Lady throws one-day-old baby from two-storey building

 Police arrests a lady in Enugu.
– The lady was alleged to have thrown her new born baby from a tw0-storey building.
There was confusion in Ezeani, New Haven, Enugu state on Tuesday, January 26, when a young lady threw her one-day-old baby from a two-storey building few hours after she was delivered of the baby, Daily Post reports.

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According to eyewitnesses, the lady whose, identity could not be ascertained was impregnated by unknown person but had been hiding the unwanted pregnancy for quite sometime.
The police have already arrested the nursing mother for killing the baby.
She was reported to have successfully delivered the baby boy at her residence on Tuesday unknown to her neighbours.
The child was wrapped with it’s placenta and was thrown from a two storey building by the mother in a bid to do away with the child. His skull was reportedly shattered and he died immediately.

Residents, who noticed the bizzare incident, alerted the New Haven police division which led to her arrest.
The mother was said to have hid herself in the room, a development that made the security operatives and health officials to conduct emergency examination on all the women in the compound to determine who delivered the baby. When the lady was examined it was discovered that she was bleeding, an indication that she was responsible.
Ebere Amaraizu, the Enugu state police spokesman, confirmed the incident and arrest of the lady, saying she was already helping the police in their investigations.

Pregnant woman assaulted by young man in Lagos

–Samuel Onochie was accused of sexually accosting a married woman
–The law diploma graduate was apprehended by police officers
–He pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault

Samuel Onochie, a law diploma graduate has been apprehended by Lagos state police officers after he allegedly sexually assaulted a pregnant woman

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The Punch reports that the pregnant woman whose name was not revealed was passing through Jakande, in the Eti-Osa local government area on Sunday, January 23 by 6am when Onochie allegedly surprised her.
The 34 year old graduate grabbed her, forced her to the floor and stripped her wrapper. He was trying to penetrate her when her cries attracted a passerby who stopped the act.
The man held her while the pregnant woman rushed to the Ilasan police division which led to the arrest of the assailant.
A police source said: “It is very disturbing that a man could commit such an act, especially with a pregnant woman. As if it was not enough, he did it in broad daylight. He has not been able to tell us why he committed the act.”
The suspect was arraigned before a Tinubu magistrate’s court on Wednesday, January 27 on one count of sexual assault by Inspector Philip Osijale, police prosecutor.
The charge read: “That you, Samuel Onochie, 34, on January 24, 2016, at about 6am, at Jakande, Lekki, in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area, within the Lagos Magisterial District, did sexually assault one Esther, by inserting your finger into her private parts, thereby committing an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 259 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.”
The defendant pleaded not guilty by the magistrate, Mr. L.A. Owolabi in the sum of N100, 000 and two sureties in like sum.
The case was adjourned till Monday, March 14 and the magistrate ordered that the defendant should be remanded in prison pending the time he would perfect his bail conditions.
In a related development,for more than two years after he threatened that she would run mad if she divulged the secret.

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EFCC operative allegedly batters pregnant girl

– One of the operatives of the EFCC allegedly impregnated a 19-year-old Blessing Nwokpa
– After her refusal to terminate pregnancy, the girl became an object of battering and assault by him
– Blessing went to the Legal Aids Council of Nigeria to seek help

Blessing Nwokpa was allegedly assaulted by Okeke Edward at the EFCC office located on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.

One of the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has allegedly battered a 19-year-old pregnant girl.
PM News reports that Blessing Nwokpa was allegedly assaulted by Okeke Edward at the EFCC office located on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, where the man works as exhibit keeper.
The victim, who was a canteen attendant at the EFCC premises, was allegedly impregnated by Edward. However, the man did not want to take responsibility for his actions and offered Blessing N18,000 to terminate the pregnancy.
After her refusal, Blessing became an object of battering and assault by him. The young people lived together but one day Edward allegedly threw her and her belongings out of his house.
Thus, the young girl, who is now seven months pregnant, became homeless and could not feed herself after she was sacked from work.
Desperate girl went to the EFCC office where Edward works to ask for money for food and antenatal care. However, when the man saw her, he allegedly descended on her and was battering her until she collapsed.

According to sources, the intervention of senior officers saved Blessing from further battering. Shortly after the assault, Blessing went to the Legal Aids Council of Nigeria and reported the matter.
It was gathered that the teenager was brought to Lagos by her brother and started working as canteen attendant at the EFCC office. The girl’s brother had accommodation problem and Blessing started sleeping at the canteen after the work.
She said when Edward saw her there and offered help by allowing her to sleep in his house until her brother would get another accommodation.
Blessing said that that during the night, Edward lured her into sex, deflowered her and impregnated her.
The girl said that initially she did not know she was pregnant but soon she started having unusual feeling in her body. Therefore, she went to a hospital, where she conducted a pregnancy test, which was positive.
Blessing said that informed Edward about the result of the test, he became angry and insisted on abortion.
Recalling the fateful day, when Edward bet her, the girl said that the EFCC staff came to her rescue and advised her to go to Legal Aids Council to complain and seek their assistance.
Blessing said when the Legal Aids Council invited Edward to settle the matter, he told them that he would not come, boasting that nothing would happen.

A 99-Year-Old Woman Wakes to Exotic Animal on Her Chest; She Screams and It Screams

That is one freaky-looking alarm clock.

A 99-year-old Miami woman woke up to find a kinkajou on her chest.

The exotic animal, part of the raccoon family, had escaped from his owner's home and made its way into the elderly woman's house.

It wasn't clear who was the most freaked out - the groggy woman or the startled kinkajou.

© Provided by CBS Interactive Inc. A 99-year-old woman freaks out when she awakes to find exotic animal on her chest. The animal freaked out, too. "I guess she thought maybe it was a cat, but once they got a look at each other - classic - both of them screamed and both of them ran," said Dr. Don Harris of the South Dade Animal Hospital, where the exotic animal resided after the hair-raising encounter.

"The lady ran to get help, to call her daughter and the kinkajou ran up to the attic," Harris told WEVN-TV.

The animals are usually found in Central and South America. The kinkajou's owner was scheduled to pick it up at the animal hospital.

