Another day, another winning street style look from Taylor Swift...
We want to steal this look head-to-toe, please Taylor Swift! Everything
from the little porkpie hat to the super booties and smart navy coat
screams luxe street style.
A classic Trench coat and jeans is all you need for an instant injection
of city chic into your wardrobe. Just follow Karlie Kloss' lead on this
one...
There’s nothing like a navy blue coat over an all-black outfit to really
bring a chic winter’s day look together. Make like Dakota Fanning and
invest in a statement handbag (like this Prada one), too.
The Olsen twins are a constant source of style
inspiration for us. Mary-Kate’s simple skinny leather leggings and
oversized coat with a bright printed scarf and sharp kitten heels is a
chic outfit for a working day in the city.
Former Swansea loanee Brendan Rodgers wanted a reunion with at Anfield
insists he's not kicking himself over choosing Spurs instead
To err is to do? SIgurdsson could be fighting for the title now if he'd picked Liverpool over Spurs
Tottenham midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson insists he has no regrets about rejecting a move to Liverpool. Brendan
Rodgers, who had the Icelandic international on loan at Swansea three
years ago, wanted to work with him again at Anfield, and made a move in the summer of 2012. Sigurdsson, however, was convinced Tottenham were the better bet and opted for a move to the north Londoners from Germany's Hoffenheim. Liverpool, then a side in transition, are now set for Champions League football next season and are challenging for the title. Spurs,
by contrast, sold Gareth Bale last summer, sacked Andre Villas-Boas in
December, have his replacement Tim Sherwood under pressure from fans and
are set to miss out on the top four for the second year running. Nothing less than an away win will do for them when the two teams meet at Anfield on Sunday. But, regardless of that result, Sigurdsson - who hit the late winner in last Sunday’s pulsating 3-2 victory over Southampton - maintains he made the right choice in snubbing the Reds. “At the time, I was really happy to come to Tottenham,” he said, “And I still am. “I’m
really enjoying it. It’s a fantastic club and in the last couple of
seasons we’ve shown the ambition to become better. Hopefully in the next
couple of years, it will be really good.
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Loan star: Sigurdsson scored seven league goals in 18 games for Rodgers' Swansea
"Because they didn’t qualify for Europe, Liverpool are
playing one game a week and it’s benefited them quite a bit, because
they’re fresh and ready to go in every game.” Everton have leapfrogged Spurs to provide the biggest danger to faltering, fourth-placed Arsenal in the race for the top four. The
fifth-placed Toffees, still to entertain the Gunners at Goodison Park,
are six points behind them with a game in hand. Spurs have slipped to
sixth, seven points behind their arch-rivals with seven games remaining. Sigurdsson
admits Tottenham will have underachieved if they finish fifth for the
third time in four seasons, but is convinced they have the players in
the squad to punch their weight next season. Roberto Soldado,
Christian Eriksen and Nacer Chadli - three of the seven players drafted
in as part of the club’s well-documented £100million spending spree last
summer - have all impressed in their most recent games. Sigurdsson added: “It will be a disappointment if we don’t finish higher than fifth. "We
brought a lot of players in last summer and we know it’s going to take
time. It depends on some of the players coming in — some of them fit in
straight away, some need a few months or a season just to get used to
English football. That’s life. "If we can finish in the top four, it will be fantastic. “Would
continuity help us for next season? I don’t see why not. There are
fantastic players here and we have good staff all around. “If we
start next season well, then everything is possible. Most of the new
players will be in their second season so they will be used to English
football by then and they will have settled in.”
Tim Sherwood fancies bringing the young England centre-half who was sold
by predecessor Andre Villas-Boas in July back to White Hart Lane
Spurs are poised to pinch England defender Steven Caulker back from Cardiff if the Welsh side are relegated. The Londoners'
new boss Tim Sherwood is a big fan of the 22-year-old centre-back, who
was sold last summer by then-coach Andre Villas-Boas for £8million. It
was Sherwood, in his role developing the White Hart Lane club's young
players, who made the case for Caulker to be more heavily integrated
into the first team. He was deemed surplus to requirements, however, when AVB landed Romania international defender Vlad Chiriches from Steaua Bucharest. Caulker
made his Tottenham debut in 2010, and had loan spells at Yeovil,
Bristol City and Swansea to gain experience before making 28 appearances
- and his England debut - under Harry Redknapp in 2012-13. A near
ever-present for newly-promoted Cardiff under both Malky Mackay and his
successor as manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, he has also chipped in with
four goals but th Bluebirds are second-bottom with seven games to play.
Nollywood actor, Augustine Ejike Metu, popularly known as Methuselah,
has featured in so many stage and film productions, and has also made
tremendous contributions towards the growth of the industry.
