly detected on May 15, 2015.

It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans

Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russia's troll factories were, at one point, likely being paid by the Kremlin to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media.

That is what freelance journalist Adrian Chen, now a staff writer at The New Yorker, discovered as he was researching Russia's "army of well-paid trolls" for an explosive New York Times Magazine exposé published in June 2015.

"A very interesting thing happened," Chen told Longform's Max Linsky in a podcast in December.

"I created this list of Russian trolls when I was researching. And I check on it once in a while, still. And a lot of them have turned into conservative accounts, like fake conservatives. I don't know what's going on, but they're all tweeting about Donald Trump and stuff," he said.

"I've gone several months without being paid' Samson Siasia resigns from National football duty

Samson Siasia, Nigeria's Bronze winning coach at Rio 2016 has resigned from his post as head coach despite his team's heroics this summer saying he's doing so because of 'a disrespectful system'

'I have reached that point where I have to say I have had  enough, I've gone several months without getting paid, years of being derided and disrespected by the sports authorities in Nigeria but I am done already." Siasia, whose contract expires at the end of the Olympics, told BBC Sport. 

It's sad that after all we went through to get to Brazil and end up winning a bronze medal, the players, coaching and backroom staff never received a 'thank you' in appreciation despite a turbulent time at the Olympics" Sisasia added. 

Six storey building collapses in Abuja, 5 laborers trapped in the rubble

A six story building under construction as a hotel collapsed this morning on 444 Crescent , Citec Villas , Gwarinpa. The incident happened at about 1.00 am. Five laborers were trapped inside and three have been rescued by combined efforts of the Police, NEMA and FEMA. The iron rods used for the pillars gave in like wood and the concrete work were said to be as brittle as ordinary sand. Efforts are still going on to rescue the two innocent laborers trapped under the rubble. More photos after the cut.

Photos of young black man and his elderly white lover goes viral

These photos of a young black man and his alleged older white lover has been making the round on social media. The woman is said to be in her 70s. Love doesn't care about age...:-). More photos after the cut...

Justin Bieber and girlfriend Sofia Ritchie show massive PDA on vacation in Mexico

Singer Justin Bieber and his new girlfriend, model, Sofia Richie were in the romantic Mexican hot spot of Cabo San Lucas on Saturday to celebrate Sofia's 18th birthday, where they put on extreme PDA while lounging in their bathing suits by the beach. The young couple couldn't keep their hands off of each other as they showered each other with kisses and at one point Justin Bieber seemed to have a visible erection. 

For $25,000, You Can Meet Pope Francis

If your answer to the age-old question—“Which famous person would you most like to have dinner with?”—includes the Pope, you can finally make that wish a reality. Quintessentially Lifestyle, the exclusive members-only concierge service, is offering its members the chance to meet Pope Francis (the 266th pope and current leader of the Roman Catholic Church) before his address in St. Peter’s Square on August 31, 2016.

Man strips to underwear before jumping security fence and crashing truck into plane at Omaha airport

A man stripped to his underwear, jumped a security fence and rammed a pickup truck into a plane at an airport in Nebraska, police said.

Dealario Koonce was arrested after driving the truck into the Southwest Airlines flight at Omaha airport on Thursday evening.

Two crew members were injured in the incident, which happened as passengers were boarding the Denver-bound flight at 9.30pm local time (2.30am GMT).

One of the 18 passengers was also injured when the truck smashed into the plane's nose gear, Omaha Airport Authority Chief of Police Tim Connahan said.

Mum drowns saving her two-year-old son who fell off their boat in Utah lake

A 33-year-old mother, Chelsey J. Russell of Lakewood Colorado, died while rescuing her two-year-old son who had fallen into Lake Powell, Utah, from a boat they were travelling in. The whole family was out boating on the landmark lake when the 2 year old boy fell overboard. Chelsey jumped in after him to save him from drowning while other family members tried to stop the houseboat they were in and turn it around to pick both of them up.

Although the entire ordeal lasted just a few minutes, by the the time family members had reached the mother and son, Chelsey was unconscious. Neither she nor her son had been wearing life jackets at the time of the incident.

