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Cops: Child Bride Forced to Marry Kills Groom With Poison

Posted on April 10, 2014 by ankakh

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Police say a child bride forced into marriage in Nigeria prepared a poisoned meal that has killed her groom and three of his friends.

They quote 14-year-old Wasila Umaru as saying she used rat poison in the food because she was forced to marry a man she did not love.

The couple was married last week. The 35-year-old groom had invited a dozen friends to celebrate at his village 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the north Nigerian city of Kano over the weekend.

Child marriage is common in Nigeria and especially in the mainly Muslim north.

Assistant police superintendent Musa Magaji Majia said Thursday that the teenage suspect is cooperating with police and probably will be charged with culpable homicide.

Posted on April 5, 2014 by ankakh

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Baby-faced killer? Nine-month-old boy clasping his bottle appears in court accused of planning murder in Pakistan

A nine-month-old boy has appeared in court accused of planning a murder in Pakistan, it has been reported.

Baby Muhammad Mosa Khan has also been charged with threatening police and interfering in state affairs.

He is facing charges along with other family members following a raid by police to catch suspected gas thieves in Lahore. He was granted bail and the case was adjourned until April 12.

Images have emerged of the baby apparently appearing in court, clutching his bottle while sitting on his father’s lap on Thursday.

A police report alleged the suspects tried to murder officers by throwing stones at them during the raid.

The report lodged a complaint against Muhammad Yassen’s whole family, which included his nine-month-old grandson, The Express Tribune reported.

Sub-Inspector Kashif Ahmed has now reportedly been suspended for registering the case against the child.

The child’s father said the group had been protesting against a shortage of electricity in their area, The Times of India reported.

The judge was unable to dismiss the case against the child because it was outside of his jurisdiction, The News International has reported.

11 North Koreans missing after cargo ship sinks

Posted on April 5, 2014 by ankakh

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Two North Korean sailors are dead and 11 missing after a Mongolia-flagged cargo ship sank off the southeastern coast of South Korea.

Three sailors were rescued by the South Korean Coast Guard after the distressed ship, Grand Fortune 1 sank early Friday.

South Korean officials deployed a search plane and a patrol ship to find survivors and rescued the first sailor around 5 a.m.

The other two survivors were rescued at 5:55 a.m. and 7:12 a.m. respectively. The three survivors are being treated on Jeju island, according to South Korean government officials.

It remains unclear why the cargo ship sank.

The ship was believed to have be coming from Chongjin in North Korea, headed to China, reported Yonhap, South Korea’s semi-official news agency.

It carried a Mongolian flag, but had an all-North Korean crew. The two countries are traditional allies and North Korea has been known to sail rented ships.

Look, no hands… no helmet and not even facing the right way! Police hunt crazy motorcyclist who refuses to play by the rules

Posted on March 31, 2014 by ankakh

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Chinese police are looking for a trick motorcyclist who has been spotted several times riding backwards down busy roads.
In this video image, the young man doesn’t even bother looking backwards as he speeds down the motorway sitting back to front on the motorbike and gazing away into the distance.
The video was shot by car passenger Yul Feng in Renshou county in southwest China’s Sichuan province.
Chinese police said they were aware of the incident and warned others against copying the stunt.

They said they already had an indication as to who he was, and the bike would be confiscated and he faced dangerous driving charges that could see him jailed.
It is not clear exactly how he was powering the bike while sitting backwards.

At least 10 tigers butchered in ‘visual treat’ in China to entertain officials and rich businessmen

Posted on March 28, 2014 by ankakh

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At least ten tigers have been butchered in China in front of rich businessmen and officials who ordered the killings for entertainment – and to show off their wealth – it’s been reported.

The animals, which are protected by law, were slaughtered in Zhanjiang city in the country’s Guangdong province and police have arrested 15 people over the killings, which they said first began in 2006.

The suspects could face the death penalty if found guilty.

One male suspect, aged 61, apparently died while leaping from a building in a desperate attempt to escape a police raid on March 19, according to Ecns.com.

The tigers were killed simply as entertainment for officials and businessmen, and as a way of flaunting wealth, according to China Daily.

WWF said there there may only be 3,200 wild tigers left in the world – and just 50 in China.

One scientist said that tigers will always be in danger if Chinese people continue to believe that their parts have health benefits.

