Walter Williams, 78, wakes up in body bag at Mississippi funeral home

‘A miracle’ ... Walter Williams was pronounced dead on Wednesday but was conscious again the next day.

 

FUNERAL home workers preparing to embalm the body of a 78-year-old man were shocked to find him alive and kicking in a body bag. 

Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘armed invasion’ of Crimea, Viktor Yanukovych emerges from hiding

A group of armed men in military uniform takes control of two airports in the Crimean region, a move Ukraine's government calls an invasion. Sarah Tom

UKRAINIAN authorities say they have regained control of two Crimean airports seized during an “armed invasion” by Russian forces that prompted the country’s new pro-EU leaders to appeal for protection from the West. 

Pope emeritus Benedict’s resignation hastened by World Cup

Pope Benedict XVI (POPE EMERITUS

 The soccer World Cup taking place in Brazil this year indirectly prompted Benedict XVI to bring forward his resignation as pope by a year, his private secretary told a German newspaper Friday.

Aussie Ken Ham plans to build Noah’s Ark in Kentucky

Ark Park ... Ken Ham wants to build a 155-metre Noah’s Ark replica at his Creation Museum in Kentucky. 

AN AUSTRALIAN man’s long-stalled plans to build Noah’s Ark in the hills of Kentucky have been revived. 

Psychopathic British serial killer Joanna Dennehy gets life for murdering three men

Sentenced ... British serial killer Joanna Dennehy will serve out the rest of her life in prison. 

PSYCHOPATHIC British serial killer Joanna Dennehy has been ordered to serve the rest of her life in prison for murdering three men before randomly selecting and attempting to kill two others. 

‘We can’t sleep, we can’t breathe’: Residents of Morwell, Victoria despair at the fire that won’t die

It may take up to 10 days for authorities to get on top of the fire. 

 

THE smoke is making their lives impossible. 

Distraught residents of Morwell, Victoria, say the coalmine fire that has been blazing nearby for almost three weeks is pushing them to the edge.

‘I was fired for turning down my sex-crazed female bosses’: New York lawsuit alleges

The lawsuit claims Sally O'Dowd told Jackson “she loved young black and Hispanic men” and made a crude reference about his penis. 
 

A STRAPPING young New York public relations rep claims his female bosses treated him like a sexy hunk of meat — and then quickly kicked him to the curb when he turned down their sleazy proposals, according to a lawsuit. 

Stuart Hall pleads not guilty to alleged rape of two young girls

TV star Stuart Hall will go on trial over the alleged rape of two young girls.
 TRIAL: Stuart Hall is charged with the alleged rape of two young girls
 

The 84-year-old today pleaded not guilty to a string of sex charges.
The former BBC presenter is accused of committing 20 historic sexual offences.

Two-year-old girl may have bald spot for LIFE after being SCALPED by toy train

THIS adorable two-year-old may have been left with a bald patch for life after being SCALPED by a toy train.
 
RIPPED: A toy train left two-year-old Lilly Brokenshire with a huge bald patch on her head which may be there for life
 

Lilly Brokenshire was playing with her plastic "Toot-Toot" locomotive when the motorised toy became tangled in her blonde hair and tore a three inch patch from the middle of her head.

TEAM NEWS: Hull welcome back Jelavic and Long as Newcastle are without Ben Arfa

HULL are able to select their £14m strike force as they return to contention after being cup tied for the Tigers FA Cup match last time out.
 THE BOYS ARE BACK: Jelavic and Long are in contention to start against Newcastle 
 

Nikica Jelavic and Shane Long were unavailable for the win over Brighton on Monday but should return alongside Tom Huddlestone and Alex Bruce, who missed that game with knocks.

Medecins Sans Frontieres' shock at Myanmar suspension

Rakhine state has been the site of outbreaks of violence targeting the Muslim Rohingya community

The aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres has expressed its shock at the order to cease operations in Myanmar.

It said it was deeply concerned about the tens of thousands of people it was treating, particularly for HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB.

Boy,14, punched unconscious at Tube station for ‘accidentally standing on man’s foot’

Police want to speak to this man about the assault at Dagenham East Tube station (Picture: British Transport Police)

A teenage schoolboy was punched unconscious at a Tube station after accidentally standing on a man’s foot, police have said.
The 14-year-old, who apologised following the incident, was attacked by a stranger at Dagenham East station.
Police have released CCTV images of a man they want to speak to in a fresh appeal for information about the assault at around 4.50pm on February 12.
The victim’s 47-year-old father, who did not want to be named, called the attack ‘sickening’.
‘To see my son lying sprawled out with the man over him and pools of blood, I just felt sick to the stomach. I was shocked to see how brutal it was,’ he told the Barking and Dagenham Post.

