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Monday 30 November 2015

Rape and Incest victims Will Now be Allowed to Have Abortions

Victims of rape and incest will now be legally allowed to carry out abortions in Northern Ireland after a landmark legal challenge to relax the country’s strict laws proved successful.

Before the challenge, Northern Ireland was the only UK country that didn’t take up the 1967 Abortion Act – meaning that terminations were only legally permitted in instances where the life or mental health of the mother was in danger.

The note, written by a girl who goes by the name ‘Muffin Top’, is bloody hilarious.

The note came from one Reddit User xrazors’ friend’s brother (yes, we know how ridiculous that sounds), who found the gem of a note in his classroom.

The note reads:

A suspected burglar in Fresno County, California has died after getting trapped inside a home's chimney, sheriff's deputies said Saturday.

Nineteen-year-old Cody Caldwell was found lodged inside the chimney of a home in the small town of Huron on Friday after homeowners heard calls for help upon lighting a fire, KSEE reports.

A 70-year old man is the latest casualty in the renewed ethnic violence in the Northern regional town of Bunkrugu last Sunday.

It brings the death toll to three following clashes between the Jafouk and Jamong factions.

After a power cut to the area last Sunday, one group began firing shots and burning homes. The Regional Minister was compelled to call the Northern Electricity Department to restore power.

"My body knows it's time to say goodbye" wrote five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant as he poetically announced his intention to retire at the end of the season.

During a 20-year career with the LA Lakers, the 37-year-old has scored 32,683 points, though in recent seasons his form has been hindered by injury.

More than 900 women are campaigning for public office in Saudi Arabia a first in the kingdom's history.

The December 12 municipal election will be the first opportunity for Saudi women to vote or run for office since a 2011 order by the now deceased King Abdullah that granted women some opportunities for political participation in the ultra-conservative Sunni kingdom.

It was the most fitting tribute to a rugby giant. In suits, in sports kit and in T-shirts emblazoned with his name, scores of mourners filed on to the pitch to perform a last haka for Jonah Lomu.

The venue, Eden Park, is the home of New Zealand rugby and a stadium where the 6ft 5in All Black had played many times before a crowd awed by his power, speed and sheer stature.

Hundreds of writers around the world have joined human rights groups in urging Saudi Arabia to release a poet who faces a death sentence on charges of apostasy for his poetry.

Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh, 32, was sentenced to death by a court in the southwestern Saudi city of Abha this month on a series of blasphemy charges,

The crying coming from under a block of asphalt sounded like it was from a cat to Angelica Blount. But it turned out to be an abandoned baby that police say was deliberately buried under debris along a Los Angeles area walking path.

Blount was walking in Compton on Friday, when her sister Evangelina McCrary pointed the sound out to her.

Annie Leibovitz has taken the Pirelli Calendar in a new direction for 2016.The esteemed photographer has chosen to celebrate women of outstanding cultural, professional, sporting and artistic influence in this year's 'completely different', limited-edition calendar, from which four sneak peek images have been released.

Bearded men will just have to take it on the chin - they are, apparently, more sexist. A study found that men who sported facial hair hold more hostile views towards women.

One theory is that beards give them an air of masculinity, power, and dominance.The link will come as a surprise to the thousands of hipsters – young, urban professions who have carefully cultivated lumberjack-style beards to affect an earthy look.

A 47-year old man was shot dead in the KwaMashu Hostels, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Monday.Police spokesman Major Thulani Zwane said the man was shot on Sunday evening in Jabula Road as he left a meeting.

“It is alleged that he was coming from a meeting when he was attacked by unknown suspects who opened fire wounding him on the chest and at his back,” said Zwane.

Pope Francis ventured into one of the world's most dangerous neighbourhoods on Monday to beg Christians and Muslims to end a spiral of hate, vendetta and bloodshed that has killed thousands over the past three years.

Under intense security, Francis passed through a no-man's zone to enter PK5, a district where most Muslims who have not fled the capital of the Central African Republic have now sought refuge.

A 29-year-old man was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for raping an eight-year-old girl, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Monday.

Lindelani Mbatha was sentenced last week for the rape of the girl in 2012.