UN General Assembly Votes ‘Yes’ on Ukraine Unity

Posted on March 27, 2014 by ankakh

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The U.N. General Assembly has approved a resolution affirming Ukraine’s territorial integrity and calling the referendum that led to Russia’s annexation of its Crimean Peninsula illegal.

The vote Thursday was 100 in favor, 11 opposed and 58 abstentions.

The “yes” vote was higher than many diplomats had predicted, with more than half the 193 members of the General Assembly supporting the Ukrainian sponsored resolution.

Unlike the Security Council, General Assembly resolutions are not subject to vetoes nor are they legally binding but they do reflect world opinion.

Uzbek dictator ‘has his own daughter arrested and beaten up for speaking out against his regime’

Posted on March 26, 2014 by ankakh

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The daughter of Uzbekistan’s president is allegedly being kept under house arrest by her father who ‘sent men to beat her up’.

Gulnara Karimova, 41, is said to be being held by security forces from her father’s dictatorial regime on allegations of corruption.

According to the BBC she managed to smuggle a letter out to inform people of her arrest.

According to sources, Ms Karimova, who is a pop star in Uzbekistan, was put under house arrest with her 15-year-old daughter on February 17.

Her father, Islam Karimov is believed to have ordered 20 to 30 men to raid her apartment after she suggested travelling to Israel for medical treatment because she feared doctors may try and kill her in Uzbekistan.

According to uznews.net Ms Karimova’s partner was arrested and beaten up. Ms Karimova tried to escape but was dragged back to the flat where she was beaten, it is alleged.

China sells BOTTLED AIR to tourists as smog described as ‘environmental crisis’

Posted on March 26, 2014 by ankakh

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China is offering a breath of fresh air to tourists affected by its high pollution levels – with plans to sell bottles of oxygen.

In an attempt to address its dangerous smog levels – described as an environmental crisis by the World Health Organisation – canned air is due to hit the streets.

The bottles of air will to be manufactured as part of a tourism scheme by authorities in the southwestern Guizhou province.

Air from the area’s eco-tourism zones such as Fanjing and Leigong mountains will be bottled, and on the shelves to be sold from June 20.

Costumed characters called Oxygen Babies have been giving away bottles, which are filled with air collected at the Tianmu mountain scenic spot in the county of Linan in Zhejiang province.

They are expected to tour the country, promoting to the new products, which are currently free of charge, and were pictured in the city of Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province.

Pentagon Spends $2.5 Million in Flight 370 Search

Posted on March 21, 2014 by ankakh

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The Pentagon says it has spent $2.5 million to help in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet.

The Defense Department has been flying high-tech surveillance planes to assist in the effort. The spending also includes operating costs for ships that have assisted in the search, which has stretched across the South China Sea and into the Indian Ocean.

A Navy P-8 Poseidon plane has been searching the Indian Ocean region where satellite imagery showed objects that may be from the plane. A P-3 Orion didn’t fly Friday but is expected to rejoin the search Saturday.

A Pentagon spokesman says $4 million has been budgeted, and that amount could last into early April depending on the number of flying hours and whether other equipment is needed.

Chinese media: Kindergartens suspected of drugging students to boost attendance

Posted on March 19, 2014 by ankakh

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Kindergartens in three Chinese provinces are accused of giving prescription drugs to children without their parents’ knowledge, according to Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency.

The drugs were given to prevent the children from getting sick in order to boost attendance, the news agency reported. The schools get paid based on attendance.

The scandal started last week in one kindergarten in the city of Xi’an and has now spread to several in the country, prompting China’s education and health ministries to require its local branches to check all kindergartens and primary schools for illegally administered drugs, according to the Global Times newspaper.

Almost 2,000 children who attended the suspected kindergartens are receiving medical attention as some reported side effects from the medication, such as dizziness, stomachaches, leg pains and genital swelling, Xinhua said.

Some angry parents of the affected kindergartens rallied in front of the facilities and local government buildings.

Peru authorities crackdown on naked photos and streaking at Machu Picchu

Posted on March 14, 2014 by ankakh

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Tourists getting naked at one of Peru’s most iconic cultural sites are facing a crackdown by authorities.

The move to step up surveillance at Machu Picchu comes after videos and photos were posted online of foreigners stripping off and streaking across the Incan ruins, prompting a response from the Ministry of Culture.

They were briefly held in custody and forced to delete naked photographs from their digital camera – but not before it had gone viral on Peruvian social media after it was ‘irresponsibly published to the Internet,’ the police statement says.
Last month, a video was posted to YouTube showing a naked couple streaking across Machu Picchu, considered to be a sacred holy site, as a park guard gave chase.

