Heavy diggers in desperate hunt for Sri Lanka landslide victims

Rescue workers stepped up their desperate search Thursday for survivors of a landslide in Sri Lanka which is feared to have buried alive 100 people on a tea plantation, deploying heavy diggers to claw through the mud.

After rescuers, including soldiers, spent much of Wednesday using their bare hands to try and locate victims of the disaster in the eastern Koslanda district, military sources said five industrial excavators which are usually used to dig trenches were to join the search effort at first light.

AP PHOTOS: Israel prison hosts inmate fashion show

RAMLE, Israel (AP) — Alert the fashion police: prisoners in an Israeli jail have presented their debut collections, bringing the do's and don'ts of design straight to the halls of a penitentiary.

Neve Tirza prison, Israel's only women's prison, hosted its first fashion show on Monday where models on towering heels strutted on a red catwalk, showcasing clothes designed and made by inmates.

Poison likely killed Utah family of 5

SALT LAKE CTIY (AP) — A Utah couple and their three children found dead in their home last month were likely poisoned, their bodies found together in a locked room with cups next to each of them, and empty bottles of methadone and nighttime cold medicine in a trash can.

Police in Springville aren't saying who killed the family or whether one of the parents might have been involved. Toxicology results have not determined an exact cause of death, but search warrants obtained Wednesday say the family was likely poisoned.

Benjamin and Kristi Strack were in bed, with children ages 11 through 14 lying around them, tucked in bedding up to their necks, according to the search warrants. Kristi Strack had a red liquid coming out of her mouth.

President Obama praises U.S. medical workers who fought Ebola in West Africa for their ‘incredible heroism’

The President sent some 1,000 troops to West Africa to help combat the disease. Those returning soldiers will now serve out a 21-day isolation upon arriving back in the U.S.

President Obama lauded the U.S. doctors and nurses who fought Ebola in West Africa for their “incredible heroism” Wednesday and said “they deserve to be treated like the heroes they are” when they come home.

And while Obama heaped praise on the medics gathered with him at the White House, his enigmatic Ebola czar Ron Klain watched from a front row seat.

“I know that people are scared,” Obama said, flanked by doctors and nurses who recently returned from the hardest hit countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. “It’s critical we remain focused on the facts and the science.”

SAD STORY:Wait for daughter's body ends on her 17th birthday

Oct. 29, 2014 photo, Hwang In-yeol and his wife Shim Myeong-seop blow out candles on a birthday cake for their daughter Ji-hyeon at a gym on South Korea's southwestern island of Jindo, where they have been staying at since the April 16 sinking of ferry Sewol. 

Hwang In-yeol and his wife waited seven years to have a child, and then she was born on Oct. 29, 1997. After a ferry disaster in April that killed her and 303 others, the couple waited again for nearly seven months to see Ji-hyeon's body. The vigil ended Wednesday when divers retrieved their only child's body on her 17th birthday.

"The saddest birthday party on the earth," read a headline in the Hankyoreh newspaper Thursday alongside a picture showing a sobbing Hwang standing with his wife on Wednesday before a whipped-cream cake with glowing candles on it.

"Please, wait peacefully for me in heaven. Daddy will follow you soon," the 51-year-old Hwang was quoted as saying.

NYPD Sgt. Alberto Randazzo and Colo. woman indicted on charges of plotting on Skype to molest baby

NYPD Sgt. Alberto Randazzo

Federal prosecutors have indicted a Colorado woman on charges of conspiring with an NYPD sergeant on Skype to molest her 1-year-old, the Daily News has learned.

Keira Norton and Sgt. Alberto Randazzo each face a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison if they are convicted of the sickening charges in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Rap producer Suge Knight and comedian Katt Williams arrested for robbery

Marion Suge Knight                                                     Comedian Micah Katt Williams

Rap mogul Suge Knight and comedian Micah (Katt) Williams were arrested Wednesday in a two-state sting stemming from their alleged theft of a woman's camera in Beverly Hills, prosecutors said.

