Man convicted of 3 murders as teen kills himself in prison

A man who broke into a classmate's home in 2007 and stabbed the teenager and his parents to death has killed himself in prison, authorities said Monday.

Cumberland County Deputy Coroner Jeff Miller said Alec Kreider, 25, was found hanging in his cell Friday at the state prison in Camp Hill. The Department of Corrections said staff members tried to revive Kreider after a guard found him unconscious in his cell. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Kreider was 16 when Kevin Haines and his parents, Thomas and Lisa Haines, were killed in May 2007. The couple's daughter, a college student, was awakened by the attacks and escaped unharmed.

Femi Kuti visits IDP camps in Maiduguri (photos)

Femi Kuti on Monday paid a visit to IDP camps in Borno, Maiduguri. According to the award winning singer, he visited the camps to create awareness and see the good works going on for himself.

'Saturday Night Live' writer suspended over tweet that mocked Donald Trump's 10-year old son

A writer for "Saturday Night Live" has been suspended for a tweet that ridiculed Barron Trump, the youngest son of President Donald Trump. 

The writer, Katie Rich, during Trump's inauguration on Friday, sent out a tweet that mocked Barron Trump, who is 10 years old. The tweet was widely criticized by many on social media.

The backlash went as far as an online petition that called for NBC to fire Rich. That petition has so far accumulated more than 85,000 signatures on Change.org.


Rich deleted the tweet as well as her Twitter account, which she then reactivated on Monday in order to post an apology.

"I sincerely apologize for the insensitive tweet, I deeply regret my actions & offensive words. It was inexcusable & I'm so sorry."

Discarded protest signs from the Women’s March in NYC

Discarded protest signs from the Women’s March in NYC

A shrine of discarded signs from the Women’s March in New York City on Jan. 21, 2017. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Following the march in New York City, protesters left behind thousands of signs around Fifth Avenue near Trump Tower. Many signs left near a construction site were taken home by admirers as souvenirs. One group of placards was made into an art installation on East 57th Street, while many of these great signs were discarded near receptacles along Fifth Avenue waiting for sanitation.

91-yr-old Pensioner dies after jumping in front of a falling tree branch to save his 49-yr-old Thai wife

A Heroic 91-year-old Italian pensioner, Giacomo Smedile, was killed by a falling tree branch after he jumped in front of it to save his Thai wife. Smedile who was enjoying his retirement in Thailand, was walking along the sea front with his 49-year-old Thai wife on Sunday evening when a 10ft long branch snapped from a tree in Pattaya. He reportedly pushed her out the way but the branch struck him on the head.

The very exclusive cars Rolls-Royce built last year: Carmaker reveals seven unique models its bespoke design team created for the super rich

Rolls-Royce built and delivered a total of 4,011 vehicles last year. Yet, no two cars leaving its British factory at Goodwood are ever exactly alike and many cost owners up to seven-digit sums once they've had it customised to their exacting taste.

But despite every model being unique, there are still some cars that stand out for being tailored to extraordinary levels.

To celebrate the lengths the 113-year-old British marque will go to for its biggest bank-balanced buyers, Rolls-Royce has revealed seven of the most distinctive one-off cars created by its in-house bespoke design team last year. 

Unfortunately, prices have been kept quiet by the brand and its customers. Don't be in any doubt that they cost anything other than lottery-winning figures, though.

I’ve tested over 100 headphones in the past year, and I keep coming back to this $26 pair

Last month I sang the praises of the Sony MDR-1A, a $300 pair of full-size headphones that’s stood out from the many pairs I’vetested for being smooth-sounding, good-looking, and so very, very comfortable. They’re not the best, but they’re the ones I’d be most likely to buy.

That said, they’re $300 full-size headphones. Anything along those lines isn’t going to be all that portable. Sometimes, it’s good to have a pair of “beaters” on hand — cheap, secondary headphones you can stuff in a bag, toss on quickly, and wear on the go, without having to worry about busting your Very Nice Thing.

I’ve followed this setup for the past few months, and of the many inexpensive, beater-level pairs I’ve had lying around, the Xiaomi Mi In-Ear Headphones Pro have emerged as a personal favorite. Like the MDR-1A, they have a few clear flaws, but they still feel and sound better than I’d expect from a $26 earphone.  

