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One of the pillars of Arab music, Wadih al-Safi, has died at the age of 92 in a hospital in Lebanon.
The singer was at the forefront of a movement that made Lebanese music hugely popular in the region.
Often referred to as the "voice of Lebanon", Mr Safi was one of the big names in what was seen as a golden age of Arab music.
Since his death was announced, many have paid tribute to what they describe as a musical legend.
Mr Safi was with his son when he was taken ill on Friday, and later died in hospital.
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The Hindu temple town of Vrindavan, a few hours south-east of Delhi, is known by another name locally: it's called the city of widows.
While most come here to find religion, many come because they have nowhere else to go. Others are just dumped here by families who no longer want to pay for their care.
Sixty-five-year-old Shakti Dasi from Agartala in north-eastern India is one. She came here eight years ago when her husband died.
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Her sons no longer want her, she says.
"It's a struggle to survive, but I can manage on very little. Like everyone else, I too hoped that my children would grow up to take care of me, but they didn't. So I had no choice but to come here."
While most come here to find religion, many come because they have nowhere else to go. Others are just dumped here by families who no longer want to pay for their care.
Sixty-five-year-old Shakti Dasi from Agartala in north-eastern India is one. She came here eight years ago when her husband died.
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Her sons no longer want her, she says.
"It's a struggle to survive, but I can manage on very little. Like everyone else, I too hoped that my children would grow up to take care of me, but they didn't. So I had no choice but to come here."
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Diamonds big enough to be
worn by Hollywood film stars could be raining down on Saturn and
Jupiter, US scientists have calculated.
New atmospheric data for the gas giants indicates that carbon is abundant in its dazzling crystal form, they say.Lightning storms turn methane into soot (carbon) which as it falls hardens into chunks of graphite and then diamond.
These diamond "hail stones" eventually melt into a liquid sea in the planets' hot cores, Dr Kevin Baines University of Wisconsin-Madison
The biggest diamonds would
likely be about a centimetre in diameter - "big enough to put on a ring,
although of course they would be uncut," says Dr Kevin Baines, of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
He added they would be of a size that the late film actress Elizabeth Taylor would have been "proud to wear"."The bottom line is that 1,000 tonnes of diamonds a year are being created on Saturn.
"People ask me - how can you really tell? Because there's no way you can go and observe it.
"It all boils down to the chemistry. And we think we're pretty certain."
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More than 1,000 Traders in Anambra State, Benin and Abuja were rewarded with various prizes including Brand new Hyundai i7 cars during the week in the Buy, Display and Win promo organised by Close Up.
The promo kicked off in May 2013 was targeted at retailers to reward those who prominently displayed the Close up toothpaste tubes and sachets as well as Omo detergent in their stores. The Prize presentation held across the regions as 7 lucky winners went home with brand new Hyundai i7 cars, others went home with gifts such as Deep Freezers, Generator sets, Fridges, Television sets, DVD players, water Purifiers, Blenders, and Steam Irons.
The promo kicked off in May 2013 was targeted at retailers to reward those who prominently displayed the Close up toothpaste tubes and sachets as well as Omo detergent in their stores. The Prize presentation held across the regions as 7 lucky winners went home with brand new Hyundai i7 cars, others went home with gifts such as Deep Freezers, Generator sets, Fridges, Television sets, DVD players, water Purifiers, Blenders, and Steam Irons.
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Zimbabwean woman who breastfed a neighbour’s baby without her consent faces a possible two-year sentence for deliberately infecting another person with HIV after she tested positive.
Annie Mpariwa who is 39-year-old appeared in court on Wednesday the case was deferred to October 24 in order to allow a second HIV test to be performed
The child’s initial results were negative. Mpariwa was arrested last week on charges of common nuisance and should the child test positive; then the charge will be raised to “deliberately infecting another person with HIV”.
The mother of the 14-month-old baby said seeing her child being breastfed by her neighbour was traumatizing. She alleged that her neighbour snatched the child while she was playing outside and hid her in her room. After searching for the child for quite some time, she went and knocked on Mpariwa’s rented room and got no response.