Knight, 49, who was picked up in Las Vegas, could get 30 years to life in state prison if convicted due to his prior for assault with a deadly weapon, prosecutors said.

Brooklyn man, 25, dies after being found unconscious in bathtub of hotelier Ian Reisner’s Manhattan penthouse

A 25-year-old Brooklyn man died of an apparent drug overdose after he was found unconscious Wednesday morning in a bathtub in hotelier Ian Reisner’s penthouse apartment on Central Park South, police sources said.

Sean Verdi, of Bay Ridge, was rushed from 230 Central Park South to St. Luke’s Hospital after Reisner called 911 about 8:20 a.m., police sources said. He died at 9:03 a.m. The death appeared to be a drug overdose, a police source said, but the medical examiner will conduct an autopsy Thursday. Investigators do not believe any criminality was involved, police said. At least one friend who was with Verdi told cops that Verdi had taken cocaine and molly, but no drugs were found at the apartment, a police sources said.

2 train drivers and 2 passengers die after train hits truck in Khon Kaen, Thailand

Five people were killed and 20 others injured when a passenger train from Nakhon Ratchasima to Khon Kaen rammed at a 18-wheel trailer at an uncontrolled railway crossing in Khon Kaen province Thursday morning.

The killed included the train driver, two train staffers and a Buddhist monk.

The trailer, loaded with soils,  was hit in the middle when it crossed the railway  crossing while the train was approaching at high speed.

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Hawaii lava crosses residential property, threatens more homes

The lava flow from the Kilauea volcano moves downslope through a property in a US Geological Survey image taken near the village of Pahoa, Hawaii, Wednesday. The lava has been heading toward Pahoa for weeks, with recent speeds averaging about 15 yards an hour. 

(Reuters) - A slow-moving river of molten lava from an erupting volcano crept across a residential property on Hawaii's Big Island early on Wednesday after incinerating an outbuilding as it threatened dozens of homes and businesses at the edge of a seaside town.

The lava flow from the Kilauea volcano has been slogging toward the village of Pahoa for weeks and was clocked at average speeds of 10 to 15 yards (nine to 14 meters) an hour as it bubbled over a road and overran a cemetery.

As of Wednesday morning, the Hawaii Civil Defense agency reported the lava had advanced to within 280 yards (meters) of Pahoa Village Road, the main street through the town of about 800 residents. Pahoa's business district lies mostly to the south of the area in greatest danger.

EBOLA:Quarantined Nurse Kaci Hickox fights Back

PHOTO: Kaci Hickox

As Maine officials said they were preparing to get a court order to enforce a mandatory quarantine, Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox said tonight she is not willing to "stand here and have my civil rights violated."

"You could hug me, you could shake my hand, I would not give you Ebola," she said outside her Fort Kent home.

Her comments came hours after Maine officials said they would seek to force Hickox, 33, to obey a 21-day quarantine, although the order would first need to be approved by a judge before it could be enforced.When it is made clear by an individual in this risk category that they do not intend to voluntarily stay at home for the remaining 21 days, we will immediately seek a court order to ensure that they do not make contact with the public," Maine Health Commissioner Mary Mayhew said during a news conference this evening.

what a shock:woman beheaded by son

The woman who was beheaded in New York yesterday has been identified as a well-liked professor at Farmingdale State College, in Long Island.

Patricia Ward, 66, taught language arts, said Patrick Calabria, the vice president of institutional advancement at the college.

"We are in shock", he told The New York Post.

Ebola crisis: Infections 'slowing in Liberia

The World Health Organization (WHO) says there has been a decline in the spread of Ebola in Liberia, the country hardest hit in the outbreak.

The WHO's Bruce Aylward said it was confident the response to the virus was now gaining the upper hand.

But he warned against any suggestion that the crisis was over.

GHANA:Starbow planes grounded

The management of Starbow Airline has grounded some planes in its fleet for servicing after Tuesday's emergency landing at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).

