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BEEFCAKE Arlindo 'The Mountain' de Souza believes he has grown the biggest arms in Brazil - after injecting a cocktail of BABY OIL and ALCOHOL into his arms. The 43-yea…

Malaysia Airlines flight missing: passengers under investigation, Australians among 239 feared dead

The search for Malaysian Airlines jet continues as six Australian passengers were named by DFAT. Courtesy Channel Ten

AS THE FBI joins the international search for answers to what downed missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Vietnam may have spotted the first debris. 

Thai case against Aust journalist delayed

AN Australian journalist facing criminal defamation and computer crimes brought by the Royal Thai Navy says the case is being delayed until April, raising hopes the charges may be dropped. 

Caffeine: How society’s favourite drug affects us more than we think

Many of us feel we can’t get going without a strong cup of coffee in the morning. 

 

Caffeine is one of the only drugs we embrace without guilt. We — the 87% of us who ingest caffeine — boast about being “so addicted,” duck out during work to get a fix and can’t even imagine the last time we didn’t start off the day with a hit. 

Rabboni Centre Ministries patrons eat grass as part of their religion

Going green ... Rabboni Centre Ministries members eating grass as part of their spiritual practice in Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa. 

 

HOW far would you go for your religion?

Eating grass is a strange one to stomach but that’s exactly what members of a Christian ministry in South Africa are doing.

China to tighten rules against pollution

China says it will tighten environmental legislation and force polluters to pay compensation

CHINA says it will tighten environmental legislation and force polluters to pay compensation following renewed blasts of toxic air. 

Families separated as Crimean port of Sebastopol caught between Ukraine and Russia

 Russian forces block Ukraine's only exit point to the Black Sea by sinking two aging vessels, as the crisis in Crimea intensifies. Jillian Kitchener reports
 
TWICE a day, for the past seven days Natasha has been walking 2km from her home in the Crimean Port of Sebastopol, with her nine-month-old son Yulian strapped into a babybjorn on her front. 

Malaysia Airlines flight missing: passengers under investigation, Australians among 239 feared dead

 

AS THE FBI joins the international search for answers to what downed missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, security experts say China may have been the intended target. 

Russian gunman fire warning shots as Western officials blocked from entering Crimea in Ukraine

About 200 pro-Russian activists tried to storm the Ukraine Security Service building in the eastern city of Donetsk. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

AN uneasy calm over the Crimea this morning as Russian troops continued to pour across the Ukrainian border into the Crimea in their passive invasion.

Australia sending two P3C Orions from Darwin to Malaysia to aid with the search for missing Malaysian flight MH370

 

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called the Malaysian prime minister and offered two RAAF Orion aircraft for the search and rescue operation. 

Five things you never knew about Syria before the war

Lawrence of Arabia featured actors Omar Sharif, left and Peter O'Toole. 

 

FOR the past three years, Syria has been making headlines the world over — for all the wrong reasons. 

Russia has miscalculated over Crimea incursion, says Hague

William Hague: "This will turn out, over time, to be quite a big miscalculation"

Russia has made a "big miscalculation" in entering Crimea, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned.

Ukraine crisis: US warns Russia not to annex Crimea

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: "This crisis was not created by us"

The US has warned Russia that any moves to annex Crimea would close the door to diplomacy.

US Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Crimea is part of Ukraine and Moscow should avoid military escalation.

As hostilities flare in Crimea, U.S. steps up pressure on Russia

Ukrainian riot policemen stand guard outside the regional state administration building during a rally by pro-Russian protesters in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Saturday, March 8. Ukrainian officials and Western diplomats accuse Russia of sending thousands of troops into the Crimea region in the past week, though Russia's foreign minister on Saturday insisted, "This crisis was not created by us." The standoff in the former Soviet republic has revived concerns of a return to Cold War relations. 

Hostilities intensified in Crimea on Saturday as Ukrainian officials accused pro-Russian forces of armed aggression and President Barack Obama rounded up world leaders to demand Russia "de-escalate the situation."

Obama called British, French and Italian leaders and hosted a conference call with the presidents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the White House said.