Inmates blow open Brazil prison wall in mass breakout

© Provided by AFP Inmates in the Frei Damiao de Bozanno prison used explosives to destroy a wall and escape en masse in Recife 
Inmates in one of Brazil's roughest prisons used explosives to destroy a wall and escape en masse into surrounding streets, prompting a frantic manhunt.
Media footage of the brazen breakout on Saturday in the northeastern city of Recife showed the blast ripping a hole in the main wall around the Frei Damiao de Bozanno facility.
After a cloud of dust and debris clears, a stream of men dressed in ordinary clothing can be seen dashing into the narrow streets before police arrive on the scene.
Pernambuco state justice authorities were quoted by Globo news site saying Sunday that 40 inmates escaped and that 36 had now been returned to custody, two killed, one hospitalized and one remained at large.
It took hours for officials to give figures, with Brazilian media initially reporting that as many as 100 prisoners could have got out.
One of those killed was shot after breaking into a local home, police said on Globo television. Footage showed the man lying in a pool of blood on the floor.
This was the second mass breakout in the same area in a week. Fifty-three inmates fled Wednesday from the Professor Barreto Campelo prison, near Recife, and by Sunday only 13 of them had been recaptured, G1 news site reported.
Escape attempts are frequent at Pernambuco prisons, the most overcrowded in Brazil. Facilities designed for 10,500 inmates maximum hold around 32,000 people, according to a 2015 study by Human Rights Watch.
Many prisoners have to sleep on the floor and there are so few guards that officials turn day-to-day control over to selected inmates who are given keys to the prison's interior, the report said.

My Friend Kidnapped & Sold My Baby – Father Laments

A 3-year-old Success Onyeisi was kidnapped from her home on December 22, 2015 and since then, the girl’s father, Godwin Onyeisi, has not known peace.
Okpara, a close friend of the victim’s family, sympathized and even helped in searching for the girl, until local people recalled that they had seen him with the child about the time she reportedly went missing.
Based on the accusation, Okpara was apprehended and transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Ikeja, where he allegedly confessed that he sold the baby for N20, 000.
However, during the interrogation the suspect did not name the buyer or where he could be located.
Meanwhile, Mr Onyeisi could not believe that his close friend, whom he treated like a brother, could commit such a horrible crime.
Speaking with The Nation, the man revealed that he had spent all his savings, about N60, 000, on police investigations and other logistics to no avail
“The worst part is that Okpara followed me to all the places I went to in search of my daughter, with the same cloth he wore when he kidnapped her.
“He was wearing the same red T-shirt that people saw him with while he took my daughter away. But he was following me as if he did not know anything about her disappearance.
“He followed me on my motorcycle to all the palaces of the Baales, all the streets and all the police stations we visited, until people who saw him with her about the time she went missing, told us and the police that he was the kidnapper,” he said.
Recalling that fateful day, when Success was kidnapped, the man said: “My older children went to fetch water at the well in a nearby compound. They went with other children in our yard. So, because we were planning to travel, my wife left Success who was watching cartoon in the room and rushed to the market.
“She was the one who called me that they have been looking for Success and have not seen her. Initially, I didn’t really take her seriously because I did not think anyone will want to harm me or my family. When I came back and they had not seen her, I started going round the neighbourhood asking questions.
Mrs Onyeisi said that he had been looking for his daughter for several days when he started hearing information that Okpara was seen with Success. At first, the father could not believe that his friend could kidnap his little daughter was very close to him.
“Whenever my daughter is given food, she will take it to eat with him. Once we bath her, she will take her clothe to him to wear for her. She usually slept in their house, so I did not want to believe that he was behind her disappearance,” he recalled.
However, shortly after the arrest, Okpara confessed that he was the one who kidnapped Success and sold her for N20,000 through someone else to a man who lives in Okota.
While the police officers were searching for a missing child, the victim’s father was going from church to church, where he was told that his daughter was alive.
“Okpara should let me know if he has killed my daughter. If my baby is still alive, he should say where she is. How can a man like that kidnap a little girl and since then he doesn’t want to say where she is? Police need to put pressure on him to say where my baby is.”
“I have spent all my savings on the investigation of this matter. I have been giving the police money so that the case is not slowed down.
“Now I don’t even have money to pay for the school fees of my other children,” the man cried out.

The police launched a manhunt for the buyer but the baby

Turbulence diverts Milan-bound U.S. flight to Newfoundland

An American Airlines passenger jet was diverted to an airport in eastern Canada on Sunday after hitting severe turbulence and seven people were taken to hospital, the airline said.

The flight, which was bound for Milan from Miami, with 203 people on board landed at St. John's, Newfoundland, airport at around 8:30 p.m. EST and was met by emergency vehicles and ambulances.

"They had experienced some turbulence which resulted in injuries so they diverted to (St. John's)," said Sara Norris, spokeswoman St. John's International Airport.

In an emailed statement, American Airlines said three crew members and four passengers were taken to hospital "for further evaluation." It did not comment on the extent of injuries.

The airline said the fasten seatbelts light was on when the plane hit turbulence. (Writing by Amran Abocar; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Dozens of deaths blamed on rare cold snap in Taiwan

© AFP / STR (getty Images) The long bridge at West Lake is covered with ice amid the cold in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province on January 24, 2016. Much of China shivered on January 23 as a teeth-chattering cold snap brokeTAIPEI, Taiwan — An unusually cold weather front has been blamed for killing 57 mostly elderly people in Taiwan's greater Taipei area.
The cold wave abruptly pushed temperatures to a 16-year record low of 4 degrees Celsius (39.2 degrees Fahrenheit) in the subtropical capital where most homes lack central heating, causing heart trouble and shortness of breath for many of the victims, a city official said.
"In our experience, it's not the actual temperature but the sudden drop that's too sudden for people's circulatory systems," said a city spokesman who identified himself only by his surname, Chang.
The cold snap was blamed in the deaths of 40 people in the capital, Taipei, while the neighboring New Taipei City attributed an additional 17 deaths to the cold weather. Strokes and hypothermia were among the causes of death in New Taipei City, officials there said.
Temperatures in Taipei average 16 degrees C (60 degrees F) in January, according to Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau. Because of the relatively mild norms, most households in Taiwan lack central heating, another suspected factor in the recent deaths.
New Taipei City said it was providing shelter for 91 homeless people endangered by the cold.
The cold front also left 9 centimeters (3.5 inches) of snow on Taipei's highest peak Saturday and stranded vehicles as people headed into the mountains to see the snow.
The same polar front closed schools Monday in Hong Kong, where 130 people had been trapped at day earlier on a peak in the city that also seldom gets such cold weather. Hong Kong temperatures reached 3.1 degrees Sunday.
Temperatures in Taipei are forecast to reach 17 degrees Tuesday.

