Brandon’s father says he knew about the Jacko father story before it broke and it’s all a lie forged by greedy people
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Who's the daddy? Brandon, Michael and Augie
The plot thickens in the latest typically bizarre scandal surrounding Michael Jackson.
A US man who claims HE is the real father of Brandon Howard, NOT the King of Pop, Jacko , has spoken out and he reckons Brandon forewarned him the story was about to break and reassured him it was all nonsense.
Augie Johnson, 65, talked to gossip website TMZ.com and told them he fathered Brandon during a relationship with the 31 year old’s mum Miki Howard and was in the delivery room when he was born
He says he has been a permanent fixture in his life ever since and TMZ says it has seen pictures of the two together.
According to Augie, Brandon called him just before the story broke about the DNA test to warn him it was fake, telling him: “Don’t worry about this stuff. You are my dad.”
Augie believes it is “greedy” people around Brandon who are behind the story and not his son.
He insisted: “I know Brandon's my son. I was there in the delivery room, I have the pictures of him being born. I got the records, I got everything.
"Before me, Miki wasn't with anyone else. She didn't even know Michael at that time. But you know what, I love my son and he can do whatever he likes. I'm not tripping on this."
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Augie says he knows he's Brandon's dad
The organisation that released the results of the apparent DNA test which allegedly proved Michael Jackson fathered Brandon has hit back to say the results were not fake.
Online television channel FilmOn.com's Alki David claimed on his show that Michael had secretly fathered the 31-year-old singer.
However, it was claimed the DNA test results sheet were faked with the logo at the top even being seen in film Terminator Salvation.
But billionaire media mogul Alki has now hit back at the fake claims, telling TMZ: "The logo was made by the DNA agency to make it look pretty. Lab documents are not pretty by nature."
Seemingly contradicting himself, he added that DNA results should be private and are not meant to made public knowledge.
It was alleged DNA was taken from a mould of Jackson's teeth and from Howard before it was sent to labs in Ireland and Utah. Brandon in his video for Dance Floor
The results were then unveiled on the show and it was claimed there was a "99.99999%" probability of singer Brandon being late singer Michael's son.
A Google image search for "DNA results" brings up a number of examples and many of the results are printed on branded paper from the labs.
According to TMZ, there is no generic DNA testing lab, as the Jackson and Howard test would suggest, in Ireland where it was claimed the DNA was sent.
But while the test results may be fake, Brandon's parents do have links to Michael as Brandon's singer mother Mika Howard was once managed by Michael's father Joe Jackson.
Brandon has even cast doubt on the matter himself, saying in a statement: "To my fans, family, and friends, despite recent allegations, I did not authorise the testing of my DNA to be compared to that of the late Michael Jackson.
"This spring, I agreed to be part of a documentary film with FilmOn.TV and was asked to give a sample of my DNA.
"Even though I agreed to this I never expected it to be used in this manner.
"To this day, I have never claimed to be Michael Jackson's son nor do I have any intention of pursuing the family's estate."
239 passengers and crew are presumed dead after the Boeing 777 crashed into the South China Sea
A relative of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries as she talks on her mobile phone at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing.
This handout picture taken and released by Hamid Ramlan shows his daughter Norliakmar Hamid and her husband Razahan Zamani who were passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines flight, posing with relatives before take-off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport en route to Beijing.
Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 walk into the waiting area at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang
Missing: American Philip Wood, 51, was one of the passengers traveling on the missing flight
A crying woman is escorted to a bus for relatives at the Beijing Airport after news of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane
A woman, whose husband is a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, complains about Malaysia Airlines to journalists as she attempts to leave a hotel in Beijing
Wang Yue, marketing manager of Malaysia Airlines in greater China, answers question from the press at a hotel in Beijing
A woman breaks down while leaving the reception centre for families and friends after an airliner went missing at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport
A woman talks on phone at a reception centre for families and friends after an airliner went missing at the Kuala Lumpur International
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Fears terrorists were behind the Malaysian Airline crash were growing tonight as it emerged two passengers were using stolen passports, the Sunday People reported.
An Italian and an Austrian were feared to be among the 239 victims presumed dead after the Boeing 777 crashed into the South China Sea.
But Luigi Maraldi contacted his family to say he was safe and well and Christian Kozel was found at home by Austrian police.
The revelations raise the fear that terrorism may have played a part in the sudden disappearance of the air liner that was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The Malaysian Airlines flight mysteriously lost contact with air traffic controllers two hours after leaving Kuala Lumpur last night
This is the tragic moment Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 carrying 239 people 'disappeared' over the South China Sea.
The passenger jet left Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am local time on Saturday and was due to land in Beijing, China, at 6.05am the same day.
But communication was lost as the flight was crossing the South China Sea towards Vietnam.
The jet was being monitored by flight tracking website flightradar24.com which shows the plane's progress before it vanished.
The website claims this was 40 minutes after the flight took off, not two hours as has been widely reported.
Vietnamese navy officials had been quoted as saying the plane had 'crashed into the sea' - but this has since been denied.
Desperate searches are now underway to try and find the missing jet.
The Boeing 777-200 jet's passengers on the 2,746-mile journey included two infants and 12 crew members.
There were 14 different nationalities on board.
Malaysian Airways confirmed the plane had lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2.40am (SAT) local time - or 6.40pm (FRI) around 120 miles off the mainland.