He
acted ‘Rattle Snake,’ ‘Up to Rush,’ ‘Farewell to Babylon,’ ‘The Night
Fall’ and others. Though, there was no money in the movie industry in
those days, his joy is that he is rated among the fore-runners in
Nollywood.
In a recent interview, the ace actor now politician,
attributed his long lay-off due to some producers who took pictures of
actors to native doctors to know whether their faces will sell films.
‘As someone who is not diabolical, I was not comfortable with that. So I decided to step aside,’ he said.
According to him, producers were so greedy that that they want to release many films in a week.
‘At
a point producers became lords. They were so greedy and myopic that
they released 10 films in a week with the same faces. Infact, they
continued to repeat films. And being someone who is not too desperate in
the things of life, I did not need to lick the ass of the producers,'
he added.
Popular Nollywood actress Oge Okoye, is indeed one of those actress who
can stand heads high and boast of a good and happy home. Though it might
not be all rosy, but the saltry actress has been able to keep her
private family life from the public.
It would be recalled that
last year, for her hardwork and contributions to the growth and
development of Igbo land, the star actress, was being rewarded with a
chieftaincy title in Enugu State by one of the traditional rulers in the
state.
Oge Okoye is now the Igolo Nwanyi 1 of Amoli kingdom in Awgu local government area of Enugu State.
The
lovely actress, who was born in London and graduated from the Nnamdi
Azikiwe University with a degree in Theatre Arts, has been married for
7years now and she has every course to glorify God for all that has been
coming her way.
Recently, the actress displayed the pictures of her lovely kids which are signs of her lasting marital status.
Lionel messi is poised to become the world’s highest-paid player as Barcelona
look to ensure his long-term future is secure at the Nou Camp before he
heads off to play for Argentina
in the World
Cup.
Although Messi already has a contract that runs until 2018, his star status
means that he has been able to force Josep Maria Bartomeu, the new
president, to negotiate an improved deal just six months after those terms
were agreed.
Barcelona know the richest clubs in the world would all be willing to smash
their wage structure if it meant they could sign Messi, and Bartomeu cannot
risk losing him.
Messi wants to be paid more than Real
Madrid’s Cristiano
Ronaldo and Manchester
United’s Wayne
Rooney and is thought to be demanding a basic wage in excess of
£336,000 a week, while also keeping 100 per cent of his image rights.
“We all want Messi to be the best-paid player in the world and that is what we
are working on,” Bartomeu said.
Jay Z has 99 problems and his age might just be one of them as
it is believed he has been lying about how old he is.old he is.
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While the media reports that the rapper is 44, Troi "Star"
Torain, an American radio presenter has claimed that the star is in
fact 50. According to Torain, he and Jay Z are "age mates," which would
mean the rapper is actually 50 - not 44, as he has claimed. "I shouldn't blow this up, maybe because he doesn't promote it
publicly, but Jay Z and I are the same age," Torain told a caller
on his radio show. "I will be 50 on May 3. He's 43, 42... that's
just media bullsh*t!" However the presenter didn't state where he got this information
and isn't a childhood pal of the rapper or anything. He is known
for saying outrageous things on air to get higher ratings so it
makes these claims a little harder to believe. But it's not the first time Jay Z and Beyoncé have been hit by
claims that the couple lie about their ages. Good Morning America
host Bianna Golodryga once accused Beyoncé of claiming to be 32
when she is in fact 35. Yet she went to high school with Bey,
which makes her claims a little more realistic than these latest
ones about Jay Z..Whatevs, we would still love Jay Z even if he is 50 - age ain't
nothin' but a number, baby.
Beyonce
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September 04, 1981
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles is a singer from Texas, USA. She rose to
fame as the lead singer of Destiny's Child in the 1990s before
becoming a solo artist during the band's hiatus in 2003. Her
chart-topping album Dangerously In Love - most famous for singles
"Baby Boy" and "Crazy In Love" - won her five Grammy awards. In
2008, Beyoncé's third album, I Am...Sasha Fierce, took the music
world by storm, scoring the starlet six Grammy awards; the most a
female recording artist has ever won. Beyoncé started dating rapper
Jay-Z in 2002. The loved-up couple
were married in 2008 and had a daughter named Blue Ivy Carter in
January 2012. Beyoncé has since recorded her fifth studio album
which is scheduled for release later this year and includes
material written by R&B star Ne-Yo.
Defending champion Serena Williams closed in on a seventh Sony Open
title with a 6-2 6-2 quarterfinal demolition of German Angelique Kerber
on Tuesday, a win that came as the Crandon Park tennis facility was
locked down due to a bomb scare.
Williams' win sets up a semifinal rematch of last year's final against
Maria Sharapova, a five-time runnerup on the Miami hardcourts, who
advanced with an equally impressive 7-5 6-1 win over eighth-seeded Czech
Petra Kvitova.