A pregnant house wife named Aisha Abdullahi, has been raped to death in Kano state.

The 22-year-old was reportedly defiled and murdered  by an unknown person in Kano.
Daily post reports that as of time of filling the report, there was no suspect linked to the crime.
Kano Police spokesman, Musa Magaji Majia, however, assured reporters that they had already started investigation on the matter.
Majia said Abdullahi Mohammed, husband of the deceased, who was away at the time of the incident, reported the matter to the police.
It could be recalled that two weeks ago, two persons, Nura and Haruna were in court facing charges of alleged gruesome murder of yet another house wife at Khadija Muhammad of Jain quarters.

In another development, a newly-wedded bride was killed just twelve days after her wedding in Kano. Investigations suggests that her husband might be the culprit

In Greenland, a climate change mystery with clues written in water and stone

The effects of climate change are starting to make themselves clear just about everywhere, but nowhere more dramatically than Greenland. The giant island holds the world's second largest ice sheet, and it's melting fast—an average of 287 billion metric tons of ice a year.

Global warming is the big culprit, but scientists aren't so sure about a lot of the details. And they need to be, to help figure what might be ahead for the rest of us as melting ice leads to sea level rise and big changes in the oceans.

Recently The World's Ari Daniel traveled to Greenland, with a group of researchers who are trying to unlock parts of the mystery.

Here’s the first of his reports.

The breakfast on the edge of Greenland’s massive ice sheet is ordinary — granola, yogurt, bread and jam. Everything else here is anything but.

“You’d pay a million bucks for a view like this,” says Gordon Hamilton, from the University of Maine by way of Scotland. “Pretty nice breakfast buffet, I guess, for sitting out here next to the ice sheet.”

Hamilton, Detective No. 1 in our Greenland mystery, is sitting on the rocky rim of a glacier. Kind of figures. After all, the man is a glaciologist. But this isn’t just any glacier. It’s the Helheim glacier, one of Greenland’s biggest, a three-mile-wide river of mottled gray, whites and stunning blue ice that flows into Sermilik fjord on the island’s southeast coast.

We’re on one side of that fjord. Across, on the other side, is what drew us here — a horizontal stripe running the length of the fjord, about 600 feet above the ice.

“Everybody who’s come here with me has said, ‘What’s that line over there?’” Hamilton says. “And I say, ‘Well, that’s where the glacier was in 2003.’ It’s kind of like the signal clue that something really big had happened.”

Hamilton calls this clue the bathtub ring. Helheim’s surface sat right around the line for decades, maybe longer. But about a decade ago, he says, in the span of just a couple of years, it dropped dramatically and thinned out.

“And what that means is that all that volume of ice, from the current surface up to the height of that bathtub ring, is now in the ocean.”

Hamilton wants to know why, and what that big drop might mean for all of us.

Because it’s not just Helheim. Most of Greenland is covered by a massive block of ice, so big it’s difficult to imagine, even right here on the edge of it. Helheim is just one of thousands of glaciers that drain that ice sheet into the sea, and right around the time the bathtub ring showed up, some of the other big glaciers also changed suddenly.

“They retreated very quickly back up their fjords,” Hamilton says. “Their flow speed doubled or tripled. And this had the effect of putting more icebergs into the ocean. And when you put icebergs into the ocean, you displace ocean water and you cause sea levels to rise.

So what happened here? To find our next clue requires going airborne, on a helicopter flying low above the fjord a few miles beyond the glacier’s terminus.

Icebergs the size of football stadiums lurk in every direction as one of Hamilton’s colleagues slides open the chopper door to one side. Roped into the chopper, he sits on the floor and shoots a thermometer trailing a spool of copper wire into the water.

As the probe drops below the surface, Hamilton watches the temperature data plot in real time on a screen. Near the surface it’s a hair colder than 0 degrees Celsius, or 32 degrees Fahrenheit, the freezing point of fresh water. But it’s not frozen, because salt water freezes at about -2 Celsius.

The water gets even colder as the probe goes deeper, but then it gets warmer again. At the bottom of the fjord, about 2,000 feet down, the temperature is 4.04 degrees Celsius, or 39 degrees Fahrenheit — downright frigid, but actually warm enough to melt glacial ice. For Hamilton, it’s another key clue in the mystery of Helheim and Greenland’s other rapidly receding glaciers.

“We think it’s this water that’s coming into contact with the edge of the ice sheet and causing the rapid melting and destabilization of the outlet glaciers,” Hamilton says.

We already know that some of Greenland’s ice is melting due to warm air overhead. But while he can’t be sure, because no one was measuring the water temperature here a decade ago, Hamilton thinks it was warming water below that probably triggered Helheim’s dramatic change.

Of course that answer just leads us smack into another question: where’s all this warm water coming from?

Sixty miles farther down the Sermilik fjord, Fiamma Straneo — Detective No. 2 — thinks she’s found the answer. Her research ship, a converted fishing trawler called the Adolf Jensen, is dodging icebergs near the mouth of the fjord, where “the glacier talks to the ocean and the ocean talks to the glacier,” as she puts it.

Straneo, a physical oceanographer originally from Italy and now at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, is using array of instruments including temperature and salinity recorders to eavesdrop on that conversation.

Straneo always knew that warm water from farther south in the Atlantic flows along the coast of Greenland. She also knew that climate change is helping make that Atlantic water even warmer than it used to be. But until a few years ago she thought that water stayed out of the fjords.

