E-cigarette flavourings contain high amounts of cancer-causing chemicals and 'exceed recommended levels'

Flavoured e-cigarettes contain dangerous levels of cancer-causing chemicals, scientists claim.

Toxic compounds are already known to form as a result of the gadget's rapid heating process, known as pyrolysis.

But new research has discovered flavoured liquids are creating high amounts of aldehydes - exceeding health limits.

Consuming or inhaling them, even in small amounts, has been linked to increased risk of cancer and heart disease. 

The findings are a cause for concern due to the 8,000 flavours available on the market - with some designed specifically to attract young adults.

Flavoured liquids are creating high amounts of aldehydes - which are known to increase the risk of cancer, heart disease and dementia, new research suggests

Flavourings used in e-cigarettes were previously found to be mostly the same as those used in foods and have therefore passed safety tests.

However, this applies to them being eaten rather than inhaled.   

Researchers from the Desert Research Institute, Nevada, measured concentrations of 12 aldehydes in aerosols produced by three common e-cigarette devices.

To determine whether the additives affected chemical production during vaping, five different flavours were tested in each device. Two unflavoured e-liquids were also used.

Real-life vaping was stimulated in each device through a four-second, 40-ml puff and 30-second resting period between each puff.

They discovered liquids with higher flavour content produced higher amounts of the aerosols due to the pyrolysis process.

Villagers kill GIGANTIC swollen snake they thought had eaten livestock... only to discover it was filled with scores of eggs

Locals who killed a huge snake after suspecting it of having eaten a calf because of its swollen stomach discovered it was pregnant with dozens of eggs.

The incident happened in Nigeria where local media said the snake had been killed over accusations it had been feasting on farmers’ livestock.

However as these images show, the snake was not overweight because of its last meal, it was actually pregnant.

fter being cut open, dozens of eggs were found and removed by locals who regard them as a rare delicacy. 

Although it was not clear what sort of snake it was, many snakes can produce up to 100 eggs at a time.

Online commentators seem to have little sympathy with the snake, with most pointing out that it was a good thing that around a hundred baby snakes would no longer be born.

Judging by the size of the snake, which appears to be almost a foot wide and several metres long, it looks like an anaconda. 

But with the species of anaconda restricted to South America, it is likely the pictured snake is an African rock python.

Egun youths clash in Lekki, burn 200 structures November 10, 2016

3m360 learnt that the crisis started on Sunday, when the Yoruba youths demanded that the residents should relocate from the area.
It was gathered that the Egun community insisted that residents would not leave their houses, tagging the youths as hoodlums and land grabbers.
Our correspondent gathered that the crisis came to a head on Wednesday when the Yoruba youths set fire to the structures in the area at about 8am.
The action was said to have triggered a clash between the youths of the Egun community and their Yoruba counterparts.

'He Is Not My President': Donald Trump Inspires Thousands to Protest in Streets Across U.S.

Thousands of protesters swarmed the streets of several major cities Wednesday to voice their opposition to Donald Trump, who less than 24 hours earlier stunned the world to become the 45th person elected president of the United States.

Protesters in Chicago chanted "Not my president" and "F--- Trump" outside Trump International Hotel & Tower in what seemed like a grand uprising — one in which minority groups that have felt targeted by Trump over the past 18 months hoped to send a direct message to the president-elect.

"I'm here today because I'm speechless at what happened," Rebecca Gomez, 22, told NBC News. "I'm Mexican, but I was born in the United States. I'm afraid people won't care about that, though. I'm afraid they will be violent."

In New York, thousands of protesters could be heard chanting and banging drums as they marched past Rockefeller Center up Sixth Avenue, barely even acknowledging the rain.

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"It's horrible that we have to do this," said Trevor Wheeler, 18, of North Dakota, who now lives in New York City. "I identify as a queer person. I will most likely lose my right to get married. ... I will not be able to present myself the way I want to."

Some chanted "Racist, sexist, anti-gay! Donald Trump must go away!" and "F--- your wall!"