While Williams was shutting down fifth seed Kerber, Miami Dade police
were locking down the sprawling tennis complex after a suspicious
package was found at the main entrance.
Four lane traffic was halted in both directions in front of the complex
while spectators were prevented from entering or leaving the facility.
"Yeah, there was a bomb threat and a lockdown but that's all I know about it. Scary," said Williams.
Sharapova and Williams, who have both achieved a career grand slam and
held the No 1 ranking, were expected to develop into one of the great
rivalries in women's tennis.
But it has not quite worked out that way with Williams dominating the
series, winning 15-of-17 career meetings including the last 14.
The pair have clashed three times in Miami, Williams winning all three.
"It's no secret that she's been a big challenge of mine, an opponent
that obviously I would love to beat," said Sharapova, who has not beaten
Williams in almost a decade.
"There are certainly ways that I need to step up in certain situations that I haven't been able to do in the past against her.
"But it's great that I have come to that stage and have the opportunity to play her again."
Certainly Sharapova will have to be at her best as Williams' title defence has picked up steam with each match.
The world No 1 needed just 62 minutes to dispose of Kerber and has dropped one set on route to the final four.
"When you're playing champions, you have to play your best," said
Williams, looking ahead to her meeting with Sharapova. "She always plays
her best and her heart out against me.
"We just have to bring the best because we both are really good players.
We just both do the best we can when we try to play each other.
"I love playing her. I really do."
Sharapova, who has come up short in the Miami final each of the last
three years, dropped her opening serve to Kvitova but that would be the
only time in the entire match.
The fourth-seeded Russian took control with a break to get back on level
terms at 4-4 and then again to close out the first set. Sharapova then
dominated the second set, storming through the first five games before a
reeling Kvitova held her serve.
"I didn't have a good first few games, so I was happy that I was steady,
that I kept trying to do the right thing, kept trying to be
aggressive," said Sharapova. "I think that paid off as the match went on
because I made a few too many unforced errors in the beginning."
Only a international superstar/style icon like
Rihanna could pull off this t-shirt-as-a-dress and
coat-that-looks-like-a-dressing-gown combination. Not a look that we
think will catch on, sadly.
WOWSER! Leonardo DiCaprio, the Oscar nominated actor, has just brought a
new house. It has been reported that Leo paid £3.1 million for the
1.34-acre house in the Old Las Palmas area of Palm Springs. With six
bedrooms, it's the perfect family home. Or, in Leo's case, the perfect
party house.
Diego Maradona would like to watch how Pep Guardiola trains his Bayern
Munich team and said the freshly-crowned Bundesliga champions would be
unbeatable if they had Lionel Messi as well.
"I would like to work for a week with Guardiola to watch him in
training. I would be very happy to visit Bayern Munich," the former
Argentina star player and coach, Maradona, told Wednesday's edition of
German weekly Sport Bild.
The 53-year-old said that the Bundesliga has reached the same level as
the Spanish Liga and believes that Guardiola "sensed this development
early and is now utilising it at Bayern."
Munich won the treble last season and on Tuesday clinched the 2014
league title in record time with seven games to spare. Maradona singled
out Bayern and Germany captain Philipp Lahm, saying that he "makes the
difference." Maradona, whose national team coaching career ended after a 4-0
quarterfinal defeat against Germany at the 2010 World Cup, said the
Bayern team will be "perfect" once Polish striker Robert Lewandowski
arrives in the summer from Borussia dortmund
He added that only one player could top that up, compatriot Messi, whom
Guardiola coached during his term at Barcelona, in an all-but-unlikely
scenario of going to Munich as well. "Lewandowski and Messi? Then
everyone else would play for second place. In every competition, in
every league," he said.
"And if Bayern buy Messi I will become Guardiola's assistant coach."
Quite possibly the nicest example we've had of
flawless tomboy style in recent times comes in the form of Emma Watson
in a Saint Laurent Le Smoking ensemble. Finished off with a pristine
white shirt, silver box clutch and black heels, it's faultless.
Among the 324 she claims to have infected, 156 are students, 3
politicians and the rest are married men, lecturers, lawyers, some
celebrities among others. She says not a day passes before she has sex
with at least 4 men and without protection.
The unnamed young lady also adds that she is on a revenge mission
because it's the same men that destroyed her life by infecting her with
AIDS. She is only 19 yrs and she is in 2nd year.
Read her story below...
I'm 19 and a 2nd year student here at Kabarak University. I joined this
college a virgin though I have had boyfriends before,my parents are
strict so having sex was never on my mind.
Septmber 22nd, 2013, is a day I will never forget,we went clubbing in
town and got drunk with some senior students then went back hostels for
party around 2am
I remember waking up naked to a guy called Javan with my private part
painful and I realised he had sex with me when I was drunk. I only
asked if he used a condom and he said yes.
