Jiroemon Kimura, world's oldest man, dies at 116

The Guinness World Record holder died of natural causes early Wednesday. He grew up in a Japan fishing village and worked at post offices for 45 years.

Jiroemon Kimura, recognized by the Guinness World Records as the oldest man in recorded history, died early Wednesday of natural causes, Bloomberg News reported. He was 116.

Kimura grew up in a Japan fishing village and worked at post offices for 45 years until his retirement in 1962.

Condom Fashion Show: Wedding dress made out of condoms

One city came up with an attention grabber, a gown made entirely of condoms with a fitted bodice and flowing train.

Shoalhaven City Council in Australia, displayed the gown made of condoms, in an exhibit at the council’s Entertainment Centre, with the aim of creating awareness about condom their use after an increase in rates of chlamydia.

In the past six months, the region has seen an increase of sexually transmitted diseases, with a 75 percent increase in women and 61 percent increase in men. 

The council is trying to solve a real problem and ensure the health of the local community. They want to draw more attention and discussions to the issue of STDs and the importance of safe sex practices.

Daughter plays detective, hunts down dad's killer 26 years later spending just $280 and internet background-check sites

A lot of perseverance, a little cash and an Internet background check led singer Joselyn Martinez - and ultimately law enforcement - to Justo Santos in Miami. Her father, Jose, was shot in a heated confrontation with teens outside his restaurant in 1986.

Years ago, Joselyn Martinez, who once wanted to be a prosecutor, began searching for her father's killer on social media but came up with nothing. Her luck changed in 2008 when a free promotional search on Background.com turned up Santos, whose trail had grown cold since he fled to the Dominican Republic.

An actress with the silky voice of an angel showed the doggedness of a seasoned detective, tracking down the man accused of shooting her hardworking father to death 26 years ago.

Mysterious Incident: Chinese passenger jet hits mysterious object at 26,000ft and lands with severely dented nose cone

A passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing after a mysterious mid-air collision with a 'foreign object' at 26,000ft severely dented its nose cone. 

The front of the Air China Boeing 757 had been pushed in and scratches and scraped paintwork  were clearly visible when it landed. 

The plane was climbing over China when a large bang was heard from the front of aircraft.

Nigeria: Abuja's First Female Taxi Driver

Aisha Umar, a single young mother-of-two from Mubi Local Government Area in Adamawa State and Abuja’s renowned pioneer female taxi driver queried in disagreement when asked why she decided to explore opportunity in a job known to be common with men in Nigeria.

“I am a taxi driver and I’m loving it,” she said. “Some people believe that driving a taxi is a trade exclusively reserved for men and people of low life, but it is a wrong perception. I prefer to earn a decent living through this means than to sit down and beg for money.”

Hollywood Actor: Gerard Butler Cracks Walnut With Butt on German TV

Gerard Butler was a guest on the German TV show “Wetten Dass,” and cracked a walnut with his behind as well as poured freezing ice down his pants.

He also tried to speak German, much to the audience’s delight.

“Wetten Dass” is the same show Prince Michael Jackson canceled an appearance on earlier this week in the wake of his sister Paris’ apparent suicide attempt.

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Video: Pay with a kiss instead of cash

A cafe decided to let customers pay with kisses instead of cash.
The Australian coffee shop said it is allowing customers to pay for their coffee with “real Kiss” every day from 9 to 11:00 am

The Metro St. James cafe coffee shop in Sydney said customers coming in the two-hour window each morning, this month can save their money if they show their love with a kiss.

AMD Prohibited Its Ex-Employees Reveal Trade Secrets

It became known that AMD has recently won quite an unusual legal battle involving a number of AMD defectors who left the company and were lured to its largest comtetitor –Nvidia.The company won a court order which banned its ex-employees from revealing trade secrets or soliciting their ex-colleagues to change sides and join Nvidia. The ex-workers were accused of borrowing sensitive company papers when they left the company and headed over the Nvidia.

Video: Meet the 65-year-old woman who hasn't eaten in five weeks but living on just water and sunlight

One woman is in week five of living on nothing but water as part of an extreme self-experiment.

Navenna Shine, 65, from Seattle, stopped eating on May 3 in a bid to explore breatharianism - the concept that food is not necessary and sunlight provides all of the nourishment the body needs.

She has been detailing her experience via Facebook and YouTube. In her most recent video entry she claims she feels 'very well' and only occasionally gets 'twinges of what feels like hunger'.

But it hasn't all been plain sailing, and some of the more unpleasant side effects have included 'sensations of bile' at the back of her throat, sickness, nausea and constipation.

Video: Nigerian Boxing Legend, Bashiru Lawrence Ali: manhandled by the Minister of Sports security

Nigerian Boxing Legend, Bashiru Lawrence Ali, popularly known as Bash Ali was on thursday manhandled by the security operatives of the Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi.

57yr Old Bash Ali who is seeking to become the oldest man to hold a world boxing title defence had earlier taken his campaign to the PDP Headquarters in Abuja on May 20, 2013 to seek for National Endorsement for his defence bout to be staged in Nigeria but he was not allowed into the Party’s headquarters.

On Thursday, he jostled to get an audience with President Jonathan, who was at the Abuja National Stadium to inaugurate ‘Rhythm ‘N’ Play, a campaign to get all Nigerian youths engaged in sporting activities.

I wasted six years of my life with Jim Iyke: Ex Girlfriend “Keturah Hamilton” laments

Jim Iyke's heartbroken Jamaican ex-fiancee Keturah Hamilton tells Diasporan Star:

"These days, I ask God: Why has thou forsaken me? How can a man with whom we had gone through the highs and the lows – a man who had professed so much undying love for me over the past six years just walk away like that? I don’t know what happened and I wish I could put a finger on it. He took away six years of memories, of support of love and all that I did for him – just like that. How mean and callous can one get?

Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson Admits Sending Poison-Tainted Mail To Obama

Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson was arrested Friday in connection with the mailing of ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NBC reports.

Guess Richardson lives in New Boston, Texas, and was arrested in Arkansas on charges that will be filed Friday afternoon, authorities told NBC.

According to an FBI affidavit obtained by the Associated Press, Richardson contacted authorities on May 30 to implicate her husband. She later failed a polygraph test and investigators also found inconsistencies in her story, the document said. Richardsonthen admitted mailing the letters knowing they contained ricin, but said her husband had typed them and made her print and send them.

 

Ubuntu May Replace Firefox with Chromium

It seems that the long cooperation between Linux users and Firefox is over, because the developers of Ubuntu are now talking about dropping the browser and switching to Chromium. Of course, the Linux users will still be able to run Firefox, but it won’t be the default browser. The reason for switching to Chromium is that the Ubuntu Touch stack is being powered mainly by Chromium/WebKit and they now have a vested interest in its success.

Bill Gates Became the Richest Man Again

After years of being on the second place after a Mexican millionaire, William Gates is now back to being the richest person on the Earth again. Within the last 6 years, Bill Gates was number two to Carlos Slim, playing telecom monopoly in Mexico and gaining Park Lane and Mayfair.

But 2012 turned out to be a bad year for Slim. He hasn’t gone to jail, but still he failed to collect $2 billion in revenues, because Mexico’s Congress has passed a monopoly-busting telecom bill.

Nigerian graduates with 4.0GPA out of 4.0 at University of Texas

A 24-year-old Nigerian, Uwa Osamede Imafidon, just graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington(UTA) in the US with Masters in Microbiology and made a 4.0 CGPA out of the maximum 4.0 CGPA.

Before her sojourn abroad, she had earlier bagged a First Class Degree in Crop Science from University of Benin, Benin city Nigeria as the Best Graduating student in her Department.

U.S. Secretly gathering intelligence from the world's biggest internet : Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo and Facebook

Documents show GCHQ (above) has had access to the NSA's Prism programme since at least June 2010. Photograph: David Goddard/Getty Images

U.S. electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ has been Secretly gathering intelligence from the world's biggest internet : Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo and Facebook

UK intelligence agencies security agency GCHQ gaining information from world's biggest internet firms through US-run Prism programme. 

Win N1million in MultiChoice Nigeria’s logo design competition

Anyone with innovative designs has a chance of winning in the Multichoice Nigeria Logo Competition, whose star reward is N1m and a year-long free subscription service.

The completion is designed to kick start the company’s 20th anniversary celebrations.

The second prize is N500,000 cash plus a six-month free DSTv subscription, while the third prize entitles the winner to N250,000 in cash and three months of free DSTv subscription. There are also consolation prizes of five (5) DSTv Walka 7s, accompanied by one-month subscription.

Russia President: Vladimir Putin divorce wife after 30 years of marriage

The couple, who had been married for 30 years, made their divorce public on Russian state television after attending a ballet performance.

“It was a joint decision: we hardly see each other, each of us has our own life”, Mr Putin said.

Mrs Putin had rarely been seen in public in recent months, prompting much speculation in Russian media.

London: Caterpillars invasion on the community of Suburban Street

Residents of Suburban Street are horrified by invasion of bugs that crawl through their clothes, hair and environment.

It started with a spooky, white material which began to randomly appear on trees.

Residents in a London suburban street were left completely baffled by its appearance.

But now, three weeks on, their confusion has turned to horror after discovering the material was in fact caterpillar nests.

Nigeria: FG plans to ban pure water (Sachet Water) in 2014

Determined to check the continued despoliation of the environment, the Federal Government yesterday said plans are underway to ban the use of plastic bags in the country.  

Minister of Environment, Mrs. Hadza Mailafia, who dropped the hint during the 2013 World Environment Day celebration in Abuja, said government would favour the use of paper bags in their place.

Mailafia, who said the ban would take effect from January 2014, also said the Federal Government was also considering banning the use of sachet water.

Saka’ll Port Back To Etisalat After 90 Days: CEO

The Chief Executive Officer, Etisalat Nigeria Mr. Steve Evans,  has described the celebrated porting of the comedian Hafiz Oyetoro popularly known as Saka as a mistake, noting that he will return back to Etisalat fold after 90 days.

Speaking in Lagos yesterday at a media Roundtable on Mobile NumberPortability (MNP) , Evans noted that “We all make mistakes in life” and the decision by Saka to port from Etisalat to a rival network MTN Nigeria was one of such mistakes on the part of the comedian.

Funny: Nude man who came to propose to his girlfriend ends up detained with a stun Gun

Florida police arrested and charged a nude man with assault related charges after stripping nude and spitting in an officer's face, according to a statement released by police in Florida.

Police said the naked man, who spat in the face of an officer and was shocked with a stun gun, told officers he was trying to propose to his girlfriend.

Casselberry police said they responded to a home around 3:45 am Sunday when a man called to report a stranger had knocked on his door and was stripping naked in his backyard.

Beat FM becomes first radio station in Africa to get verified on twitter

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I chose to be with Peter Okoye, ring or no ring' Lola Omotayo Tweets

Singer Peter Okoye (P Square) Baby mama ( Lola Omotayo) summaries the resent online comment about her relationship with Peter Okoye. She seems cool with him with or without a ring.

Four Maryland abortion clinics shut down

Four Maryland abortion clinics have been shut down and three doctors have had their licenses suspended after a patient died at one clinic and regulators say they found lax procedures at all four.

The clinics, run by Associates in OB/GYN Care, were shuttered last month after state regulators received a complaint about a patient receiving an abortion-inducing drug with no doctor present.