Legendary WWE star Chyna finally laid to rest at sea in rhinestone urn

Chyna died earlier this year

WWE star Chyna has been laid to rest.

The professional wrestling icon passed away at the age of 46 at her apartment in Redondo Beach, California earlier this year after an overdose.

Chyna has now been laid to rest in a rhinestone urn at sea, and the moment was filmed as part of a documentary about her life.

Her ashes were thrown for a $1,500 dollar-per-hour yacht close to the home in Los Angles where her body was discovered.

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Nigerian male barbie Bobrisky is HIV positive?

According to an anonymous source who wrote to Naijagist, Nigerian male barbie doll and internet sensation, Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky,  tested positive  HIV and has been managing it since 2015.

The anonymous source who claims to be a medical doctor and a friend to Bobrisky’s Indian doctor, revealed that Idris Okunneye the popular cross dresser and internet sensation known as Bobrisky is HIV positive.

The source also said that Bobrisky had been placed on anti-retroviral medication since September 2015 and that he still visited his doctor last week, the first week of November 2016 to get new prescriptions.

Prince Harry confirms he IS dating Meghan Markle and hits out at 'abuse she has suffered'

Prince Harry has confirmed he is dating Meghan Markle but hit out at the "abuse" he says she has suffered

Prince Harry has confirmed he is dating American actress Meghan Markle but hit out at "abuse" he says she has suffered.

Kensington Palace issued a strongly-worded statement confirming the relationship but also criticising "abuse" suffered by the American actress.

The statement said that the past week "has seen a line crossed".

It said “Prince Harry is worried about Ms Markle’s safety and is deeply disappointed that he has not been able to protect her.

Obama taunts Trump after aides reportedly take his Twitter account

President Obama mocked Donald Trump on Sunday after a new report indicated that the Republican nominee’s aides had barred him from firing off his own Twitter posts.

“I can’t confirm it’s true. But apparently his campaign has taken away his Twitter. In the last two days, they had so little confidence in his self-control, they said, ‘We’re just going to take away his Twitter,’” Obama said while campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Kissimmee, Fla.

Obama continued: “Now, if somebody can’t handle a Twitter account, they can’t handle the nuclear codes. If somebody starts tweeting at 3 in the morning because ‘SNL’ made fun of you, then you can’t handle the nuclear codes.”

Earlier in the day, the New York Times reported that Trump’s campaign staff had “wrested away” his freewheeling Twitter account, which the celebrity businessman frequently uses to release caustic barbs against his political foes.

Election Day: An acrimonious race reaches its end point

The most divisive and unpredictable presidential race in modern memory reached its end Tuesday with long lines at East Coast polling sites, suggesting voters could push turnout to new levels in some places even as many decried the campaign’s harsh and bitter tones.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton delivered starkly different messages as they made their last public appeals.

In Michigan, the GOP nominee blasted his opponent as embodying Washington’s corrupt culture. In North Carolina, Clinton said the election would be “where we prove, conclusively, that yes: love trumps hate.”

Final tragic selfie of two stunt actors minutes before they were filmed falling to their deaths in movie scene

This is the moment a stunt actor with his bare-chested colleague posed for a selfiebefore the pair died after plunging from a helicopter into a lake while shooting a movie scene.

Uday Raghava, 28, and Anil, 31, were shooting the climax of the Kannada movie Maastigudi when the stunt went awry.

The two actors jumped off the chopper into Tippagondanahalli lake in Karnataka, Indian, from a height of more than 60 feet.

Lead actor Duniya Vijay, who also jumped after them, was rescued by a fisherman while trying to swim towards the shore.

While Vijay was wearing a life jacket inside a camouflaged jacket, Anil and Uday were just wearing pants.

All the three had rehearsed the scene before the shoot.

Britain? The obnoxious wealthy heirs and heiresses who love to flash their cash on Rich Kids app that costs £890 a month to 'flush out the fakes from real milionaires' and has now been banned by Apple

You've heard of the Rich Kids of Instagram: those spoiled twenty somethings who love nothing more than flaunting their wealth online.