However, when taking bathIi noticed sperms down there,i wanted to
commit suicide,i feared getting pregnant and HIV, I took drug and hoped i
was HIV free.
In November, I tested HIV positive,I felt like cutting off my neck. I
confronted theguy and he insisted he was clean that I got it from
somewhere.
I was so depressed and took alcohol to die. I even bought poison,the
pain was just unbearable. How was I gonna face the world? I let my
parents down. I gave up on the world and just wanted to end my life.
Something came up in my mind that I should revenge. I hated men and I
didn't want to be near anymore. My future had been ruined, somehow
someone had to pay.
After a private therapy sessions, I gained strength not even my parents,friends knew of my conditions even up to now.
I accepted my fate and promised to make all men I come across suffer. i
know I am attractive and both married and unmarried men chase me left,
right and center, luckily, my body has remained good and if anything my
curves got better something you men like.
I buried the good girl in me and became the bad girl. My goal was to
infect as many as possible. So far, since December up to now, I have
infected 324 men and I make sure to note down there list which I
secretly keep. I plan to release it when I wiil be on my death bed.
I know I have nothing left to do on earth but to wait for my death but before i do, men will get it.
My target is over 2000 by the end of the year, pregnancy is out of
question because I am on contraceptives. So I just do raw which most men
here love. They don't even question becauase my looks and body work
greatly for me.
Out of the 324 I have infected so far, about 156 are students here
at the college, the remaining are married men outside,
lecturers,lawyers,some celebs and 3 politicians. Not a day passes
without me having sex, mostly four people per day."
Indeed, that 'thing' between the two legs can be risky!
Musa Adamu of Kwantaresha in Sabongari local government was said to
have been dating the mother of the child, Jikan Yar Sale who in turn got
pregnant for him out of wedlock. The incident was said to have occurred on Tuesday. Apparently he wasn't ready to take responsibility for the child but
for the intervention of family members he claimed to have had a change
of mind. According to a source four days after the woman gave birth to the
baby, Adamu visited her pretending to check up on the baby but not
knowing he had other intentions. "The mother of the baby happily brought the baby to him, not knowing
that he had an ulterior motive. The mother left him with the baby and
stepped out of the room for some household chores. The suspect used the
opportunity to poison the baby," the source said. The spokesman of the command, Aminu Lawal who confirmed the arrest
stated that the suspect is being detained at the Sabongari police
station and would be transferred to State Security Service headquarters
in Kaduna for further investigation.
Paul Okoye & his Fiancee Anita Isama will be exchanging their traditional wedding vows tomorrow March 2014 in Portharcourt and
stars are already arriving. Paul,Julius Agwu,Kcee & Susan Peters
boarded the same flight.
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Didier Drogba got the hero’s welcome he deserved at Stamford Bridge
last night with the Chelsea fans chanting the name of their club legend
on his return with Galatasaray.
And the club made a lovely gesture to the player who won them the
Champions League with that sudden penalty in 2012, presenting him with a
beautiful silver boot gift, with blue on the interior.
See more photos below
Genevieve who gave birth in her teenage years has kept her daughter’s
identity away from the public and flashes of the various entertainment
cameras. Over the years, there were a couple of photos of young ladies popping
up with claims to be Genevieve’s daughter but they all turned out to be
false, until finally the real picture surfaced.
chimebuka
he young Beautiful lady who is now 20 years old is named Chimebuka and she is said to be a certified make-up artist.
The England and Manchester United player shared a photo of himself with his two sons, Kai and Klay. A topless Rooney captioned the photo‘Chilling with my two boys’.
But there was much talk in the office of how we'd
seen this super striped mini before and it was on pop diva
extraordinaire, Beyoncé when she was on the London leg of her Mrs. Carter world tour in early March.
WINNER: This is an incredible dress and better yet, it's a High Street
one too! However, there's only one Who Wore It Best? crown and this
time, we reckon Jan-Jo just edged it on account of her perfect blonde
bob and bright red lippy - it was the perfect tonic to the monochrome
frock. Beautiful! (Soz, Bey).
The gloves are off in the fight between Rihanna and her
ex-accountant — the money man is now firing back in their leagal battle
over the $9million the singer claims she lost on his watch … calling her
a financially impaired moron.
Accountant Peter Gounis filed the response to Rihanna’s lawsuit,
insisting he was hired to record and manage her financial accounts — NOT
give her rudimentary spending advice.
Gounis claims Rihanna blew through millions of her own money by going on
endless shopping sprees — buying roomfuls of designer shoes, clothes,
and jewelry — and throwing extravagant parties for herself. He also
claims she bailed on an expensive tour to shoot “Battleship,” which
turned out to be a massive failure.
And despite Rihanna’s accusations, Gounis insists he never directed Rihanna to buy a dilapidated house.
