PHOTOS: Brandy Norwood, Solange Knowles and others step out for the BET Upfronts

36-year-old Brandy Norwood was all style and sophistication as she joined other stars celebrating the new program line-up at the BET Upfronts in New York City on Thursday.
Brandy's new show titled Zoe Moon is coming soon to BET. Zoe Moon casts Brandy as a 'live-out-loud newly single mom embarking on a new life and career as a fledgling cosmetics mogul,' according to LATimes.com.

 

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PHOTO: Solange Knowles in a multi-patterned dress at the BET Upfronts in NYC on Thursday

 

 

Solange Knowles, 28, provided the entertainment in the DJ booth

 

PHOTO: Ludacris entertained the crowd too at the event 

PHOTO: Kelly Rowland poses alongside BET Chief Executive Officer Debra Lee to promote her new show Chasing Destiny

Eva Marcille in a crop top and billowy skirt

PHOTO: Furious 7 star Tyrese Gibson all suited up

PHOTO: Queen Latifah behind-the-scenes at the BET Upfronts

 

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Whoopi Goldberg in black attire with animated shoes

Gardaí renew appeal for help in finding missing couple, William (Willie) Maughan and his girlfriend, Anastasija Varslavane.

Gardaí are renewing their appeal for help in tracing missing couple William (Willie) Maughan and his girlfriend, Anastasija Varslavane.



She is 5’6” in height, of slim build, with long dark hair.
Anna was known to frequent Balbriggan, Stamullen, Gormanston areas and was last known to be in the company of Willie Maughan.
They were last seen between 2pm and 3pm in the Gormanston area of Co Meath on Tuesday, April 14, 2015.
Willie, 24, is described as 5' 8”, of athletic build, with shaved head and green eyes.
William is known to frequent Balbriggan, Stamullen and Gormanston areas.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Ashbourne Garda Station 01-8010600 or the Garda Confidential Line 1800 666 111.

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Former ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ child star kills himself

19 year old Sawyer Sweeten, a former child actor who played alongside his twin brother as Ray Romano’s son in the popular TV sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond” reportedly shot himself on his parent’s front porch in Texas on Thursday.

US Brewery to make up to 10 barrels of beer out of human urine from sewage....to 'raise awareness of the reusable nature of all water'

 

 

Production of a special kind of beer has been approved by alcohol regulators in Oregon, US, and will be made from human urine gathered by sewage treatment firm 'Clean Water Services'.

The company will treat the waste before handing it over to microbrewers who will turn it into beer.

According to a 50-page report which was handed to alcohol regulators, the sewage would pose 'very low human health risk' and would be treated to 'very high standards'.

There will only be ten barrels of beer made and it won't be available in shops but there is talk of mass production if it proves successful.

In the report, Robert Baumgartner, an assistant director at Clean Water Services, told regulators it was designed to 'raise awareness of the reusable nature of all water'.

Obiageli Ezekwesili...Watch the Bring Back Our Girls Founder's Emotional Speech at the Time 100 Gala

 

“Bring Back Our Girls” co-founder Obiageli Ezekwesili lamented Tuesday night that hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Islamist group Boko Haram last year are still missing, during an emotional speech at the TIME 100 gala.

“How can we be in a world where technology can find you in your bedroom and today we have nothing on the matter of our 219 girls?” the TIME 100 honoree said in remarks that brought some attendees to tears.

“There’s absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do,” she said. “But the same God has given man and woman the power of choice. Whatever we choose to do, we can accomplish. Let’s choose to bring our girls back, please?”

Earlier in the night she called on President Obama to do more to help find the girls.

“If he could get Osama bin Laden, he could get our girls,” she told TIME.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH HER FULL SPEECH


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PHOTOS: Time 100 Gala Red Carpet Pictures

The world's most influential people came together at the 2015 TIME 100 Gala in New York City on Tuesday.

Check out some of the red carpet pictures:

Research reveals top yoga postures that can achieve 'Excercise Induced Orgasm' in women

Also known as  'Yogasm' - an orgasm achieved through yoga postures and generally nothing to do with being turned on by anyone. Recent study found workouts involving abs, such as crunches, were considered high in orgasm-inducing exercises.