A Starbow flight to Takoradi made an emergency landing after developing a mechanical fault mid-air.

Two people were reported injured after an awkward landing at the Airport, 20 minutes after taking off.

The CEO of Starbow, James Antwi, said the fault was due to "hydraulic failures" and the pilot had to make a “flapless landing”.

The Deputy Minister of Transport, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, disclosed to Citi FM Wednesday that some aircraft of the company have been grounded until further notice.

This is the second time a Starbow aircraft has made an emergency landing, after an incident in August 2014 which saw a Kumasi-bound aircraft return to the KIA shortly after taking off due to a fault detected mid-air.


Source:Starrfmonline

GHANA: 2 Jailed 40 Years For Money Laundering

A court has jailed two persons for 40 years for laundering GH₵4,552,582.13. John Cobbina, an accounts officer of J Adom Construction Limited, and Eugene Amoako Mensah, Relationship Manager of the Sunyani branch of Zenith Bank, were convicted for stealing the money, which belonged to J Adom Construction Limited.

The facts of the case is that sometime in 2012, the Chief Executive Officer of J Adom realised that some of his workers had dishonestly appropriated various sums of money belonging to the company.

He caused the arrest of the staff involved.

EBOLA SCARE:Ghana's bush meat traders out of work

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Yaa Kyerewaa cuts a lonely figure beside a pile of animal parts: the jaws of a giant rodent, the hooves of wild pigs, snails. This bush meat was once considered a delicacy and fetched premium prices. But Ebola has frightened away customers and Kyerewaa hasn't sold anything in days.

Accra's busy Agbogbloshie market used to have several bush meat vendors but now she is the only one.

The 53-year-old says her earnings from bush meat keep her four children in school and she laments the sudden loss of business as public health officials warn that bush meat may be contaminated with the dreaded Ebola virus.

Southbridge fugitive Gregory Lewis captured in New York after alleged cross-country sexual assault spree

After crashing his car into a river in upstate New York and pulling a gun on a witness, police were able to apprehend the Southbridge fugitive Gregory Lewis accused of committing at least six sexual assaults during a cross-country spree over the last month.

Lewis, 26, was taken into custody just before midnight on Tuesday in the Village of Fort Edward, New York – 50 miles northwest of Massachusetts near the Vermont border. According to Massachusetts State Police, a New York State Police trooper observed Lewis driving with missing license plates on his car and, when he tried to stop the car, Lewis fled.

Accused American child abuser arrested in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian police have arrested a fugitive U.S. Army Sergeant Michael Harris, 34, in the Kratie province of eastern Cambodia after being on the run in the country for the past two weeks, a senior police officer confirmed Wednesday.
"Our police caught the suspect Tuesday at noon while he was driving a motorbike with packed saddlebags," Oum Phy, deputy police chief of Kratie province, told Xinhua over telephone.
He said the arrest was made at the order of the Interior Ministry's immigration department and the suspect was sent to the department's detention facility in Phnom Penh Tuesday evening.
Harris deserted the U.S. Army and skipped bail in January in Orlando, Florida, where he was awaiting trial on 44 counts of child pornography possession, indecent acts on a child and forced sodomy.
The suspect fled to Cambodia where he worked as a dog trainer in coastal Preah Sihanouk province.
According to Oum Phy, the suspect would be deported to the U.S. to face charges.

Three killed, over 150 missing in Sri Lanka landslide

COLOMBO, Oct.29 (Xinhua) -- Many people are feared dead after being buried alive on Wednesday following a massive landslide in Haldammulla, located between the central and southern parts of Sri Lanka, reporters in the area said adding that rescue operations were now underway.
The Sri Lankan Disaster Management Center said that over 150 people are reported missing after their homes were buried during the landslide.
Security Forces Head Quarters Commander, Central, Major General Mano Perera said that the security forces are now involved in a massive rescue operation in the area.
Several bodies have been recovered with some houses buried in over 30 feet of mud following heavy rains in the area overnight.

