JOB ADVERT: Be naked wash the dishes, bit of dusting: A Pensioner has placed a job advert to hire £20-an-hour nude cleaner , he got 11 replies in a week

A self-confessed 'voyeur' pensioner has adverted in his local newsagents for a £20-an-hour nude cleaner and has received around 11 letters applications in a week.

The 69-year-old divorcee from Bristol, known as John, has placed an advert in a newsagents for a job position of nude cleaner, as he seeks his fourth employee in as many years.

Indonesia Gov. orders arrangements for executions of Nigerian, Ghanaian and others

The Indonesian government said Thursday it had ordered officials to make preparations to execute a group of drug convicts, most of them foreigners, despite mounting international criticism.

 The attorney general’s office also revealed that a Filipina among the group will be moved on Friday to a prison island where the executions will take place, joining other death row convicts already there.

Ten convicts — from Australia, France, Brazil, the Philippines, Nigeria, Ghana and Indonesia — will face the firing squad at the same time after recently losing appeals for presidential clemency, typically the final chance to avoid execution.

Tony Spontana, the spokesman for the attorney general’s office, told AFP that a senior official in the office had “ordered officials in charge of executions to make preparations for an execution”.

Bloodbath of the leaders at UK general election?

The knives are already being sharpened for the leaders of Britain’s political parties, several of whom could see their careers brought to a brutal end if they fail to deliver at the May 7 election.

Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, his Liberal Democrat deputy Nick Clegg, leader of the main opposition Labour party Ed Miliband, Nigel Farage of the anti-EU UK Independence Party — all run the risk of being kicked out.

“All four are fighting for their political life,” said Steven Fielding, professor of political history at Nottingham University.

In an unusually fragmented political landscape, it is no longer enough simply to win the most seats.

After years of dominance by the Conservatives and Labour, Westminster these days is more complicated than that.

David Cameron

He arguably has the most to lose. He became prime minister in 2010 after 13 years of Labour government but the Conservatives failed to win enough House of Commons seats to govern alone.

The result: a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats which was deeply unpopular with his party.

“If Cameron is not prime minister, he will go,” said Simon Hix of the London School of Economics (LSE).

He could even be pushed out if he has a chance of remaining prime minister but would have to form a new coalition or minority government to do so.

“Cameron, I think, is unpopular — and of course, he hasn’t won an election,” said Stephen Ingle, emeritus professor of politics at Stirling University.

“The Conservative party is always, always about winning. He had everything for him in 2010 and he didn’t win. So I don’t think he’s secure.”

Anti-xenophobia protests spread to Enugu; protesters call for Jonathan’s intervention

 Youths, Tuesday, took to the streets in Enugu condemning the killings of Nigerians and other African nationals living in South Africa.

The youths, under the umbrella of Youth Action for Success, led by its National President, Mr. Jesechai Okezie, said it was a warning protest and handed down a 48 hours ultimatum to the South African government to halt all killings, looting of Nigerians’ property or face a retaliation.

Addressing newsmen, Okezie said: “We want our President, Goodluck Jonathan, and the President-elect, General Buhari (retd), to address the Nigerian youths on the matter.

“We are really not happy that Nigerians are being brutalised and killed in South Africa. We allowed South Africans to come here and operate freely. They have Shoprite, Multichoice, MTN and other hosts of investments here.

‘’So why are they killing us. Why are they denying us our economic rights. We love other nationals here in Nigeria and treat them with the highest level of hospitality but this is what we got in return.

“These senseless killings,” he went on, “must stop forthwith. We are giving the South Africa 48 hours to ensure that these killings and looting come to an end,  because if we move to the streets again, it will be a moving train and nobody will stop us.”

24 hr tragedy: How 1100 in three boats mishaps ‘died like rats’

By Uduma Kalu with agency reports

Around the sea scenes was chaos. And dozens of men battled to drag other survivors from the treacherous waves. But not all were lucky. A short distance away, a tiny corpse was carried to land, his woolly hat dripping salt water.

These were the harrowing scenes on the shores of Europe today as up to 11,000 migrants are feared dead after three separate disasters between last Friday and this Monday.

More than 900 mainly African migrants are believed to have perished when a 75 foot fishing boat capsized off Libya in one of the worst maritime tragedies since the Second World War.

