Nepal votes in first local election in 20 years

Voting began Sunday in Nepal’s first local elections for two decades, a landmark moment in the country’s fraught transition to democracy.

Polls opened in three provinces at 7:00 am (0115 GMT), with nearly 50,000 candidates vying for the position of mayor, deputy mayor, ward chairman and ward member in 283 local municipalities.

With nearly 70 percent of the population aged under 35, many are electing their local representatives for the first time.The local representatives were last elected in 1997 and their five-year terms expired at the height of the brutal Maoist insurgency.

The ten-year war ended in 2006 and the country began a rocky transition from a Hindu monarchy to a secular federal republic, which has seen it cycle through nine governments.

Man who threatened to kill Barack Obama, his family sentenced to five years in prison

A man from Oregon, US, who threatened to kill former President, Barack Obama and his family over social media has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. federal prison.

U.S. District Court Judge, Michael McShane sentenced 62-year-old John Roos of Medford to 63 months in prison.

He also got a three-year post-prison supervision upon his release.

A U.S. Department of Justice news release said that Roos pleaded guilty to charges related to the threats and other charges for possession of an unregistered explosive device.

Roos explained in court that he threatened to kill Obama and the former first family on Twitter.

The Justice Department also said Roos has also posted on Facebook threats to kill FBI agents with hunting rifles.

However, Roos has said the threats were not serious.

Emmanuel Macron inaugurated as president with Paris under tight security

Emmanuel Macron has become France’s youngest ever president, officially taking over from François Hollande.

Macron, a 39-year-old centrist, arrived at the Élysée Palace in central Paris on Sunday in a motorcade and walked down the red carpet under light rain to be greeted by Hollande for his inauguration. The new president’s wife, Brigitte, arrived separately.

A week after his victory over far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a tumultuous election, Macron had a private meeting with Hollande at which he was given the codes to launch France’s nuclear weapons.

Hollande left the Élysée to applause from palace employees and the president of the constitutional council, Laurent Fabius, proclaimed the official result of the vote, formally inaugurating Macron.

Macron formally took power after his predecessor, Socialist Francois Hollande, met with him for one hour and left.

Greece train hits house after derailing, killing two

At least two people have been killed and others seriously injured after a passenger train derailed in northern Greece, officials say.

The train, travelling from Athens, struck a house when it left the track near the city of Thessaloniki.

A resident at the property said he managed to jump from a balcony just before the train made impact.

Pictures from the town of Adendro showed smashed carriages. It is unclear what caused the train to derail.

The train was carrying 70 passengers, most of whom were safely evacuated within three hours of the accident on Saturday night, according to reports.

'I was never afraid to be a provocative woman': Missy Elliott rocks Marc Jacobs track suit as she reveals inspiration for iconic outfits

'I was never afraid to be a provocative woman': Missy Elliott rocks Marc Jacobs track suit as she reveals inspiration for iconic outfits

When asked about her iconic plastic-bag suit for the music video The Rain, Elliott reported: 'To me, the outfit was a way to mask my shyness behind all the chaos of the look.'

'The outfit was a symbol of power. I loved the idea of feeling like a hip-hop Michelin woman,' she continued.

'I knew I could have on a blow-up suit and still have people talking.'

'It was bold and different. I’ve always seen myself as an innovator and a creative unlike any other.'

On keeping her brand in check, the Grammy-winner reported: 'One thing I won’t do is compromise. I will never do something based on what everybody else is telling me to do.'

'And have to kick myself in the ass every night. Nah. I have to make sure that it’s right.' she added.

Anthony Joshua receives surprise early morning visit from drug testers

Only 12 days after Anthony Joshua defeated Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley to retain his IBF title and claim the vacant WBA and IBO belts, he received a surprise visit from drug testers very early on Thursday morning.
The 27-year-old champion shared the video to his Instagram stories before 8 a.m. this morning. In the video, a man can be seen reading through a list of questions which Joshua was expected to supply answers to.

Tyga's girlfriend goes completely nude

24-year-old Jordan Ozuna was linked to Tyga weeks back after they were spotted having lunch together. She was also linked to Justin Bieber between 2013 and 2014.

After Jordan posted photos of herself from a bed believed to be Justin's, a woman spoke up to reveal that Jordan was still legally married to her son, Daniel Ozuna.

Well, her marriage to Daniel is officially over now and she can do as she likes, including sharing nude photos. The former Vega Hooters waitress shared a photo of herself completely naked on a bed in some sort of resort and it has garnered so many likes and comments on Instagram.

White House says Comey committed ‘atrocities’ as FBI director

A White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday that President Trump fired James Comey after receiving a letter that outlined “atrocities” committed by the FBI director.

White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that “one of the big catalysts” for Trump was Comey’s decision to hold a press conference last summer announcing the bureau’s conclusions in its probe into Hillary Clinton’s emails without telling then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch what he was going to say.

“He had essentially taken a stick of dynamite and thrown it into the Department of Justice by going around the chain of command,” Huckabee Sanders said. “That is simply not allowed.”