Then there is the Rich Kids app, an exclusive club where some of the 25,000 members pay £890 a month to post their self-obsessed pictures, in a bid to weed out fake heirs.

It’s just been banned by Apple for violating its terms — to its narcissistic stars’ frustration.

So just who are these obnoxious rich kids? Sarah Rainey holds her nose and takes a look.

 

Property tycoon who's rarely in the office 

Emir Bahadir lases on an inflatable animal in a pool

Turkish-born Emir Bahadir’s name translates literally to ‘Prince’ — and the 25-year-old certainly lives like one. Whether lounging in a pool in St Tropez (inset) or grinning on board his mahogany-panelled private jet (main picture), his 319,000 followers are regularly treated to glimpses of his gilded existence.

Emir, who attended the £60,000-a-year American School in Switzerland, and studied business at New York University before moving to London, is heir to a generations-old Turkish property empire and owns a £2.8 million apartment in Manhattan. He is also co-founder of a property brokerage whose offerings include a £77 million premises on New York’s Fifth Avenue.

A visit to his Instagram site, however, shows Emir is rarely in the office. He’s more likely to be found in a helicopter over Cannes, attending a gala in Miami or relaxing on a yacht surrounded by a gaggle of bikini-clad beauties.

12 year old boy prosecuted for raping sister after getting addicted to hardcore porn

 A young boy aged 12 years has pleaded to 6 counts of rape in court after getting hooked to porn and raping his younger sister.

He has been ordered by the judge to seek help after he told his sister if she didn’t have sex with him “she wouldn’t be his sister anymore”. According to the court in Cheltenham, the boy had searched items on the internet like 'incest' and even told them that the act was consensual.


 He was sentenced to 12 months referral order and ordered not to have contact with anyone younger than 16 – his sister - inclusive while his internet use will also be monitored.

His solicitor Gareth James, told the court that the offence was “experimentation of a sort, albeit completely inappropriate.”

The incident happened in 2014 and the boy who's now 14, will be monitored by police until he's 19.

The court has banned the media from publishing the boy's names or sharing his photos.

Source: Metro UK

'I'm with her. She's with us': Democratic all-stars come out for massive Hillary Clinton rally on eve of election

An all-star roster came out for one of the last campaign rallies in support of Hillary Clinton on the eve of Election Day.

Bruce Springsteen, opened the Monday night event, singing to a crowd of at least 20,000 supporters in Philadelphia.

The legendary musician riffed on the Democratic nominee's candidacy in between songs. 

"Let's all do our part so we can look back on 2016 and say we stood with Hillary Clinton on the right side of history," Springsteen said to raucous cheers from the crowd.

After Springsteen's performance, the crowd alternated between chants of "I'm with her. She's with us."

Chelsea Clinton and Bill Clinton took the stage after, with the former president noting the symbolic venue.

"This country began here," Clinton said, declaring that on Election Day, Americans will have another chance "to form a more perfect union."

NATO puts 300,000 troops on 'high alert' in readiness for a confrontation with Russia as fears grow Putin is preparing to attack the West

Nato chiefs, thrown into a panic by fears that Russian President Vladimir Putin might attack the West, are scrambling to put together a force of 300,000 troops which they can put on 'high alert'.

Relations between Russia and the West have plunged in the last year, with Moscow's insistence on backing its Syrian ally, President Bashar al-Assad, at all costs leading to serious tension with the US, Britain and France. 

Most Nato members cut their defence spending dramatically since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 but Russia has been bolstering its military capabilities, holding parades involving more than 100,000 troops each year. 

Nato soldiers stand on a pontoon bridge constructed across the Vistula river in Poland during the NATO Anaconda-16 exercise earlier this year

Moscow has been throwing its weight around in recent years - in 2008 Russian troops humiliated the Georgians and in turn the White House by invading South Ossetia and Abkhazia in support of pro-Moscow rebels. 

Then in 2014 Russia annexed Crimea and supported ethnic Russian rebels in the eastern Ukraine. 

