Girl Burnt To Death By iPhone She Was Charging

A girl in China has been found burnt to death in her bed after being electrocuted by her iPhone.
18-year-old Wu Weyuan was charging her phone with what has been described as a knock-off charger.
She was found black and charred by her sister who came back from work and smelled something burning.
She went into her sister's room and found her lifeless and the screen of the iPhone 4S she had been charging was smashed.
An autopsy revealed electrocution marks on the neck, hands and left foot of the deceased and police decided that her death was caused by an electrical "leakage" from the phone which caused electrocution.

Austrian Woman Fined For Roaming Naked

A woman in Austria has been fined up to 1,000 Euros ($1,340) for constantly walking on the streets with nothing but a pair of white tennis shoes.

According to Police spokesman Johann Baumschlager, the young woman was stopped by police on Tuesday after cycling past officers manning a radar trap on a highway in northeastern Austria.

Baumschlager said on Wednesday the woman was again identified and told to go home and get dressed. She was also informed she had been charged with disturbing public decency — a misdemeanor that carries a maximum 1,000-euro fine.

She had previously been sighted in the buff while shopping in a supermarket and at a gas station, filling up her car - and still Naked! (What if there was a fire?)

Amnesty International Releases Graphic Video of 'Nigerian Military' Butchering Citizens

Amnesty International has released a gruesome video to buttress its allegations that the Nigerian military has been violating human rights.
The video shows men believed to be Nigerian military officers and some alleged to be members of the Civilian Joint Task Force butchering suspected members of Boko Haram.
One after one, the suspects have their throats slit and they are then thrown into a mass grave by their killers.
Amnesty International had previously accused the Nigerian military of killing innocent citizens and executing suspects summarily as part of its war against terror.
Watch the video below (Viewer discretion is advised)

Julius Agwu Set To Run For Rivers State Governor

The 2015 General Elections is poised to be an interesting one as more and more entertainers keep declaring their intention to run for office. The latest celebrity to do is comedian, Julius Agwu.
The Ikwerre, Rivers state native has declared his intention to run for Governor in his home state. He is however yet to reveal the platform he'll be contesting under. Julius revealed that he decided to run the race after considerable pressure from his people to lead them.
Nollywood actress Kate Henshaw and Nollywood actor, Desmond Elliot had also equally expressed their intention to run for office in their respective home states; Cross-Rivers and Lagos.
So, would you vote for Julius Agwu or any other entertainer for that matter?

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Why I Killed My Lover – Suspect Kelechi Williams

A 33-year-old man, Kelechi Williams, arrested for murdering his 39-year-old lover, a businesswoman, Lizzy Njideka to death, yesterday, confessed he did it out of jealousy.

it was reported on July 24, that the suspect, Kelechi Williams strangled his lover, a mother of four to death on July 19, 2014 at her apartment in Odusanya Oduguwa Crescent, Green Estate, Amuwo Odofin Area of Lagos State.

After murdering the deceased he carted away her $50,000, N8m, ATM cards, jewellery and a Range Rover Sport and reportedly fled to Ghana.

The suspect who was paraded at the Lagos State Police Command, was, however arrested at the border between Ghana and Cote D’Ivore by operatives from the Area ‘E’ Command, Festac Town and those of International Police, INTERPOL, while fleeing with the deceased’s Range Rover Sports Utility Vehicle, SUV, with number plate LAGOS EKY 509 AZ.

Kelechi Williams and Lizzy Njideka

Kelechi Williams who hails from Umuji in Ndemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, narrating what transpired that day said the incident occured at about 2 am during an altercation over the late arrival of his lover.
He said: “Lizzy was my girlfriend. I knew her three years ago. But we started getting serious in February this year.
“I came back from Ghana to visit her on July 16, 2014 which was on a Wednesday. The next day we went out and came back late.
“On Friday, she told me to stay back at home and rest because I was tired. She left the house, saying she was going to the new apartment she was to pack into, assuring me she would be back as usual by 6 p.m.
“But she did not return by 6pm. Rather, the gate man came with a power generating set, saying madam had gone to drop the workers.
“When it was 8 p.m. and I did not see her, I started calling her on phone but she did not pick. I called her up to 30 times without response.
“She came back by midnight and when I asked why she did not pick my calls, she said the phone was in silent mode. I brought out my phone and called her line only for it to ring.
“At that point I noticed she was drunk. I got angry and asked if that was the way she would pay me back for leaving everything in Ghana to come and spend time with her. I threatened to quit the relationship. But at that point, her phone rang and I told her to pick it but she insisted that I should pick it and when I did, the caller, who was a male, asked ‘baby are you home?’
“Immediately she discovered it was a male’s voice, she snatched the phone from me and asked why I should pick her calls. I reminded her of a similar incident when she came to visit me in Ghana and my phone rang. She pick it and on discovering it was a female, she smashed the phone on the ground, without knowing who the caller was.
“I reminded her also that she collected my other phones from me and brought them to Nigeria. In anger, I took the phone and smashed it on the ground.

US Drone strike kills five militants in northwest Pakistan

A U.S. drone strike killed five militants in Pakistan’s volatile northwest on Wednesday, security officials and residents said, as the country’s security forces press ahead with an offensive in a Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border.

Two missiles slammed into a house in a village in the Datta Khel area in the border region of North Waziristan, security officials said, injuring two militants, besides the five dead.

The bodies of the five people killed were charred beyond recognition, one of the villagers told Reuters.

Drone strikes in Pakistan resumed in June after a gap of six months, during which the Pakistani government pursued peace talks with the Taliban. Pakistan announced an anti-Taliban offensive in North Waziristan within days of the resumption.

The United States had long urged Pakistan to crack down on the Taliban stronghold in remote, mountainous North Waziristan.

