One thing Kim Kardashian doesn’t need to draw attention to his her infamous curves, particularly as all eyes are already on her due to her pregnancy. But that, of course, didn’t stop the TV star from causing a stir when she stepped out for a spot of dinner in Miami on Sunday night. Clearly keen... Read More
Lance Armstrong will make a limited confession to doping during his televised interview with Oprah Winfrey next week, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. Lance Armstrong’s career highlights may be tainted, but they’re still worth remembering. Armstrong, who has long denied doping, will also offer an apology during the interview scheduled to... Read More
Former super-model Heidi Klum has ruled out becoming a ‘cougar’ – while admitting she likes to experiment in bed. The fashion mogul, who split from husband Seal, a year ago, said she sees the attraction in an older woman dating a younger man. But the 39-year-old said it wasn’t for her. ‘I can understand why... Read More
by Patrick Hruby, Jake Simpson, and Hampton Stevens Gentlemen, It’s official: Next week, before God and man—or, more specifically, Oprah and her audience—America’s favorite disgraced cyclist/cancer-survival-profiteer is going to apologize. Come clean. At the very least, explain himself. After more than a decade of self-righteous, intelligence-insultingdenials, vindictive bullying, legal shock and awe and the most retroactively hilarious Nike commercial ever filmed,... Read More
A teenage girl who was forced to pay her rent with ‘sexual favours’ to an infamous trafficking gang has helped jail a tenth predatory paedophile. The victim, who was 15 at the time, was abused by landlord John Tatton, 72, after he forced her to pay the rent in ‘sexual favours.’ At the time the... Read More
A special condition that triggered the scrotum of Wesley Warren Jr. to grow to a massive 100 pounds made him feel like “a monster” and the Las Vegas man embark on a campaign to raise $1 million for corrective surgery. However, given the possibility of having the surgery – even at no cost – the 47 year old, remains... Read More
Sofia Vergara shared some memories of her days with sunny blonde hair on her Twitter account on Friday as she gears up for shooting a new season of her hit comedy Modern Family. The curvy Columbian beauty dug as far back as her childhood, starting her trip through memory lane with a picture captioned: ‘Haja... Read More
by Akan Ido As the saga involving actress, Nuella Njubigbo, and Stella Dimoko Korkus hots up, the blogger has responded to Nuella’s press statement which denied any involvement with a certain South-south governor effectively calling the actress an husband snatcher. She insisted her story is true saying Nuella is doing a bad job of trying... Read More
SYDNEY: China’s one-child policy has created a generation which is less trusting, more risk-averse and perhaps less likely to become entrepreneurs, according to new Australian research. Published in the journal Science, the study of more than 400 Beijing residents who were born around the time the controversial population policy was first introduced could have implications... Read More
by Akan Ido Former Finance Minister, Mallam Adamu Ciroma is a respected voice in the Nigerian polity having garnered valuable experience working with several successive administrations in the country coming into prominence during the president Shehu Shagari administration. His assessment of the Goodluck Jonathan administration is, however, not complimentary as he described the present government... Read More
An Indonesian man is in search of a cure for bubble-like tumors that caused havoc on his body – if not for himself than for his children, who fear they will be suffering a genetic disease. Wisnu Chandra, nicknamed the “bubble skin man”, wearing a ski mask and sunglasses to hide his appearance on the rare occasions when... Read More
by Mo Ivory Olivia Pope is no different than Joseline from “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” or Kim from “Real Housewives of Atlanta” – she just has more expensive clothes, a higher paying job and tighter security. I was browsing for stories this morning as I prepped for my talk show and ran across the... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu A 27-year-old man was convicted for having sex with a chicken which later died. The Chisamba magistrate court heard the horrible and rather sickening tale of how Goliath Nyirenda of Mubalani settlement in Chisamba, Zambia had sex with a chicken around 11pm on November 18, last year. In Nyirenda’s defence, he said that on the... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu India is struck again by another rape scandal as a 16-year-old Indian girl attempted to set herself on fire after a neighbour allegedly raped her in northern India. The nation is still facing the brutal reality of an ugly trend following the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in the Indian capital,... Read More