The couple can be seen running through the grass, holding their clothes in their hands, jumping over the ancient stone walls.

The incident was filmed by another tourist.

Nepal considers ‘renting out’ Himalayas to private companies to sell tourist trips

Posted on March 12, 2014 by ankakh

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Nepal’s most famous Himalayan peaks could soon be leased out to private companies to sell holidays to tourists, in a bid to cut down on the numbers attempting to conquer Everest.

The controversial new tactic would involve the Nepalese government hiring out some of the country’s 326 pristine mountainsides to private companies who would then sell them as new tourist products.

The move aims to capitalise on Nepal’s biggest tourist draws, while also combating overcrowding problems on Everest.

The country is also considering lowering mountaineering fees to attract more trekkers to the region.

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world and relies on tourism for foreign revenue.

The proposal would need to get the green light from the Cabinet before it is implemented.

Painting the town red (and green, and purple): Exquisite pictures from Holi, the world’s most colourful festival

Posted on March 12, 2014 by ankakh

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These amazing photographs give a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘painting the town red’.

Hindu men and women have welcomed the beginning of spring by hurling coloured powder at one another during the annual Holi festival in India.

Celebrations start with a bonfire where people gather, sing and dance – before participants unleash a free-for-all style powder assault on anyone and everyone in the designated colour zones.

Some use the powder dry, throwing it around and leaving a trail of colour in their wake.

Others mix the powder with water to decorate their friends and family members, as well as people they have never met.

When the colour bombing is over in Nandgoan, Hindu devotees covered head to toe in in powder pray as they arrive at the Nandagram Temple.

The festival, which started as a chance to meet others, play, laugh and repair relationships, is now one of the biggest in the world.

In recent years it has spread among non-Hindus in many parts of south-east Asia, as well as to parts of Europe, North America and Australia.
Holi is held every year before spring on the last full moon day of the lunar month.

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Elephants can guess human’s age and even ethnicity by listening to a voice

Posted on March 12, 2014 by ankakh

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An elephant never forgets…a voice.

A study found the gentle giants can distinguish a warlike tribe from a more peaceable people, simply by listening to recordings of their voices.

Not only could the African elephants tell the two languages apart, they could also work out if the speaker was a man or a woman and an adult or a child.

This is despite the recordings being just a few seconds long.

The researchers, including conservationist Cynthia Moss, believe the creatures use voice and language to help them work out which humans pose a threat to them.

They can then choose whether to defend themselves against attack or continue going about life as usual.

The researchers began my making recordings of members of two Kenyan tribes repeating the phrase ‘Look, look over there, a group of elephants is coming’.

One tribe was the Massai, who historically killed elephants as a rite of passage on entering adulthood. They also take revenge when elephants kill their cattle.

The second was the Kamba, who farm crops and have a more amicable relationship with the elephants.

The animals were clearly more scared of the Massai and bunched together defensively on hearing them speak.

They also used their trunks to sniff at the air on hearing a Massai voice, likely in an attempt to pick up smells that would provide more information about the intruder.

As the same phrase was used in all the recordings and it was spoken in the same way each time, it is believed the animals were able to tell the two languages apart.

Their skill didn’t end there. The elephants were also more likely to act defensively on hearing a male Massai than female.

Afghanistan mourns death of first vice president Mohammad Qasim Fahim

Posted on March 10, 2014 by ankakh

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Afghanistan will begin three days of mourning starting Monday for the death of Mohammad Qasim Fahim, an important figure in the country and most recently its first vice president.

President Hamid Karzai’s office announced Fahim’s death in a statement Sunday on its website. The statement did not say where or exactly when he died.

Karzai ordered Afghanistan’s flags to be flown at half-staff through Wednesday in honor of Fahim.

Fahim served as a security adviser and defense minister under Karzai before taking on his most recent role as Afghanistan’s highest-ranking vice president.

Malaysian Airlines plane missing, 239 people on board

Posted on March 8, 2014 by ankakh

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Nobody knows exactly what happened to a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared Saturday, but families of the 239 people on board are waiting and expecting the worst.

Air traffic controllers lost track of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 not long after it left Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, on its way to Beijing. More than half the passengers were Chinese nationals.

There’s even confusion about where the plane might have gone down.