When she and her colleagues started plumbing the depths here, she says, “we had expected that we’d find some structural barriers where the fjord starts so that the waters couldn’t get in. But instead, we found these deep troughs. The fjord was wide open.”

And it was the same for others fjords in the region — nothing to keep out the warming Atlantic water.

This at least partly answers Gordon Hamilton’s question — how all that warm water is getting to the base of the glaciers.

But there are still other big questions. For instance, why did the glacier drop so suddenly a decade ago?

Hamilton says the evidence suggests there’s a kind of tipping point, that glaciers like Helheim can remain stable in near freezing water but that even a little more heat in the water can destabilize them

That doesn’t explain why Helheim seems to have re-stabilized. It also doesn’t tell us whether or when it’ll get hit with another massive melt.

But Fiamma Straneo says this fjord and its glacier are fairly typical.

She says she and her colleagues have found that “all the big fjords around Greenland are filled with these warm Atlantic waters. They’re very dynamic, meaning the potential is there for bringing a lot of heat to the edge of the glaciers.”

And she says one thing is quite clear. “What’s happening in this fjord does not stay in this fjord.” Or any other fjord up here.

There are trillions of tons of ice here in Greenland, enough to raise global sea levels 21 feet if all of it were to melt. No one can say yet how quickly that will happen. But Straneo says it’s vital to learn as much as possible, and fast.

“There’s no doubt that sea level will rise in a warming planet — we have ice that is on land that will melt,” she says. “But what is important for humanity is to understand how quickly it will rise. We need to know this so that we can plan.”

For Straneo, that means continuing to probe the waters here for subtle changes in temperature, salinity, and even rare gases that provide telltale signs of where different patches of water are coming from.

For Gordon Hamilton, it also means intently watching the glacier itself, including its surface. That’s why back on land he and a team of engineers are installing a special kind of laser on a vantage point well above the bathtub ring, to make precise measurements of the terminus over the next year.

The idea, he says, is to monitor as many parts of the complex glacier-ocean system as possible, in as much detail as possible.

Hopefully, he says, with these new high resolution views, “we can start to link these two separate systems together and figure out what is the change in one system that causes the change in the other.”

Lots of mysteries to be solved up here. But one thing is not a mystery.

Greenland matters, to all of us.

This story was produced with help from our WGBH partners at NOVA and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.

5 Children Die Of Suffocation After Freezer Traps Them Inside

The bodies of five children were found inside a freezer at their grandmother’s home in Kakamas, Northern Cape, South Africa.

The cousins, aged between three and seven, were reportedly playing in abandoned deep freezer and become trapped after it locked itself

Five children found dead inside a freezer after getting locked inside while playing

As the doors were secured shut by latches that could only be opened by the handle on the outside, the kids were not able to set themselves free and suffocated. Their bodies were found by their distraught grandmother, who immediately called the police and ambulance but it was too late.

Northern Cape police spokeswoman Major Dimakatso Mooi commented on the incident: “The deceased are cousins. It is alleged that on 19 January 2016 at about 18:00‚ the grandmother of the children found them all suffocated inside an old freezer in their yard. 

The police appeal to parents or children’s caretakers to take responsibility in ensuring their children’s safety at all times.  Children should not be left unattended and the yards must be cleared of old equipment not used and scraps that can cause harm to the children.”

The authorities have launched an investigation into the tragedy but they “don’t suspect any foul play”. Refrigerator death refers to death by suffocation in a refrigerator or similar device such as a freezer.
The problem with children suffocating in the appliances was well-known. A number of alternative methods of keeping freezer’s doors shut had been suggested. The magnetic mechanism is among them, it is used today instead of a latch.

Refuse Dump Threatens Residents’ Health In Yenag

Some residents have called the attention of the Bayelsa state government to the indiscriminate dumping of refuse in Yenagoa, the capital of the state.
In recent times, the mountain of refuse springing up in Yenagoa has been of serious concern

Residents are worried over the environmental/air pollution the refuse sites have constituted while the stench is becoming unbearable as an impending health hazards looms in the city popularly known as the ‘glory of all lands’.

Naij.com visited the city and observed that wastes are indiscriminately dumped on major roads in the city.

The refuse were sighted along hospital road (close to the state electoral commission complex and the state government house),Edepie, Opolo, Biogbolo, Kpansia, Imgbi junction.

Wastes are being piled up in most markets, bridges in the city.

Emmanuel Okoli, a resident who spoke with this medium said he is disturbed by the uncontrolled dumping of refuse in the city.

According to him, the refuses were dumped in the waste bins and disposing cans along the roads with the hope that the waste management authority would help dispose them.

Okoli claimed he has not seen the waste disposing officials in recent times. As a result, wastes have littered the streets.

John Alaibe, another resident who was also furious that the wastes were not evacuated despite several calls from residents called on the re-elected governor to do something about the refuse dumps across the state.
”Now that Governor Dickson has been re-elected, i think one of his priorities is to see that the wastes are evacuated as soon as possible before they constitute an epidemic hazards,” he said.
The residents however, appealed to the state government and the ministry of environment to urgently address the menace to forestall looming health hazards.
Meanwhile, Barrister Iniruo Wills, the state commissioners for environment in the state said the state government is  addressing the indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the city.
Wills claimed that the ministry has recently mobilised the refuse evacuation contractors to go back to work.
‘There were constraints recently because of the sharp dwindling revenue in the state. But we’ve recently mobilised the contractors to clear the refuse. That is in the immediate term. More importantly, we’ve resolved to reform the waste management sector in such a way waste management will be more private-sector driven in order to relief government the burden of refuse evacuation. Private sector operators will be licensed by the government to collect and evacuate refuse,” he said.

More charges for driver accused of plowing into Las Vegas pedestrians

LAS VEGAS, Jan 20 (Reuters) - An Oregon woman facing a murder charge for killing a tourist when she drove onto a sidewalk and caused chaos on the Las Vegas Strip was charged on Wednesday with dozens more counts, including attempted murder, for harming other pedestrians, prosecutors said.

