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17797b934fb98cdf4c6addf3a4cc2f2c332d8dd1 | Kogelo, Kenya (CNN) -- Four years ago this village was the center of "Obama mania." The celebration of 2008 "was exceptional, it is something not any of us would have imagined to have happened because we were at the brink of history being made," said village resident Malik Obama, half-brother of the president. In 2008,... | The village of Kogelo was the birthplace of President Obama's father .
In 2008 the village celebrated "Obama mania"
Barack Obama's win put Kogelo on the map .
Now, with a close election looming, many are nervous . |
1779a4775dd2cbcbe850207b0c90e0afc54887b8 | Washington (CNN) -- In the past few weeks, we've seen a British soldier hacked to death with a meat cleaver on the streets of London and bombers blowing up spectators at the Boston Marathon. On the surface, terrorism is alive and well. So how should the United States react to these continuing threats? For the first tim... | Terrorism has been in the news with Boston bombing and killing of UK soldier in the street .
Peter Bergen says despite recent acts, the enemy behind 9/11 has been defeated .
He says President Obama signaled he wants Bush's endless war on terror to end .
Bergen: Key part of Obama speech was idea that America's perpetual... |
1779c9867eb78c1a226e35669052388396f3cb78 | By . John Preston . WOUNDED TIGER: A HISTORY OF CRICKET IN PAKISTAN by Peter Oborne (Simon & Schuster £25) One of the many strange things about Pakistani cricket is that the aggression, the competitiveness and the bloody-mindedness the team displays on the pitch are nothing compared with what goes on in the dressing ro... | Peter Oborne re-visits the match-fixing case involving Mohammad Amir .
Pakistani cricketers historically played for teams sponsored by the armed forces, police, or government departments .
The Taliban turn out to be keen cricketers, although Al-Qaeda are less keen . |
1779cbf280cc99e91e73cb16fd2e5f9adc080975 | By . Neil Ashton . Follow @@neilashton_ . When Tim Sherwood met Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy last week, he gave him three specific transfer targets. West Ham defender Winston Reid, Manchester City midfielder Gareth Barry and Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku were the men he wanted at White Hart Lane next season. Sherwood... | Jurgen Klinsmann is favoured by the Spurs board to be the next manager because he hasn't agitated for the job .
The German was offered post after Andre Villas-Boas was sacked .
Louis van Gaal has been waiting for the Manchester United job .
Carlo Ancelotti is an option if he is fired by Real Madrid .
Frank De Boer is a... |
177a88e6430bb84446c65f6f154537c6935b84e1 | BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A German woman held hostage in Iraq since February has been freed, but her son was still being held, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Wednesday. An image taken from a video issued in April shows Hannelore Marianne Krause and her son Sinan. The woman, Hannelore Marianne Krause,... | German foreign minister says woman was released after 155 days .
Germany will continue efforts to free her adult son, who remains in captivity .
In video, militants had demanded that German troops leave Afghanistan . |
177b4713f0e979b024253d076067ed6dde5f4077 | Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been struggling to avoid one very hot topic at Brisbane's G20 summit but it seems it was inevitable. With Sunday's temperature scorching to over 40, climate change has been a very topical conversation among world leaders, who have probed the Aussie PM in a number of 'difficult ... | G20 nations confirmed they have strongly backed action on climate change .
The world leaders have turned up the heat on Tony Abbott to make sure there is 'real action' on the controversial issue .
The G20 will work together to adopt a protocol under the UNFCCC to present at the Paris climate conference in 2015 .
Leader... |
177b482660131dc8c382f833c16f44450ec0c371 | By . Marcus Townend . PUBLISHED: . 08:52 EST, 25 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:53 EST, 26 April 2013 . Disgraced trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni was banned for eight years for instigating the biggest drug scandal in British horseracing. The 15 horses given anabolic steroids in his Godolphin stable in Newmarket have been ba... | Mahmood Al Zarooni banned for eight years by BHA .
Godolphin racing manager Simon Crisford describes it as 'a terrible day for British racing'
Al Zarooni arrived for hearing at 2.30pm to a scrum of photographers .
11 Al Zarooni-trained horses tested positive for anabolic steroids .
BHA suspend those 11 horses, plus the... |
177bcaf92e52f53bba43d5c628b677f6e52dffa7 | (CNN) -- As many as 200,000 people -- most of them mainland China-based Taiwanese - are expected to return to Taiwan this weekend for an election viewed as critical to the future of an economy that has boomed thanks to warmer ties with Beijing. Taiwan does not allow absentee voting and the growing political clout of Ta... | Taiwan heads to the polls on Saturday to vote in presidential elections .
Since ties with Beijing have warmed, thousands of Taiwanese businesses are based in China .
Returning 'Taishing' could decide one of the closest polls on record .
Tycoons have been chartering planes to fly employees back to vote in the election . |
177be0122cef95c8166a3c807f78ea3a15ab18e9 | An American adventurer and environmental activist has spoken of how he managed to stay clean - despite not showering for an entire year. Rob Greenfield, 27, has spent the last year bathing only in natural water resources such as rivers, lakes, waterfalls and in the rain. When natural water was not available, he would g... | Rob Greenfield spent the last year bathing only in natural water resources .
Initially planned to go shower-free for 100 days while cycling across US .
But once the cycling trip was over he decided to extend the time period .
Said he wanted to make people 'pay attention to their surroundings' |
177df013afcd428e6a1561940e1643a63684527f | By . Nina Golgowski, Kerry Mcqueeney and Damien Gayle . PUBLISHED: . 18:00 EST, 23 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 12:43 EST, 24 September 2012 . A woman who was allegedly raped by a high-risk sex offender in a popular New York City park has revealed how she pleaded with her attacker to let her go. In a harrowing inter... | Woman 'looked deep into her attacker's eyes' and asked him to think about his mother or sister, to which he allegedly replied: 'They're dead. Shut up'
She describes how she escaped the 'nightmare' attack after 20 or 30 minutes and ran, naked and screaming, through the park .
Jonathan Stewart, a registered sex offender,... |
177e6eb44935ddf1b986b616e21ace4c1e6aff52 | LONDON, England (CNN) -- An elderly British couple who died together at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland died "peacefully" after receiving "wonderful and humbling care" from their doctors, the couple's family said. Peter and Penelope Duff from Bath, England, died in Zurich on February 27, according to a state... | Peter and Penelope Duff from Bath, England, died in Zurich on February 27 .
Penny had fought a rare cancer, GIST, since 1992 and Peter had colon cancer .
Dignity in Dying charity: "Extremely sad" the Duffs had to travel abroad to die .
They called on UK to modernize laws on suicide to allow for assisted dying . |
177ed4796c8422eb3c8a420d3ca2c720f50cb615 | (CNN) -- Last Thursday was back-to-school night in many of the communities that dot the peninsula below San Francisco, California. Off-duty firefighters and police officers who went to schools with their children and families soon learned something horrible had happened in a San Bruno residential neighborhood. Speculat... | Residents assisted firefighters and police officers in San Bruno .
Firefighters recall sinking feeling when they realized there was no water .
Some residents grabbed a few belongings before fleeing .
