Monday, February 22, 2016

Museveni rival Kizza Besigye arrested over protest march

besigye arrested

Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been taken into police custody after vowing to lead a protest march against President Yoweri Museveni's election victory.
Mr Besigye was bundled into a police van when he tried to leave his home, where he had been under house arrest.

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Berlin film festival: Fire at Sea wins Golden Bear

Gianfranco Rosi accepts the Golden Bear from Meryl Streep, 20 Feb

Fire at Sea, a documentary about Europe's migrant crisis, has won the Golden Bear award for best movie at the Berlin Film Festival.
Gianfranco Rosi's harrowing movie depicts life on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.

MWC 2016: Samsung Galaxy S7 restores expandable storage

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge

Samsung's latest flagship phones restore a couple of popular features dropped from the previous generation.
The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge both accept MicroSD cards, allowing their storage to be expanded, and can also be submerged underwater.

Boy, 4, jailed for life over four ‘murders’ committed when he was one



AN EGYPTIAN four-year-old boy has been sentenced to life in jail for committing four murders when he was aged only one year old.

Banks are loaning too much to people who can’t pay it back



A WOMAN is staring down the bankruptcy barrel at just 24 and she’s not the only one.
An explosive 60 Minutes investigation, which airs on Channel 9 on Sunday, has discovered banks are irresponsibly loaning large amounts of money to people who just can’t pay it back due to a collapse in the property market.

Notorious criminal Peter Walker is back in jail



A NOTORIOUS killer is back in jail after years of living in freedom.
Crime is the one thing that Peter Walker has always known.
He started off committing petty thefts but as he grew older, his law-breaking became much more wicked.

‘Frustrated’ passenger strips off in Stansted airport in protest at flight delays



A FEMALE passenger on her way to a job interview in Barcelona became so exasperated by the slow security procedures at London’s Stansted Airport that she started to strip off — before being arrested.

Albino girl, five, kidnapped and killed by bandits who cut off her arm for 'WITCHCRAFT'

Kazungu Kassim (R), head of a Burundi albino association, listens to proceedings inside a courtroom in Ruyigi, eastern Burundi, May 28, 2009. Prosecutors in Burundi on Thursday asked for life sentences for three people on trial for allegedly murdering albinos to sell their body parts for use in witchcraft

A FIVE-year-old albino girl has been kidnapped and killed by gunmen – who cut off her arm to use in WITCHCRAFT, it is feared.

The bandits stormed into the child's home in Burundi in the early hours of Wednesday morning, attacking her parents before abducting her.

UN climate chief Christiana Figueres to step down

Figueres

The UN's top climate diplomat, Christiana Figueres, has said she will leave her post in July.
Ms Figueres said she would not accept an extension of her appointment which finishes this summer.

No special centre for 2016 UTME, says JAMB

Lagos –  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Sunday,  said it would not create any special centre for the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The UTME, which will be Computer Base Test (CBT) mode all through, is expected to begin on Monday, Feb. 29.

"mungo park" by Coredo Bello