Survivors claimed up to 300 people including women and children ‘drowned like rats in cages’ after being locked in the hold by callous traffickers. In a frantic fight for life, they clung to their dead bodies to stay afloat.

Another two boats are thought to be in danger off the coast of Libya with Maltese and Italian coastguards tending to them. Twenty are already feared dead aboard one of the vessels, both of which are carrying more than 100 people.

Three people died after a boat carrying dozens of migrants ran aground on the Greek holiday island of Rhodes. Beach-goers were among the first to come to survivors’ rescue as emergency services off the coast of Libya continued to survey the horror of an earlier disaster.

Earlier disaster

A dead child was among t drownws on the Greek island of Rhodes after a wooden sailing boat carrying dozens of people ran aground, killing at least three people in one of a number of tragedies involving migrant vessels over the last two days. Video footage showed a large, wooden double-masted boat with people packed on board, just metres away from the Greek island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

An international aid agency spokeswoman has compared the scale of deaths in recent shipwrecks to the death toll in the sinking of the Titanic luxury liner more than a century ago.

Sarah Tyler, a spokeswoman for Save the Children in Catania, Sicily, said more than 1,000 people have died in the waters of the Mediterranean in recent weeks.

She added: ‘That is almost as many as died in the Titanic, and 31 times the number who died when the Costa Concordia sank.’

Hundreds protest in Iran outside Saudi embassy

Hundreds of people demonstrated on Saturday outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran to protest against alleged sexual harassment against Iranian youths by Saudi police.Official IRNA news agency said about 500 people gathered outside the embassy in northeastern Tehran in a protest that had not been authorised by the authorities.

Media reported that two Iranian teenagers who had gone on pilgrimage to holy sites in Saudi Arabia had been sexually harassed by police at the Red Sea airport of Jeddah, as they prepared to return home.

Obama, Castro in telephone conversation ahead of historic meeting

The U.S. and Cuban presidents have spoken by phone for only the second time in more than 50 years, US and Cuban sources said on Friday.

However, precisely, when Barack Obama and Raul Castro spoke has remained unclear.

A White House official said in a statement that the two leaders talked by telephone Wednesday before Obama left Washington to travel to regional summits in Jamaica and Panama.

Jorge said in a social media account that the two men had a telephone conversation “minutes before” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met late Thursday with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez, in Panama.

Leganoa is a deputy director in Cuba’s state-run National Information Agency,

Neither side shared details of the conversation. Obama and Castro are set to meet officially for the first time at the Summit of the Americas in Panama, taking place Friday and Saturday.

There have concerted efforts by the leaders of the two countries to ensure the restoration of ties which was severed more than five decades ago.

Clark condemns Obama over presentation of certificate of commendation to Jega

Chief Clark 

ABUJA- FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday condemned in very strong terms, the presentation of Certificate of Commendation by the President of the United States of America, President Barrack Obama to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega.

Speaking to Journalists yesterday in Abuja, Chief Clark stressed that the presentation of a ‘Certificate of Commendation’ to Jega over the conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly elections March 28th, 2015 with the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly polls yet to be conducted was too hasty,

Clark who urged the US to leave Nigeria alone, said that Nigeria remains an independent country capable of doing its things, its own way and not according to the dictates of the western world, adding, ” I was surprised that Barack Obama gave Professor Attahiru Jega an award when the elections are still on . Obama should be tactful in handling the affairs of Africa. US should leave us alone, Nigeria is an Independent country. They tried it Egypt, they should not try anything in Nigeria,

President Obama who presented the certificate to Jega, would be recalled was represented by the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle.

The ‘Certificate of Commendation’ was awarded to Jega for his outstanding and sterling performance in conducting a credible election. Obama said what Prof. Jega has done should be replicated by all.

Former French Mayor commits suicide ahead of fraud trial

Former mayor of the French city of Tours committed suicide on Tuesday before standing a trial for his alleged connection with the so-called “Chinese Weddings” fraud, local media reported.

Jean Germain served as mayor of Tours from 1995 to 2014. He is also a Socialist Senator.

According to reports, the 67 year-old was expected to attend a trial on Tuesday morning over charges of “illegal taking of interests and complicity of embezzlement of public funds”.

Germain was accused of letting a member of his cabinet, who was recruited to promote France-China relations, defraud the city in the so-called “Chinese Weddings” fraud.