Community came together following tragedy . |
177f41c8fef81420b83511e708c459f9fd14c903 | The New York dad who shot dead his girlfriend, one of their daughters and his girlfriend's mother before taking his own life thought the woman was cheating on him, according to reports. Nightclub bouncer Jonathan Walker, 34, is believed to have shot Shantai Hale, 31, his seven-year-old daughter Kayla Walker, and Hale's... | Kayla Walker, 7, Shantai Hale, 31, and Hale's mother Viola Warren, 62, were found fatally shot in their heads in their Queens home on Saturday morning .
Kayla's 12-year-old sister Christina was also shot in the head in the grisly attack but she survived and called 911 .
Their father, nightclub bouncer Jonathan Walker, ... |
177f8a252d71c367ded976ced12cea63abc9abad | SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) -- The main runway at Brazil's busiest airport reopened Friday, 10 days after a passenger jet skidded off its rain-slicked surface and crashed, killing almost 200 people in the country's worst aviation disaster. At least 12 people also were killed on the ground when the Tam Airlines plane r... | Brazil air travel slowly starting to return to normal, with fewer delays, cancellations .
Main runway reopens at Sao Paulo's Congonhas Airport after last week's crash .
The runway has been at the center of a fierce debate over air safety .
Nearly 200 people were killed July 17 in Brazil's worst aviation disaster . |
177fef387bd75dff6c4a7af8d425b213ea0b05d3 | (CNN) -- Argentina FA president Julio Grondona has spoken about Carlos Tevez's absence from Sergio Batista's squad that faced Portugal on Wednesday, claiming it was a disciplinary measure. Media reports speculated that Tevez was omitted from the side that beat Portugal 2-1 in Switzerland as a favor to his club side Man... | Argentina FA president speaks out about Carlos Tevez's absence to face Portugal .
Julio Grondona says Tevez's omission on Wednesday was a disciplinary measure .
Grondona claims the coaching staff were unhappy Tevez missed friendly with Brazil .
Tevez blamed an injury but played for Manchester City against Fulham four d... |
1780e4f6d445e0b7292b38225ef72c9aea830866 | LONDON, England (CNN) -- Playing the Nintendo Wii Fit could improve balance and help avoid falls in seniors, researchers taking part in a new study suggest. Researchers in Aberdeen think playing Wii Fit may improve the elderly's balance and lower risks of falling. The University of Aberdeen, Scotland and the UK's Natio... | Researchers study whether Wii Fit can can improve older people's balance .
Residents in English nursing home feel the physical and mental benefits of Wii .
Falls are the most common cause of accidental deaths in elderly, says researcher . |
17811a8d831d26f5a07a7de8cb19aa15d9439491 | By . Sarah Griffiths . Plenty of teachers might be scoring an A for effort but a U for their strategy of motivating pupils ahead of important exams. Teachers who use the fear of failure in a bid to get students to knuckle down and revise hard for GCSEs and A Levels may be having a negative effect on their success, acco... | The study, led by Edge Hill University in .
Lancashire, looked at different styles of pre-exam persuasive messages .
used by teachers .
It found teachers who used scare tactics to motivate students ahead of exams had a negative effect on their success .
Students who were encouraged to do well performed better in GCSE e... |
1782e4f3ca3841c80b8509520402303321cc3839 | CLICK HERE to read Martin Samuel's full match report . Brendan Rodgers' decision to field a weakened team for Liverpool's Champions League clash against Real Madrid was not the unmitigated disaster many predicted. The Reds lost by a smaller margin than their 3-0 home defeat to the reigning champions - but Karim Benzema... | Liverpool lost 1-0 to Real Madrid in their Champions League clash .
Karim Benzema scored the match winning goal with a first-half strike .
Brendan Rodgers rested players incl. Steven Gerrard and Raheem Sterling .
Simon Mignolet kept his place in goal but looked far from convincing .
Lazar Markovic was at the heart of t... |
1783bea79d33d7a2235d19bc725f01752e4796db | By . Zoe Szathmary . A car crash on Thursday afternoon in Ohio killed three teenagers and injured two others. The teenagers crashed shortly after 12:30pm when their Mitsubishi went off the road, flipped and hit a tree, Sgt. Russell Pasqualetti told the Newark Advocate. Photos from the scene show the car in two pieces. ... | Cheyenne Spurgeon, 15, Linzie Bell, 15, and Michael Hoskinson, 17, were dead at the scene .
Driver Jaylynn Rigio, 16, and passenger Ashton Cody,16, were both taken to Columbus hospitals .
Three people were ejected from the car during the crash, and none of the teens wore seat belts . |
178553e5464c8537272fa666dcca40dc6e2b2569 | By . Joani Walsh . PUBLISHED: . 17:13 EST, 28 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 03:41 EST, 29 October 2013 . With a supermodel daughter, it is natural to assume that Valerie Campbell would be as looks-obsessed as the modelling industry. Yet when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in her right breast and underwent a maste... | 'I can live without my breast,' says Valerie - and so can many others .
Most breast cancer patients never have a reconstruction .
This may be because it is major surgery, often taking 3 months to recover .
And it's not risk-free: over a third who have it undergo 'revision' surgery . |
1785615b9f41ceb9eaa6522f1b88b9674f265c93 | By . Joshua Gardner . A 91-year-old Pennsylvania woman who was raised an only child and even once considered becoming a nun now has an astonishing 126 direct descendents and could not be happier. Peggy Koller's decision not to join a convent led her to marry and eventually become mother to eleven children. Today, her s... | Peggy Koller's 11 children have a total of 56 of her grandchildren, who've in turn given birth to her 59 great-grandchildren .
Koller considered joining a convent before marrying her husband with whom she started a Philadelphia funeral home in 1942 .
Her family now says the nonegenarian never misses a family event and ... |
17860fbacc275d931e49785836cfd6a721fdc119 | By . Hannah Roberts In Rome . Amanda Knox will never return to Italy to face justice, her grandmother has declared, and nor will any other member of the Knox family. Elisabeth Huff, Knox's maternal grandmother and closest confidante, whom she wrote to often from prison, said that her granddaughter had been 'persecuted'... | Elisabeth Huff told how Knox broke down and wept after learning of retrial .
She is Knox's maternal grandmother and closest confidante .
She said that her granddaughter had been 'persecuted' in Italy .
Knox spent four years in prison for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher .
She and then boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito w... |
17876b0593d6315a66e6b809a996cfea9937428b | Woolly mammoths could roam Earth again, according to one eminent scientist who believes frozen DNA from newly discovered frozen mammoths could be the key to the species' resurrection. Stem cell scientist Sir Ian Wilmut who is best known for cloning the world's first mammal, Dolly the sheep, thinks modern techniques cou... | Sir Ian Wilmut said the best way to create a woolly mammoth .
is to reprogramme good quality cells extracted from frozen mammoths .
But he thinks cloning a mammoth presents many technical challenges and ethical dilemmas .
The Scottish scientist believes the best source of viable cells could come from the bodies of froz... |
1787cfc30c9519d20a59cee865cc5d65a8e2ff0d | (CNN Student News) -- November 12, 2013 . As the Filipino president declares a "state of national calamity," CNN Student News reports on rescue and recovery efforts following a devastating typhoon. We also discuss the Washington Monument's repair status, and we see how the U.S. and other countries paid tribute to their... | This page includes the show Transcript, the Daily Curriculum, and Maps .
Use the Transcript to help students with reading comprehension and vocabulary .
The Daily Curriculum offers the Media Literacy Question of the Day, Key Concepts, Fast Facts and Discussion Questions .