The Pentagon rubbishes Russian claims of joint air mission over Syria as 'propaganda'

The US Military has rubbished claims Russian fighter jets have flown their first combat mission in Syria alongside American-led coalition forces. 

US Marine Major Adrian JT Rankine-Galloway completely dismissed the claims from the Kremlin on Monday afternoon.

'The Department of Defense is not coordinating airstrikes with the Russian military in Syria,' a statement read.

'DoD maintains a channel of communication with the Russian military focused solely on ensuring the safety of aircrews and de-confliction of Coalition and Russian operations in Syria.'

The Russian defense ministry has said its warplanes have flown their first combat mission in Syria with US-led coalition aircraft. Pictured are two Russian Tu-22M3 bombers on Monday

US Air Force Col. John Dorrian, a coalition spokesman, spoke out almost immediately against the Russian claim - dubbing it propaganda. 

White House spokesman Sean Spicer would not comment on the specific reports, however he suggested Donald Trump would be willing to work with Russia.

Twitter apologizes after @POTUS error forces 560,000 to follow Trump

On Friday, Twitter planned a massive undertaking: The transition of the @POTUS account from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, and the migration of those @POTUS followers from one account to another. Each of these accounts—@POTUS, @FLOTUS, @VP, etc.—had millions of followers. With an account transition of that scale, naturally, there were some bugs.

Roughly 560,000 people were not happy to discover that instead of following @POTUS44, the archival account of Obama's presidential tweets, they were still following @POTUS, now manned by Donald Trump. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologized for the error, which no doubt was very stressful for some. 

Ghanaian woman and her three children perish in fire outbreak in Finland

A Ghanaian woman, Nana Ago Prah, and her three children ages 3, 7 and 8 were killed in a house fire which occurred at their home in Helsinki, Finland on Dec 9th. The victims were believed to have died from suffocation resulting from a fire which started from the sauna in their sixth-floor apartment.

A neighbour who noticed the fire early in the morning before 3 a.m. called the police and they arrived the scene eleven minutes later and quickly extinguished the fire.

Sadly, resuscitation attempts to save the lives of Nana and her children failed. The husband of Nana and father of her children, John Owusu, a board member of the Ghana Union Finland, was at work at the time of the incident hence was able to escape death.

Nana and her children will be buried on the 4th of February 2017 in Helsinki Finland.

A new full-disk view of Earth is live that's 4 times more detailed than any before it

Below is one of the most detailed full-disk photos of Earth ever taken — and the US government is now downloading a fresh version of it every 15 minutes.

The unprecedented view, taken on January 15 at 1:07 p.m. ET, is four times more detailed than any full-disk view of the planet before it.

The image comes courtesy of a recently launched National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather satellite, called GOES-16 (and formerly GOES-R) — short for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — the newest of a fleet of Earth-monitoring satellites.

Louis Uccellini, the director of NOAA's National Weather Service, said in a press release that the view is "much more than a pretty picture"; rather, "it is the future of weather observations and forecasting."

GOES-16 launched on November 19, 2016, and orbits from about 22,300 miles (35,900 kilometers) above Earth — a position called geostationary orbit. (By comparison, the International Space Station orbits Earth from about 220 miles [350 kilometers] above.)

This orbit allows the satellite to stay above the same spot and monitor changes in the atmosphere, ground, and ocean over time, according to NOAA.

By the end of the year, GOES-16 will finish being tested and replace either GOES-15 (also called GOES WEST) or GOES-13 (GOES EAST) — weather satellites that launched in 2006 and 2010, respectively.

“I will be having series of prayer sessions for your soul” – Nollywood Actor Uche Maduagwu to Beverly Osu after Video Surfaces of her Kissing a Girl

Nollywood actor Uche Maduagwu took to his Instagram to condemn Ex-Big Brother housemate Beverly Osu for sharing pictures and videos of herself kissing her fellow ex-housemate Mariah Nepembe on social media.