Death row convicts get £600,000 units to cool down 'oven' prison cells

DEATH row prisoners at one of America’s toughest jails are getting air conditioning after taking legal action over their hot cells.
FEELING HOT: Death Row building at the Louisiana State Penitentiary 
 

Three lags, who are all inside for murder, will get £600,000 units to cool them down in the summer months.

Michael Le Vell vows to take test to prove to Corrie bosses he's not a drug addict

CORRIE star Michael Le Vell has vowed to undergo a drug test to show TV chiefs he is not hooked on cocaine.
 TROUBLED: Actor Michael Le Vell leaving his Cheshire home yesterday
 

Street bosses told him to take a break from the show after he admitted taking coke in the run-up to his child abuse trial.

Missing Malaysia Airlines plane 'may have turned back'

Friends and relatives expecting to meet passengers from the flight in Beijing were taken to a nearby hotel

Radar signals show a Malaysia Airlines plane that has been missing for more than 24 hours may have turned back, Malaysian officials have said.

Rescue teams looking for the plane have now widened their search area.

No sign of Malaysia Airline wreckage; questions over stolen passports

Traces of oil may be clue in plane search

There were few answers Sunday about the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a day after contact was lost with the commercial jetliner en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Libya threatens to bomb North Korea-flagged tanker

This Libyan navy ship, the Ibn Auf fired warning shots to prevent another, Maltese-flagged, oil tanker from docking and loading crude at Sidra earlier in the week

Libya's prime minister has threatened to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker if it tries to export oil from a rebel-controlled port.

Ali Zeidan said that orders had been issued to arrest the tanker's crew.

University is digging into Mississippi's past with a long forgotten graveyard

An estimated 2,000 unmarked graves were uncovered at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson

Amid a grove of trees, buried beneath the grass and dirt, Mississippi's past is colliding with its future.

Surveyors last month discovered dozens of neat, tight rows of coffins just feet below the ground at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

50 armed men invade Enugu Govt House

Chime

Armed attack by about 50 young men on Government House, Enugu in the early hours of yesterday was repelled by security operatives attached to the state seat of power.

Jonathan celebrates govs defection from PDP

 President Goodluck Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan says the defection of some governors, legislators and their supporters to the All Progressive Congress (APC) is a good omen for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), pointing out that since their defection, the PDP has been waxing stronger.

`Virgin’ undergraduate, 22, raped to death

The victim on her matriculation day

It was a sad end for 22 year-old Deborah (surname withheld), a 300-level student of Benson Idahosa University, Benin-City, after the girl, said to be a virgin, was raped to death by yet to be identified persons in Benin-City, Edo State capital. The rapists cut her throat after the dastardly act. The family of

Russia 'demands surrender' of Ukraine's Crimea forces

Ukraine's navy chief has urged his officers not to switch sides, as Daniel Sandford reports

Ukrainian defence sources have accused Russia's military of demanding the surrender of their forces in Crimea.

Russia's Black Sea Fleet chief Aleksander Vitko threatened a full assault if they did not surrender by dawn on Tuesday, the sources said.

China Kunming knife attack: Three suspects captured

 
As shocked relatives come to terms with the killings, Beijing is certain to argue that the scale and shocking brutality of this attack shows that the threat is real and serious

The three remaining suspects involved in Saturday's deadly mass knife attack in the Chinese city of Kunming have been captured, state media report.

Short skirts, thongs, bargain booze, vomit and paramedics – it's Carnage UK in Nottingham

DRUNKEN youngsters struggling to get home is an all too familiar sight we have had to get used to seeing.
 DRUNKEN: A group of friends help each other get home after a night of carnage
 

But this group of scantily-clad students took it to another level as they descended on Nottingham for the latest Carnage UK pub crawl last night.

Ukraine crisis: UK warns Russia over Crimean incursion

David Cameron: "What we want to see is a de-escalation"

Diplomatic, political and economic pressures will be put on Russia to send a "clear message" about its actions in the Ukraine, David Cameron has said.

The prime minister was speaking after Russian forces reportedly set a 03:00 GMT deadline for Ukrainian forces in Crimea to surrender or face attack.