At the bottom of the page, please share your fe... |
17883d25a9e5a7e4aac57588544a88b5f89989bf | By . Amie Keeley . Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler's love letters to his wife are to be revealed for the first time . Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler's love letters to his wife are to be revealed for the first time. Hundreds of the notorious SS commander’s private letters, notes and photographs dating from 1927 to 1945... | Collection includes letters and photographs from between 1927 and 1945 .
Letters give detailed insight into SS commander's relationship with wife .
Holocaust architect committed suicide in custody after Second World War . |
1788a6313151db07062fa10003e40b6ac5eeb663 | By . Ellie Zolfagharifard and Sarah Griffiths . PUBLISHED: . 13:18 EST, 26 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:31 EST, 26 September 2013 . Birds develop different 'accents' in their song depending on where they live, scientists said. A study of 723 male chaffinches in twelve different populations across the European mai... | U.S. scientists studied 723 male chaffinches in twelve different populations across the European mainland, the Azores and the Canaries .
They found the birds' notes became more unpredictable the further they moved, perhaps because island birds face less competition .
Researchers at Duke University found the chaffinches... |
1788be87f6f1749ca3e15fbd58c0219fed78a9ca | A heavily-pregnant teenage girl who has been missing since early last week is believed to be with a 24-year-old man. Lindsey Turner, 15, who disappeared on September 8 from Hialeah, Florida, is thought to be with Hailey Vallier. A statewide missing child alert had been issued but was canceled today.The Florida Departme... | Lindsey Turner, 15, who disappeared on September 8 from Hialeah, Florida, is thought to be with Hailey Vallier, 24 .
A statewide missing child alert had been issued but was canceled today .
Miss Turner is believed to be very close to her due date . |
178b8503097d20b217be4db4396c57e7b52ec050 | Three years of observations show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 gigatonnes (159 billion tonnes) of ice each year - twice as much as when it was last surveyed in 2012. A team of scientists from the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, led by researchers at the University of Leeds, have produced... | Esa's CryoSat-2 mission has provided new data on the Antarctic ice sheet .
It surveyed the region from 2010 to 2013 and found losses had doubled .
In total the ice sheet is losing 159 gigatonnes (159 billion tonnes) each year .
That is twice the rate of ice loss found in the last survey from 2005 to 2010 .
And just thi... |
178c63564492d48513080edfe444097de5537400 | (CNN) -- Terrilynn Monette had no problem uprooting her life to help children. When the California native learned of the "teachNOLA" program, which sends educators to New Orleans to teach in impoverished areas, she packed her bags and headed to Louisiana. "I always wanted to be a teacher, and what better place to teach... | NEW: Workers find additional vehicles, but none is the teacher's missing Honda Accord .
Terrilynn Monette was last seen on March 2 at a bar in New Orleans' Lakeview area .
Monette was out celebrating her "Teacher of the Year" nomination when she vanished .
Principal: Monette turned a low-performing class into one of th... |
178d5eb86a7906eae76cae3808c44301d143b47a | Statins should be given to all over-50s, regardless of their health history, because they dramatically cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes in later life, one of the UK's leading experts has said. Currently statins are given only to high-risk patients, around eight million people, who have high cholesterol or have... | Currently statins only given to around eight million high-risk patients .
But Professor Sir Rory Collins says healthy people can also benefit .
He said evidence from 130,000 patients taking statins shows they're safe . |
178e8f0140388c08989074adce23e954d09c62c7 | By . Damien Gayle . Charged: Oelwein mayor Joseph Manus, who was arrested yesterday by sheriff's deputies after a month-long investigation into alleged sexual abuse . The mayor of a Midwest town is facing a potential 125 years in prison after he was charged with the alleged sexual abuse of two young girls. Sheriff's de... | Joseph Manus charged with five counts of sexual abusing two girls in 2010 .
One alleged victim was 14 years old and the other aged just nine at the time .
He became the mayor of the north-east Iowa city of Oelwein in 2013 .
Now he is in jail on a $125,000 bond . |
17907d8ecb37a54be8e30138c71d4e785518dfa4 | (CNN) -- Three Americans and a Panamanian died when their plane crashed during a mission to monitor drug trafficking in northern Colombia Sunday, U.S. officials said. Two Americans survived the crash near the city of Capurgana, Colombia, and were rescued by Colombian military forces, according to a statement from the U... | Two Americans who survived the crash were rescued by Colombian military forces .
Officials did not identify the Americans or what organization they worked for .
"There is no indication the plane was shot down," the U.S. military said .
The mission was to detect and monitor of drug trafficking routes in Central America ... |
1790a3942bcd6763bf8f7b8b029ea9995cb94a6a | (CNN) -- The family of New York bus monitor Karen Klein -- who has gained sympathy worldwide after a video of seventh-graders brutally taunting her while on the job went viral this week -- is asking for the harassment of the children to stop. "Between all of us, we don't feel that's right by any means," Klein's daughte... | "That's another form of bullying," Karen Klein's daughter says of threats made against kids .
The father of one boy says his son is "depressed" and "in shock"
Karen Klein is weighing whether to return to her job .
Donations have poured in since video of the bullying went viral . |
1790a4e2ac86dfabc8ecf8a751c9ba9cd03af43c | A 10-year-old boy was among at least 13 casualties of a US-led raid late Friday that ended with the death of an American photojournalist held captive by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Special operations commandos sent to rescue Luke Somers, 33, in the village of Dafaar in Yemen became bogged down in a firefight and... | Navy SEALs sent to rescue Luke Somers, 33, were unable to reach him before he was executed by his captors .
South African hostage Pierre Korkie, 56, was also shot and killed a day before his expected release .
During fighting between Navy SEALs and al-Qaeda fighters, a woman and a 10-year-old boy were killed .
An al-Qa... |
1790c332e76389e40a18e47c7b33c88bd5c77fd4 | Contact lens wearers are risking their sight by shunning opticians and buying directly over the internet, eye experts are warning. They might be saving themselves a few pounds, but in ‘cutting corners’ they are also said to be putting themselves at risk of a dangerous eye infection. Foreign websites that sell lenses wi... | People are buying lenses online to avoid having to pay for a prescription .
But in doing so hundreds of people miss out on 'vital' eye checks .
Experts believe this puts people at risk of infections that can damage eyes .
Number of cornea-damaging Acanthamoeba cases has doubled since 2010 .
In a third of cases a part o... |
1790ddbb48f0f558f37c2c318cc39889c6d722a8 | By . Helen Lawson . PUBLISHED: . 07:49 EST, 20 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:21 EST, 20 June 2013 . Injured friends of a student nurse who died in a minibus crash as they all travelled to a hen party joined hundreds of other mourners for her funeral today. Beth Jones, 18, died in the collision between the bus and a lor... | Funeral of Beth Jones, 18, was held today in South Elmsall, West Yorkshire .
Mourners wore pink and carried pink flowers for the church service .
Six hen party friends arrived in wheelchairs while others were on crutches .
Ryan Jones acted as the lead pallbearer for his sister's white coffin . |
17910cca7dcedfe47f75978e5e29f9b10dcaf793 | By . Bianca London . PUBLISHED: . 10:05 EST, 3 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 10:30 EST, 3 February 2014 . She may be better known as the daughter of a rock star with a penchant for parties but Georgia May Jagger shows off a more innocent side in her latest campaign. The 22-year-old has been unveiled as the new face of... | Model, 22, unveiled as face of SS14 campaign .