President Obama's 'Russian reset' policy, which was designed to improve relations with Moscow, has looked increasingly like a policy of appeasement.

Russia's President Putin (left, with outgoing President Obama, during a recent meeting in China) has massively increased Russian military spending and anti-Western rhetoric

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Early voting statistics update: Battlegrounds tight with 30 million ballots cast

Democrats are building an early voting lead in North Carolina and Nevada, but Republicans maintain an edge in Florida and Ohio, according to a CNN analysis.

With five days to go, registered Republicans also lead Democrats in early voting in Arizona, while Democrats are also ahead in Colorado and Iowa.

More than 30 million votes have been cast already across 38 states with early voting. And with five days to go, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are encouraging their supporters to hit the polls early. So far, about 7.4 million registered Democrats and about 6.4 million Republicans have done just that.

CNN has partnered with Catalist, a data company that works with progressive candidates and groups, to receive detailed early vote return information this year. Catalist's voter list connects returned ballots with demographic and registration information, such as party registration, gender and age, and allows a closer look at who has already cast a vote.

These are not results -- ballots aren't counted until Election Day. But the findings provide clues on who is voting and which party is turning out to vote. And in states that track party affiliation, it's important to remember that not all Democrats are voting for Clinton, and not all Republicans support Trump.

Here's a look at the early voting data from several battleground states:

END SICKLE CELL IN OUR GENERATION Campaign #Nov 19th @4SIGHTPRODUCTIONS

Why don’t we speak enough about Sickle Cell? Research shows that Nigeria has the largest cases of Sickle Cell in the world making up to 8% of infant mortality rates in the country. To put it plainly many children to do not live to see their 10th birthday, the genetic disorder occurs when persons containing sickle cell trait pass on their genes to their children leaving them susceptible to Anemia, delayed growth, frequent infections and strokes. Asides that there is a huge stigma attached to the disorder and we want to push back against that with the help of NGO Nirvana Initiative who specialise in educating people about Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) at our event- ‘End Sickle Cell in our Generation’.

Nirvana Initiative provides a safe haven for sickle cell individuals so they do not have to feel alone knowing they have a community there to pray with them, laugh and support them in all their endeavors. Nirvana Initiative will be providing free genotype testing for 200 people on the day 50 of which will be free. They will also provide free drugs for warriors (a term used to describe those living with sickle cell) finally there would be free counselling for those who feel it may be required. 

FUNMILAYO RANSOME-KUTI: THE LIONESS OF LISABI, NIGERIA`S FOREMOST SUFFRAGIST, WOMEN`S RIGHT ACTIVIST AND THE MOTHER OF FELA ANIKULAPO-KUTI

“Alake, for a long time you have used your penis as a mark of authority that you are our husband. Today we shall reverse the order and use our vagina to play the role of husband.” Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and her AWU members song that saw the Oba Ademola II, Alake of Egbaland abdicating over arbitrary taxation.

Funmilayo Ransome Kuti , the celebrated women`s right activist, Suffragist and the mother of the King of Afrobeat, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

Funmilayo Ransome Kuti (25 October 1900 Abeokuta, Nigeria - 13 April 1978 Lagos, Nigeria) popularly known as FRK was a celebrated women`s right activist of her time. This hard core lady, prolific woman nationalist and representative of the feminist cause in her country and internationally started her powerful fight for suffrage and equal rights for her countrywomen long before the second wave of the women's movement in the United States. She was also a teacher, political campaigner, and traditional aristocrat. She served with distinction as one of the most prominent leaders of her generation. Mrs Ransome-Kuti was the first woman in Nigeria to drive car.

 As a result of her unique political activism, Ransome-Kuti has been described as "the doyen of female rights in Nigeria."  Others regard her as "The Mother of Africa."  She was described in 1947, by the West African Pilot as the "Lioness of Lisabi" for her leadership of the women of the Egba clan that she belonged to on a campaign against their arbitrary taxation. That struggle led to the abdication of the Egba high king Oba Ademola II in 1949. It must be emphasized here that Kuti`s heritage can be traced back to her great grandmother Sarah Taiwo, also known as the ‘Lioness of Lisabi’, a title stemming from her escape from slavery and an assertiveness with which she influenced her community in Abeokuta in western Nigeria.
Given this background it was perhaps a natural evolution that Kuti herself would develop into an activist whose life circled around the struggle for suffrage and equal rights for women.