Police in Sokoto ban rallies, pasting of posters, billboards

The Police Command in Sokoto State on Monday banned all political parties from holding rallies, pasting of posters and billboards in the state.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr Shuaibu Gambo, who made this known after a meeting with the political party leaders, said it would foster sustainable peace and unity in the state.

Russia broke international law in Ukraine, says Obama

Obama

US President Barack Obama warned on Monday that most of the world believes that Russia has violated international law by intervening in Ukraine.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Le Vell insists he does not have a drug habit after cocaine revelations

CORONATION Street star Michael Le Vell last night stormed: “I am not a drug addict.”
SHAME: Michael Le Vell said trying cocaine was a 'stupid mistake' 
 

And he said he felt “betrayed” by a former girlfriend who he blames for revelations that he took cocaine just once.

The actor said he was at his lowest ebb as he successfully battled to clear his name in court over sex charges.

Pistorius neighbor: 'Bloodcurdling screams' the night of the killing

Witness: I heard bloodcurdling screams

Talk of "bloodcurdling screams" and shots in the night took center stage Monday in the first day of testimony in the murder trial of South African amputee track star Oscar Pistorius, who killed his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, last year.

7 dead in Boko Haram attack in Cameroon

Seven people were killed on Sunday when Boko Haram militants launched an assault in northern Cameroon, a Cameroonian security source said.

S-C-A-N-D-A-L!: Eagles World Cup jersey to be probed

BONE OF CONTENTION — New Jersey

The House of Representatives Committee on Sports have criticized the colour of the recently unveiled Nigeria national team jersey and threatened to carry out a probe to ascertain why the traditional colours were not selected by the manufacturers.

Boko Haram has made over 10,000, widows – NGO

The activities of terrorists in the North-Eastern part of the country and the Federal Government’s military offensive against the situation has resulted in over 10,000 women becoming widows in the region.

13 killed in Kano auto-crash

The Kano State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has confirmed the death of 13 persons in an early morning auto crash on the Kano-Zaria road.

Boko Haram: Scores killed in Sunday night attack in Borno

Suspected Boko Haram terrorists, yesterday, invaded Mafa, the headquarters of Mafa local government area of Borno state, killing scores of residents before setting ablaze many residential and public buildings.

Boko Haram attack in Borno killed 29, says Senator Zanna

Suspected Islamist insurgents killed 29 people in  embattled northeast, an official said Monday, the latest carnage in a surge of violence that has left more than 100 dead this month alone.

G7 condemns Russian takeover in Crimea

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G7 leaders on Sunday night in Washington condemned Russian actions in Crimea saying they would stop their involvement in preparations for a planned Group of Eight (G8) summit in June in Sochi.

The one thing every flight attendant dreads

It’s the moment flight attendants dread ... 

 

RUDE passengers. Flight delays. The pressure to look glamorous. On the scale of flight attendants’ most-dreaded moments, these mile-high issues don’t even come close.

Sarah Steegar, a flight attendant with a major US carrier for the past 15 years, reveals her number one workplace fear.

Oscar Pistorius’ ‘trial of the century’ to focus on forensics

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

IT could all hinge on the toilet door. 
 
Oscar Pistorius goes on trial for murder today, but some experts not involved in the case say the double-amputee runner could still be vulnerable to a homicide conviction even if he is acquitted of murdering his girlfriend. That’s because, they say, he violated the most basic tenets of gun-handling by

Russian troop invasion encircles Crimea’s capital as Ukraine PM declares the nation to be on ‘brink of disaster’

Ukraine's army is put on full combat alert, while the United States calls for the immediate deployment of international monitors to the former Soviet republic

 RUSSIAN forces surrounded a Ukrainian army base last nightjust as the country began mobilising in response to the surprise Russian takeover of Crimea.
CNN is reporting power has been cut to a Ukrainian naval base and that shots have been heard in the area.

Brekkie Wrap: Terry Boyd avoids jail over sex hostages; Ukraine ‘on brink of disaster’

Brekkie Wrap: All the news you need to know. 

A WOMAN accused of holding two men hostage and demanding sex from one of them could avoid jail time if she behaves herself for nine months. 