But even ignoring all that, Gounis says, “Was it really necessary to
tell her that if you spend money for things you will end up with the
things, and not the money?”
Gounis wants Rihanna’s lawsuit thrown out. by dee apphiaanna
The International Culture and Arts Association (UKSD) presents a new
exhibition: “Sultan Abdülaziz with paintings,” which has opened at
Dolmabahçe Art Gallery. The opening hosted UKSD president Tuğrul Tuna
and Küçükçekmece mayor Aziz Yeniay.
The exhibition consists of 12
unsigned portraits and paintings by Sultan Abdülaziz that belong to the
National Palaces Painting collection. The collection had given
permission six months earlier and the paintings were bought from
Poland’s Krakow National Museum. There are also etchings and sketches by
Abdülaziz.
Even though the paintings are unsigned the experts
have worked on them and discovered that the sketches matched up with
each other. The sketches and also the paintings were produced by
Abdülaziz who was also a painter.
Abdülaziz was also known for
his love of art and his interest in art. Speaking at the opening of the
exhibition, UKSD President Tuna, said they were very happy to organize
such an exhibition.
Tuna said the paintings had been bought 6
months before and they were found to match with the other paintings of
Abdülaziz in the National Palace Collection.
An exclusive museum
for National Collections opened in Istanbul’s Dolmabahçe Museum last
year. The museum is home to 43,000 artifacts dating back to the 19th
century and exhibits the daily life in the empire’s palaces.
Curator of the ‘Sultan Abdülaziz with paintings,’ exhibtion Mehmet Lütfi Şen (above) says Ottoman sultans always dealt with art and painting.
Tuna added that there was much research taking place concerning
these paintings. Even though they were not signed they were determined
to belong to Abdülaziz.
Noting that this was a first in the
history of Turkish painting, Tuna said, there were many paintings that
were thought to belong to Chlebowski, however they were subsequently
found not to. In the years 1864-1876 Chlebowski was master painter for
Sultan Abdülaziz and took up residence in Constantinople. It is known
that Chlebowski became popular with the Sultanate. During his services,
he had obtained permission to bring with him a large Icon of Mother of
God Leading our Way, which had been rescued from an Odegon Monastery in
1453. He had come across it in one of the magazines with old relics,
unheeded by the Ottoman keeper. This account is certified in a letter by
the Comité National Polonais a Constantinople, dated June 27, 1938.
In
1876 he moved to Paris. In 1881 he returned permanently to Krakow. The
subject matter of his watercolors and oil paintings is diverse. He
painted images of historical battles related to the history of Turkey,
oriental genre scenes, landscapes, and portraits of Sultans.
The
curator of the exhibition Mehmet Lütfi Şen said Ottoman sultans always
dealt with art and painting. “Today we discover a painter after 137
years.”
It is known that Abdülaziz took painting lessons when he was young, said Şen.
“In
the past Abdülaziz never signed his own paintings and this is known for
sure and we know that he had given his paintings to Polish painter
Stanislav Chlebowski, while he was leaving Istanbul,” said Şen, adding
that Chlebowski had kept them.
Later on these paintings were
unearthed at National Museum of Poland, he added. “The museum has bought
these paintings from the painter’s family and added them to their
collection and we have traced them and obtained the permissions to
display them.”
After we saw the sketches we discovered that these
paintings were part of the Abdülaziz paintings because they matched
with the national museum collections of Turkey, added Şen, noting that
experts also worked on them and discovered that these paintings belonged
to Abdülaziz.
Ömer Faruk Şerifoğlu, an art history expert said the oil on canvas paintings belonged to Abdülaziz.
Very funny and amazing ;check out photo of Mercy Johnson as a fulani cattle rearer.
Na wa oo...Mercy na all weather shaa, she takes any role that comes her
way. Hmmm nawa mercy u are just too much, u look real
Actress and humanitarian, Angelina Jolie has revealed she's in the
process of going under the knife again as a preventive measure against
the spread of cancer. The mother of six who had both breasts removed last year after tests
showed she carried a gene which increased her chances of contracting
both breast and ovarian cancer, told Entertainment Weekly the new
operation is to prevent ovarian cancer "Wherever I go, usually I run
into women and we talk about health issues, women issues, breast
cancer, ovarian cancer. It makes me to feel closer to other people who
deal with the same things and have either lost their parents or are
considering surgeries or wandering about their children. There is still
another surgery to have which I haven't yet. I would get advice from all
these people whom I have been talking to, to get through that next
stage. " She said
Angelina's mum, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian and breast cancer at the age of 56 in 20
Abuja - Something that’s bound to terrify any parent of a pre-schooler:
Two New Jersey, US, 5-year-olds were discovered naked in the pre-school
bathroom by their teacher, at which point they allegedly admitted they’d
been “having sex,” reported the Stir.