Lakeisha Holloway, 24, has been charged with 71 counts, most of them for attempted murder and battery with a deadly weapon for striking more than 30 people with her sedan on Dec. 20, according to the charging document.
Holloway was originally charged with murder in the death of an Arizona woman, as well as child abuse or neglect for having her 3-year-old daughter in the back seat and failure to stop after a collision.
Prosecutors said they dropped the failure-to-stop charge, but that the other charges remained and Holloway was charged with another count of child abuse for striking an 11-year-old boy with her car.
© AP Photo/Chase Stevens Lakeisha Nicole Holloway enters district court with one of her public defenders, Scott Coffee, for her arraignment Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015, in Las Vegas. Holloway, who crashed her car into pedestrians on the Las Vegas…Holloway, who police say was living in her car with her daughter for a week before the incident, already faced the possibility of life in prison if convicted of murder.
"These additional charges reflect the totality of the lives impacted by the defendant's actions," Clark County District Attorney Steven Wolfson said in a statement.
The deadly scene on the Las Vegas Strip, an international tourist destination, unfolded as Holloway repeatedly drove her Oldsmobile onto the sidewalk, ramming pedestrians, police said.
Holloway faces the possibility of more than 1,000 years behind bars if convicted and given consecutive prison terms for each offense, Wolfson said.
Holloway showed little emotion as she appeared, in handcuffs, in a Las Vegas court on Wednesday.
After her arrest she was held in a what is known as a medically restricted jail unit for inmates on suicide watch or requiring increased supervision. Her public defender, Joseph Abood, said on Wednesday she had been moved to the jail's general population.
"She's doing somewhat better; she's still in a very difficult state of mind," he said.
Prosecutors have not said what may have motivated Holloway to drive onto the sidewalk.
Several victims were badly injured. Nearly a month later, one man remained hospitalized in serious condition at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, a facility spokeswoman said.
Holloway has been held without bail since she was arrested after parking her car and telling a hotel worker to call 911. She is due in court again on Feb. 4.

Disappearance of Bolivia's No. 2 lake a harbinger

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In this Jan. 12, 2016 photo, an abandoned boat lies on the dried up lake bed of Lake Poopo, on the outskirts of Untavi, Bolivia. Drought caused by the recurrent El Nino meteorological phenomenon is considered the main driver of the lake's demise. Along with glacial melting, authorities say another factor is the diversion of water from Poopo’s tributaries, mostly for mining but also for agricultureUNTAVI, Bolivia — Overturned fishing skiffs lie abandoned on the shores of what was Bolivia's second-largest lake. Beetles dine on bird carcasses and gulls fight for scraps under a glaring sun in what marshes remain.
Lake Poopo was officially declared evaporated last month. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people have lost their livelihoods and gone.
High on Bolivia's semi-arid Andean plains at 3,700 meters (more than 12,000 feet) and long subject to climatic whims, the shallow saline lake has essentially dried up before only to rebound to twice the area of Los Angeles.
But recovery may no longer be possible, scientists say.
"This is a picture of the future of climate change," says Dirk Hoffman, a German glaciologist who studies how rising temperatures from the burning of fossil fuels has accelerated glacial melting in Bolivia.
As Andean glaciers disappear so do the sources of Poopo's water. But other factors are in play in the demise of Bolivia's second-largest body of water behind Lake Titicaca.
Drought caused by the recurrent El Nino meteorological phenomenon is considered the main driver. Authorities say another factor is the diversion of water from Poopo's tributaries, mostly for mining but also for agriculture.
More than 100 families have sold their sheep, llamas and alpaca, set aside their fishing nets and quit the former lakeside village of Untavi over the past three years, draining it of well over half its population. Only the elderly remain.
"There's no future here," said 29-year-old Juvenal Gutierrez, who moved to a nearby town where he ekes by as a motorcycle taxi driver.
Record-keeping on the lake's history only goes back a century, and there is no good tally of the people displaced by its disappearance. At least 3,250 people have received humanitarian aid, the governor's office says.
Poopo is now down to 2 percent of its former water level, regional Gov. Victor Hugo Vasquez calculates. Its maximum depth once reached 16 feet (5 meters). Field biologists say 75 species of birds are gone from the lake.
While Poopo has suffered El Nino-fueled droughts for millennia, its fragile ecosystem has experienced unprecedented stress in the past three decades. Temperatures have risen by about 1 degree Celsius while mining activity has pinched the flow of tributaries, increasing sediment.
Florida Institute of Technology biologist Mark B. Bush says the long-term trend of warming and drying threatens the entire Andean highlands.
A 2010 study he co-authored for the journal Global Change Biology says Bolivia's capital, La Paz, could face catastrophic drought this century. It predicted "inhospitable arid climates" would lessen available food and water this century for the more than 3 million inhabitants of Bolivia's highlands.
A study by the German consortium Gitec-Cobodes determined that Poopo received 161 billion fewer liters of water in 2013 than required to maintain equilibrium.
"Irreversible changes in ecosystems could occur, causing massive emigration and greater conflicts," said the study commissioned by Bolivia's government.
The head of a local citizens' group that tried to save Poopo, Angel Flores, says authorities ignored warnings.
"Something could have been done to prevent the disaster. Mining companies have been diverting water since 1982," he said.
President Evo Morales has sought to deflect criticism he bears some responsibility, suggesting that Poopo could come back.
"My father told me about crossing the lake on a bicycle once when it dried up," he said last month after returning from the U.N.-sponsored climate conference in Paris.
Environmentalists and local activists say the government mismanaged fragile water resources and ignored rampant pollution from mining, Bolivia's second export earner after natural gas. More than 100 mines are upstream and Huanuni, Bolivia's biggest state-owned tin mine, was among those dumping untreated tailings into Poopo's tributaries.
After thousands of fish died in late 2014, the Universidad Tecnica in the nearby state capital of Oruro found Poopo had unsafe levels of heavy metals, including cadmium and lead.
The president of Bolivia's National Chamber of Mining, Saturnino Ramos, said any blame by the industry is "insignificant compared to climate change." He said most of the sediment shallowing Poopo's tributaries was natural, not from mining.
In hopes of bringing it back, Morales' government has asked the European Union for $140 million for water treatment plants for the Poopo watershed and to dredge tributaries led by the Desaguadero, which flows from Lake Titicaca.
Critics say it may be too late.
"I don't think we'll be seeing the azure mirror of Poopo again," said Milton Perez, a Universidad Tecnica researcher. "I think we've lost it."
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Associated Press writer Frank Bajak contributed to this report from Lima, Peru.