Source:english.sina.com/

Zambian President Michael Sata dies in London aged 77

Zambian President Michael Sata has died at the age of 77 after receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness, family sources and Zambian media say.

President Sata, who was being treated in the UK for the past week, died on Tuesday night, Zambia Reports said.

It said that he died after "a sudden onset [of] heightened heart rate".

It is not immediately clear who will succeed the president. The issue may be decided by the Zambian cabinet which meets on Wednesday morning.

General strike call after mass rally against Burkina Faso leader

Trade unions in Burkina Faso have called a general strike on Wednesday following a day of protests against long-serving President Blaise Compaore that saw hundreds of thousands of people on the streets.
Demonstrators wielding iron bars and stones battled police in the Burkina Faso capital on Tuesday after a massive rally against plans to extend the rule of the veteran president.
Firing tear gas, security forces charged the protesters after they ventured close to parliament in one of the strongest challenges to President Blaise Compaore in his 27 years in power.
The United States said it was "concerned by the spirit and intent" behind the draft bill to scrap the presidential term limits.
"We urge all involved, including Burkina Faso’s security forces, to adhere to non-violence, and to debate this issue in a peaceful and inclusive manner," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.

Multi-Racial Family Embraces Unique Twins

LINCOLN – Fraternal twins Viviana and Dennis look very different from each other. They are part of the Ng Family, a multiracial family from all parts of the world.

The twins' parents Kenika and Ashley Ng also come from multiracial families. Kenika Ng's is African-American and Hispanic; his father is Hawaiian and Chinese. Ashley Ng is Irish and Hispanic.

SHOCKING:Man Beheads Woman, Kills Himself by Jumping in Front of Train in Farmingdale

Police in Farmingdale, New York are investigating after a person possibly intentionally committed suicide by jumping in front of a Long Island Rail Road train after beheading a woman.

Nassau County Police are investigating a possible murder-suicide in Farmingdale where a woman was beheaded and left dead in the street Tuesday night, according to multiple reports.

The man suspected of killing her was struck and killed by a Long Island Rail Road train around 8:15 p.m., near where the woman was found in front of 130 Secatogue Avenue, Eyewitness News reported.

The woman, whose severed head was reportedly discovered in the street with her body nearby, was in her 60s and the man hit by the train, believed to be the woman’s son, was in his 30s, NBC 4 New York reported.

Nassau Police will only confirm at the moment that a person is dead on the train tracks and that a crime scene unit is investigating an incident on Secatogue Avenue.


LIRR service on the Ronkonkoma Branch is currently suspended in both directions.

Source:http://patch.com/

FIFA backs African football federation over Ebola measures ahead of Club World Cup

FIFA said it was in regular contact with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in order to help impede the spread of Ebola, known as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), at sporting events.

"FIFA supports the decision by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to organise the international matches of the countries currently experiencing EVD intense transmission (Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea) on neutral ground," the statement read.

FIFA also said it recommended clubs "carry out a medical check-up" on players returning from "an international fixture involving a high-risk country".

FIFA confirmed the Club World Cup would go ahead in Morocco in December as planned.

"According to the World Health Organisation there are currently no cases of Ebola reported from Morocco and therefore all preparations continue as planned," the statement read.

"FIFA is monitoring the situation and is in close contact with the Moroccan authorities and constantly updating its position in accordance with WHO technical guidance."

Morocco is set host the Africa Cup of Nations in January and February of next year.

AFP

SAD:PHOTO

If you thought you had a tough day then take a look at the pic above and that should put things into perspective. A Syrian boy sleeping between his parents. 

UAE:Four killed in early morning crash on Sharjah’s Airport Road

The remains of the Range Rover in which all four inside were killed after it crashed into the back of a lorry parked by the side of the road. Courtesy Sharjah Police

Two Emiratis, an Indian and a Bangladeshi were killed in a traffic accident in Sharjah early Tuesday morning.