The teacher has
been suspended, and, although she reported the discovery immediately,
parents are horrified that the kids managed to get into this situation.
Of primary concern to the school board is the teacher’s lack of
supervision of the kids.
The report focussed on teacher Kelly
Mascio’s lack of supervision rather than the other blatant question:
just how did two five-year-old kids understand what they were attempting
(perhaps even managing) to do?
The boy and girl had been part of
her class on a day when the class was undergoing State testing, which
Mascio had to oversee. In New Jersey, a teacher may not accompany
children to the bathroom. She has 16 years of experience as a teacher,
and seems to have the support of some in her local education
association.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Vietnam scrambled helicopters Monday to
look for what a search jet spotted and believed might have been a life
raft from the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that vanished
early Saturday morning on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with
239 people on board, but the object found floating in the sea was not a
boat, leaving the fate of the airliner a mystery.
Vietnam's
Civil Aviation Authority said on its website that a helicopter had
located and retrieved the object, "identified as a moss-covered cap of a
cablereel," according to the Reuters news agency. The statement didn't
confirm whether the item could still have been from a plane, but it
seemed to quash hopes sparked by reports that a possible life raft was
spotted.The civil aviation group in Vietnam said the object was seen by a plane
out of Singapore, which relayed the information to Vietnamese
authorities. Earlier Monday, the man heading up Malaysia's investigation said searchers hadn't spotted any debris from the plane. "Unfortunately,
ladies and gentlemen, we have not found anything that appears to be
objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft. As far as we are
concerned, we have to find the aircraft," said Department of Civil
Aviation Director General Azharuddin Abdul Rahman. The Aviation
Authority also confirmed Monday than an oil slick seen on the water over
the weekend -- often a tell-tale sign of a plane crash -- was not
believed to be linked to Flight 370, leaving investigators with no clues
at all. Ships from about a dozen nations were taking part in
the search, he said. On Monday, the U.S. military announced that USS
Kidd had joined USS Pinckney in the search efforts. The National
Transportation Safety Board investigative team assigned to the
investigation is on the ground in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. The
team is waiting for a scene to investigate.Among items of particular interest was a rectangular object spotted
Sunday afternoon that might have been one of the plane's doors. Rahman
also said terrorism has not been ruled out as the reason Flight MH370
disappeared about an hour into its flight after reaching a cruising
altitude of 35,000 feet. "We are looking at every angle," he said. "We
remain puzzled" about what happened to the jetliner.
At
this point in the investigation, multiple U.S. intelligence agencies
tell CBS News they are not seeing any credible claims of terrorist
involvement in the disappearance of Malaysia Air 370. In addition, U.S.
officials say the use of stolen passports in this part of the world is
not uncommon. The use of fake or stolen passports does not immediately
tie this crash to a terrorist attack. However, the investigation has hardly begun since the plane has not been found and the black boxes not recovered. The
plane lost contact with ground controllers somewhere between Malaysia
and Vietnam, and searchers in a low-flying plane spotted an object that
appeared to be one of the plane's doors, the state-run Thanh Nien
newspaper said, citing the deputy chief of staff of Vietnam's army, Lt.
Gen. Vo Van Tuan. The jetliner apparently
fell from the sky in fine weather, and the pilots were either unable or
had no time to send a distress signal, adding to the mystery over the final minutes of the flight. There are also questions over how two passengers managed to board the ill-fated aircraft using stolen passports. Interpol confirmed it knew about the stolen passports but said no authorities checked its vast databases on stolen documents before the Boeing jetliner departed Saturday. Experts
tell CBS News the failure to screen hundreds of millions of
international passengers for fraudulent or lost documents is a major aviation security loophole. Warning
"only a handful of countries" routinely make such checks, Interpol
secretary general Ronald Noble chided authorities for "waiting for a
tragedy to put prudent security measures in place at borders and
boarding gates." On Saturday, the foreign ministries in Italy
and Austria said the names of two citizens listed on the flight's
manifest matched the names on two passports reported stolen in Thailand.
"I can confirm that we have the visuals of these two people on CCTV,"
Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said at a news
conference late Sunday, adding that the footage was being examined. "We
have intelligence agencies, both local and international," helping in
the investigation. The thefts of the two passports - one
belonging to Austrian Christian Kozel and the other to Luigi Maraldi, of
Italy, were entered into Interpol's database after they were stolen in
Thailand in 2012 and last year, the police body said. Electronic
booking records show that one-way tickets with those names were issued
Thursday from a travel agency in the beach resort of Pattaya, in eastern
Thailand. A person who answered the phone at the agency said she could
not comment. But no authorities in Malaysia or elsewhere
checked the passports against the database of 40 million stolen or lost
travel documents before the Malaysian Airlines plane took off. Possible
causes of the crash included some sort of explosion, a catastrophic
failure of the plane's engines, extreme turbulence, pilot error or even
suicide. Establishing what happened with any certainty will need data
from flight recorders and a detailed examination of any debris,
something that will take months if not years.