Texas executes man convicted of strangling female impersonator

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday executed a man convicted of strangling a female impersonator in Houston in 2001 and then stealing the victim's car, a prisons official said.
Richard Masterson, 43, was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. Masterson was pronounced dead at 6:53 p.m., the official said.
"Sending me to a better place. I am all right with this, you have to live and die by the choices that we make," Masterson was quoted by prisons officials as saying in his final statement.
The execution was the state's first this year and its 532nd since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.
There were 13 executions last year in Texas, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which monitors U.S. capital punishment.
Masterson's lawyers had launched appeals with the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution, saying his due process rights were violated and Texas presented false and misleading evidence regarding the death of Darin Honeycutt, 35, who went by the stage name of Brandi Houston.
The Supreme Court denied the motions on Wednesday.
Pope Francis had been hoping for a reprieve, Catholic World News reported this week.
Masterson's lawyers said there was no struggle, no murder and the death was accidental. They also questioned the credibility of the medical examiner who called the death a homicide.
"Petitioner has never denied that he restricted the complainant's airflow, but only that it occurred during a consensual sexual encounter," they said in a court filing.
Texas prosecutors said that after Masterson killed Honeycutt, he left the state in the victim's car, which was found days later in Georgia being driven by a nephew of Masterson.
After fleeing to Florida, Masterson met a man in a bar frequented by gay men. The two went to the man's apartment and Masterson placed him a headlock, trying to strangle him, prosecutors said.
The man passed out and when he regained consciousness, he found that his car and wallet were gone, authorities said.
A Florida police officer ran across the stolen car at a mobile home park, which led to Masterson's arrest.
At his trial in 2002, Masterson, who has a long criminal record, did not admit to the murder.
He took the stand and said he was a danger to society, daring jurors to sentence him to death, which they did.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Sandra Maler and Peter Cooney)

    

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Bird flu scare hits French foie gras production

Already assailed by animal-rights groups, France's foie gras industry now faces a fight on a second front: bird flu.
Production of France's favourite festive-season treat has been hit by restrictions resulting from an avian influenza scare in the southwest, where most of the delicacy is produced.
"In the most optimistic scenario... a third of this region's (usual) output will not be produced," Christophe Barrailh, head of the CIFOP group that represents the foie gras industry, told AFP on Wednesday.
It could be far worse, according to one of the largest producers, who said output could be halved.
Foie gras -- consumed in lavish quantities in France at Christmas and New Year -- is the "fatty liver" of geese and ducks which have been force-fed grain.
The highly virulent H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus was identified at a chicken farm in Dordogne in November, triggering intervention by veterinary watchdogs.
H5N1 is is highly lethal to birds but does not infect humans easily, although when it does is fatal in about 60 percent of cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
The potential for infection comes when a human is in very close contact with a live bird which is sick with the disease.
Agriculture officials respond to an outbreak by quarantining poultry farms or restricting production to prevent the virus from being circulated by infected fowl, which are bought and sold for fattening or slaughter.
H5N1 has so far been detected on 69 farms in the region, prompting the agriculture ministry to impose restrictions on production until at least late May.
The order allows geese and duck farmers to continue raising the birds they currently have but bans them from taking on new chicks until after a cleanup launched this month.
After the current flock is sold, the farmers must halt all production while their farms are thoroughly cleaned and disinfected, the ministry says. Details of how the operation will be carried out will be announced later this month.
The programme has cost implications, as future production will require farmers to separate birds into batches according to age, to prevent the virus from spreading within a single flock.
- 'Attack' on small farmers -
On Wednesday some 500 duck farmers with artisanal foie gras businesses took to the streets of Mont-de-Marsan, in Aquitaine, to demand an easing of the measures.
"This sanitary crisis will allow big producers to restructure the industry by eliminating all the small farms," the lobby group Peasant Confederation said in a joint statement with a duck and goose growers' union.
The region covered by the restrictions accounts for 80 percent of France's foie gras production, according to CIFOG.
"Initial estimates point to a production gap of 30 to 50 percent depending on the area," said Dominique Duprat of Delpeyrat, which represents about 13 percent of the market.
He said prices would inevitably go up with "less available primary material and higher production costs".
© Provided by AFP US actress Pamela Anderson supports proposed legislation that would outlaw the force-feeding of ducks and geese, a method used in the production of foie gras Duprat said existing stocks would be enough to supply festive dinners at Easter, but that the outlook was uncertain for next Christmas and New Year's.
France, which produces 75 percent of global foie gras, exported nearly 5,000 tonnes of it in 2014. Production in the Dordogne is covered by a "protected geographical indication" label -- a European Union (EU) scheme to defend local skills and values from imitation.
The luxury dish has become a battleground between animals-rights campaigners and defenders of France's gourmet traditions.
Force-feeding -- known as "gavage" in France -- has been banned in several countries but is legal in France.
On Tuesday, former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson appealed to French lawmakers to draft a law to ban the practice.
"Foie gras is not a healthy product and does not have a place in a civilised society," she said. "These ducks did not have a single day of happiness in their short lives."

Severely Disabled Man Sexually Abused Girl With His Mouth

 six-year-old girl was sexually abused by a severely disabled man at her own birthday party in Chemnitz, south of Leipzig, Germany.

The man, who has no arms and no legs, lives in the home for the disabled where he became acquainted with a kind-hearted carer, who invited him to her daughter’s birthday celebration.