Kuti was the mother of the world`s celebrated musician, King of Afrobeats and political activists Fela Anikulapo Kuti,  Beko Ransome-Kuti, a renowned medical practitioner, and Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, a doctor and a former health minister of Nigeria. She was also grandmother to ace musicians Seun Kuti and Femi Kuti.

Oritsefemi drops new album, 'Corporate Miscreant'

Oritsefemi popularly known as the ‘Musical Taliban’ just dropped a 21-track album titled ‘Corporate Miscreant’. Oritsefemi is known for his remake of Fela Kuti’s ‘Double Wahala’ song.

His rendition of the song earned him two nominations at the 2014 City People Entertainment Awards, winning the award for Most Popular Song of the Year. He also won the Indigenous Artist of the Year award at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards.

In 2014, he released the remix for his version of the song featuring D'banj. His popular single, ‘Mr Gomina’ featuring Reekado Banks is one of the tracks on the new album. Corporate Miscreant has different upbeat sounds, and features artistes like Kosere, White Man, Shokah, Citiboi, Reekado Banks, Flekta Man and HHS.

According to him, this is the best album he has released so far after the success of his last album ‘Money Stops Nonsense’ which was popular for hits like ‘Igbeyawo’. Corporate Miscreant is available for download on itunes and MTN Music Plus. You can also grab a copy from music vendors.

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Kenyans youths allegedly now sleep in coffin for rituals (photo)

According to the Facebook user, Youths in Kenya now visit a place in Westland Nairobi where they sleep in coffins as part of a ritual to make money. The post has been shared over 900 times. See the full picture below..

Why I Dumped MMMG For Mavin - Iyanya

Latest addition to Mavin Records, Iyanya Onoyom Mbuk has revealed the reason he decided to join Don Jazzy’s crew despite numerous offers.

The 30-year-old entertainer on Monday announced he was joining the Mavin family and also released a new single “Up to Something’’ featuring Don Jazzy and Dr. Sid.

In an exclusive interview with Premium Times, the ‘Kukere’ singer revealed why he joined Mavin records and link up with Don Jazzy, one of Nigeria’s foremost music producers.

According to him, he chose Don Jazzy because he needed to work with someone who can help him fulfil his music ambition.

“We needed the Iyanya brand to work with somebody who understands the music industry and can help me fulfill that dream. Making sure that I get my music right is the most important thing.

Barack Obama Tells The Scariest Halloween Story Ever (And Yes, It’s About Donald Trump)

President Barack Obama seriously spooked Samantha Bee with a scary Halloween tale.

On Monday’s episode of “Full Frontal,” Bee asked POTUS to recount a “story about what happens if people don’t vote.”

Obama’s response? Let’s just say it involved GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump inside the White House.

Absolutely terrifying, right?

Bee made history with the show as she became the first female late-night host to interview a U.S. president.

City attorney sues Millennium developer — says buyers duped

City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued the developer of the sinking Millennium condominium tower Thursday, alleging the builder violated the law by failing to disclose the building’s settlement issues despite knowing of the problem more than a year before the units came to market.

Herrera’s lawsuit, a cross-complaint of a previous lawsuit filed by building homeowners against the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, which is building the new Transbay Transit Center next door, alleges developer Millennium Partners knew by 2008 — a year before it started selling condominiums — that the building had sunk almost six inches, well in excess of projections.

Millennium Partners had a legal obligation to tell prospective buyers about the sinking, Herrera said. In not doing so, the developer gained an unfair advantage over other developers it was competing against for sales. The lack of information also put buyers at an unfair disadvantage as they weighed the pros and cons of investing in the tower. Essentially, Millennium Tower buyers were sold a lemon, Herrera said.