The Taliban use the region to prepare bombs, hold kidnap victims, stage public executions, and as a launch pad for attacks on Afghan and NATO troops across the border.

The military ordered the entire civilian population of North Waziristan to leave before launching the ground offensive but residents said most of the militants also moved out.

Many have probably gone into hiding in Afghanistan or elsewhere in Pakistan, including in thickly forested valleys further south.

(Additional reporting by Saud Mehsud in Dera Ismail Khan; Writing By Mehreen Zahra-Malik; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

Has US Found Cure For Ebola?

The family of Nancy Writebol, one of the missionary medical practitioners that contracted the Ebola virus while on a joint Samaritan’s Purse-SIM team, was already planning her funeral as she lay stricken with Ebola in Liberia amid the disease’s deadliest recorded outbreak.

She and her colleague, Dr. Kent Brantly, who have both been flown to the United States are defying odds to stay alive…and seem to be getting better.

Writebol’s two sons expect to communicate with her soon, Johnson said. The family was considering funeral arrangements for her just last week, days after she became sick, David Writebol said through Johnson.
“Yet we kept our faith, (and) now we have real reason to be hopeful,” David Writebol said in a statement read by Johnson.
Her improved condition may not be unconnected with an experimental, U.S.-manufactured drug, ZMapp, which she and her colleague were given in Liberia, although it has never been subjected to clinical trials.
The medicine is thought to work by preventing the virus from entering and infecting new cells, reports CNN. It’s a three-mouse monoclonal antibody — meaning mice were exposed to fragments of the Ebola virus, and the antibodies generated within the mice’s blood were harvested to create the medicine.
Have we found a cure?
Internist and gastroenterologist, Dr. Jorge Rodriguez however said while Brantly and Writebol’s conditions actually improved after taking the drug, the serum shouldn’t be seen as a miracle cure.

“Let’s be cautious. We don’t even know really if this serum is working,” said Rodriguez.
“I’m glad now that these patients were brought to a hospital where so many tests can be done, where they can see the response of their body to this serum. We don’t know if these patients are naturally getting better, or whether the serum is really doing something.”
Writebol and Kent are being treated at the Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, in special isolation units.
1,603 cases of infection has been reported across Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, with 887 of them dead as of Friday, according to the World Health Organization said

Dozens of Australians Lift Train to Free Man Whose Leg Was Trapped

Dozens of Australians tilted a train Wednesday to free a whose leg was trapped between a carriage and a platform, with authorities praising their efforts as an example of “people power”.

The man was boarding in the Western Australia city of Perth when he slipped and became jammed in the five-centimetre (0.4-inch) gap between the carriage and the station, operator Transperth said in a statement.

Passengers were initially told to move to the opposite side of the train in the hope their weight would shift it away from his leg, a passenger who gave his name as Nic told The West Australian newspaper.

But when that failed, staff told commuters to get off the train and about 50 of them lined up in a row along the platform to tilt the carriage away from the man so he could be lifted out.

“It is the first time we’ve seen something like this happen,” Transperth spokeswoman Claire Krol told AFP.

“We were really fortunate that the staff were there straight away… and all of the passengers not only listened to the instructions from staff, but pitched in and helped.

“This is a real case of passengers of working together… and people power are the perfect words to describe it.”

Transperth said the man was treated by paramedics but was able to catch a later train.

“The end result here is: really lucky for the man involved, but really nice as well to see that everyone came together as a community,” Krol added.

EBOLA: Nurse Who Treated Sawyer Dies, 5 More Cases Confirmed

One of the nurses who attended Patrick Sawyer, the first Ebola victim in Nigeria, has died.

Health Minister Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu made this known in Abuja August 6, Punch reports. He also revealed that 5 other medical practitioners involved in treatment contracted the virus.

“Nigeria has now recorded seven confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease. The first one was the index case, which is the imported case from Liberia of which the victim is now late. Yesterday, 5th August, 2014, the first known Nigerian to die of the EVD was recorded and this was one of the nurses that attended to the Liberian. The other five cases are currently being treated at the Isolation Ward in Lagos.”

Sawyer, a US citizen was travelling from Liberia, the center of Ebola epidemic, to Nigeria and was admitted to a Lagos hospital where he died from the symptoms of the deadly disease last month.

Two days ago the case of infection was confirmed by the Nigerian officials: the health worker contracted  the disease while treating Sawyer.

Since February the deadly virus has claimed more than 700 lives in West Africa, mostly Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, and keeps spreading in the continent.

Brutus the giant crocodile attacks shark in Australia

(AFP)Tourists in northern Australia have been left stunned by two fierce animals going head-to-head — a massive saltwater crocodile wrestling with a bull shark in its jaws.

Andrew Paice was on an hour-long wildlife cruise on the Adelaide River with his partner and seven-year-old daughter on Tuesday when they spotted something unusual on the riverbank.

Earlier they had watched as crocodiles, including the huge 5.5-metre (18-feet) male known as Brutus, leapt out of the water to eat a piece of buffalo meat held out on a pole to them.

“It was on the way back to the jetty, we went past Brutus again, he was up on the bank,” Paice told AFP from Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory on Wednesday.

“As we were going past, we noticed that there was a fin. We thought it was a barramundi (fish) or something.

“And the guide took the boat in for a closer look and lo’ and behold… it was a shark.”

Brutus, who is thought to be about 80 years old and is missing a front leg and most of his teeth, is well known in the area, and the Northern Territory News described the battle as “Jaws v Claws”.

Speculation is that the prospect of a fish dinner was tasty revenge for a croc that was thought to have lost his limb to one of the sharks who inhabit nearby waters.

“But from listening to other people, it was probably more likely a big crocodile (which took his front leg). But who knows? It was either a crocodile or a shark,” Paice said