Is the ultimate boho babe in florals .
Shot by fashion photographer Ellen Von Unwerth .
Last month celebrated 22nd birthday with Cara Delevingne in Las Vegas . |
17917f01580ba1706ccb903a33e8544ade6776c7 | A set of Interactive maps have revealed how the world’s emissions have dramatically changed over the last 160 years. The fascinating tools reveal how developed nations began to produce huge amounts of carbon dioxide after the Industrial Revolution. And they also reveal how China is quickly becoming the world’s biggest ... | The World Resources Institute in Washington DC has mapped the emission of carbon dioxide around the world from 1850 to 2011 .
The West dominated emissions for a century after the industrial revolution .
But now Asia - especially China - has caught up and is usurping other developed nations as the biggest emitter .
In t... |
1792f66ff1d5f4f9f1f5b7d4f5380b5b9e7fd910 | The final few days of April last year were the worst of Sam Bell-Minogue’s life. Her one-year-old daughter, Poppy, was seriously ill in hospital with a mystery condition that gave her seizures and made her scream out in pain. ‘She couldn’t sit up or lift her head,’ says Sam, 30. Scroll down for video . Poppy was diagno... | One-year-old Poppy was seriously ill in hospital with a mystery condition .
‘She couldn’t sit up or lift her head,’ says mother Sam Bell-Minogue .
Poppy tested positive for Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD)
It is so-called because it can cause urine to have a syrupy smell .
Rare genetic condition affects approximately o... |
17942fd881703fdabf26d1ec7d15802634356677 | (CNN) -- From a Chinese pop idol to a champion of ethnic minorities in China, singer Dadawa is a musician like no other. Dadawa, whose real name is Zhu Zheqin, was a student in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou when she won a TV talent competition in the early 1990s. But despite finding herself on the fast-track t... | Dadawa is a globally recognized Chinese singer .
Her music is inspired by ethnic minorities across China .
She is also a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for China, promoting minority culture . |
1794abf3f6a416db2678f93f4d5019bdcdddd3ab | London, England (CNN) -- The arrest of a Nigerian politician who deposited millions of dollars of stolen money in UK accounts has raised questions about the role of British banks in corruption. As governor of the oil-rich Delta state in Nigeria, James Ibori's salary was only $6000 a year, yet he managed to afford luxur... | Former Governor James Ibori embezzled an estimated $250 million from the people of Delta State .
He was caught by an investigative unit funded by the same body that delivers aid to Africa .
Campaigners question the role of British banks in facilitating African corruption . |
1794e60e71a9ced8f447c18feaa96106c6ba762b | By . Harriet Arkell and William Turvill . PUBLISHED: . 12:06 EST, 18 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 20:08 EST, 18 November 2013 . Geoffrey Counsell, 51, was in charge of the fireworks display in Taunton, smog from which caused a fatal crash on the M5, Bristol Crown Court heard . A fireworks display created an ‘impenetr... | Fireworks boss Geoffrey Counsell, 51, was in charge of show at Taunton .
He is accused of failing to ensure the safety of others before the display .
Smog from the rockets drifted over to M5 and dozens of cars collided .
Seven people died and 51 were hurt in one of UK's worst road accidents . |
17965357b6765d4216649fb605ddec94e25d4342 | Socks are a Christmas stocking staple but while the majority of us are happy with plain old wool, for those who can afford it, FALKE have launched a £726 vicuña pair. The socks, which come with their own presentation box, are only available in golden-brown as the vicuña, an illama-like camelid that hails from Peru, pro... | Vicuña is the world's most expensive fabric and is worth its weight in gold .
The socks are being launched in a limited edition run of 10 by FALKE .
The company also offers a run of 20 pullovers, each of which costs £2,015 . |
1797ac5f2c146143d62d45cd811c891d7d912f4e | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 11:23 EST, 18 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:54 EST, 18 October 2013 . A police officer who was served a McDonald’s burger with a raw beef patty at a drive-through in Derry, New Hampshire says it was ‘deliberate’ because he is a cop. Rob Moore ordered the double quarter pounder... | Rob Moore ordered a double quarter pounder with cheese from a drive-through in Derry, New Hampshire .
The police officer took four bites of the burger before realising the meat was raw .
He says the restaurant staff did it on purpose because he is a cop .
Moore said he was sick after the incident and vomited all night ... |
1797fdb5af014a2834a7312d397763dad6e49e25 | The world's fastest woman has been revealed as a British mother-of-two who smashed the land speed record by going 264mph on a motorbike her husband built. IT analyst Becci Ellis set the record on her modified Suzuki bike, smashing the existing fastest land speed by 20mph. Mrs Ellis, from Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire, bou... | Becci Ellis, 46, set the record on by going 264mph on her modified bike .
She smashed the previous fastest speed by 20mph at an airfield in Yorkshire .
The mother set the record on a second hand bike modified by her husband .
Now she has pledged to keep trying to get quicker and hang on to the record . |
179801a65e81d75702335293efcdd7b2430e2f81 | A Texas hunting club that auctioned off a permit to kill an endangered black rhinoceros says it will cancel the winner's hunt if a federal agency denies his request to bring the dead rhino back to the U.S. as a trophy. Corey Knowlton paid $350,000 at a January auction held by the Dallas Safari Club for a permit to hunt... | The Dallas Safari Club says it will cancel, the winner, Corey Knowlton's hunt if a federal agency denies his request to bring the dead rhino back to the U.S. as a trophy .
The agency says they have to thoroughly scrutinize Knowlton's request due to the rise in poaching .
Knowlton: 'I'm a hunter. I want to experience a ... |
17983cce12b8db6752739dfb3d869b071fa4ace8 | A grandmother with an aggressive brain tumor has died after waiting more than two months for insurance coverage because of mixups with Nevada's health care exchange. The family of Linda Rolain, 64, who passed away on Monday, had joined two lawsuits against the State of Nevada and the company that built its troubled onl... | Linda Rolain passed away at her Las Vegas home on Monday .
Her family had joined two lawsuits against the State of Nevada and the company that set up its troubled online software, Xerox .
She had tried to enroll in the state's health exchange in November and after numerous issues, finally paid in January for coverage t... |
1798628f9659b19e36b5eba5ccd6b245a8727c29 | Samsung's Galaxy S6 is expected to appear in a radical Edge version with curved screens when it is unveiled on Sunday, while the standard version looks like an iPhone 6. Leaks have shown the final design of Samsung's handset following months of speculation. Both phones will be revealed at a special event in Barcelona b... | Set to come in standard and edge varieties when revealed on Sunday .
Galaxy S6 Edge will have curved screens on both sides .
Both handsets are expected to be unveiled in Barcelona in March .
Expected to include wireless charging and mobile payment system . |
17989a681564935dfe7feb2df359acedc77cce71 | A high school coach in suburban Atlanta is accused of biting another coach's face. South Cobb High School girls basketball coach Melonie Joyce Martin was standing about two inches from Coach Tyrone Harris when authorities say she bit him in the eye and nose, according to an arrest warrant. Martin has denied the allegat... | Authorities say South Cobb High School girls basketball coach Melonie Joyce Martin was standing about two inches from Coach Tyrone Harris when authorities say she bit him .