The crash happened at 2am when a Range Rover, which was being driven at high speed on the way to Sharjah City, hit a lorry that was parked on the side of Airport Road between junctions 3 and 4.

There were no warning cones or signs placed on the road behind the lorry. The Range Rover became wedged under the lorry, killing all four inside. The lorry driver survived the accident.

Colonel Abdulrahman Shawaf, director of Sharjah’s traffic and patrols department, said rescue and ambulance patrols were sent to the scene, which was cordoned off and traffic diverted. The bodies were taken to Al Qassimi and Al Kuwait hospitals.


Col Shawaf called on motorists to observe traffic regulations and to protect themselves and others. He stressed that drivers must observe the parking rules and place warning signs to alert other motorists.

Source:http://gulfnews.com/

SHOCKING:Woman Arrested After Gun in Baby Stroller Accidentally Fires

The fact the 1-year-old is fine, though, is no thanks to trio of armed Adults in Mississippi, who seemed to think it was perfectly acceptable to carry around a loaded gun in a baby stroller with an infant in tow over the weekend.

It is unclear what exactly happened that caused the gun to go off. All that is known for certain is that it did and there was a hole from a gun in the stroller as a result.

The good news is that the baby was unharmed.

Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone angry at Australia visa ban

Sierra Leone has condemned Australia's decision to suspend entry visas for people from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa as "counterproductive" and "discriminatory".

The move has also been criticised by Amnesty International.

And UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said travel restrictions will severely curtail efforts to beat Ebola.

Nearly 5,000 people have died from the virus, the vast majority of them in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

Father in Minnesota allegedly bites and beats infant son to death – and blames it on the dog

Emery Jenkins reportedly has a felony domestic assault conviction stemming from a 2010 incident

A Minnesota man who allegedly bit and beat his infant son to death two weeks ago because he apparently wouldn’t stop crying blamed the attack on the neighbor’s dog but police aren’t buying it and he is now being charged with second degree murder.

Emery James Jenkins, 38, of Deer River told police that he had accidentally dropped his 3-month-old son on his head while in the bathtub and that the neighbor’s dog had attacked the boy while he was in a car seat wearing a monkey suit, according to CBS Minnesota.

PICTURED: Father who 'killed his wife and two teenage daughters before hanging himself' at their Bradford home

                  Jitendra Lad, 49, wife Daksha, 44, centre right, Trisha, 19, left, and Nisha, 16

A father of two reportedly murdered his family in their Bradford home before killing himself.

MailOnline reports that Jitendra Lad, 49, killed his wife Daksha, 44, and their two children, Trisha, 19, and Nisha, 17, before hanging himself .

Australia visa ban for Ebola-hit nations

Australia temporarily stops issuing visas to people from countries affected by Ebola, in a bid to stop the virus from entering the country.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison told parliament that Australia would suspend its immigration programme for such travellers.

The restriction comes after an 18-year-old who arrived from West Africa earlier this month was admitted to hospital with a fever.

She later tested negative for Ebola.

Health Expert says Ebola crisis in West Africa is overshadowing malaria treatment

A leading malaria control expert Dr Nafo-Traoré has said efforts to contain the disease may be jeopardised by the Ebola crisis.

Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré, who heads the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, expressed worry that the attention of health workers have shifted from malaria to Ebola.

She said children's wards which used to be full of malaria patients are becoming ghost areas.

According to Dr Nafo-Traoré, in 2012, malaria killed seven thousand people in the three countries worst hit by Ebola.

The disease caused almost four thousand deaths in Sierra Leone in 2012 - as well as around two thousand deaths in Liberia and approximately one thousand in Guinea.

Dr Nafo-Traoré said she feared that recent gains in preventing malaria could be threatened by the crisis, now that the three countries are wrestling with the Ebola virus.

BBC

Member of Cuban Ebola mission dies of malaria

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says a member of a medical team it sent to fight Ebola in West Africa has died of malaria.