In the study, participants were given 22 yoga poses relating to abdominal, pelvic muscles, digestive function, joint function, and mood. After 12 weeks nearly 75 per cent of the women said they were more satisfied with their sex life following yoga training.

Top ten orgasm-inducing yoga poses:

1. BOAT POSE

 

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1.Have your sit bones in contact with the mat and draw the knees up into the chest, taking the hands behind the knee creases.

2. Squeeze the knees into the chest and feel length through the spine as you gently engage the perineum floor

3. Activate your core and begin to release the hands forwards at shoulder height.

4. One at a time start to lengthen into the legs, glue the thighs together and press into the balls of your feet.

5. Lift the gaze to the tips of your toes and breathe

Benefits: These house the primary organs for detoxification, digestion and the sex organs and will provides the whole area with stimulation and positive benefits in the bedroom.

 

2. EAGLE POSE 

 

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1.Taking the weight into your right foot, soften at the right knee.

2. Pick up the left foot and either place the left toes to the outer edge of the right foot or bind the left toes behind the right calf.

3. Bend into the right knee a little deeper and maintain a straight back

4. Draw the navel to spine and lift the perineum floor.

5. Take the hands to heart or any variation that you are working with

6. Firmly press the thighs in towards each other

7. Keep the gaze forward

Benefits: By cutting off the circulation of blood to the groin and genitals during the pose, when released, a surge of blood makes it's way back, flushing and renewing and bringing with it heightened stimulation to the area.

3. BOUND ANGLE POSE

 

 

 

1. Sit upright on your mat and press the soles of the feet together, allowing the knees to splay outwards and down towards your mat.

2. Interlace the fingers and hold onto the toes

3. As you ground downwards into the sit bones start to fold the upper body forward

Benefits: Opening these areas will relieve any stored guilt around past sexual interactions, potentially improves the health of the ovaries or prostate glands from the stimulation it provides to the abdominal region.

4. WIDE ANGLE SEATED FORWARD BEND POSE

 

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1.Sit upright on the mat with the legs out wide in a V shape.

2. Fold forward from the hips until you feel the inner thighs begin to stretch

Benefits: By increasing blood flow it activates our mula bandha which strengthens the muscles used during an orgasm.

5.YOGI SQUAT

 

1. Step the feet a little wider than the width of your mat and sit low into a squat.

2. If you can get the heels to the earth press down firmly

3. Take the hands to the heart in prayer and find length from the sit bones all the way up the spine

4. Lift your sternum and crown of head and either close down your eyes and set your gaze on still place, a drishti point of focus out in front.

Benefits: By stretching the groin this strengthens the thighs, tones the abdominal and sex organs, boosts libido and aids flexibility. 

 

6.WIDE LEG CHILD'S POSE

 

 

1.Come into a comfortable kneeling position.

2.Bring your big toes together and take your knees out wide.

3.Fold forward, taking your arms out long in front of you.

4.Close your eyes and take long, slow, gentle breaths.

5.On each inhale, let the belly fill up with air. On each exhale, engage the pelvic floor.

Benefits: By stretching the groin this strengthens the thighs, tones the abdominal and sex organs, boosts libido and aids flexibility.

 

7. BRIDGE POSE

 

1.Lie on your back taking your arms out long beside your hips.

2.Bend your knees and place the soles of your feet on the floor, drawing the heels towards the sitting bones.

3.Raise the hip bones to the sky, relaxing the buttocks and drawing the inner thighs together.

4.Inhale, draw the belly in. Exhale, squeeze the thighs together and engage the pelvic floor.



Benefits: Stretches the hip flexors, strengthens the inner thighs and tones the pelvic muscles.

 

8. HAPPY BABY POSE 

 

 

1.Lie on your back and draw your knees towards your armpits, soles of the feet towards the ceiling.

2.Take the hands to the outer edges of the feet and gently draw them down towards the floor.