“It is said that the victim who was eight-years-old at the time, had gone to Mbatha’s room to fetch some food at KwaXimba area. He closed the door, raped the victim and gave her R5,” said police spokesman Thulani Zwane.

A man is accused of killing his father and injuring his mother because they didn’t include him in takeaway order.Ronald Pritchett, 32, of Purvis, Mississippi, was arrested after both his his parents were stabbed at the Louisiana home.

The incident took place on Wednesday.‘They ordered food from a fast food restaurant and didn’t include him,’ said John Fortunato, a spokesman for the police in Jefferson Parish.

His parents allegedly had to lock themselves in their bathroom when Pritchett became enraged.

A Silicon Valley computer firm has been accused by Anonymous of playing a key role in helping ISIS to strengthen and improve their online security.

The hacktivists, who vowed to attack the terrorist group’s online activity after the attacks in Paris, have accused tech start-up CloudFlare of protecting pro-militant websites. The start-up site serves more than four million customers, helping to defend against cyber-attacks and speeding up website loading times.

Apple’s quest to make iPhones slimmer and slimmer could be about to claim a new casualty – the headphone socket. If true, it would mean that millions of iPhone users would have to upgrade their headphones, or use an adapter.

Tech blog MacOtakara says that Apple is considering ditching the traditional 3.5mm headphone jack, in favour of headphones which plug in via the Lightning port.

The 25-year-old mother from India, who has not been named, confided in her husband after the attack by her neighbours. But the Dubai-based construction worker messaged her saying ‘talaq’ three times – which means instant divorce under Sharia Law.

She’s been forced out of her home and her mother-in-law has taken custody of her young son. She told the MailOnline: ‘When I read the message I went numb. I couldn’t believe what I had read. Just three words; talaq, talaq, talaq.

A picture newly released by Nasa shows London as it appears from space at night.

With its sprawling network of roads converging near the centre, the capital looks like a giant, illuminated web.

Tear your weepy eyes away from all the horror in the world and take a look at this letter.It was handwritten by a landlord to his tenants and posted through the mailbox.

It reads: ‘I know you guys have been having trouble being between jobs these past few months and I just wanted to thank you for always being current on the rent.

Shoes, handbags, vehicle debris and shattered glass lay scattered eerily a few metres from the charred shell of the minibus taxi. Bodies lay strewn across the road. Fresh blood spatters glistened on the tar.

This was the horrific scene near Westonaria on the West Rand on Sunday after 19 people were killed when the taxi they were travelling in collided with a heavy-duty truck and burst into flames.

A nine-year-old Kimberley girl was killed while crossing the road after she relieved herself along the train tracks behind a pile of stones. According to family members, there are no toilets at the shanty where she lived. She was apparently on her way back home after making use of a makeshift toilet when she was killed.

The mum-of-one, who is expecting her second child in a matter of weeks, faces more pregnancy problems in the latest episode of KUWTK.

Kim Kardashian has made no secret of the fact she's facing another tough pregnancy.

And on the latest episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, the reality star is left shaken after a doctor tells her she has more fluid than normal on her placenta, which could possibly indicate she has diabetes.

Kim Kardashian took the high ground when a troll insulted her on Twitter on Sunday night.

In the latest episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashian's the pregnant reality star, who is expecting her second child in a matter of weeks, unashamedly gorges on lots of sweet treats.

Father ‘Beat His Son to Death and Fed His Corpse to Pigs’

A man has been accused of beating his young son to death and feeding him to pigs.

Michael Jones, a 44-year-old man from Kansas City, was initially arrested for assaulting his wife, 29-year-old Heather Jones, at their home and firing a gun at her.

When police started to investigate, however, someone told them that they should search the family’s back garden.

Andy Murray has gave Britain its first Davis Cup title in 79 years after beating Belgium's David Goffin.The British number one had his pregnant wife Kim and mother Judy cheering him on as he sailed past his opponent 6-3, 7-5, 6-3 in Ghent.

The win gave Britain an unassailable 3-1 lead in the final of best-of-five series against Belgium and they were crowned Davis Cup champions.

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Snapped by her adoring mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, this is little Princess Charlotte at six months old.