He said:

“Shame! Shame!! Shame!!! The kind of “pikins” born now a days are a complete mistake. They are generations of wastefulness. I understand that some of our celebrities were molested at tender ages, I feel so sad about that because I am against child molestation. In fact, I believe anyone who molests a child should be locked up in a maximum prison for at least 200 Years with hard labor. But let us face the fact, just because your Uncle sexually molested you when you were a little child doesn’t mean you should turn yourself into something else. I understand the trauma and pains, the agony of being abused. I understand the physical, psychological and emotional pains that a young girl goes through, but becoming a lesbian in broad daylight is not something a good woman should indulge in. I know most of our female celebs struggle with lesbianism, it’s like a secret habit many of them have been trying to come out of but can’t. We are Africans, let us behave like one and not behave like imbeciles, the funny thing is that even the lower animals don’t practice this devilish act, a female dog will always mate with a male dog, same goes for Pigs, goats just to mention but a few… But it’s crazy that grown up female adults stoop so low as to sleeping and mating with each other. Please if you have no shame, remember you have so many kids looking up to you as their role models. Practice your lesbianism indoors, and stop advertising your foolishness in public. Anyways, I will be having series of prayer sessions for your soul, because you are a beautiful woman with so much potentials, but if you allow the devil to steal away your grace, you will be miserable for a very long time. #repost #repostapp #reposting#nollywood #regrann #fun #lol#LagosNigeria #model #instagram#fashion #love #nigeria #instapics”

Man sentenced to death for stealing motorcycle, phone, money

A High Court in Abeokuta on Monday sentenced Kola Akanji to death by hanging for armed robbery.

Mr. Akanji, whose address was not given, was found guilty of a two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery.

In his judgment, Abiodun Akinyemi, said the court was convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the accused committed the offence.

“According to Section 1(2) (a&b) and 6(b) of the Act, the punishment is death and the court has no discretion in the matter.

“Having found that the accused person is guilty as charged in both counts, I have no choice but impose on him the capital sentence as prescribed by the Law.



“You shall be hung by your neck until you are dead,” he said.

He held that the evidence presented by the prosecution was tenable and, therefore, sentenced the accused to death by hanging

The convict, had been standing trial since Dec 2010, when he was arrested and charged for robbing one Fashola Moses of his motorcycle, phone and money.



The accused was said to have inflicted grievous harm on Moses with a bottle during the robbery, which took place in Onigbedu area in Yewa North local government, Ogun State.

The prosecutor, O.S. Ogunbode, had during the trial told the court that the convict committed the offence on December 16, 2010 at about 7:00 p.m. at Onigbedu.

According to Mrs. Ogunbode, the convict and two others had boarded the motorcycle of their victim at Ijaka Isale in Yewa North and told him they were going to Ishaga Olowu.



“On their way, the accused switched off the ignition of the motorcycle. When the complainant came down to check what the problem was, the accused hit him on his head with a bottle and he fell down.

“Immediately, the convict and two others took the motorcycle phone, money and rode away. Unfortunately for them, they had an accident on their way, they abandoned the motorcycle and fled into the bush.

“The complainant recovered and pursued them with the help of another cyclist. They found his motorcycle at the scene of the accident.

“They went to the nearest village where the accident occurred and narrated what happened to the villagers.

“The villagers followed them to search the bush and caught the accused, while his accomplice escaped,” she said.

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Unexplained photo appears to show nuclear-capable missile that fell off a truck and got run over, experts say

Sandia National Laboratories

"Sometimes, stuff happens..." is the title of a photo in a slideshow on "challenging design projects" from Sandia National Laboratories. The image appears to show a nuclear-capable air-launched cruise missile that's been dropped off a trailer and run over by a truck, two experts told Business Insider, raising concerns about the possibility of an accident involving a nuclear weapon.

Let's take a close look at the picture:

Cameroon Judge Arrested In Crackdown

A member of the Cameroon judiciary has been arrested in what is seen as part of a major crackdown against dissent.

Lord Justice Ayah Paul Abine was picked up late Saturday from his home in Yaoundé city.

The former presidential candidate is also the Deputy Attorney General of the country’s Supreme Court and an opposition leader.

Abine, who is also chairman of the Popular Action Party (PAP) had earlier been summoned to appear before an investigator at the Secretariat of State for Defence (SED) on Friday.

He ignored the invitation arguing that the legal procedure to summon a sitting magistrate wasn’t followed.

“Six armed men from SED forcefully arrested him from his residence. They had no arrest warrant and when Ayah Paul Abine stated what the law says, he was told he had no choice than to comply,” a family source said.