3. Inhale to fill the belly. Exhale, draw the feet closer towards the floor, taking the tailbone towards the ground and squeezing the pelvic floor.

Benefits: Will open the hips, stretch the inner groin and thighs and improves blood flow to the pelvic area.

 

9. ABS WITH A ROLL 

 

1.Layer two regular bath towels, fold them in thirds, longways and then roll them up into a short tube.

2.Lay on your back and place the towel tube between your inner thighs.

3.Clasp your hands gently behind your head and lift your legs to the sky.

4.Inhale, lift your tailbone and squeeze your inner thighs together.

4.Exhale, curl your head and shoulders up, lift your tailbone higher, squeeze your towels and pull your belly in.

5.Inhale, gently lower to the floor. Repeat 5 times.

Benefits: Engages the belly and thighs, creates heat in the groin area and increases pelvic tone.

 

10. BREATH WORK

 

 

1.Sitting in a comfortable position with eyes closed and internal gaze to just below the navel at your svadhishtana chakra.

2. Focus on drawing your inhales in through your nose all the way down to depths of your belly.

3. Breathing out completely rid yourself of the whole breath, through the mouth.

4. Carry those deep inhales practiced in yoga across to the bedroom

Benefits: During orgasm the body tenses so by taking deep breaths at the crucial time, we send blood to the sex organs and in turn make the orgasm more powerful and last longer.
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Suspected killer Jeffrey Okafor, faces trial for murdering CBBC star, Carl Beatson-Asiedu

Jeffrey Okafor, 24, of East Dulwich, London, is accused of stabbing Carl Beatson-Asiedu to death outside a nightclub in 2009.


The court heard today, how the 19-year-old victim, known as DJ Charmz, had been leaving the Club Life Nightclub in Vauxhall's Goding Street, in London, with a group of friends when a group of men approached them.....

 

 

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Carl Beatson Asiedu (left) was stabbed to death outside a nightclub by Jeffrey Okafor (right) who then fled to Nigeria on his brother's passport

Sarah Whitehouse QC, prosecuting, told Woolwich Crown Court that three people had been specifically targeted in the attack including Mr Beatson-Asiedu, a Francis Xavier College student who appeared in CBBC spy show MI High.

Peter Lama, also 19, was stabbed in the buttocks by Okafor's friend Abu Mansaray while Jermaine Coker was chased by Junior Ademujimi-Falade but escaped.



Mr Lama managed to return to the club, where bouncers locked the doors and called the police.

Minutes later, Mr Beatson Asiedu was seen staggering along Goding Street before collapsing in the road.



His friends bundled him into the back of a car and rang for an ambulance, but police stopped the speeding vehicle as they struggled to find St Thomas' Hospital.

He was pronounced dead at 5.36am, with a post-mortem examination concluding that he had died from a single stab-wound to his heart.

Ms Whitehouse said: 'Carl Beatson wasn't so fortunate.'

'The prosecution say that Jeffrey Okafor was the person who drew a knife, stabbed him and killed him.'

Okafor, who had no connection with his alleged victim, had been at the club with Ademujimi-Falade and another friend Bolaji Kako-Are.

Ms Whitehouse continued: 'Junior Flade and Bolaji Kako-Are had also attended Francis Xavier College - the same college as Carl Beatson and Peter Lama.

 

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Shortly after the stabbing, Ofakor confessed to his girlfriend before fleeing UK on his brother's passport and remained in Nigeria for five years.

'After the attack, Jeffrey Okafor actually confessed to a girlfriend that he had stabbed Carl Beatson,' Ms Whitehouse said.

The defendant also phoned and asked the woman to put a t-shirt 'into a plastic bag and put it into a bin in the road', the jury heard.

Okafor seemed agitated when he returned home that day and said 'I'm going down' and 'The Feds are going to be on to me', Ms Whitehouse told the court.

'Okafor then fled from the country, travelling to Nigeria using his brother's passport.

'It was not until the end of last year that it was possible for him to be extradited to this country and face his crime.

On August 13 police went to his home address, planning to arrest him and to search the house for any evidence relating to the murder.