Tomy had pretended to be a veterinarian which would require Paula to take her trousers off

But what was expected to be a great party turned out to be the man’s chance to satisfy his perverted desires. The man, named only as Tomy S., was arrested after six-year-old Paula told her mother what had happened to her that day.Giving more details during video conference in courtPaula said: “Tomy was pretending to be a vet. We were playing a game of dares, and he was allowed to examine me because he was the vet and he put his head on my stomach. Later he told the other children to leave the room and I had to take my trousers off and lay on the bed.”


According to the girl, he then used his head to ‘interfere with her sexually’. Althouth the man denied all accusations, claiming Paula had made the story up, he was found guilty of child sexual abuse and banned from any future contact with the family.

Man Was Frozen 'To Death,' And It Ended Up Saving His Life

Paramedics believed 25-year-old Justin Smith was dead when they arrived on scene. The Pennsylvania man had no pulse, no blood pressure, and had turned blue. Smith had gone out for drinks with friends the night before, only to be found the next day on the side of the road, mostly covered in snow.
“Seeing him in that condition, there was no hope,” Justin’s father, Don, said, according to the Standard Speaker. Don was the one who had found his son on the side of Treskow Road. “I thought, ‘He’s, you know, dead.’”
Emergency personnel arrived on the scene, but they too could detect no vital signs in the man who had been in sub-zero temperatures for approximately 12 hours at the time. All hope seemed lost, but Dr. Gerald Coleman, an emergency department physician at Lehigh Valley Hospital, didn’t believe Justin was dead quite yet.
“My clinical thought is very simple: you have to be warm to be dead,” Coleman said. “Something inside me just said,’I need to give this person a chance.”
Though he acknowledged it would probably be a futile effort, Coleman instructed paramedics to begin CPR. They went on to perform compressions on Justin’s frozen body for two hours. It didn’t seem to be working — one nurse recalled that his body was still so cold, he felt like a block of concrete.
“We knew we needed a big, big miracle," Justin’s mom, Sissy Smith, told WNEP.
They got one, little at a time. Once Justin got to the hospital, doctors hooked him up to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine in order to warm and supply oxygen to his blood. The machine did its job, and Justin’s heart began to beat on its own when he warmed up. This was a victory, but doctors will still majorly concerned about Justin’s brain, which had been deprived of oxygen for many hours. Typically, brain cells begin to die after just a few minutes without oxygen. Justin’s case, however, was far from typical.
“When you have very low temperature, it can preserve the brain and other organ functions,” explained Dr. James Wu of the Lehigh Valley Health Network.
Everyone waited weeks before Justin woke up and realized where he was. His brain seemed unharmed. Though he did end up losing his toes and two pinkies to frostbite because of the incident, Justin, by most standards was incredibly lucky. Coleman said the case could be more than a miracle, though.
“We may have witnessed a game changer in modern medicine—medicine moves forward in extraordinary cases,” he said. “His survival is a paradigm change in hoe we resuscitate and how we treat people that suffer from hypothermia.”

Chilling Out

Extreme cold wreaks havoc on the human body because it slows the respiration and heart rate to dangerous levels, leading to a loss of consciousness and eventually, death. Though this alarming succession will often result in tragedy, sometimes a person’s body can cool at just the right rate to protect them from true death— their metabolic processes will slow, keeping cells from needing much oxygen ad protecting them from other effects of exposure. A person may cease to breathe and have no distinguishable heartbeat to speak of, but it’s possible they’re only (in the clinical terms of The Princess Bride) “mostly dead.”
And a mostly dead person still has a chance to recover: something doctors have been increasingly using to their advantage. By performing CPR right away, and getting the person to an ECMO, paramedics can increase a frozen person’s chances of survival. A 2012 article in the New England Journal of Medicine stated that 50 percent of hypothermia patients treated with ECMO recovered, even if they had experienced extended cardiac arrest. If the patient and become hypothermic before their oxygen levels dropped too low, they could even escape most long term damage.
The treatment, however revolutionary, has yet to be standardized. Many hospitals lack access to ECMO machines, which were invented only a decade ago as life support for premature infants. It wasn’t until even more recently that the machine was used for saving hypothermia patients, something many doctors still aren’t aware of.
The industry has been taking note of the technology, though, and it has scientists wondering if they can take it one step forward. If extreme cold can preserve a person’s life, can it be used to preserve the organs of a person brought into the emergency room? Doctors have been experimenting with a process in which they replace a critical patient’s blood with cold saline solution, cooling their body and nearly stopping all cellular activity.
“We are suspending life, but we don’t like to call it suspended animation because it sounds like science fiction,” said Samuel Tisherman, a surgeon at the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, to New Scientist. “So we call it emergency preservation and resuscitation.”
The trial is not without controversy, but it seems it may be just the beginning of using a potentially deadly idea as a last measure for saving lives

THE AGONY OF A WOMAN

Born at a time, when parents impose marriage on their children irrespective of their age.
This girl, was married off against her wish at eleven years. To a man old enough to be her father.
The girl was given out to early marriage because the father felt that the place of a woman should be in her husband kitchen. This notion will only save the selfish interest of the father, in a bid to avoid shouldering the God given responsibility of taking care of the girl education.
This man was forced into this ugly situation because he had more children than he can train.
The society made it impossible for the girl to have any say to whom she married. Infant! it was considered a taboo to objects to a “Chosen” suitor. The husband who was considered rich enough to carter for  the girl and her parents, later could  not live up to the reason the marriage was contracted.
When the father realized that the man was not bringing money to them, he instigated his daughter into walking out of the marriage with a son who was barely two years.
While in her fathers house, she became a financial burden and was quickly married off again. WHAT A LIFE!!  TWO HUSBANDS AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE.
She had two  children for the new husband .The presence of the first son became a challenge to the husband who finally instigated his one children against the first child of the lady. The children grow up to see themselves as enemy and not siblings OH!THE  PAIN OF A WOMAN.
Both the children and husband talk down on  the woman calling her all manner of names.
 THE PAIN OF A WOMAN.
The woman just died as a result of health attack .ALL BECAUSE SHE HAD NO VOICE TO SPEAK
I MUST SPEAK FOR MYSELF NO BODY SPEAKS FOR ME.