Martin's attorney tells reporters she's denied the allegations .
Martin also is accused of throwing a chair and telling Harris she would stomp him ... |
1798cbceece4bb5a10dcd676fd0fefe4eb8f803e | Washington (CNN) -- A verbal flash-fire erupted on the House floor Thursday night over nine-year battle to pass a benefits bill for emergency workers who were first on the scene of the 9/11 attacks. Frustrated with Republican votes against the $7.4 billion measure because Democrats suspended the rules to prevent them f... | Democrats suspend rules for vote, requiring 2/3 majority .
Bill falls nearly 40 votes short .
Weiner blasts Republicans for voting "no" because they couldn't add amendments .
King blasts Democrats for being "petrified" of immigration vote . |
17995078ca522daccd5a022650347397430fbeb8 | By . Laura Cox . PUBLISHED: . 19:23 EST, 4 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:27 EST, 4 December 2013 . Mary Berry has revealed that she and her husband give each other IOUs for Christmas. The TV cook said they hand each other promises instead of presents on December 25th – and then buy gifts later when they have more t... | Great British Bake Off star says it gives them time to buy each other gifts they really want .
Berry said she will cook for 12 members of her family on the 25th .
Whereas co-star Paul Hollywood said he will be at hotel 'in the snow' |
17996d57848a2d5b0c895e8088af805b60e3d728 | FBI agents have begun questioning members of the mosque where one of the suspected Boston bombers attended services. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shoot-out with police on Friday, was still going to prayer services at a Cambridge, Massachusetts, mosque just weeks before the bombing. Mosque spokesman Yusuf Vali... | Spokesman says they contacted authorities as soon as they heard Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a suspect .
The elder of the two alleged bombers had previously caused disturbances there and had been threatened with a ban . |
179a5088024cf25931e8eb1743a86e8b6925ae03 | (CNN) -- With fish as witnesses, the president of Maldives and his Cabinet wore scuba gear and used hand signals Saturday at an underwater meeting to highlight the threat climate change poses to the archipelago nation. The Maldives declaration will be presented at a U.N. summit on climate change in December. The meetin... | President, Cabinet don scuba gear to sign carbon emissions declaration .
"We are all going to die," leader says, if climate change isn't checked .
Most of archipelago lies less than 5 feet above sea level .
Experts expect water levels to rise more than 7 inches by end of century . |
179a8227b567daa34fce4b872e6715fd3fd362e2 | Future: Footballer Ched Evans, pictured with girlfriend Natasha Massey, is set to be offered a £5,000-a-week deal with former club Sheffield United . Rapist footballer Ched Evans is set to be offered a two-year contract by his former club worth more than £500,000, it has been claimed. Evans, an international striker fo... | Ched Evans set to be offered £5,000-a-week contract with Sheffield United .
Could see him return to training at the Yorkshire club as early as next week .
But Evans, who maintains his innocence, would need to publicly apologise .
The club's manager and co-owner visited Evans in prison in April .
Fans caught chanting so... |
179a872b74e449fe7694ae30c1ad51e86764a329 | (CNN) -- England and Sri Lanka drew their third and final Test at the Rose Bowl on Monday, a result that saw hosts England take a 1-0 series victory. A century from Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara, the 25th of his career, ensured the tourists escaped defeat in a match that saw 155 overs lost due to bad weather in i... | England and Sri Lanka draw their third and final Test at the Rose Bowl .
Captain Kumar Sangakkara scores a century as Sri Lanka batted out to avoid defeat .
England won the three-Test series 1-0 courtesy of first Test victory in Cardiff . |
179bd10081d3c8945142dc41ccbfff889d73c46c | A U.S. Air Force pilot was killed when the F-16 Fighting Falcon he was flying crashed in an noncombat incident in Jordan, officials said. The crash happened at about 11 p.m. ET Sunday, U.S. Central Command said in a statement Monday. The jet was returning to its base shortly after takeoff, the statement said. It did no... | A U.S. Air Force pilot was killed in the crash .
The pilot's name has not been released .
The jet suffered a maintenance problem, the Pentagon says . |
179c404de6f800152ffcbb8f5634d9c9338e2350 | (Health.com) -- For Marika Holmgren, fighting breast cancer was an uphill battle -- literally. She got back on her mountain bike shortly after her diagnosis in February 2007, smack-dab in the middle of chemotherapy. "The treatment is so intense -- it strips everything away. You're physically and completely changed," sa... | Marika Holmgren got back on her mountain bike shortly after her cancer diagnosis in 2007 .
Many studies have shown the benefits of staying active during and after cancer treatment .
Exercising has more intangible benefits as well, in terms of mental health . |
179ca6e8fad92396556b68d2a3b0373ce6115b9e | A shocking video has emerged showing horses that had been so neglected their hooves had grown into painful 'slippers'. The footage was captured by animal welfare staff after they rescued the two horses from a farm in Somerset. It shows the animals being led around a yard - with their coats matted, tails unkempt and hoo... | Footage shows neglected horses which are overweight with matted fur .
Their hooves are so overgrown they have curled into painful 'slippers'
Horses were rescued by animal welfare staff from a farm in Somerset .
They are now back to full health and their owner has been prosecuted . |
179cfb516aecc6d8ff4558df92f68910a9f59e31 | (CNN) -- International diplomats are meeting Thursday in Gabon for talks aimed at resolving a brewing crisis in the Central African Republic, where rebels are threatening the capital. The discussions in the Gabonese capital, Libreville, come a day after the United Nations called on the C.A.R. government and rebels to e... | Diplomats from central Africa, the United States and Japan are meeting for talks .
They are seeking a resolution to simmering unrest in the Central African Republic .
Rebels, angry with the government, have staged attacks in the past month .
The government has appealed for international help to stave off rebel advances... |
179debf31b65eda2b470b6714d001f28e1ec8b70 | Miami (CNN) -- "No queremos ir pa' Cuba!" We don't want to go to Cuba. Those words were repeatedly sung by a young man in his mid-20s, who had just risked his life to escape the communist island. Instead, he found himself, along with nine other Cuban men, lying on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Margaret Norvel... | Florida Straits are 90-mile-long stretch of open water between the Florida Keys, Cuba .
It's where many use makeshift rafts and boats in an attempt to reach America .
This year, Coast Guard has seen the highest number of migrants in five years . |
179dfd1faf0638c88f096033e05256f58f87ea9b | Benefit claimants are being asked only . to make ‘some of the same choices working families have to make every . day’, George Osborne insisted yesterday. Accusing his critics of talking . ‘ill-informed rubbish’, the Chancellor said most voters understood the . need to change a welfare system that Labour allowed to spir... | Osborne says his reforms are backing 'people who want to get on in life'
He said 'vested interests always complain' about welfare shake ups .
14million households will be better off, the Chancellor announces .
Defends cutting the 50p top rate of tax for highest earners . |
179e2c015bfc21616413e70868b2e4d7128ecdd2 | A skin-care specialist to the Hollywood stars has been acquitted of charges she plotted to murder a rival beautician she wrongly blamed for stalking her. Dawn Melody DaLuise, 56, was cleared in Los Angeles County Superior Court after about an hour of deliberations by jurors in the bizarre case that included allegations... | Jurors reached the verdict on Thursday in Los Angeles in the case against former model Dawn DaLuise .