Malaysia's air force chief, Rodzali Daud, said radar indicated that before it disappeared, the plane may have turned back, but there were no further details on which direction it went or how far it veered off course. "We
are trying to make sense of this," Daud said at a news conference. "The
military radar indicated that the aircraft may have made a turn back,
and in some parts this was corroborated by civilian radar." Malaysia
Airlines Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said pilots are supposed
to inform the airline and traffic control authorities if the plane does a
U-turn. "From what we have, there was no such distress signal or
distress call per se, so we are equally puzzled," he said.A total of 34 aircraft and 40 ships from Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand,
Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, China and the United States were
deployed to the area where ground controllers lost contact with the
plane on the maritime border between Malaysia and Vietnam. Of
the 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, two-thirds were
Chinese, while the rest were from elsewhere in Asia, Europe and North
America, including three Americans.
Five suspects are now in the custody of the Akwa Ibom State
Police Command in connection with the alleged stealing and selling of a
three-day-old baby girl at the cost of N260, 000 in Uran Local
Government near Uyo, the state capital.
The state Police Commissioner, Mr. Umar Gwadabe, who disclosed this
yesterday at a press briefing, said the suspects included the mother of
the child, a traditional birth attendant, one homeopathic doctor, and
the buyers of the child.
He gave their names as Miss Imaobong Udoh, mother of the baby; Mrs.
Regina James, buyer and Mr. Mfon James, her husband; Mrs. Comfort Henry,
the traditional birth attendant; and Mr. Emmanuel Okon, a homeopathic
doctor.
Gwadabe said following a tip-off, his men moved in swiftly and arrested
the suspects after Udoh, who was delivered of the baby by Henry
consented to the selling of the child after she received the sum of
N150, 000.
"On March 3, 2014, a case of child stealing was reported by Mr.
Eteobong James, of No. 33 Urua Ekpa to the police where a three-day-old
baby girl was sold for N260,000.
"Mrs Regina James paid N150,000 to the mother of the baby and N110,000
to the homeopathic doctor for the transaction. Mr Emmanuel Okon is the
one that arranged the infamous deal and personally conveyed the baby
from point of delivery at Nna-Enin in Uruan Local Government Area of the
state to the buyers at No. 37 Church Road, Uyo," Gwadabe explained.
According to the police chief, the accused persons would soon be
arraigned in court even as he warned that those involved in the stealing
of children and other criminal activities to desist from such or be
ready to face the wrath of the law.
One of the accused persons, Mr. Mfon James, denied any knowledge that
his wife had bought the baby because she informed him about being
pregnant.
"My wife Regina told me she was pregnant and I gave her money for ante
natal. On that faithful day, she told me she was in labour and later
informed me she had been delivered of a baby girl.
"I did not know she bought the baby since she had already given birth
to four children although three died and remaining only one," he
lamented.
The Mavin Records artiste did not only insult the policemen who
flagged her down for flouting traffic rules, but also removed the cap of
one of the policemen and flung it away. According to Punch, Tiwa Savage was whisked away to the Victoria
Island Police Division, for daring to humiliate and assault the
policeman. Confirming the incident, Group publicist for Mavin Records,
Terfa Tilley-Gyado, said Mavin Records will be issuing a comprehensive
statement, stating the position of Tiwa Savage and the group on Monday.
“What would you like to know? We are planning to prepare an official
statement; definitely not at this time. The press release will be out on
Monday for your Tuesday production. I don’t think it will be prudent to
use the story until you have the official statement. That is just my
own opinion. I think you should wait until you get the official
statement,” he told punch.
(Reuters) -
Malaysia's military believes a jetliner missing for almost four days
turned and flew hundreds of kilometers to the west after it last made
contact with civilian air traffic control off the country's east coast, a
senior officer told Reuters on Tuesday.
In one of the most baffling mysteries in recent aviation history, a massive search operation for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER has so far found no trace of the aircraft or the 239 passengers and crew.
Malaysian
authorities have previously said flight MH370 disappeared about an hour
after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for the Chinese capital Beijing.
"It
changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude. It made it
into the Malacca Strait," the senior military officer, who has been
briefed on investigations, told Reuters.
That
would appear to rule out sudden catastrophic mechanical failure, as it
would mean the plane flew around 500 km (350 miles) at least after its
last contact with air traffic control, although its transponder and
other tracking systems were off.
A non-military source familiar with the investigations said the report was one of several theories and was being checked.