STORY BY;
JANE KALU O.
www.gwandgei.com

WHO WILL UNDERSTAND HER? Public

SHE CALLED,TO SAY HONEY!HOW ARE YOU?
SHE IS ACCUSED OF MONITORING HIM.
SHE CALLED.TO EXPRESS HER LOVE.
SHE IS ACCUSED OF BEING OVER POSSESSIVE.
SHE ASKED,HONEY!  WHY ARE YOU LATE?
SHE IS ACCUSED OF BEING AUTHORITATIVE
SHE ASKED,HONEY!WHAT FOOD CAN I MAKE FOR YOU?
SHE IS ACCUSED OF NOT BEING ABLE TO MAKE  DECISIONS.
SHE STAND UP,TO TAKE ACTION OVER ISSUES AFFECTING HER HOME,
SHE IS ACCUSED OF BEING WICKED.
SHE WANTS TO ATTEND SOCIAL FUNCTIONS,
SHE IS ACCUSED OF JOINING BAD GROUPS.
SHE WANTS TO MAKE A POINT,
SHE IS ACCUSED OF BEING ARROGANT.
SHE SAID,”I WANT TO BE A POLITICIAN, I WANT TO SPEAK FOR THE WOMEN”
SHE IS ACCUSED OF BEING A PROSTITUTE

BY JANE KALU O.
www.gwandgei.com

Sarah Palin's son arrested in Alaska on suspicion of domestic violence

The elder son of former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a woman and carrying a gun while intoxicated, police in the family's Alaska hometown said on Tuesday.

The arrest came just hours before Palin, the politician-turned-reality TV star, endorsed Donald Trump, the reality television star-turned-politician, in his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

Track Palin, 26, was arrested late on Monday night after authorities responded to a domestic disturbance call at a home in Wasilla, Alaska, police said in a statement.

"An investigation revealed Track Palin had committed a domestic violence assault on a female, interfered with her ability to report a crime of domestic violence and possessed a firearm while intoxicated," the statement said.

Police provided no immediate further details.

Representatives for the Palin family could not immediately be reached for comment.

Sarah Palin shot to national prominence in 2008 during her first time as Alaska governor when U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona picked her to be his vice presidential running mate in his failed general election campaign for the White House against the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

© Charles Rex Arbogast, File This Sept. 3, 2008 file photo shows Track Palin, son of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Track Palin was arrested in a domestic…

She resigned as governor the following year but has remained in the public spotlight on the lecture circuit and as a conservative political commentator. She also has produced and starred in a series of staged television shows about her family set against the backdrop of Alaska's rugged outdoors.

In 2014, the Palins made national headlines when, according to an Anchorage police report, a booze-fueled brawl erupted at an outdoor party late on Sept. 6 involving Sarah Palin's husband, Todd, their son Track and daughters Bristol and Willow. (Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Steve Gorman, Bernard Orr)

    

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Photo: Man Makes Money With 27-Year-Old Daughter

Funke Gbadebo, 27, has reportedly accused her father of making money off her without giving her anything in return, The Nation.
The woman said she had been given out to work as a maid for people since she was 18 and her father kept collecting her entitlements without ‘settling’ her.
She said: “I was 18 when my father said one of his cousins volunteered to cater for my well-being. Few months after I got there, I got to know they were not related to my father in any way and that I was hired as a maid.”

Funke Gbadebo, who has been used by her father to make money. Photo: The Nation

When contacted, the father, Najeem Gbadebo, refused to say anything about the claims. He instead warned The Nation’s reporter and asked never to be contacted again because his daughter works in Agege.
While narrating her ordeal, Funke said: “I was in SS2 when I dropped out of school and since then, I have been working for my father. I worked as a maid for five years and when I asked for my pay, I was told my father collected my allowance for the years I spent. Combining hairdressing training wasn’t easy because I woke up at 4am daily to take care of my bosses’ children and sometimes they called in between to send me on errands.
“It got to a point I felt there was no progress in my life so I left and returned to my father. I had nothing on me when I returned to him. Even the N50,000 my boss gave me when she knew I wasn’t aware of my father’s plans, he collected it from me.”
After a while, she said she started working in a factory: “With the money I saved from the factory, I bought few things I could use for hairdressing business. When I got home, my dad accused me of buying it saying that he was meant to spend my first salary.
“He didn’t allow me to start the hairdressing business. He took me to a woman who sells fabrics on Lagos Island where I worked for two and-a- half years. She agreed to pay me N15,000 monthly. When I was about to leave last December, she said she wasn’t owing me adding that my father collected my allowance for the years I spent. When I returned home two weeks ago, to ask the reason for his actions, he and his wife beat me mercilessly and sent me out of their house around 12am without anything.
“My stepmother keeps saying I am HIV positive and it is because of the stress I have been going through. I slept in uncompleted buildings for weeks before I was saved by a Good Samaritan who knew me when I was working as a maid in Agege. My father keeps using me. He says I am bad omen. He has not done anything for me. He said he cannot empower me and that I should just bring a man I want to marry. That is not what I need now; I want to cater for myself and not be a beggar like my father.”
On the whereabouts of her mother, Funke said she had never met her and that whenever she asked her father about her, he says she should not dare to look for her.
“I know my mother is alive but I don’t know anything about her. I don’t know the reason she left my brother and I. My younger brother ran away when he was 15 because my father kept maltreating him. I learnt my mother lives in Iperu, Ogun State but I haven’t gone to look for her.
“My father is an house agent and a trado-medical practitioner. He lives in Magboro. I just want him to empower me but he is not ready. Since they sent me out of the house, they haven’t searched for me,” she explained further.
Mrs Abosede Adegunloye, who has been Funke’s benefactor over the years, explained why she took her in.
According to her: “I took her to a neighbour who works with Rural and Urban Development Initiative (RUDI) and since then, they took her case up. We have called her father but he keeps raining curses on us saying she is not a successful child.
“Funke is a very decent girl. I remember when she wanted to leave where she worked as a maid, her bosses children took ill. If the government can get her father, he should be questioned. She makes hair so well and she is also ready to learn. I have enrolled her in a government vocational school where she will continue to learn hairdressing.”