Prosecutors alleged DaLuise, 56, became so obsessed with a competitor that she tried hiring a hit man to kill him .
Defense lawyers said DaLuise was venting when she told friends she hated Gabriel Suarez and had found ... |
179ea3e150ffef6b72cf0cdeaacb25f1ee6d9772 | (CNN) -- She hit the big time in the 1980's with Eurythmics and found huge success as a solo artist with her 1992 album "Diva", but for singer Annie Lennox, being able to express her passion has always been the motivating factor in whatever she's done. Annie Lennox will continue to SING with her AIDS awareness charity.... | Sold over 80 million records in career that has spanned four decades .
Found success first with Eurythmics, British band founded with Dave Stewart .
Lennox set up SING charity to combat HIV and AIDS in Africa . |
179f38e72b959f1def69c05b487bd51ff5287f95 | Blogger championed Lady Gaga at the start of her career but they had a bitter falling out . Claims she got drunk during an interview and became upset with his questions . Blames fame for 'poisoning' her and says she was just using him . By . Paul Chavez . Perez Hilton re-ignited his feud with Lady Gaga on Tuesday durin... | Blogger championed Lady Gaga at the start of her career but they had a bitter falling out .
Claims she got drunk during an interview and became upset with his questions .
Blames fame for 'poisoning' her and says she was just using him . |
179f63f3e4cfb12a55949d8152b2a4d69547b0c5 | When guests are splashing out more than $43,000 (£27,000) for a week's holiday, it seems only right hotels reward them with some amazing perks. A night at the $5,947 (£3,697) Ritz-Carlton Suite in New Orleans, for instance, comes with its very own hangover concierge who will provide water, snacks and massages for tired... | Get a rub down from the Sunshine Butler at the Club Hotel & Spa in Jersey .
Guests at Four Seasons Beverly Hills have fleet of supercars to choose from .
NASA designed pillows, celebrity calls and free Fender guitars on offer . |
17a017e49802648bb8ee1a76865769cc207710fd | By . Martin Jay In Beirut And Jack Doyle . Firebrand: Omar Bakri has been arrested in Lebanon after authorities in the country cracked down on radical Salafist preachers . The radical Islamist cleric Omar Bakri who is said to have once described the July 7 bombers as the Fantastic Four was arrested in Lebanon yesterday... | Omar Bakri, 'the Tottenham Ayatollah', was leader of Al-Muhajiroun .
He was refused re-entry to the UK after visiting Lebanon nine years ago .
Last month he went on the run in the country after a raid on his house . |
17a0204215e20c503a88433daa7af14f6bf77239 | Pensioners could be hit by a tax raid to fund Ed Miliband’s plans to cut university fees . Pensioners could be hit by a tax raid to fund Ed Miliband’s plans to cut university fees, it emerged last night. The Labour leader is expected to announce details of the party’s policy to lower tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000 ... | Pensioners could be hit by a tax raid to fund Ed Miliband’s tuition fee plans .
Labour leader is set to announce plan to lower fees from £9,000 to £6,000 .
But he is yet to agree with Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls on how £2billion scheme could be funded . |
17a038b25943156305662e6993799ad724535a29 | (CNN) -- "Flowers of War" has a multitude of advantages over its rivals in the Oscar race for best foreign language film. Most obviously, it stars Christian Bale, who plays an American pretending to be a priest in order to survive the brutal 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking, China. Moreover, Bale's character, and seve... | Christian Bale plays a pseudo American priest in his new movie "Flowers of War"
The movie is nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign film category .
Bale engaged in a scuffle while filming and he is now at odds with the Chinese government .
China has never won a trophy and now has less chances of winning an Oscar th... |
17a03e72d33d508993260febd82565b8f6dda861 | If Scotland's match with Germany wasn't entertaining enough, it seems another encounter on the pitch had everybody gripped on Sunday night. During the Scots' Euro 2016 qualifier against the world champions Scotland's James Morrison and Germany's Christoph Kramer went head-to-head in a battle of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'... | James Morrison and Christoph Kramer were spotted playing 'rock, paper, scissors' during Germany v Scotland .
Unknown exactly why pair decided to go head-to-head as Marco Reus received treatment on the field .
Scotland lost 2-1 to the world champions in Euro 2016 qualifier . |
17a1a5e84066ac70f2819cb51e33fbe850eae9db | Washington (CNN) -- The United States has lifted its ban on U.S. carriers flying to and from Tel Aviv, Israel. The Federal Aviation Administration's move came Wednesday night, a day and a half after it imposed the prohibition over security concerns amid renewed Mideast violence. Airlines moved quickly to restore servic... | NEW: A U.S. official tells CNN the ban could be reinstated .
NEW: Official also says Israel shared new information about defense capabilities .
Israel had been lobbying Washington to reverse FAA decision . |
17a253033b4fbf963fc1faf0c51b9f80bf6a2b8b | By . Lizzie Edmonds . PUBLISHED: . 13:58 EST, 1 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 06:25 EST, 2 March 2014 . Britain's first ever 'cat cafe' where customers can enjoy a cup of coffee in the company of several felines officially opened its doors this morning. The grand opening of Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium in Bethnal Green, eas... | Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium opened its doors in east London today .
Customers can enjoy a selection of food and drink in company of 11 cats .
Cat Cafes are something of a craze in Asia, with over 100 opened in Tokyo .
Eatery owned by Lauren Pears - who raised money for business online . |
17a298dd08b5c131eb8182fadc6b48bc4fde2b52 | By . Mary Mcconnell . UPDATED: . 06:11 EST, 28 December 2011 . Barack Obama has topped a list of Americans' most admired men, even though his presidential approval ratings stand at just 47 per cent. When asked which man they most admired, 17 per of Americans named the US president, while Hillary Clinton, the US Secreta... | Hillary Clinton named most admired woman for record 16th time .
Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has dropped from second to fourth . |
17a2a7716f241170aa2f155efa0ae754c69148b0 | A Texas mother was arrested after she was caught on video pulling a gun on a teenage girl who was fighting her daughter in a public park. Two female students from Pasadena High School in Houston confronted each other Tuesday afternoon, when one of the girls' mothers, Virianda Alvarez, showed up armed with a handgun. Ac... | Virianda Alvarez, 33, charged with aggravated assault for allegedly pulling a gun on her teen daughter's rival in a fight .
Cellphone video shows Alvarez brandishing a black handgun in a crowd of spectators .
A photo taken during fight shows Alvarez holding gun to the head of her daughter's opponent .
The mother told a... |
17a399e0b03e94fa69a8e942d3336f235a65b0e8 | By . Ray Massey . PUBLISHED: . 19:06 EST, 27 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 20:10 EST, 27 November 2013 . The number of ‘morning-after’ motorists caught over the drink-drive limit the day after a night out on the tiles is increasing. Arrests between 6am and 8am for drink-driving following a heavy night rose by nearly... | Rise in 'morning-after' drink drivers according to new study .
Many do not realise they could still be over legal limit the next day .
Christmas and New Year a peak time for drink driving offences .
It takes one hour for the body to break down one unit of alcohol . |
17a4009315be7ee27e28f52fbf6629ff5ec4f2bc | It is easy to sing hosannas for Max Verstappen, the boy who will make his Formula One debut for Toro Rosso next year at 17 years of age, becoming the youngest driver in the sport’s history. He is a talented driver by all accounts and appeared precociously assured before the assembled media in the paddock in Spa this we... | Max Verstappen, 16, will make his Formula One debut for Toro Rosso next season and become the youngest driver in history at 17 years of age .