According to state newspaper Granma, Jorge Juan Guerra Rodriguez, 60, died in Guinea on Oct. 26 from cerebral malaria, a complication of the parasitic infection that severely and sometimes fatally damages the brain.

The newspaper said two tests for Ebola turned up no sign of the disease.

Cuba sent 165 medical workers to Sierra Leone this month, followed by a second group of 83 who went to Guinea and Liberia last week. Guerra, who the newspaper said was trained as an economist, was a member of the advance team sent to Africa before the doctors were dispatched

GOOD NEWS:Two US nurses are declared cured of Ebola

Nina Pham (forth left)
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two American nurses were declared cured of Ebola on Friday, and one was healthy enough to leave hospital and make plans to meet President Barack Obama.

The good news for the nurses, who contracted Ebola while caring for a Liberian patient in Texas, came as the city of New York was dealing with its first case of the deadly virus.

Ms Nina Pham smiled and appeared healthy, wearing a turquoise shirt and dark business suit at a news conference outside the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

US teen dies from wounds inflicted by Washington school shooter

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A United States teen who had been fighting for her life after a fellow high school student shot her in the head in a rampage on Friday has died, the hospital caring for her said. Gia Soriano, 14, “passed away tonight as a result of her injuries”, the Providence Regional Medical Centre said.

The high price our bodies pay for high fashion

Six-inch stilettos, over-sized heavy handbags, toothpick-tight jeans -- the average woman is no stranger to suffering for fashion.

In the "Look At Me" culture we live in, it is no wonder who you wear is just as important as what you wear. However, instead of designer labels, there are some trends today that should come with warning labels.

Women may pay a high price for fashion, and I'm not talking about the amount of money those designer bags and shoes cost -- I'm talking about the price of your health. Certain fashion trends can take their toll if you don't take steps to correct them (or at the very least recognize them).

NIGERIA:Captain Allegedly Murdered By Crew Members On-Board

LAGOS—The Nigerian police is currently investigating the brutal murder of a senior captain of ORC Fishing and Food Processing Limited located at Kirikiri Phase 2, Apapa, Lagos.The deceased, identified as Captain Aiyenumelo Felix of Nigeria Marine Navy, was allegedly killed by his crew members on board, on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 in the Atlantic Ocean, within Nigeria’s territorial waters.

5-YEAR-OLD BOY TESTED AT BELLEVUE FOR POSSIBLE SYMPTOMS OF EBOLA

A 5-year-old boy who had traveled to West Africa has been tested for Ebola after having possible symptoms of the virus, health officials say.

The boy was brought to Bellevue Hospital Sunday night.

He did not initially have a fever, but while at the hospital, he developed a low grade fever. 

GHANA:Soldier, pregnant wife, 2 children burnt to death

An Army corporal with the Central Command of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), his pregnant wife, their two-year-old daughter, as well as his niece, were burnt to death when fire engulfed their wooden apartment at the old Uddara Barracks in Kumasi last Saturday.

The soldier, whose identity was given only as Cpl Tani, and his family were trapped in the fire which lasted less than one hour.

Dilma Rousseff re-elected president of Brazil

Brazil’s leftist President Dilma Rousseff narrowly won re-election on Sunday after convincing voters that her party’s strong record of reducing poverty over the last 12 years was more important than a recent economic slump.

After one of the closest, most divisive campaigns in Brazil in decades, Rousseff won 51.64 percent of votes in a runoff against centrist opposition leader Aecio Neves, who won 48.36 percent with more than 99 percent of the votes tallied.

Kidnapped women 'used by Boko Haram on front line': rights group

LAGOS (AFP) -Boko Haram has used kidnapped young women and girls on the front lines of its insurgency, according to a new report published on Monday, after a fresh abduction in Nigeria's far northeast.

Human Rights Watch made the claim as it outlined testimony from dozens of former hostages who documented physical and psychological abuse at the hands of the militants.