A passenger train has plowed into and killed five elephants of a herd crossing railroad tracks in eastern India. R.N. Mohapatra, a railroad spokesman, said the train struck the animals early Sunday in the Rambha forest area, about 180 kilometers (110 miles) south of Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa state. J.D. Sharma, chief conservator of... Read More
by Isi Esene There are reports of a major traffic gridlock on the ever-busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. This is caused by a trailer which reportedly crashed near the Michael Otedola Estate causing a long stretch of traffic on the expressway. Sources say traffic management agencies are presently at the scene of the gridlock making efforts to... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Just when you think the dark days of Britney Spears are long gone with a blooming career and new single, she quits the US X-Factor and recently has announced she has split up from her fiancé. They had been engaged since December 2011 but in a statement, Spears, 31, and Jason Trawick, 41... Read More
by Akan Ido With allegations and counter-allegations flying back and forth between actress, Nuella Njubigbo and popular blogger, Stella Dimoko Korkus, it is hard to keep a tab on events but we will try our best to keep you up to speed. For those who have not had the opportunity to follow the intriguing story,... Read More
A landlord who coerced a 15-year-old girl to perform sexual favours to cover her rent has been jailed for four years. John Tatton, 72, sexually abused the girl repeatedly over the course of six months at the house in Heywood, Greater Manchester. Around this time she was also being abused by a group of men... Read More
by Melinda Ozongwu When we sit and complain about the quality, passion and work ethic of our professionals, we need to look at what got them there in the first place. It’s a domino effect of society’s pressures, traditional expectations and bad choices. It goes without saying that most African parents are fairly traditional. Though... Read More
A woman weighing 400 pounds decided to strip to her birthday suit as she sat on a bus bench in Fort Lauderdale Florida. Patricia McCollum was arrested and charged with exposure of sexual organs in public and was held initially in a bond of $100, according to the news media. The 52-year-old, who is currently homeless, was sitting naked on a... Read More
by Sinem Bilen-Onabanjo When did journalism become about balancing other responsibilities with the invoices you write out for stories you want to cover? Over the last four or five years of a decade I have spent working in the media in Turkey, UK and Nigeria, I have noticed a growing and, quite frankly, worrying... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu It happened four years ago in New Jersey but the parents of a baby boy who died of heroin intoxication only recently admitted they rubbed the drug on his gums because he was teething. People were shocked to hear that 11-month-old Baby JM’s exposure to the drug was not accidental. He died in... Read More
Isi Esene The last year, 2012, has come and gone with the competition among bloggers getting keener by the day. In its usual tradition, CP-Africa is out with a projection of websites to watch-out for in 2013. Linda Ikeji, Uche Eze (Bella Naija), and Chude Jideonwo are making the list for the second time in... Read More
This snake on a plane had a turbulent flight. Stunned Qantas Airways passengers watched out their windows as a large python clung to a plane’s wing during a two-hour flight from Australia’s northeastern city of Cairns to Papua New Guinea. The 3-meter (10-foot) python fought to stay on the wing, pulling itself forward only to... Read More
A vigilante iPhone owner has tracked down a man who allegedly stole the gadget by using a location app – and then filmed their violent confrontation. Kenneth Schmidgall, a 26-year-old construction worker from San Diego, California, took the law into his own hands after the phone was taken at a reggae concert on December 28. After... Read More
by Feyi Fawehinmi There is one major problem with cement as an input – it cannot be expensive. If cement is expensive, then the wheels will slowly grind to a halt and all the activities further down the chain will slow down or stop completely. I’m a Radical Free Market Ideologue. What this means... Read More
This is a Photoshop fail so epic, so weird, as to render it almost impossible to write about. The eagle-eyed folk over at the Photoshop Disasters website posted a link to fashion website Romwe, where they had posted a pair of red trousers for sale at $79.99 (£53.71) on the most unfeasibly long, skinny pair of legs.... Read More
A woman was found stuck to toilet seat in the women’s bathroom at Walmart in Monticello, Kentucky. Police were called to the Walmart in Wayne County after receiving reports that the woman was trapped. Police said the woman went to the bathroom and that’s when the story gets a little sticky. EMS had to peel... Read More
Being late for his own wedding proved costly for a bridegroom as he and his relatives were beaten up by irked family members of the bride who was married off to another person. Groom Jameel was to marry Nagma at 10:30am in Muradnagar area of the district, in India police said. However, the groom and... Read More