Ms Whitehouse said he laid low for a time and then early on August 17 2009 he took a flight from Heathrow Airport to Lagos, using his brother's passport.

He was finally arrested on 23 September last year in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria, after being on the run and was then extradited to the UK in November.

Today Okafor is finally standing trial, and denies murder as he listened emotionless to the proceedings.

The trial was adjourned until tomorrow morning.

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South Africa sends in army to tackle xenophobic attacks

The South African government has deployed the army to act as deterrent in volatile hotspots in Johannesburg and Durban after a series of xenophobic violence which killed at least seven people, displaced more than 5,000.

The xenophobic outbreak is the worst since 2008, when 62 people were killed in Alexandra and other Johannesburg townships. The army was deployed to restore order on that occasion, and has also been used against striking workers in 2012 and last year.

Taking too many vitamin supplements increases the risk of cancer and heart disease... new study warns

New study suggests that exceeding the recommended daily amount of vitamin supplements can increase the risk of heart disease and cancer.

Dr Tim Byers, of the University of Colorado Cancer Centre, said: 'We are not sure why this is happening at the molecular level.

'But evidence shows that people who take more dietary supplements than needed tend to have a higher risk of developing cancer.'

Two decades ago, research found people who ate more fruits and vegetables tended to have less cancer.

So Dr Bryers began to investigate if taking extra vitamins and minerals would further reduce the risk of developing the disease.

Dr Bryers said: 'This is not to say that people need to be afraid of taking vitamins and minerals.

'If taken at the correct dosage, multivitamins can be good for you.

'But there is no substitute for good, nutritional food.'

He added that most people get the daily recommended doses of vitamins and minerals in their diets by eating healthy meals.

He concluded: 'At the end of the day we have discovered that taking extra vitamins and minerals do more harm than good.'

The findings were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2015.

 

 

Herbicides suspected to be the cause of mystery deaths in Nigeria

The WHO spokesman, Gregory Haertl, tweeted: "Current hypothesis is cause of the event is herbicides" and "Tests done so far are negative for viral and bacterial infection."

The Ondo state health commissioner, Dayo Adeyanju, told AFP news agency on Saturday that 23 people had been affected.

Those who died suffered from blurred vision and headaches, and then lost consciousness before dying within 24 hours.

Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles gets married to Richard Lawson

 

Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles reportedly tied the knot with 'Poltergeist' actor Richard Lawson at the weekend.

TMZ reports that the couple got hitched on a super yacht off the California coast last night.

All the guests wore white to the evening ceremony.

Tina split from Mathew Knowles in 2009 after over three decades of marriage.

Police launch investigation into allegations of fraud after Chinese casanova is caught out when all his 17 girlfriends turn up at the hospital after he had a car crash

Mr Yuan, a Chinese man recovering in hospital after a car crash on March 24 had a shock when all 17 of his girlfriends turned up to see him.

 

 

None of the women knew he had been seeing anyone else. He had been seeing some for up to nine years, and one even had a son with him.

The women discovered his secret after doctors contacted 'his relations' to let them know he had been injured.

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Xiao Li, who had been seeing Mr Yuan for 18 months, said: 'I was really worried when I heard that he was in hospital.

'But when I started seeing more and more beautiful girls show up, I couldn't cry any more.' 

Other girls said they had started planning their weddings with Mr Yuan. 

Wang Fang, the mother of his son, added: 'What can I do now? I don't love him any more, but I do love my son.'

The women have now set up an online Facebook group so they can all chat and are quickly discovering just how much he hid from them, South China Morning Post reported. 

The story has attracted a lot of attention on social media:

 

One user with the handle @shusshshussh wrote on Twitter: 'What we can learn from Mr Yuan of China with 17 girlfriends is that: players should NOT get into accidents & allow hospital visits.' 

@J_Rain26 simply asked: 'How does one manage to have 17 girlfriends?'

And one user known just as Shan said: 'Salute this man RT: Man's 17 girlfriends respond when he gets in car accident #awkward.'

Police have launched an investigation into allegations of fraud.