Wealthy Africans spending almost £4million on London property every WEEK

Super-rich African oligarchs are taking their vast resources and investing them in the safe haven of London property - with more than £600million spent in the capital in the past three years and £4million spent in the city every week. They favour the likes of One Hyde Park

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Wealthy African buyers are spending almost £4million on London property every week as they look to snap up exclusive investments in the UK, it has emerged.

Super-rich oligarchs are taking their vast resources and investing them in the safe haven of London property - with more than £600million spent in the capital in the past three years.

A mixture of traditional reasons combined with increased terrorism and the outbreak of Ebola is said to be behind the dramatic influx of African money to the capital.

While African buyers only account for 1.5 per of transactions in the 'ultra prime' London market, they make up five per cent of sales by value - up from two per cent. This is by typically spending between £15million and £25million on each home.

The recent Ebola epidemic and continued terrorism from groups such as Boko Haram has resulted in an increase in buyers in recent months.

Nigeria’s Super Falcons Win 2014 African Women Championship

The Super Falcons of Nigeria on Saturday defeated Cameroon 2-0 to win the ninth edition of the African Women Championship (AWC) in Windhoek, Namibia.

Goals from Desire Oparanozie and Asisat Oshoala were all Nigeria needed to reclaim the AWC title. After a dominant opening period, Oparanozie put the Super Falcons in front in the 12th minute with a superb free-kick.

Student sells after school to raise funds to teach in Ghana

A Sidmouth College sixth-former is gearing up for a new life in Ghana as she is about leaving her pristine environment behind to spend a gap year teaching disadvantaged children in the Volta region.

Seventeen-year-old Sarah Hunt has to marry her A-level studies with fundraising to reach the £5,900 needed to take up the role at a remote school in Ghana.

Ghanaians warned against dried fish consumption

A Greek Medical Team (GMT) has warned Ghanaians, particularly, those in poverty stricken, areas against excessive consumption of pepper, salt and dried fish to prevent them from contracting ulcers and cancers.
Professor Xemophon Yataganas, President of the Greece Medical Mission, which offered free medical screening and treatment in some districts of the Northern and Upper East Regions, gave the warning, on Friday, in Tamale when it briefed management of the Savanna Accelerated Development Agency (SADA) after completing its mission.

GHANA:Duncan-Williams: A lot of "prophet-liars" around these days

There are liars parading themselves as prophets in the Church these days, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has bemoaned.

The Christian Action Faith Ministries’ (CAFM) founder told his congregation in Accra, Sunday October 26 that many people are faking prophecies these days to attract followers.

At least 17 killed in suspected Boko Haram attack in Nigeria

At least 17 people were killed and dozens abducted, some of them girls as young as 11, by suspected Boko Haram militants in a series of attacks on Thursday in the central region of Nigeria's northeast Borno State, a local village chief said on Sunday.

“Seventeen persons were killed by the assailants after last Thursday's attack on Ndongo community,” Alhaji Shettima Maina, who is in charge of Maffa village about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of the city of Maiduguri, told journalists in Maiduguri. “We buried the remains of the victims in Maffa on Friday.”

TEN COMMANDMENTS MONUMENT ATTACK :SUSPECTS CLAIMS Satan TOLD HIM TO DESTORY MONUMENT

An Oklahoma man told authorities the Devil made him destroy a Ten Commandments monument at the Oklahoma City capitol building.

The unidentified man is currently undergoing a mental evaluation and the county's District Attorney's Office will determine if charges should be filed.

The suspect admitted to U.S. Secret Service agents that he was a Satanist and decided to urinate on the controversial six-foot monument before getting into his car and running into it. He then entered the building, made derogatory statements about President Barack Obama and said Satan told him to damage the monument.

Quarantined nurse blasts Gov. Christie: criticizes the way she has been treated

Kaci Hickox, a nurse quarantined in New Jersey after returning from working with Ebola victims in West Africa, bashed Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday, urging him to stick to politics – and nose out of medical decisions.