Young Dutchman looked composed in front of the media this week and has been welcomed into the sport by the other drivers .
Jenson Button admitted he was not ready for F1 until th... |
17a47d6db655aac453bcf1059e9c675ad86fd825 | A group of schoolboys were caught by police after they were pictured surfing on the back of a bus while wearing rollerskates. The five youngsters, all aged between 12 and 15, were stopped by officers after a shocked bystander took a picture of them hanging on to the back of the bus as it drove up a hill in Dudley, West... | The group, aged between 12 and 15, were spotted in Dudley, West Midlands .
They were made to clean up the local bus depot by police who caught them .
The schoolboys will also have to clean up a fleet of National Express buses . |
17a5158a8783cc4f7a44134719f0385eb9f4fd4f | Google has made a bold statement against discrimination on its home page. The search giant's rainbow Olympic-themed logo, posted to mark the first day of the Sochi Winter Games, sends a powerful message of support for not only gay athletes competing in the games, but for the gay community at large and its supporters. T... | Google doodle supports LGBT community with rainbow flag and Olympic Charter quote .
Putin's government criticized for its anti-gay stance .
UN Secretary General also shows support for LGBT community in IOC speech . |
17a571ce28d407eb671edd0db7fbcfc939c9c802 | (CNN) -- CNN wants to hear from viewers in both English and Russian for its weeklong focus on modern Russia. CNN Moscow Correspondent at Star City, the Russian cosmonaut training facility. Reflecting on Dmitry Medvedev's first year as president, and looking ahead to President Obama's first trip to the Kremlin in July, ... | CNN launches week-long series of special programming on modern Russia .
Moscow Correspondent Matthew Chance rides train from Arctic to Black Sea .
Series also features hockey star Alexander Ovechkin, conductor Valery Gergiev .
Tell CNN what you think about Russia's role in the international community . |
17a57a18301d83d281245f337d4cecf5b5e30927 | Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) -- Somalia's parliament voted by an overwhelming majority to approve Abdi Farah Shirdon as the country's new prime minister Wednesday. Shirdon, who was the president's nominee, received 215 out of 275 votes. His appointment comes as the nation works to set up an effective central government fol... | Abdi Farah Shirdon receives 215 out of 275 votes from parliament .
His appointment follows that of a new president last month .
Somalia is setting up an effective central government following decades of civil war .
Shirdon says his government will do more to ensure security and to combat terrorism . |
17a593e1dfa5fe0a6dc3b240cbd32d969d3345bb | It seems a roaring fire wasn't the only thing keeping Bronze and Iron Age Scandinavians warm through cold winter nights. From northwest Denmark, from 1500 to 1300 BC, to the Swedish island of Gotland as late as the first century AD, Nordic people were drinking an alcoholic ‘grog’. Chemical traces of the ingredients of ... | Nordic grog predates Vikings and was found buried in tombs of warriors .
Other grog ingredients included honey, lingonberry, juniper and cereals .
There was also evidence of grape wine imported from Greece and Rome .
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Delaware has recreated the drink using wheat, berries, honey and herbs . |
17a5ca7828f830f77e037a67ef76144d11351496 | (CNN) -- By definition, a model is an archetype, an example to emulate. Within those standards, Shaun Ross is a model of imperfection. The 22-year-old was born with albinism, a congenital disorder that results in the production of little to no pigment in the skin, hair and eyes. The condition affects an estimated 1 in ... | Shaun Ross challenges the standards of beauty at New York Fashion Week .
Ross was born with albinism: "I was always the outcast, but a confident outcast"
Media outlets say quirky is in when it comes to models .
Some argue there's still not enough diversity on the runway . |
17a5e6d0f7ebd6d69f5fbd3daa08db0416ec5351 | By . Tara Brady . An ambulance crew took nearly half an hour to get to a woman in cardiac arrest after their satnav system tried to send them the wrong way. Jodie Fields, 20, from Leigh-on-Sea, in Essex, died at her home on May 20, 2012, from sudden adult death syndrome. The university student, who was training to be a... | Jodie Fields, 20, from Essex, died at her home on May 20, 2012 .
Student visited four different doctors three months before her death .
She had complained of leg pain, a racing heart and breathing problems .
Ambulance crew travelled from Basildon which was about 10 miles away . |
17a5e90ce67929871fef2d83b9cb4bf2b06fb588 | By . John Drayton . Pre-season . training is all about building up strength for the gruelling campaign . ahead, and Arsenal have wasted no time in getting ship-shape. Gunners . stars including Jack Wilshere, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Santi . Cazorla were all pumping the iron in strenous excercises at the Gunners' Lon... | Arsenal players take part in pre-season training ahead of USA tour .
Jack Wilshere, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Santi Cazorla work out with weights during Wednesday's session .
Arsenal fly to America to play a friendly against the New York Red Bulls . |
17a775484ea64367543571e6b05238f9be08b2a7 | By . Peter Allen . Witness: British cyclist Brett Martin has told police he passed a motorbike driving away from the scene a few minutes before he arrived at the layby . A mystery motorcyclist seen around the Alpine beauty spot where four people were blasted to death is now the prime suspect for the murders, it emerged... | Biker seen driving away from the scene minutes before bodies were found .
Neither the motorcycle or rider have been traced by the French police .
The mystery rider was wearing a full-face helmet and black clothing . |
17a8221ed724c9beb369dfbb0035f83c48e0efd7 | Arrested: Medics at Franklin Medical Centre in Winnsboro, Louisiana, called police when Lasasha Allen brought her toddler to them with severe injuries . A mother has been charged with the attempted murder of her own child for allegedly throwing the 20-month-old out of a moving car as sped down a rural road at 45mph. Me... | Doctors called police when Lasasha Allen, 23, brought the badly hurt child in .
She allegedly staged accident after telling father it had already happened .
Police have charged her with attempted murder and taken her six children . |
17a87d5d3258bb6ec9586f06563a5f363522a808 | By . Oliver Todd . Follow @@oliver_todd . Jose Mourinho spent long periods of last season bemoaning his lack of a 'real striker' - but this pre season he is putting in the hours to get exactly what he wants. At Chelsea's Waldarena training base in Austria, the Chelsea boss has been spending a lot of time with his new £... | Blues boss was frequently seen having a word with new striker .
Costa is expected to lead the line for Chelsea in their title push .
£32million forward will fight it out with Fernando Torres for starting spot .
Petr Cech is back working with the first team in daytime session .
Cesc Fabregas and Filipe Luis pose for pho... |
17a8f106f7bfd8bfe868dcc145f9fa64f06badc9 | By . Kieran Corcoran . PUBLISHED: . 11:45 EST, 13 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:47 EST, 13 September 2013 . Karen Welsh, pictured, was strangled in her home by paranoid schizophrenic John Constantine . A damning investigation into the killing of a nurse by a paranoid schizophrenic has revealed a series of blunders... | John Constantine, 33, strangled Karen Welsh at home in Cardiff in 2010 .
Constantine, a paranoid schizophrenic, had been released from a mental hospital .
Report into the death of Mrs Welsh, a nurse, shows it was preventable .