LOST CONTACT
At
the time it lost contact with civilian air traffic control, the plane
was roughly midway between Malaysia's east coast town of Kota Bharu and
the southern tip of Vietnam, flying at 35,000 ft.
The Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping channels, runs along Malaysia's west coast.
Malaysia's
Berita Harian newspaper quoted air force chief Rodzali Daud as saying
the plane was last detected at 2.40 a.m. by military radar near the
island of Pulau Perak at the northern end of the Strait of Malacca. It
was flying about 1,000 meters lower than its previous altitude, he was
quoted as saying.
There was no word on what happened to the plane thereafter.
The
effect of turning off the transponder is to make the aircraft inert to
secondary radar, so civil controllers cannot identify it. Secondary
radar interrogates the transponder and gets information about the
plane's identity, speed and height.
It would however still be visible to primary radar, which is used by militaries.
Police
had earlier said they were investigating whether any passengers or crew
on the plane had personal or psychological problems that might explain
its disappearance, along with the possibility of a hijack, sabotage or
mechanical failure.
There was no
distress signal or radio contact indicating a problem and, in the
absence of any wreckage or flight data, police have been left trawling
through passenger and crew lists for potential leads.
"Maybe
somebody on the flight has bought a huge sum of insurance, who wants
family to gain from it or somebody who has owed somebody so much money,
you know, we are looking at all possibilities," Malaysian police chief
Khalid Abu Bakar told a news conference.
"We
are looking very closely at the video footage taken at the KLIA (Kuala
Lumpur International Airport), we are studying the behavioral pattern of
all the passengers."
A huge search
operation for the plane has been mostly focused on the shallow waters
of the Gulf of Thailand off Malaysia's east coast, although the Strait
of Malacca has been included since Sunday.
Navy
ships, military aircraft, helicopters, coastguard and civilian vessels
from 10 nations have criss-crossed the seas off both coasts of Malaysia
without success.
The massive search for the plane has drawn in navies, military aircraft, coastguard and civilian vessels from 10 nations.
STOLEN PASSPORTS
The
fact that at least two passengers on board had used stolen passports
has raised suspicions of foul play. But Southeast Asia is known as a hub
for false documents that are also used by smugglers, illegal migrants
and asylum seekers.
Interpol
Secretary General Ronald Noble named the two men as Iranians aged 18 and
29, who had entered Malaysia using their real passports before using
the stolen European documents to board the Beijing-bound flight.
"The more information we get, the more we are inclined to conclude it is not a terrorist incident," Noble said.
Malaysian
police chief Khalid said the younger man, who he said was 19, appeared
to be an illegal immigrant. His mother was waiting for him in Frankfurt
and had been in contact with authorities, he said.
"We
believe he is not likely to be a member of any terrorist group, and we
believe he was trying to migrate to Germany," Khalid said.
Asked
if that meant he ruled out a hijack, Khalid said: "(We are giving) same
weightage to all (possibilities) until we complete our investigations."
Both
men entered Malaysia on Feb 28, at least one from Phuket, in Thailand,
eight days before boarding the flight to Beijing, Malaysian immigration
chief Aloyah Mamat told the news conference. Both held onward
reservations to Western Europe.
Police
in Thailand, where the Italian and Austrian passports were stolen and
the tickets used by the two men were booked, said they did not think
they were linked to the disappearance of the plane.
"We
haven't ruled it out, but the weight of evidence we're getting swings
against the idea that these men are or were involved in terrorism,"
Supachai Puikaewcome, chief of police in the Thai resort city of
Pattaya, told Reuters.
About
two-thirds of the 227 passengers and 12 crew now presumed to have died
aboard the plane were Chinese. Other nationalities included 38
Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four
French and three Americans.
China
has deployed 10 satellites using high-resolution earth imaging
capabilities, visible light imaging and other technologies to "support
and assist in the search and rescue operations", the People's Liberation
Army Daily said.
The Boeing 777
has one of the best safety records of any commercial aircraft in
service. Its only previous fatal crash came on July 6 last year when
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 struck a seawall on landing in San Francisco,
killing three people.
U.S. planemaker Boeing has declined to comment beyond a brief statement saying it was monitoring the situation.
(Additional reporting by Siva Govindasamy, Stuart Grudgings, Raju Gopalakrishnan
and Yantoultra Ngui in Kuala Lumpur; Ben Blanchard, Megha Rajagopalan
and Adam Rose in Beijing; Nguyen Phuong Linh on Phu Quoc Island, Mai
Nguyen and Martin Petty in Hanoi; Robert Birsel and Amy Sawitta Lefevre
in Bangkok; Alwyn Scott in New York; Tim Hepher in Paris; Brian Leonal
in Singapore; Mark Hosenball and Ian Simpson in Washington and Johnny
Cotton in Lyon, France; Writing by Raju Gopalakrishnan; Editing by Alex Richardson)
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