The 33-year-old told CNN Sunday that Christie was speaking out of turn when he said she was sick after he laid out the details of New Jersey’s mandatory 21-day quarantine for anyone returning from working the front lines in Ebola-ravage West Africa.

EBOLA SCARE:Can A Person Get Ebola on Public Transportation?

Dr. Craig Spencer, who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea, developed a fever and tested positive for Ebola. He is now being treated in an isolation unit at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.He traveled on the subway the day before he developed symptoms of the disease may have some people worried about contracting Ebola on public transportation.

Mali rushes to track Ebola after toddler dies

KAYES, Mali (AP) — After 2-year-old Fanta Kone's father died in southern Guinea, the toddler's grandmother took her from the forested hills where the Ebola outbreak first began months ago to bring her home to Mali. It wasn't long, though, before the little girl started getting nosebleeds.

By the time the pair made their way back more than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) to the heat-baked town of Kayes several days later, the toddler had a high fever and was vomiting blood. Doctors swiftly diagnosed Fanta with Ebola, but she soon succumbed to the virus already blamed for killing nearly 5,000 people in the region. Her grandmother, quarantined with a couple dozen others, could only watch from a distance in an isolation tent over the weekend as health workers in hazmat suits prepared the tiny corpse for burial.

Family Spend Over £5000 On Dresses & Pageant Fees Just For One-year-old To Be A Queen

She only learnt to walk five months ago, but beauty queen Bobbi Boyden is already strutting her stuff on stage at pageants, Dailymail reports. The 19-month-old from Essex has been described as a 'diva' by her mother, Stephanie.

Mrs Boyden said,  'Bobbi's like a little Beyonce, a little madam really. She loves the attention of being up on stage and she screams to get up there.' The family has spent £5,000 on elaborate dresses and entry fees in the past three months.

DOCTOR:Quarantine on health care workers for Ebola can have unintended consequences

WASHINGTON — Mandatory 21-day quarantines on health care workers returning from Ebola-ravaged West Africa, like those put in place by three states, can have the unintended consequence of discouraging them from volunteering, a top federal health official said Sunday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that as a physician and scientist, he would have recommended against a quarantine.

"The best way to protect us is to stop the epidemic in Africa, and we need those health care workers so we do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very, very uncomfortable for them to even volunteer to go." he said.

Churches Now Forced to Pay for Abortions in California

California’s Department of Managed Health Care has ordered all insurance plans in the state to immediately begin covering elective abortion. Not Plan B. Not contraceptives. Elective surgical dismemberment abortion.

Churches inevitably fall under the “all” category. In a bit of sad irony, churches in California are exempt from having to fund chemical abortions.This leaves California churches in the illogical and impossible position of being free to exclude contraceptives from their health plan for reasons of religious conscience but required to provide their employees with abortion coverage.

Religious groups are battling the state of California over whether employee health insurance plans require them to pay for abortions and some forms of contraception that some find immoral.

Israeli schools skip Jerusalem trip over tension

JERUSALEM (AP) — Schools in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv have postponed class trips to Jerusalem this week because of heightened tensions in the city, Tel Aviv officials said Sunday.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Schools in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv have postponed class trips to Jerusalem this week because of heightened tensions in the city, Tel Aviv officials said Sunday.The municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial and cultural capital, said it honored a request by parents of 8th grade pupils to postpone a field trip planned for most Tel Aviv schools this week because it included visits to areas where violence recently occurred.

Last week a Palestinian motorist with a history of anti-Israel violence slammed his car into a crowded light rail train station, killing a 3-month-old girl who was a U.S. citizen and wounding eight people. The municipality said pupils were scheduled to visit a nearby site.

Hawaii volcano lava prompts evacuation concerns

HONOLULU (AP) — Flowing lava from an erupting volcano could soon force dozens of residents of an area in Hawaii to flee their homes.

Authorities on Saturday told them to prepare for a possible evacuation in the next three to five days as the molten rock oozed across a country road and edged closer to homes.

The flow was about 35 yards wide and moving northeast at about 10 yards per hour.