Upon peeping through the window, she saw her breastfeeding the little girl. I was shocked. I nearly fainted,” she said, adding that her breasts were leaking milk yet she was not a nursing mother or pregnant. The incident comes in the wake of a newly enacted law on HIV and Aids that calls for stiffer penalties on people who deliberately infect others with HIV.
Annie Mpariwa who is 39-year-old appeared in court on Wednesday the case was deferred to October 24 in order to allow a second HIV test to be performed
The child’s initial results were negative. Mpariwa was arrested last week on charges of common nuisance and should the child test positive; then the charge will be raised to “deliberately infecting another person with HIV”.
The mother of the 14-month-old baby said seeing her child being breastfed by her neighbour was traumatizing. She alleged that her neighbour snatched the child while she was playing outside and hid her in her room. After searching for the child for quite some time, she went and knocked on Mpariwa’s rented room and got no response.
Upon peeping through the window, she saw her breastfeeding the little girl. I was shocked. I nearly fainted,” she said, adding that her breasts were leaking milk yet she was not a nursing mother or pregnant. The incident comes in the wake of a newly enacted law on HIV and Aids that calls for stiffer penalties on people who deliberately infect others with HIV.
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A 33 year old man is on the run after murdering his wife with acid. On Friday October 11th, a man named Sunday Eze from Obiofia Nnewichi Nnewi in Anambra State, went to his father-in-law's house at Edoji Uruagu to see his estranged wife, Ebere Eze who is 23 (Nee Agwuncha) who had moved back to her father's house after falling out with her husband. The victim's in-law said Sunday came to the house that Friday and claimed he had recently bought new plots of land he wanted to show his wife . He managed to convince Ebere to go with him to go see the land. As they approached Oraifite/Ichi axis in Ekwusigo Local Government, Sunday Eze turned on his wife and attacked her. He beat her with iron and poured acid on her. He then forced some of the acid down her throat.
The lady's screams attracted some policemen who were passing by the area but by then, her attacker was long gone. The policemen rushed her to Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi where she later died.
According to the victim's in-law Sunday called his wife's family yesterday Sunday 13th demanding for forgiveness for what he did, but not really saying why he attacked his wife so viciously. Sunday Eze is wanted by the Nigerian police.
The lady's screams attracted some policemen who were passing by the area but by then, her attacker was long gone. The policemen rushed her to Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi where she later died.
According to the victim's in-law Sunday called his wife's family yesterday Sunday 13th demanding for forgiveness for what he did, but not really saying why he attacked his wife so viciously. Sunday Eze is wanted by the Nigerian police.
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Yesterday Nollywood actress Nuella Njubigbo as well as other Batch C youth corps members nationwide were awarded their certificates for completing their one year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme.
The actress who served in Delta State, took to Twitter to share this image with the caption “And it came to pass!! Congrats to ME..”
She served her country for one year.
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Mercy
Johnson-Okojie (new mum) has finally lost some baby weight.
Few months after
hitting the gym and working at different movie locations, Nollywood star, Mercy
Johnson has attained a slim new look.
She posted this photos of her new figure when she visited the
Bank of Industry for a meeting with the Executive Director (operations) last
week on twitter.
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1. Be
mindful of your expectations.
2. Don’t
listen to women that tell you that passion fades…it doesn’t have to!
3. Give
your husband the gift of your respect. He needs it more than you know.
4. Love
is about relationship.
The more I love my husband, and seek a relationship with him, the less
critical and duty-bound I become.
5. Don’t
compare!! Don’t buy into
the game of comparing him with anyone else’s husband.
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Akon in Ghana with Banky W and Wizkid on the set of the video shoot for the song - Roll It, EME ft Banky W and Wizkid.sometime in 2011, and in 2012, Wizkid was in Dublin, Ireland with Akon for one of Wizkid’s songs. Here we are again, seeing Akon, Banky W and Wizkid in another soon to be released video of ‘Roll IT’
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