Vietnamese and Chinese state media, both citing Vietnam’s military, reported the plane crashed off the southern coast of Vietnam.

But the reports are incorrect, said Malaysia’s acting transport minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein. “The CA (Civil Aviation Authority) says that is not true, and our foreign office says it is not true,” he said.

China, Vietnam, Singapore, and Malaysia are conducting search and rescue operations south of Tho Chu island in the South China Sea, reported Xinhua, China’s official news agency. Ships, helicopters and airplanes are being utilized.

The Boeing 777-200 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m. and was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., a 2,300-mile (3,700 kilometer) trip. It never arrived.

The plane carried 227 passengers, two of them infants, and 12 crew members, the airline said. Air traffic control in Subang, in Malaysia, had last contact with the plane.

Chinese waterway becomes so polluted it bursts into flame after lit cigarette is thrown into it

Posted on March 6, 2014 by ankakh

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River of fire:

A river in eastern China caught fire after years of pollution from factories upstream had turned it flammable.

The river had become so contaminated that it was set alight by a lit cigarette being thrown into the water.

The flames shot up more than 16ft into the air and had to be extinguished by firemen in the city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province.

Local residents said that the river has been heavily polluted for years, as a result of oils and chemicals being released into the water by several shoe-making factories and packaging firms further upstream.
Despite this being common knowledge in the area, they say that the council’s environmental protection office have refused to take action against the polluting companies, as they are too important to the local economy.

The fire also caught several cars that had been parked next to the pavement alongside the river, destroying them in the process.

Fireman had to use special foam fire extinguishers to put out the fire on the river’s surface. Police are now investigating where the chemicals might have come from.

Inside India’s rat temple where 20,000 of them are worshipped, fed and protected as they scurry between the feet of tourists

Posted on February 25, 2014 by ankakh

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An Indian temple is overrun with more than 20,000 rats – and the devotees couldn’t be happier.

The Karni Mata Temple in Rajasthan, India, is known for its devotion to the furry animals, often seen as the scourge of urban areas.

Rats scurry throughout the temple, where they are worshipped, fed and protected.

Devotees have even gone to extreme lengths to protect the species by building netting and grills to keep out predators such as raptors.

The rodents move freely within the temple and can be seen eating from a huge metal bowl of milk and grains, placed there daily by devotees.

Small children can be seen playing and interacting with the rats – while scores of tourists flock there each day to catch a glimpse of the unique spectacle.

The food nibbled by the rats is also considered holy and is sometimes consumed by a devotee – even if it has been half eaten by rodents.

While black and brown rats are easily spotted in the temple courtyard, devotees believe sighting a white rat is a blessing.

Priests at the temple treat the furry inhabitants with serious devotion and warn visitors to walk carefully within the temple premises to avoid trampling them.

According to the temple rules, stepping accidentally on rat and killing it is a sin.

Collapse at construction site in Thailand kills at least 11

Posted on February 25, 2014 by ankakh

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At least 11 construction workers were killed Tuesday when a big cement beam fell on them in a Bangkok suburb, at the site where they were working, Thai police said.

More than a dozen injured people have been transported to nearby hospitals, and at least one worker is still trapped inside the rubble, police said.

A rescue team is trying to lift the wreckage of cement and steel to free anybody trapped underneath, authorities said. Sniffer dogs have also been deployed to find possible survivors.

The collapse took place around noon at the construction site of a new hospital.

Holy cow! Five-legged animal tours round India to bring good luck with extra limb attached to its NECK

Posted on February 25, 2014 by ankakh

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These extraordinary pictures show a five-legged cow, whose extra limb is rather bizarrely attached to its neck.

Many believe the four-year-old animal brings good luck to whoever touches the extra limb – with some claiming it is a manifestation of a Hindu deity.

Owner Laxman Bhosale, 35, tours the country with the animal – with hundreds regularly turning out to catch a glipse of the creature.

Laxman said: ‘Cow is our holy animal. We call her our mother. With this extra limb, God is indicating to us that we must respect the animal and seek her blessings.

After setting off last July from his home in Solapur, Maharastra, where he owns a cow shelter, Mr Bhosale’s journey has seen him visit six states and 15 major cities.

Most people who come to see the five legged wonder pay their respects with some making donations.

Laxman has now arrived in New Delhi, India’s capital. But he says it is only a temporary stop.

‘I want all of humanity to benefit from the blessings of mother cow and her fifth leg.’

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