Not seen in public since her christening in July, two photographs of the fourth in line to the throne have today been released by Kensington Palace as a thank you to the British media for giving William and Kate's children the chance to grow up away from the spotlight.

Spectre: James Bond film review

Empires collapse, stock markets crash, dynasties die out, but James Bond endures as one of cinema’s longest-running and most lucrative franchises for over half a century.

The 24th instalment in the official 007 canon, Spectre is the sequel to Skyfall, which gave the seminal spy-thriller series a pleasingly smart and sophisticated makeover after the dismal Quantum of Solace. This classy upgrade paid off with box office receipts of $1.1 billion, the most profitable Bond vehicle to date.

A Pretoria High Court Judge Mohamed Ismail was at a loss for words at the brutality of a Winterveld man who carried a sleeping 7-year-old girl out of her shack, raped her and strangled her with his shoelaces.

But Ben Masilo Maselane was not yet done with little Sibongile Chauke. He returned to where he left her body and hanged her up on a pole by the shoelaces around her neck. He then set a tyre and other combustible materials alight under her body.

President Xi Jinping announced a major overhaul of China’s military to make the world’s largest army more combat ready and better equipped to project force beyond the country’s borders.

Under the reorganization, all branches of the armed forces would come under a joint military command, Xi told a meeting of military officials in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Bloomberg in September reported details of the plan, which may also seek to consolidate the country’s seven military regions to as few as four.

A mother who left her newborn son in a manger at a New York City church will not face criminal charges for giving him up, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.

A custodian on Monday found the crying infant with his umbilical cord still attached wrapped in towels and placed in the indoor nativity scene at the Holy Child Jesus Church in Queens, New York police said.

A notorious Cape Town gang hitman has confessed to the Daily Voice how he brutally executed rival gang members in a bloody reign of terror.

Clive “Privaat” Allie, 22, was once the most feared gangster in Mitchells Plain.Before he traded his guns for a Bible this year, he claims he asterminded a dozen attempted murders and snuffed out the lives of at least three men.

In actions and words on his first tour of the world's poorest continent, Pope Francis has sent a message to African leaders that they could do with less pomp and a bit more humility.

In a region where presidents speed past slums in cavalcades of luxury vehicles and the public complain about corruption in high office, the pope was cheered as he drove in a small Honda and told national leaders to act with integrity.

Usually the yearly Legacy Machine watch from MB&F is one of the brand's more sober moments, a chance for it to offer something a little more reserved and less out there than its typical sci-fi creations. This year things are a little different. There's no question about it: The Legacy Machine Perpetual is MB&F's most ambitious creation yet.

Islamic State claimed the suicide bombing of a security forces bus in Tunis, as Tunisian officials said the military-grade explosives used in the blast came from neighboring Libya. Twelve people were killed in the assault in the capital.

The bombing, the third major terrorist attack in Tunisia this year, prompted President Beji Caid Essebsi to declare a state of emergency, only weeks after he lifted restrictions imposed after a gunman killed 38 tourists in the resort area of Sousse in June.

London Home Overlooking Buckingham Palace Sells for $30 Million

A London apartment that will overlook Buckingham Palace was bought for 20 million pounds ($30 million) before construction of the building has started, the project’s developer said.

Northacre Plc, the luxury-apartment developer 70 percent owned by Abu Dhabi Financial Group LLC, has sold 29 of the 72 luxury residences at No. 1 Palace St. in six months, Chief Executive Officer Niccolo Barattieri di San Pietro said in a conference on Wednesday. He didn’t identify the buyers.

Black Friday is less than 48-hours away and as always Amazon have released pictures showing just how many items are set to be delivered from their vast warehouses.

This year, Amazon are expecting millions of orders to pour in with £2billion set to be spent on Black Friday.

A 20-year-old driver has been charged with the murder of two African-Americans at Akwamufie, near Akosombo in the Eastern Region, in May 2015.

Yaw Anokye Frimpong, who was arrested with five others in connection with the murder of the two women, Mamalina Diop and Nzinga Jaana, confessed to killing the women and burying them in a grave he had dug near his farm.

