Not only were there a host of famous faces due to attend, but the event was happening smack bang in the middle of awards season, so the pressure was on to stand out. And there were certainly a lot of Hollywood starlets competing for attention at The Art of Elysium’s 6th Annual Heaven Gala in... Read More
The Queen was left waiting after a church service in Sandringham, Norfolk After seven attempts her driver was finally able to start the car The Queen was left waiting as her red-faced chauffeur failed to start her luxury Bentley after a church service today. The 86-year-old monarch chuckled as she waited for about a minute... Read More
For most of us, using protection during intimacy is a form of common sense. But there are others who still have to learn the hard way. A man in LA has failed a lawsuit against the porn industry being forced to use protection when engaging in their craft. The suit was filed on behalf... Read More
#DumbDumber: ‘Don’t ring me when I’m out robbing’: The SMS which put dim-witted criminal behind bars
Stuart Gibbs, of Leicester, jailed for 18 months for the attempted burglary The 24-year-old admitted the offence after police caught him with message Admitted a string of later offences including dangerous driving Gibbs admitted attempted burglary and was jailed for 18 months at Leicester Crown Court A would-be burglar has been locked up after... Read More
It’s almost expected of her to have a wardrobe malfunction, but even Lady Gaga wasn’t prepared for this one. The 26-year-old singer split her latex pants as she kicked off the North American leg of her Born This Way Ball tour in the first of two sold out shows in Vancouver, Canada. The New York... Read More
Charlotte Poole earned her Law degree and a first class Masters degree in Fashion Marketing at Nottingham University. Picture: Splash Source: Supplied She started modelling her look on Barbie when she was 15. Charlotte Poole became so obsessed, she dressed herself in figure-hugging corsets, dyed her hair platinum blonde and even enhanced her breasts to... Read More
It began as a routine probation check but quickly turned into a trip to the Oakland Zoo after Alameda County Sheriffs Deputies walked into a house on the 19000 block of Mount Jasper Drive in Castro Valley and came face to face with Mr. Teeth. The five-foot-long Caiman alligator was in a Plexiglas tank in... Read More
Life ends for all of us, but sometimes, it just ends entirely too soon. A young genius died this week when Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit.com, died of an apparent suicide. The death was confirmed on several sites and also by his attorney. “The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is, regrettably, true,” confirmed... Read More
A prospective tenant looking at a house had no idea what her landlord would be like. What she didn’t expect was to be handed a list of increasingly bizarre house rules, before even signing a contract. The 31 instructions posted online by Laura Evelyn include limiting showering to 15 minutes, having visitors approved two weeks... Read More
A moggy called Merlin is in line to be crowned the world’s loudest cat. The ear-splitting pet can conjure up a wizard purr measured at 100 decibels. That makes Merlin as loud as a classroom of chattering children, a London Underground train, or the sound of a car horn 25ft away. Owner Tracy Westwood, 47,... Read More
Nearly a fifth of Britons fail to change their sheets at least one a month, startling new figures suggest. And they could be storing up a whole host of health woes as a result, ranging from asthma to rhinitis and eczema, a leading allergy expert has warned. A survey of more than 2,000 people found... Read More
by Andy Morgan “Religion” has become a dirty word, according to several surveys over the last decade. 19.6% of Americans report they are “nothing in particular.” 48% of Americans consider themselves “spiritual and religious.” For the first time, less than half of Americans call themselves Protestant. It’s all over the news: America is a post-religious... Read More
When Timothy Yost, 46, visited a Texas park he had no idea how fortunate he would be. Yost went to wash his feet in the Colorado River when he found a bag, which just so happened to be worth $77,000. The mysterious bag contained South African coins along with wetcash that he then took to a local bank to cash... Read More
A Chinese Crested Dogin Great Britain defeated a group of international competitors to win the title of world’s ugliest dog. Mugly won the grand prize at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California, the news media reported. “I could not speak when they announced the name Mugly” said dog owner, Bev Nicholson. “I did not know where... Read More
Chinese actress that starred in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “Rush Hour 2” angrily denied selling herself for sexual favors to a disgraced official of the ruling Chinese Communist Party for $1 million per night. A story in the tabloids in Hong Kong newspaperApple Daily said Zhang Ziyi provided sexual services in exchange for about $1... Read More