The airline said in a statement: "Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft.
"The airline will provide regular updates on the situation."
A weather map of the area where the plane was last reported did not show any storm activity.
The plane did not enter Chinese air space before disappearing.
Officials say there were 160 Chinese nationals on board and state TV reported that China had dispatched two maritime rescue ships to the South China Sea to help the search effort.
Pistorius "cheated on me with Reeva Steenkamp", ex-girlfriend
tells court.....
Oscar Pistorius' ex-girlfriend told
his trial he once fired his gun from his car sunroof after becoming angry with
police.
An emotional day in court then climaxed with testimony from a security guard
shocked to find Mr Pistorius carrying a dying Reeva Steenkamp.
The athlete had earlier told him "everything is fine" when he rang him after
shots were heard.
Mr Pistorius denies both murdering Ms Steenkamp and shooting from his car.
Early in her testimony, former girlfriend Samantha
Taylor broke down while discussing two break-ups with the athlete.
She said Mr Pistorius had twice been unfaithful, with the relationship
finally ending when he "cheated" on her with Reeva Steenkamp.
The defence pointed to emails it said proved the relationship with Ms Taylor
was already over by the time Mr Pistorius began seeing Ms Steenkamp, but Ms
Taylor insisted the relationship was not "officially" over when he started
dating Ms Steenkamp.
The model also said the alleged shooting incident happened when he became
angry after a police officer stopped him for speeding, saw the gun on the car
seat and told him it could not be left there.
She accepted that he laughed around the time he actually fired the gun.
Ms Taylor testified that Mr Pistorius kept his gun "on him all the time," and
described him as a man who could get very angry.
'Too shocked to help' :
Pieter Baba, a security guard working at Oscar Pistorius' gated community,
the Silverwoods Country Estate, followed Ms Taylor in the witness box.
He said the athlete told him everything was "fine" when he called to
investigate neighbours' reports of gunshots on the night Reeva Steenkamp was
killed.
He said he made the phone call from outside the runner's villa, before dawn.
His said Mr Pistorius then called him back, crying but not saying anything,
before the line went dead.
When he saw Mr Pistorius carrying a dying Reeva Steenkamp down the stairs, Mr
Baba said he was initially too shocked to help.
Mr Pistorius looked at the floor while Pieter Baba gave his evidence, at one
point appearing to cry when the security guard described the bloody scene he
found.
There were several testy exchanges between Defence
Counsel Roux (shown) and Prosecutor Nel
One of Gerrie Nel's most crucial questions for Ms
Taylor came when he asked if Oscar Pistorius ever thought there was an intruder
in his home when she was there - Ms Taylor described previous such incidents and
said he had woken her up.
Crucial
testimony :
The BBC's Nomsa Maseko says that while Samantha Taylor was brought in to
testify in connection with the lesser firearm charge, her evidence about the
alleged shooting incident is crucial to the prosecution's case over the murder
charge too, as it paints Mr Pistorius as an angry, reckless gun owner.
The prosecution sought to do the same with evidence given on Wednesday, when
the court heard from boxer Kevin Lerena about another incident in which Mr
Pistorius is alleged to have fired a gun - in a restaurant - after it was passed
to him by another friend in the group. He said Mr Pistorius asked the gun's
owner to take the blame.
Towards the end of Samantha Taylor's evidence, the court was adjourned a
second time, when she broke down again in the witness box.
After returning, she was asked by the prosecution if
there had been other occasions when Mr Pistorius thought there was an intruder
in his house.
She replied that it had happened at least twice. Crucially, she said he
always woke her up before taking his gun with him to check.
Mr Pistorius claims he shot Ms Steenkamp after mistaking her for an intruder,
and had not attempted to wake her before picking up his gun.
If found guilty, the 27-year-old double amputee, dubbed the "blade runner",
could face life imprisonment.
Neighbours'
testimony :
Friday's trial began with more testimony from neighbour Johan Stipp, who on
Thursday told the court he found Mr Pistorius praying over Ms Steenkamp's body
as she lay dying.
Questions again focused on his and other witnesses' testimony about the
timing of various screams and gunshots.
The prosecutor insisted the sounds witnesses reported do not fit Mr
Pistorius' version of events, while the defence tried to draw out differences in
the evidence given by the neighbours who have appeared in court so far.
Mr Pistorius again appeared distraught as the events of 14 February 2013 were
recounted.
The state is seeking to convince the court that Mr Pistorius and Ms
Steenkamp, a model, reality TV star and law graduate, had an argument before the
athlete fired the shots that killed his girlfriend.
There are no juries
at trials in South Africa, and his fate will ultimately be decided by Judge
Thokozile Masipa.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have set a wedding date, which will officially cement their status as Kimye The couple confirms that they will be married in Paris on May 24, 2014.
Women groups, outraged over the recent spate of killings in Northern Nigeria by Boko Haram, rallied yesterday in protest.
.....The Lagos group ended their mourning march at the Lagos State Government Secretariat in Alausa, where they submitted a letter of protest for onward transmission to the Federal Government. the letter requested the FG to take drastic action against child killers.
They said the “mourning march” is also holding simultaneously in Abuja, Port-Harcourt and Ekiti to condemn the spate of killing and abduction of school kids by the Boko Haram Islamist sect in the north.