Says Constantine was misdiagnosed by doctors .
He should also have been arrested for breaking... |
17a98b317564b18e2d317e40c1b0d7490985a6f7 | South Africa captain Jean de Villiers faces a race to be fit for next year's World Cup. De Villiers was carried off during the Springboks' 12-6 defeat against Wales in Cardiff on Saturday after twisting his left knee and suffering a dislocated knee cap. Scans shortly after the match revealed significant ligament damage... | Jean de Villiers dislocated his left knee cap against Wales .
Springboks captain saw an orthopaedic surgeon in Cape Town on Monday .
The 33-year-old could miss the World Cup in 2015 as surgery is needed .
Wales beat South Africa 12-6 at Millennium Stadium on Saturday .
De Villiers faces at least eight months out due to... |
17a9c339529e887ab4370745db2b5e9b2e7a4f85 | (CNN) -- With his Hyperloop proposal, Elon Musk isn't the only entrepreneur proposing ways to rev up American transportation. The man who brought us sleek, clean electric Tesla cars and SpaceX -- a private space program that successfully sent a payload to the orbiting space station -- is setting his sights on a radical... | Entrepreneur Elon Musk proposes Hyperloop: shooting travelers through tubes .
Musk's idea is aimed at allowing people to travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes .
The technology era is spurring countless ideas to improve transportation .
Ideas include scramjets, bullet trains and driverless cars . |
17aab3e39671c8b37b7d1a7f6bea8e578f67b6e2 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 00:00 EST, 8 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:00 EST, 11 March 2013 . A man who accused former tennis champion Jennifer Capriati of beating him up has also claimed that she stalked him for a year. Capriati, 36, allegedly got into an argument with ex-boyfriend Ivan Brannan, a former... | Ivan Brannan, 28, claims that the tennis pro punched him at a Florida gym on Valentine's Day .
Brannan's ex-girlfriend Christine Corley says that he falsely accused her of hitting him and is a 'master manipulator' |
17aabacc82dfa7407f3d2e68ac80acb4f422ab20 | By . Louise Boyle . PUBLISHED: . 08:30 EST, 19 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:49 EST, 19 June 2012 . The number of Asians moving to the U.S. has surpassed Hispanics for the first time ever, reflecting a slowdown in illegal immigration while employers increase their demand for highly-skilled workers. An expansive study b... | Demographic change caused by increase in visas granted to specialized workers and wealthy investors .
36pc of new immigrants from Asia - compared to 31pc Hispanic . |
17abb355d3b36a9d524a52e55f7b0cb290ee26ff | By . Gerri Peev and Matt Chorley . PUBLISHED: . 07:24 EST, 30 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:31 EST, 30 May 2013 . Ed Miliband has been attacked for lacking a ‘credible’ economic message and leading a ‘policy-light’ party by Labour’s biggest donor has said. John Mills, the chairman of shopping giant JML, warned that the ... | Poll reveals voters trust current leader less than his predecessor .
Major donor John Mills says party lacks clear economic message . |
17abcd15187a18677ce785e654c25b1bca29317f | Johannesburg (CNN) -- South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela successfully underwent hernia surgery Saturday, a family member told CNN Saturday. Mandela was "comfortable" and in "a satisfactory condition" Saturday, said the South African president, who referred to the medical event only as "a planned procedure... | Mandela is "comfortable" and in "a satisfactory condition," president says .
Mandela had an operation for a hernia, relative says .
He should be released no later than Monday, relative says .
The former president last appeared in public in 2010 . |
17aca8647cfca4c620ccb4dd0a05982bdf3b2e8d | They are the men you can depend on, the influential players who are always involved and usually deliver the goods whatever the situation in the match. An Opta analysis of the Premier League season to date has revealed that Aston Villa's Andreas Weimann is the player who is involved in the highest proportion of his team... | Opta have analysed goals and assists in the Premier League this season .
Aston Villa's Andreas Weimann has been involved in 71.4% of his team's goals with three goals and two assists .
Gylfi Sigurdsson has played role in 10 of Swansea's 17 league goals .
Charlie Austin has figured in 57.1% of QPR's goals so far .
Alexi... |
17aced629b406fb834fca5096faf2b39912886fb | (CNN) -- The U.S. and Russian ambassadors to the United Nations have exchanged a flurry of Twitter posts about the controversial punk rock band Pussy Riot. Meanwhile, Russian media suggested a Russian athlete in the Sochi Games may have been sporting an image supporting Pussy Riot on his snowboard Thursday in what coul... | U.S., Russian ambassadors to U.N. exchange words over Pussy Riot, prison conditions .
Three members of punk rock band Pussy Riot recently served Russian prison terms .
A Russian athlete has an apparent Pussy Riot image on his snowboard, agency says .
"Anything is possible," Winter Olympian says, adding, "I wasn't the d... |
17acfdaa901a1c2822558e0673ef6de6ff99db53 | Dani Alves could be heading out of the Nou Camp after revealing that he hasn't been offered a new contract by Barcelona. The Brazilian is heading into the last six months of his contract and insists that despite the uncertainty about his future, he will not be distracted by the speculation. Alves has won 13 trophies in... | Dani Alves revealed he has not been offered a new contract by Barcelona .
The Brazilian insisted he will not be distracted by any speculation .
Barcelona may struggle to replace him with their transfer ban in 2015 . |
17af1d43350b504ec35bca28d849285d9ee6d011 | By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 06:40 EST, 30 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:59 EST, 30 April 2013 . It is surely the bane of drivers' lives - discovering what you think is the perfect parking spot, only for it to be ruined by the appearance of a set of double yellow lines. But at just four foot wide, and far too n... | Lane in Swindon just four foot wide was painted with yellow lines .
Council said workers simply 'forgot just how big cars were'
The lines have now been covered over after complaints from residents . |
17af2de07a6d2f23881e6c3e4bebe637579f0bce | Los Angeles (CNN) -- Chris Brown is reaching into Lindsay Lohan's playbook for avoiding jail: Go to rehab before your court date. The singer's arrest Sunday on an assault charge put him on a path toward a possible prison sentence, but he will be in a rehabilitation facility as his next court date approaches. "Chris Bro... | The announcement comes after he was arrested in Washington on simple assault charge .
The singer has landed in legal trouble for anger issues .
He is still on probation for the brutal attack on former girlfriend Rihanna . |
17b029c71df59f523897287ce250bce673beec93 | (CNN) -- The fire that severely damaged a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico subsided Thursday as sand and mud stopped up a natural gas well that blew out earlier this week, federal regulators said. The blaze erupted Tuesday aboard the rig, located about about 60 miles off Grand Isle, Louisiana, in 154 feet of water. W... | NEW: Platform and drill are "probably a write-off," analyst says .
Gas flow stops at the damaged Gulf of Mexico natural gas well .
A fire broke out Tuesday when crew members hit an unexpected pocket of gas .
It's a reminder that offshore work is "inherently risky," former regulator says . |
17b0933857ae4294f2f09d6ef35013e900729ba2 | A list of the worst mobile phone apps for extracting personal information such as location and contacts has been compiled by academics. Among the worst for taking details from users who have little or no idea it is happening include Angry Birds and Brightest Flashlight. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pit... | Astonishment at realisation a flashlight app extracts location information .
Angry Birds game named among the worst offenders on mobile phones . |
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