Police have released new CCTV images

Detective Constable Carl Wayte said: ‘The victim, a 14-year-old boy from Newham, accidentally stood on a man’s foot on a 103 bus.

'Landmark' crackdown on fake shares fraudsters

The worldwide operation was led by City of London police, Robert Hall reports

Criminal gangs who trick people into investing in worthless shares have been targeted by police in the biggest ever international crackdown on the fraud.

The operation resulted in 110 arrests - mostly in Spain and the UK.

Doctors discover tumour with teeth in baby’s brain

Teeth were found growing in a baby’s head

Doctors have discovered a tumour with teeth growing out of it in a baby’s brain.
The rare cancer was found in a four-month-old patient in Maryland, United States, last year but details of it have just been released in a medical journal.

Serial killer Joanna Dennehy laughs in dock during sentencing for murders

Joanna Dennehy laughed in the dock as she was sentenced

A psychopath serial killer who murdered three men ‘for fun’ and stabbed two more strangers laughed in the dock before being sentenced for her crimes.

‘I had sex with goat ten times but I did ask it first’

A stock image of a goat. This animal has never been to Nigeria

A Nigerian villager has been arrested for having sex with his goat but is adamant he should be freed because he asked its permission first.

Man who had sex with a cow while pal filmed was 'covered in JELLY'

THE man who allegedly had sex with a cow while his pal filmed it was believed to be covered in JELLY at the time.
 
CAUGHT: The pair were allegedly spotted sexually abusing cows at a farm
 

A television crew turned up while the alleged incident was happening at a farm in Herkiner, New York, where Reid Fontaine was said to have sexually abused some cows while his pal Michael Jones filmed it all.

'There's no accounting for taste' Liz Hurley hits out at ex Shane's choice of women

BRIT beauty Liz Hurley just couldn’t resist taking a dig at her ex Shane Warne after reports of his latest exploits.
MEOW: Hurley made a dig at Shane Warne's taste in women 
 

The 48-year-old took to Twitter to imply that his latest fling looks like a character from Planet of the Apes.

'Mein Kampf' autographed by Hitler sells at auction for £40,000

A SIGNED copy of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" has sold for £40,000 at an auction in Los Angeles.
  

SOLD: Adolf Hitler's signed 'Mein Kampf' went for £40,000 
 

The two-volume Nazi manifesto, considered one of the most racist and shocking books of the modern era, almost tripled its estimated price of £12,000.

A right Royal knees up: Carole Middleton pulls pints at her local boozer

CAROLE Middleton shocked drinkers in a country pub when she tried her hand at pulling pints.
 GOT STUCK IN: Carole Middleton helped out behind the bar
 

Prince George’s granny helped struggling bar staff at her local boozer, The Bull Inn.

CONFAB: Igbos canvass secession, self determination rights

Prof Nwabueze

The Igbo leaders of thought led by eminent Constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze, yesterday, rolled out its position paper that would guide the Igbo delegates to the proposed National conference with a strong proposal for the inclusion of the right of secession or self determination in the new constitution.

2 killed, 50 houses razed in fresh Plateau attack

 

Two members of a family were killed and about 50 houses razed in fresh attacks on villages in Riyom and Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State yesterday.

Nigeria’s amalgamation, a mistake -Afenifere Chieftain

A  Chieftain of Afenifere,  a pan Yoruba socio-political group,  Sir Olaniwun Ajayi  said   the  amalgamation of Southern  and Northern protectorate in 1914  was a mistake contrary  to the submition by President Goodluck Jonathan.

England boss Roy Hodgson: I'll be Brazil heart-breake

ROY HODGSON has warned his big-names he is ready to be a World Cup heart-breaker.
  

I'LL LEAVE A BIG NAME BEHIND IF I HAVE TO: Roy Hodgson knows he may well need to leave a big name out of his World Cup squad 
 

Hodgson admits he is prepared to chop some of the star names from his squad when he names his final 23-man party for Brazil.

Fayose picks N11m Nomination form, says PDP will dislodge APC

AHEAD of Ekiti Stat governorship election, former governor of the State, Chief Ayo Fayose yesterday stormed the Wadata Plaza, national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP with his

Yobe killings: Police disperse youths protest in Abuja

ARMED policemen in Abuja, yesterday, used tear gas to disperse youths protesting the killing of school children in Yobe State. About 50 youths gathered at the Unity Fountain Park in the central area of Abuja in the morning to express their outrage over the recent killing of students by ‘Boko Haram’ in the north-east.