The 'strong room' of the powerful god, Antoa Nyama, in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region has been raided by thieves who stole gold ornaments and other valuables worth thousands of cedis, it has been reported.

The Ghanaian Times reported on Thursday that timing of the theft is not clear, but it was discovered on Tuesday.

Twenty-eight year old Abdul Sadat Iddi on Monday wept uncontrollably at an Accra Circuit Court after he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for robbing a banker at gun point at Baatsona in Accra.

Iddi, whilst being escorted by the Police to begin his prison term amidst weeping, pleaded with the trial judge Mr Aboagye Tandoh to have mercy on him.

Possibly the most glamorous condo in the 905, the penthouse of One Cordoba Drive suggests a suite that might be at home in Dubai or Hong Kong or somewhere as exotic. Sitting atop a mid-rise building at Bathurst and Steeles, just north of the Toronto municipal border, the two-level unit offers more than 16,000 square feet on two entire floors. The estate, for that is what is must be called, includes four bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a full-size bar, a private seven-car garage and more.

A young woman who fought off a would-be rapist outside her home brought the man to justice after tracking him down on FACEBOOK.

Chanel Purchase, 21, spent hours trawling through the website shortly after her ordeal to find a photo of the stranger who attacked her after accompanying her home from a nightclub.

Cologne, Germany - It happened all of a sudden as Martina Kaiser was driving her Porsche sports car down one of Germany's largely speed-unlimited motorways at a brisk 150km/h.

She felt warm all over and her stomach began to tighten up. Seconds later Kaiser was trembling and sweating and her pulse was racing. As she lost her grip on reality, the cars whizzing by seemed dangerously close, as if they wanted to run her off the road.

This was Kaiser's first panic attack at the wheel. But why did it happen? She is a passionate driver and enjoys driving fast.

Babies Exposed to Marijuana in The Womb ‘Actually Have Better Eyesight’

A controversial new study has shown that babies who are exposed to marijuana while in the womb actually have better vision.

Researchers from the University of Waterloo, Ontario found that exposure to the drug can improve a child’s ability to track moving objects.Professor Ben Thompson, at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, said: ‘We were surprised with this initial finding.

A 44-year-old woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for raping her own nephew, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday.

The Maphumulo Regional Court sentenced the woman on Tuesday for the rape that happened on December 20 last year.

Russian forces launched at least a dozen airstrikes against insurgent-held areas near the Turkey-Syria border where the Sukhoi SU-24 fighter jet was shot down by the Turkish army yesterday.

Heavy bombardment hit areas controlled by Turkmen rebels, the group claiming to have shot and killed one of the pilots of the Russian jet as he parachuted out of the flaming wreckage, and attempted to kill his co-pilot.

Guangzhou Motor Show - It's long been rumoured that BMW is working on a sedan version of the 1 Series and this new concept car, revealed at the Guangzhou Motor Show, implies that this is virtually a done deal.

The aptly named BMW Concept Compact Sedan should give us a good ideal of where BMW is heading with the design of its new 1 Series four-door, and possibly also provides a few clues about forthcoming hatchback and 2 Series models.

A new online craze is sweeping the internet - but it's also sparking safety fears.

The condom challenge involves a person dropping a water-inflated condom onto a pal's head.

But instead of exploding, the latex material forms a bulb of water around the person's head, cutting off their air supply.

Following the ongoing agitation for the Republic of Biafra and the arrest of Radio Biafra boss, Nnamdi Kanu, Nollywood producer, Iroegbu Dickson, has stated that Nigeria as a country will burn should anything happen to Nnamdi.

The producer, who had over time been referred to as a critique due to his controversial and adamant opinions on issues, told The Sun that a terrible situation will befall Nigeria if the Radio Biafra boss is touched, as according to him, the Igbos cannot be intimidated.

She revealed more than she intended to on the red carpet at the weekend.But on Wednesday Kelly Brook was feeling less than shy when she showcased her incredible figure in a saucy selfie - wearing nothing but a jumper, heels and her underwear.

Uploading the photo to her Instagram, the 36-year-old glamour model shared a cheeky behind the scenes shot of her at work on a shoot, while also flashing plenty of flesh.

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