Dwyane Wade's cousin shot and killed while pushing baby in a stroller

Dwayne Wade's cousin, Nykea Aldridge, was pushing a stroller with her child in it on Friday afternoon on a street in the South Side of Chicago when several men started shooting at each other. One of the bullets hit her in the head, while another struck her in an arm.

She died about 45 minutes later at a hospital.

According to her aunt, Jolinda Wade, who is NBA Champion, Dwayne Wade's mother, said Aldridge was on her way to an elementary school when the shooting happened. She said:

"She wasn't bothering nobody,"."She was just going to register her kids at school." 

‘I shot dad’: The tragic case of a child who killed his abusive, neo-Nazi father

Jeffrey Hall was unequivocal about what he wanted.

“I want a white nation,” he once told the Los Angeles Times. “I don’t hide what I am, and I don’t water that down.”

An unemployed plumber who used to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border looking for illegal immigrants, Hall was a rising star among white supremacists.

He would often speak at rallies, promoting the goals of the National Socialist Movement, the largest neo-Nazi organization in the country, with 46 chapters in 20 states. In a YouTube video of a 2009 anti-immigration rally in Southern California, Hall, the National Socialist Movement’s regional director there, is seen holding a megaphone with a smiling Hitler emoji sticker on it as he proclaims the need for “white immigration” and a “pro-white” America.

But Hall’s rise in the movement ended abruptly. He died in May 2011, when he was shot at point-blank range while sleeping on his living room couch.

Woman held captive for 18 years CAN'T sue government for failing to supervise kidnapper on parole

Jaycee Dugard was just 11 when she was abducted in 1991

A woman who was kidnapped and help captive for 18 years by a convicted sex offender cannot sue the US government for failing to properly supervise him on parole, a court has ruled.

Jaycee Dugard was just 11 when she was snatched near to her California home by Phillip Garrido, who kept her prisoner in a warren of sheds and tents in his backyard.

She was repeatedly raped and gave birth to two daughters in captivity in the northern California community of Antioch.

Dugard's plight was eventually revealed in 2009 when Garrido brought her and her children to a parole office that had been contacted by police at the University of California, Berkeley, who had become suspicious of him.

Man who threw boiling water on gay couple will spend 40 years in prison

A jury has convicted an Atlanta truck driver accused of pouring boiling water over two gay men as the couple slept in February.

The jury deliberated for about 90 minutes Wednesday before finding Martin Blackwell guilty of eight counts of aggravated battery and two counts of aggravated assault, according to the Associated Press.

Blackwell was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

The 48-year-old wasn’t charged with a hate crime because Georgia is one of five states that do not have hate crime statutes. An FBI spokesman told Reuters that federal investigators are considering whether to charge Blackwell with a federal hate crime.

TORY LANEZ MAKES A REALLY WEIRD COMMENT ABOUT THE SUPPOSED BEEF BETWEEN HIM AND DRAKE

It’s a really interesting time to have beef with Drake. When you’re the biggest rapper in the game, there will be a target on your back–ask Hov–and everyone from Meek Mill to Pusha T has taken shots in recent years. More recently, Tory Lanez found himself caught up in a riff with the Toronto rapper when Drake rapped “All you new Toronto n*ggas want to be me a little” on his January release “Summer Sixteen.” (That was a reference to Lanez New Toronto mixtape, which had been out a mere few weeks at the time.) Since then, Lanez and Drake have traded jabs and light shots at each other, be it in song or on stage at their respective shows. It was once rumored that Drake had been borrowing some of his artistic style from Lanez, then an underground artist, and chances are that Drake didn’t like the sound of that.

RICK ROSS Warning, Drake ... I WILL GO OFF LEASH!

Rick Ross fired a warning shot in the air for Drake ... on the heels of the renewed feud with Meek Mill.

Rick was on the "Drink Champs" podcast when N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN asked about his homie, Meek, getting destroyed by Drizzy. Rozay made it clear .. he does NOT think Meek lost a damn thing. As he put it, "We all rich!"

But after Drake's stop in Philly last weekend the beef's been heating up again and Ricky says if it continues, this time ... he'll be jumping in too.

Check out the clip ... he never SAYS anything about violence, but the insinuation is in the air -- and there's a subtle shot at Birdman's financial issues too.