One killed, scores injured as Customs, youths clash over rice

Pandemonium broke out yesterday in Ikoko‑Ilashe community along  the Idiroko border in Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State when some  Customs officials shot one dead and injured many others along the Idiroko border.

London homes flooded with dirty water after pipe bursts on Clapham Road

A man walks through flood water from a burst main in Clapham Road in Kennington

Homes were evacuated in south London after a major road was flooded with filthy water as a result of a burst pipe.

Boko Haram Attacks: Counter Terrorism Guide For Schools

DAMAGE— Government College, Buni Yadi, Yobe State.

In less than 48 hours after Nigeria military shut down the northern part of the border with Cameroon, Boko Haram members demonstrated their diabolic nature by overrunning a school in Buni Yadi (a remote part of Yobe State) killing over 29 students overnight.

A spate of occult-based killings in the United States has an exorcist decrying the rise of the demons

Katie Nichols confesses to TV cameras that a satanic cult led her to stabbing her mother.

 A FEMALE serial killer says she “sacrificed 100” in an act of Satan worship. Another says she killed her “antichrist” mother. Two boys carved occult symbols into the body of a girl.
Is this the Rapture?

Skeleton of renowned explorer Matthew Flinders is lying in the path of London rail link — and could be exhumed Action man ... Mark Richards works on the cast of the Captain Matthew Flinders statue that will take its place at Euston station in London. Pic: Ella Pellegrini Source: News Corp Australia

Action man ... Mark Richards works on the cast of the Captain Matthew Flinders statue that will take its place at Euston station in London. Pic: Ella Pellegrini

 

THE skeleton of the man who gave Australia its name and was the first to circumnavigate the continent could be exhumed by rail workers on a new high-speed rail link from London to the Midlands. 

Missing pregnant criminology major Loretta Saunders found murdered on Canadian highway

Pregnant criminology student Loretta Saunders was writing a thesis on missing and murdered women when she vanished two weeks ago. Police found her murdered body dumped on a highway yesterday.  

 BEAUTIFUL and smart, Loretta Saunders seemed to have the world at her feet when she vanished without a trace two weeks ago.

Three months pregnant to boyfriend Yalcin Surkulski, the criminology major was writing her honours thesis on missing and murdered indigenous women when she vanished.

A mother gives birth to her baby on a busy Manhattan sidewalk with hundreds of onlookers.

 A BRITISH woman who gave birth on a New York City street after rushing out of her flat as she went into labour on Monday has been reunited with the Good Samaritan who came to her aid.
Polly McCourt, 39, hailed a cab on Monday with the help of the doorman to her apartment block in the

Oscar Pistorius pictured at gun range just months before shooting dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

Sky News shows images of Oscar Pistorius firing the pistol he used when he shot his girlfriend, taken months before the killing.

FOOTAGE has emerged of Oscar Pistorius firing several guns, including the one used to shoot Reeva Steenkamp, at a gun range just months before he killed his model girlfriend.

The footage, obtained by Sky News in the UK, shows Pistorius shooting apart a whole watermelon balancing at head height next to a target.

Man dies in romp with commercial sex worker in Aba

A man, identified as Ogadinma Chukwu, has lost his life while having sex with a commercial sex worker at a popular brothel located on St. Michael’s Road, Aba, Abia State.

Sources said the deceased, whom they alleged to be a regular visitor to the brothel, died while romping the prostitute.

100 Awards At 100

NIGERIANS would witness the most formal event of the centenary today when President Goodluck Jonathan hands out 100 awards to 100 individuals – more than 50 post-humously – who made their marks in Nigeria’s first 100 years.

Police recover 2-month-old stolen baby in Kaduna

Kaduna State Police Command has said it had recovered a two‑month‑old baby, Sulaiman Adamu, stolen from his mother.

Its Public Relations Officer, Aminu Lawan, disclosed this in Kaduna.

Toddler smashed to death during free-for-all in Ondo

DETECTIVES in Ondo State have arrested a middle-aged man, Ayelehin Kehinde, for allegedly causing the death of a two-year-old toddler in Supare, Akoko area of the state during a free-for-all.

The suspect, who is now in police custody, reportedly pulled the baby boy, who was sleeping, from the back of her mother and smashed him on the concrete floor.

Why Nigeria’ll not break up under Jonathan’s watch—Clark

CHronicling the history of Nigeria dating back to the 1914 amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates, Clark said that propositions that the nation will disintegrate should be totally disregarded, as what is playing out in the country today is only a tussle for political power.

He said: “We have been together for the past 100 years. It was in 1914 that Lord Lugard amalgamated the Northern and the Southern protectorates. Don’t ask me why the amalgamation because I do not want to dwell on that. But firstly, it is apt to note that there was a true federation particularly in 1961.