Lise Han, a Taiwanese, was suspected of awarding public contracts to her own company called Blue Lotus while serving as Germain’s councilor.

The company organised weddings for Chinese newly-weds, who were invited to Tours to “remarry” in fake ceremonies.

Ohio family moving to Colorado for daughter's medical marijuana treatments

An Ohio family whose three-year-old daughter’s condition causes her to suffer more than 1,000 seizures a day is moving to California so that she can be treated with medical marijuana.

Addyson Benton was diagnosed with myoclonic epilepsy when she was 14 months old, Cinncinati.com reported. The family tried multiple medications without success before researching medical marijuana and deciding to try it for their daughter.

“We actually have two doctors out in Colorado that Addyson sees once a year and both of the doctors think that she will benefit really well from a form of non-psychoactive form of the plant called THCa. That’s what we are going for,” Heather Benton, Addyson’s mom told Cincinnati.com.

After a few setbacks, the family was put on a wait list for a form of cannabidoil oil (CBD) that was shipped to their home in Ohio.

  

“We’ve noticed instantly after two weeks of Addyson being on the Charlotte’s Web CBD oil that her walking is better, her talking is better, her attention is better,” Heather told Cincinnati.com.

Texas woman undergoes surgery after breasts swell to 15 lbs each

A Beaumont, Tex., woman has undergone breast reduction surgery after a rare hormonal condition caused her breasts to swell to size 36NNN, BraveheartNaija reported.

Kerisha Marks, a 40-year-old high school social worker, told The  BraveheartNaija in Washington  that she had gigantomastia, a rare medical condition in which breast weight grows up to 3 percent of a person’s body weight.

The condition caused pulled muscles in Marks’ chest, along with severe back pain and emotional distress.

“I could not run or jump or work out at all,” Marks told the newspaper. “I was very limited in a lot of things I could do. I mean, you can’t find a sports bra that size anyway.”

Marks said sometimes the disorder made her feel as if she was having a heart attack. Other times, it would give her a searing migraine that would last hours.

  

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found guilty on all counts in Boston Marathon bombing

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a federal jury that now must decide whether he should be executed.

The verdict was reached Wednesday afternoon, nearly two years to the day three people were killed and more than 260 injured in the April 15, 2013, bombings.

Tsarnaev, 21, showed no emotion as he listened to the verdict, reached after a day and a half of deliberations. He was found guilty on all 30 counts that included conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction -- offenses punishable by death.

His conviction was practically a foregone conclusion, given his lawyer's startling admission during opening statements that Tsarnaev carried out the attack with his now-dead older brother, Tamerlan.

The two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs that exploded near the finish line, turning the traditionally celebratory home stretch of the world-famous race into a scene of carnage and putting the city on edge for days.

In the next phase of the trial, the jury will hear evidence on whether Tsarnaev should get the death penalty or spend the rest of his life in prison.

Woman jailed 20 years for aborting her baby

A 33-year-old Indiana woman, Purvi Patel, has been found guilty and convicted for 20 years after she  aborted her own baby.

Patel was charged for killing a fetus and child neglect. She was arrested after delivering a stillborn baby and throwing the body in a dumpster. The case is the first time a woman has been convicted of feticide for ending her own pregnancy.

Court records reveal that in 2013, Patel went to a hospital because she was bleeding profusely. During examination, doctors quickly realized that she had lost a pregnancy, and she confessed that she had left the fetus in a dumpster.

14-yr-old girl busted for prostitution

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A 14-year-old girl has been arrested and handed over to the Georgia, USA, Juvenile Detention Center after it was discovered that she operated as prostitute.

The under-aged girl was arrested after she was caught having sex with a man.

When police investigators obtained her phone and went through it, they discovered naked pictures of different men and text messages from the men she had sexual intercourse  with.

The police also saw messages from Facebook and her inbox filled with nude photos and prices for her services in addition with the location and time for their escapades.

Eight men have so far been arrested in connection to the crime.

33-year-old Douglas Calloway Smith was charged with violation of probation and aggravated child abuse while 37-year-old Robert Cordell Smith was charged with luring for indecent purposes.

26-year-old Jimmy Vincent Millions is accused of child molestation and aggravated child abuse just as 28-year-old Dequiris Jermain Bell is accused of statutory rape.

