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.

Read more : 6 Advantages of Owning a Motorcycle

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.

White House goes to war with the press over dubious claims about crowd

President Donald Trump's top officials stood defiant for a second day in the face of withering media criticism over dubious White House claims about the size of Trump's inauguration.

During a visit to CIA headquarters in Virginia on Saturday, Trump asserted that there were over a million people at Friday's inauguration, though independent estimates put the crowd at closer to 250,000 attendees.

There are no official government estimates of the crowd size, but photographic evidence comparing Trump's inauguration to past inaugurations and metro ridership statistics suggested that the number was far lower than the White House claimed.

But Trump officials refused to admit Trump made factual inaccuracies or exaggerations, instead taking aim at the media.

Samsung announces what caused the Galaxy Note 7 to overheat and explode

Samsung says bad battery design and a rush to release an updated version of the Galaxy Note 7 caused some of the devices to overheat and explode in a new report the company released Sunday night.

Samsung said in the report that two separate battery malfunctions caused some Note 7 phones to overheat and even catch fire in some cases.

The first problem affected the first batch of Note 7 phones that launched last fall. In those phones, the battery was too large for the casing of the phone, which caused some to overheat, according to Samsung's report.

After Samsung recalled the initial batch of Note 7 phones, it manufactured the phone with a battery from a different supplier. But Samsung was in a rush to get the new phones out, and the new battery produced by the supplier had a defect that also caused it to overheat, the report said.

In the end, Samsung ended up recalling all Note 7 phones and canceled the product altogether.

I know what it’s like to be told by your teacher that you’ll never amount to anything - T.I Writes new Open letter

Rapper T.I. recently issued an open letter to former President Obama and a second letter to Donald Trump.
Now he has released his third letter, and this time the letter has been issued to US. Each of the letters were inspired by his latest musical projects, “US or Else,” and “Us or Else: Letter to the System.”
Read after the cut....

MLB star, Yordano Ventura dies in car accident at 25

25 years old Royals pitcher and Major League Player, Yordano Ventura has died. According to Cristian Moreno of ESPN, he died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic early this morning Jan. 22nd. His team, The Royals have since confirmed Ventura’s death, according to MLB.com’s Jeffrey Flanagan.

Ventura made his debut for the Royals in 2013 and was immediately known for his fastball. Sadly, he is the second major league player who has died over the past five months. Former Marlins ace Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident on September 25, 2016.

14 people killed as severe weather strikes Georgia

Catherine Howden, the spokeswoman for Georgia Emergency Management Agency confirms that 14 people were killed in a severe weather that struck southern Georgia in the overnight hours of Saturday into Sunday. She said the agency was working to assess the damage but she also confirms that at least two of the deaths occured in Brooks County.

Trump discusses Iran threats, White House visit with Israel's Netanyahu

US President Donald Trump Sunday discussed threats from Iran with Benjamin Netanyahu, inviting the Israeli prime minister to visit the White House early next month.

The two leaders spoke by telephone and "agreed to continue to closely consult on a range of regional issues, including addressing the threats posed by Iran," the White House said in a statement, signalling the new administration's tougher line on Tehran.

The statement also said that Trump invited Netanyahu "to an early February meeting at the White House."

Israel approved hundreds of new settler homes in east Jerusalem Sunday hours before the telephone call, which an Israeli statement described as "very warm".

But a potentially explosive plan to annex a large West Bank Jewish settlement unilaterally was shelved until after Netanyahu and Trump meet.

Ex-President Yahya Jammeh leaves The Gambia after losing election

Gambia's former President Yahya Jammeh has left the country in the wake of elections that ousted him after 22 years in power.

He boarded a plane to Guinea and from there will travel on to exile in Equatorial Guinea, regional group Ecowas says.

Mr Jammeh was defeated in December's election by Adama Barrow but went on to challenge the results.

Mr Barrow has been in Senegal but says he will return to The Gambia soon.

In an interview with the BBC, Mr Barrow said he wanted to create a truth and reconciliation committee to investigate allegations of human rights abuses during Mr Jammeh's time in office.

Marcel de Souza, president of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), said the military operation that had sent West African troops into The Gambia in support of Mr Barrow, was now ended, although some would remain to ensure security.

Students killed and scores injured in northern Italy bus crash

Italian police say 16 people died and some 40 injured when a bus carrying Hungarian school students returning home from France crashed into the side of a highway near Verona.

Police commander Geralomo Lacquanita said the bus crashed and burst into flames just before midnight.No other vehicles were involved in the crash and it was not clear why the bus went off the road.

The bus was returning to Budapest carrying students aged between 15 and 17 years. Police say 16 were severe burns were pulled from the wreckage.

In Budapest, the foreign ministry said there were 54 passengers, including adults accompanying the students, and two drivers aboard, but they believe the actual number was higher. 

Suicide bombers blow themselves up in Saudi Arabia

A security officer stands guard in front of the logo of the Saudi-led Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition [Faisal Al Nasser/Reuters]

Two suicide bombers have blown themselves up in a confrontation with security forces in Saudi Arabia's second city of Jeddah, local media reported.

Sabq, a news website affiliated with the kingdom's Interior Ministry, reported on Saturday that security officers surrounded a house in Jeddah and exchanged fire with two men, who then detonated explosives that images showed completely destroyed the home.

Anti-Trump protesters set to flood Washington

Hundreds of thousands of protesters spearheaded by women’s rights groups are set to converge on Washington Saturday to send a defiant message to America’s new president, Donald Trump.

The flag-waving crowds who turned out to cheer Trump’s inauguration will make way for a coalition of protesters who fear an erosion of women’s rights under the new Republican administration.

Powered by social media, the “Women’s March on Washington” aims to draw 200,000 people, illustrating the divisions of a country whose incoming leader faces levels of public mistrust unseen in recent decades.

Trump’s inaugural speech on Friday set the tone for his presidency: proudly populist, fiercely nationalist and determined to break with the legacy of his Democratic predecessor.

His first act in office — signing an executive order aimed at freezing Barack Obama’s signature health care law, before it is eventually repealed — was a potent gesture in that direction, with more such actions expected to follow on Monday.