Royal tour details revealed: Prince William, Catherine and baby George all coming Down Under

Royal g’day ... Catherine and Prince William are bringing George to Australia. 

 

WITH a tour of Uluru, a splash on Manly beach, jet boats, skateboards and working as deckhands on racing America’s Cup yachts, it’s more Contiki than royal itinerary. 

US Supreme Court looks at Freddie Lee Hall, death row inmate with low IQ

Deadly deliberation ... Florida uses a controversial 75-point IQ cut-off to determine if death row inmates are mentally disabled.

 

A FLORIDIAN with an IQ as high as 75 may be diagnosed as mentally disabled and be eligible for help getting a job. But on death row, the state says having an IQ higher than 70 categorically means an inmate is not mentally disabled and may be executed. 

Laziest person in the history of humanity gets cat to turn light off with help of laser pen

We salute you, phlegmatic cat owner

One man has combined his twin loves of not-standing-up and messing-with-the-cat to create the best life hack we’ve seen in a while.

Kanu undergoes heart surgery again!

Nwankwo Kanu

Nigerian football legend and founder of Kanu Heart Foundation, KHF, Nwankwo Kanu(OON, MON, UNICEF Ambassador) at the weekend underwent a corrective heart surgery at the Cleveland Hospital , Ohio, USA.

Baby wipes cause rash of problems for parents

Wiped out ... it is parents, not just babies, who are being irritated by the wipes.

 

A PRESERVATIVE used in baby wipes is causing a rash of skin complaints.

The problem is an increasingly common allergic reaction to a preservative used in some brands.

Anglican Church subjects members to oath denouncing homosexuality

The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has introduced a clause in its constitution subjecting members, who intend to hold positions in church, to take an oath of allegiance to God denouncing homosexuality.

Boko Haram: Northern govs assure on peace

The damaged school in Yobe state.

Northern States Governors’ Forum on Sunday assured Nigerians, especially those living in the troubled North Eastern states, that a lot was being done to guarantee peace in the area.

NLC condemns Boko Haram activities in Yobe, Adamawa

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Sunday condemned last week’s massacre of students of the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, in Yobe.

The NLC also condemned the attacks on Michika, Madagali and Shua, in Adamawa and Borno, respectively, and urged the Federal Government to stop the audacity of the Boko Haram sect.

Sean Connery urges Scottish independence

Yes’ vote ... Scottish actor Sean Connery promotes his book 'Being a Scot' in 2008. Connery has urged his fellow Scots to vote for independence. 
 

JAMES Bond star Sean Connery has urged his fellow Scots to vote for independence in their referendum later this year, saying it was an opportunity “too good to miss”. 

US Navy jet crashes during training

A US Navy F/A-18C Hornet jet aircraft crashed during training Saturday in the western state of Nevada, the navy said in a statement.

Fired for urinating in a box, factory worker gets job back but sues company

Rights fight ... Disputes over bathroom breaks have prompted law suits and complaints and are even the subject of a 1998 book. 

 

A WOMAN who was fired for urinating in a box at work has had her job reinstated but she is suing the company.

Russian troop convoy on road to Crimea’s capital as Ukraine PM declares the ‘brink of disaster’

Ukraine's army is put on full combat alert, while the United States calls for the immediate deployment of international monitors to the former Soviet republic.

UKRAINE’S Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has warned that his crisis-hit country is on the “brink of disaster’’, accusing Russia of declaring war in a bleak appeal to the international community. 

Knife massacre in Chinese railway station leaves 34 dead

The mass stabbing has been dubbed a ‘terrorist attack’ by the authorities

Separatist forces have been blamed for a ‘terrorist attack’ in a Chinese railway station which left 34 people dead and more than 140 wounded.
More than ten assailants converged on Kunming station in Yunnan province yesterday armed with knives.

Woman and teen charged with assaulting vision-impaired man, 77, on Queensland bus

Two young women have been charged with an apparently racist assault upon an elderly and vision-impaired man in a broad-daylight attack that was captured on camera and circulated on social media.
Lana Janet Watmough, 21, and Layni Gloria Cameron, 17, handed themselves into police after footage