During testimony to Congress last week, Comey said that Lynch’s controversial tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton last June led him to believe that the Justice Department could not by itself “credibly” conclude its investigation.

“That was a hard call for me to make, to call the attorney general that morning and say, ‘I’m about to do a press conference and I’m not going to tell you what I’m going to say,'” Comey testified. “I knew this would be disastrous for me personally, but I thought this is the best way to protect these institutions that we care so much about.”

Putin says Russia had ‘nothing to do’ with Trump’s firing of Comey

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Moscow had “nothing to do” with President Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey amid the bureau’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

In an impromptu interview with a CBS News reporter in a tunnel adjacent to a hockey rink, Putin said the move would not affect U.S.-Russia relations.

“There will be no effect,” Putin, dressed in his hockey gear and holding a stick, said through a translator. “Your question looks very funny for me. Don’t be angry with me. We have nothing to do with that.”

Paris's Gare du Nord train station reopens after security alert

Police poured into Paris' Gare du Nord station late Monday, evacuating passengers from platforms and sealing off the area for several hours in a new security scare to hit the French capital.

Paris police spokeswoman Johanna Primevert told The Associated Press that the operation was aimed at "removing doubt" and ended with no arrests, but she would not say what prompted it. A station employee said the operation focused on a train from Valenciennes in northern France.

The busy station is the terminus of a large suburban and national rail network as well as Eurostar trains from London.

Rare £1.2million Ferrari driver faces court over horror crash that killed 13-year-old boy

A Ferrari driver will appear in court next month over the death of a 13-year-old boy killed in a horror crash.

Alexander Worth was declared dead at the scene after the £1.2 million supercar ploughed through a fence in North Warnborough, Hampshire, on August 26 last year.

Matt Cobden, 38, has been reported for summons for causing death by careless driving and is due to attend Basingstoke Magistrates' Court on June 6, the Daily Echo reports.

Cobden, who owns a bespoke luxury car storage facility, was rushed to North Hampshire Hospital in a serious condition after the crash.

Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star hit with a toilet

US president, Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood walk of Fame has been vandalized a couple of times and the vandals don't seem to be backing down anytime soon .

The star got hit again but this time around, with a toilet which had the word '' Take A Trump'' inscribed on it.


The golden toilet which was placed right next to Trump's star over the weekend, was filled something wet and filthy.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ  no one has reported the vandalism, and they're not yet investigating the toilet prank. The site also reached out to Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which oversees the stars' maintenance but so far no response from them.

The FBI is scrambling to correct some of James Comey's testimony on Hillary Clinton's emails

FBI director James Comey generated national headlines last week with his dramatic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, explaining his “incredibly painful” decision to go public about the Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop.

Perhaps Comey’s most surprising revelation was that Huma Abedin — Weiner’s wife and a top Clinton deputy — had made “a regular practice” of forwarding “hundreds and thousands” of Clinton messages to her husband, “some of which contain classified information.” Comey testified that Abedin had done this so that the disgraced former congressman could print them out for her boss. (Weiner’s laptop was seized after he came under criminal investigation for sex crimes, following a media report about his online relationship with a teenager.)

The New York Post plastered its story on the front page with a photo of an underwear-clad Weiner and the headline: “HARD COPY: Huma sent Weiner classified Hillary emails to print out.” The Daily News went with a similar front-page screamer: “HUMA ERROR: Sent classified emails to sext maniac Weiner.”


The problem: Much of what Comey said about this was inaccurate. Now the FBI is trying to figure out what to do about it.

Suffer from headaches or migraines for no apparent reason? This could be why

From stripey sofas to brutalist buildings, patterns of parallel lines found everywhere could be bringing misery to millions of headache sufferers, according to scientists.

While the link between flashing lights and certain forms of epilepsy is well known, some static patterns made up of bars and lines are now suspected of causing negative effects even in the brains of healthy people.

Researchers at the University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht in the Netherlands say that a rise in a type of brain activity seen when such images are viewed indicates a possible cause of headaches.

Around one in five women and one in 15 men suffer from migraines in the United Kingdom, costing the economy an estimated 25 million working days per year.

Woman jailed seven years for stabbing husband to death over Baba Ijebu

The convict, Onyinyechi, was said to have stabbed her 35-year-old husband, Abuchi Akunne, with a kitchen knife during an argument on March 28, 2015 at their residence located at No. 85, Idimu Road, Ejigbo, Lagos.

For pleading guilty to stabbing her husband to death with a kitchen knife over Premier Lotto tickets, popularly called Baba Ijebu, Justice Josephine Oyefeso of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a 29-year-old housewife, Onyinyechi Akunne, to seven years imprisonment.

The convict, Onyinyechi, was said to have stabbed her 35-year-old husband, Abuchi Akunne, with a kitchen knife during an argument on March 28, 2015 at their residence located at No. 85, Idimu Road, Ejigbo, Lagos.

She was initially charged for murder but was commuted to a charge of grievous bodily harm and pleaded guilty to it.While delivering judgment, Justice Oyefeso rejected a clause in the plea bargain agreement where it was proposed that the housewife should serve a sentence of community service instead of a prison term.