Friday 27 February 2015

Lupita Nyong'o's Oscar Calvin Klein gown worth $150,000 Stolen From Hotel Room

Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives are investigating the theft of the dress worn by actress Lupita Nyong’o to the Academy Awards on Sunday.

The hand-beaded Calvin Klein Collection gown, made with 6000 pearls and worth $150,000, was stolen from Nyong'o's room at the London West Hollywood Hotel on Wednesday.

There is plenty of surveillance footage available, and the police are reviewing tape from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, when the actress wasn’t in the room.

Wednesday 25 February 2015

BRIT Awards red carpet and full list of winners

The BRIT Awards was held tonight at The O2 Arena in London. Checkout the red carpet and full list of winners....

Turgut Oymen

73 year old Turgut Oymen, a farmer from Sivas Suşehri in Turkey, received a heart-breaking phone call from his 70 year old wife, Nese who had been staying in Istanbul for the past year for treatment for an injury to her foot.

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Nese told her husband that she was leaving him for a 55-year-old doctor who she had met and fallen in love and was not returning home.

According to Haber 3, Turgut then went to a nearby river, Derebağ creek and chopped his penis himself, flinging it into the water before calling an ambulance.

He told doctors he castrated himself because “he felt it (his penis) was useless and he felt like he was no longer a man."

He is currently being treated for depression.

Tanzania bans explicit dance which involves extreme shaking of bum and sometimes stripping

Kigodoro, a Tanzanian traditional dance which involves women exuberantly shaking their bodies, and, in recent years for some performers, stripping completely naked, has been banned in Tanzania.

Police cracking down on Kigodoro dances performed in weddings and social gatherings say they attract muggers and criminal gangs, thereby putting attendees at risk.

PHOTO: A woman does an explicit dance at a kigodoro ceremony. To her right are children looking on as events unfold.Going with your children to such immoral events or allowing them to on their own is a disaster

The Director of Culture Development in the ministry of information, youth, culture and sport, Prof Herman Mwansoko says the government through Baraza la Sanaa Tanzania (BASATA) has declared such dances as illegal and that practicing them is violating the law.

“This has become a serious danger to our culture as it threatens the original dances which are our identity. The new generation will be filled with what they see now and may not be aware that there has been a real Baikoko for instance,” he says.

He adds that as the ministry, they record the original versions of all the traditional dances and keep them in the archive for future generations. He however warns that whoever participates in such dances in public will be held accountable.

Do you think the Government is right to ban such dance moves?

Below are some of the reactions on Twitter concerning this matter:

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Tuesday 24 February 2015

Not less than 8 killed after gun man opens fire in a Czech restaurant

A gunman today, burst into Druzba restaurant in the Czech Republic and opened fire, killing at least eight people before shooting himself dead, officials say.

The restaurant's owner, Pavel Karlik, said the attacker had walked in to the property and started firing a handgun.

"I immediately ran out through the back door, along with other guests who then called an ambulance and police," he said.

The gunman, described by a local to be in his 60s, had called a national television station before he started the attack.

Some 20 people were thought to have been in the restaurant at the time. It happened around lunch time.

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