37-year-old Demetric Derrick Ingram is accused of enticing a child for indecent purposes, child abuse and aggravated child abuse while 41-year-old Bobby West was charged with statutory rape.

Another man, Mario Bernard Thurman, was charged with multiple counts of child abuse.

Mother, daughter give birth for same man, same week

Mother and Daughter and their babes

A South African woman, Mildred Mashego, and her daughter Patricia, have entered the record books as the first  mother and daughter to give birth to their babies in the same month and for the same man.

Times Live reports that 38-year-old Mashego of Casteel, South Africa, was pregnant when she learned that her 19-year-old daughter was also pregnant, and the two were due just days apart.

But her anger turned to shock when she found out that the man responsible for her daughter's condition was the same man who was going to be the father of her child, Vincent Malumane.

Patricia was the first to put to bed a bouncing baby boy, with her mother following suit four days after, wait for it, another boy, making them brothers, a nephew, an uncle and grandson.

The sharp shooter Vincent Malumane, admitted that he secretly had sex with the mother and daughter.

"I cannot go back now and explain what happened. All we have to do is focus on making sure that the children are properly cared for."

Mother Mildred admits that during her pregnancy, she was bitter that her daughter had slept with her boyfriend and had even considered having an abortion over the fact that her daughter was carrying a child from the same man.

Rapper apologizes to photographer he beat up in 2013

Kanye West has settled the suit that celebrity attorney Gloria Allred filed on behalf of photographer Daniel Ramos, who was involved in an altercation with the Grammy-winning rapper outside of Los Angeles International Airport in July 2013.

Allred did not reveal the terms of the settlement, but said one of the requirements inc

luded the 37-year-old raper apologizing to Ramos, which was captured in a photograph she put out with a statement on Tuesday, April 7, BraveheartNija gathered that,

Kanye agreed to the terms that include an apology to deflect a trial over the lawsuit.   He had also pleaded guilty to the assault charges back in November 2013.

Allred told reporters, ''We believe that this case sent an important message. Celebrities are not above the law, and they have no right to physically attack someone simply because they were asked a question.''

Allred also mentioned that she filed for a dismissal of the case, which had been due to go to trial on April 14.

H5 bird flu found on Canada turkey farm

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Two turkey farms in Canada have been placed under quarantine after H5 bird flu was detected in one of them, Canadian health authorities said. The Canadian agency responsible for food inspections said it was conducting further tests to determine the precise strain of the virus and the severity of the infection Preliminary testing confirmed the presence of H5 in a farm near Woodstock, Ontario, after the sudden 

deaths of birds over several days, the The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Monday.

The agency “has placed the farm, and a neighboring farm, under quarantine to control disease spread and the industry sector has been notified to adopt enhanced biosecurity practices,” it said.

Ebola: Police raid unsafe funeral, arrests 13

 Police in Ebola-hit Sierre Leone raided a funeral on Tuesday and arrested 13 people suspected of organising an unsafe burial, risking spreading the disease, officers said. Police superintendent Da Samah said “heavily-armed” police arrived just in time to stop a 50-year-old man being interred on the outskirts of Freetown after they were tipped off about the ceremony.

  “We stopped the burial and we have put out an alert for an ambulance which eyewitnesses said brought the corpse to the cemetery,” he told newsmen. “We arrested those present because there was no burial permit nor any documents relating to the burial.”

Health authorities in Freetown have recorded 3,832 of more than 10,000 Ebola deaths in the outbreak, which began in southern Guinea in December 2013 before spreading to Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Christians are the new martyrs, says Pope

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Pope Francis has asked for support for Christians throughout the world, calling for concrete participation and tangible help to defend and protect “our brothers and sisters who are persecuted’’. The Pope called for protection for those exiled, killed, and beheaded solely because they were Christians.

  

“These are our martyrs of today, and they are many, we can say that there are more of them now than there were in the early centuries. “I hope the international community does not look on, mute and inert, at such an unacceptable crime,’’ Francis said.

The Pope did not specify what he expected the international community to do although he encouraged peaceful initiatives. In order to launch his appeal, he took advantage of the presence of a big crowd in St. Peter’s Square, including a delegation from the Shalom Community.

“Your itinerary on the streets is over, but what must continue on the part of all is the spiritual journey of prayer, intense prayer,’’ Pope said.