by Isi Esene The Indian police have arrested six suspects and a bus driver for allegedly gang-raping a woman who boarded a bus at night in Gurdaspur district in Punjab. The attack is a sad reminder of the New Delhi gang rape which sparked international outage last. In this case which happened during the weekend,... Read More
The mother of a 13-year-old said she has filed a formal complaint against a juvenile courtjudge who said she had cut her daughter’s hair in his courtroom as a punishment, after her daughter, Kaytlen Lopan, cut the hair of a 3-year-old girl in McDonald’s. “She definitely needs to be punished for what had happened,” said Valerie Bruno... Read More
A young mother faces several charges after her severely malnourished 10-year-old daughter was found locked in a closet all dirty. Jacole Price, 29, from Kansas City, will be charged with first-degree assault, child abuse in the first degree, endangering the welfare of a child, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said yesterday afternoon, the news media... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Here is ‘Hynotize me,’ the much anticipated song from Olu Maintain featuring Olivia of the then G-Unit clan, and also Big A. The new single is off the “‘Chosen One‘ album in the works. Check below to listen: ‘Hynotize Me’ – [audio:http://static.ynaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/02-Hypnotize-Me-Ft-olivia-Big-A1.mp3|titles=02-Hypnotize-Me-Ft-olivia-Big-A]
by Rachel Ogbu The ailing younger brother of the late Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has passed on. According to reports, Adamu passed on at the Kafachan General hospital, area of Jema’s local government of Kaduna State. The family have been thrown into double mourning after losing another member of the household. Sources say... Read More
by Sonala Olumhense In Nigeria, you rarely learn what became of the Emperor’s indictment or those 50 heads that were reported to have been bleeding under the bed of the governor’s wife as she slept. The front pages of the press are a wonderful classroom. Pay close attention, and they open your eyes to... Read More
He is able to make a face the ugliest in the world and is earning $10,000.Tang Shuquan of the city of Chengdu, China, has worked at contorting his face in the most horrible way possible. He was rewarded for his years of hard work with a $10,000 prize and medal of the Guinness World Record... Read More
Have you ever lost something really important, something that has sentimental value that could never be replaced? Steve Callahan had been looking for his missing cell phone in his car and was shocked to find a 14 karat, white gold and diamond wedding ring in between the seats of his newly purchased Pontiac Grand Am. He and... Read More
by Akan Ido Ex-beauty queen, Ene Lawani is surely having a wonderful birthday. We gather that her friends decided to make her day a memorable one by getting her a state-of-the-art BMW 5 Series car as a gift. They all reportedly converged for a breakfast celebration at the Radison Blu, Victoria Island to mark the... Read More
An 18-year-old pregnant woman and her boyfriend were both lashed 100 times by Islamists in Timbuktu in Mali as punishment for “having a child out of wedlock”. Militiaman from the Ansar Dine Islamic group sit on a vehicle in Gao in northeastern Mali Photo: REUTERS The sentence was carried out on the orders of Ansar Dine,... Read More
A Crofton man was arrested for impersonating a police officer after he pulled over an actual off-duty Capitol Heights police officer Wednesday afternoon in Upper Marlboro. Prince George’s County Police say 29-year-old Anthony Kenneth Mastrogiovanni, of the 900 block of Eastham Court, was driving a white pickup truck on southbound Route 301 when he attempted... Read More
by Akan Ido Days after accusing Don Jazzy of unleashing ‘thugs’ on him, Princewill Ojukwu appears to have finally made peace with the MAVIN Records super-producer. Ojukwu had alleged that after a row with Don Jazzy at his newly opened club, POP, the producer ordered ‘thugs’ to beat him up while he (Don Jazzy) watched.... Read More
For the fourth time in the last two years, a Cincinnati man has been arrested for masturbating in public with the help of a teddy bear, according to police documents. Charles Marshall, 28, was arrested after employees at a health clinic saw him pleasuring himself in an alley. Marshall was cited for disorderly conduct. Municipal records show that Marshall has been... Read More
by Nwachukwu Egbunike I stand by my submission that most of us should take a walk, a little more often, down the streets of our cities and villages. I read Mark Amaza’s rejoinder to my article with considerable interest. First let me start by thanking him for the very detailed attention he gave to reading the... Read More