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AirAsia Flight Traveling From Indonesia to Singapore Goes Missing

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AirAsia

Missing airflights seem to be becoming a little too common this year, with an AirAsia flight becoming the latest to be lost whilst airborne.

The AirAsia Flight QZ8501,carrying 162 people lost contact with air traffic control last night, whilst making the run from Indonesia to Singapore.

The BBC reports it got missing two hours into a three hour flight.

AirAsia has never lost a plane, but everyone vividly remembers the cases of Malasyian airlines, which has suffered two of such incidents just within the past year.

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‘Exodus: Gods And Kings’ Banned in Egypt And Morocco

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Exodus: Gods and Kings

This is not quite on the level of the Sony hack but both Morocco and Egypt have banned the screening of ‘Exodus: Gods And Kings’ due to what they term ‘historical inaccuracies’.

The BBC reports the head of Egypt’s censorship board listed these historical inaccuracies as the film depicting the Jews as having built the pyramids, and that an earthquake caused the Red Sea to be parted during the Jews escape from Egypt, and not a miracle from God as the Bible portrays.

I can see why that’s got to sting.

One of the greatest prides of both ancient and modern Egypt is their world renowned pyramids, so Exodus portraying them as being built by the Jews is not something that would sit well with them.

Also, claiming the Red Sea was parted by an earthquake to allow the Jews escape borders on blasphemy, and really belittles the role of God in that whole dramatic escape.

There are reports Morocco also banned the movie, just a day before it was supposed to premiere after it had initially been green lighted to screen.

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Mauritanian Journalist Sentenced to Death Due For An Article He Wrote On The ‘Holy Prophet’

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Say what you will about Christians, at least they wouldn’t kill you for your contrarian beliefs; not in the past few centuries anyway.

A certain Mauritanian journalist is having a really crappy holidays, as a court in his homeland has sentenced him to death, under Islamic Sharia law which is in effect in Mauritania.

Sharia contains the strictest set of laws guarding the Islamic religion, and it clamps down mercilessly on blasphemy, real or perceived. It also violates fundamental human rights in more ways than one.

Mohammed Cheikh Ould Mohamed was convicted on apostasy, for criticising Prophet Mohammed in an article he published over a year ago. In it, he criticised some of the decisions taken by the holy prophet during the holy wars.

He was arrested on January 2nd this year, his trial just commencing within the past week, culminating in his sentence on Christmas Day! Sure Muslims don’t celebrate Christmas but there must be some hidden irony in there.

He is reported to have fainted when the sentence was read, having pled not guilty to the charge; insisting all along that it was not his intention to harm the prophet.

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Baby With Rare Skin Condition Born In The US: What Do You Know About EB?

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They say you learn something new every day and honestly I have never in my life heard of a disease that made it impossible for you to be touched.

I remember encountering something like that in Tina Fey’s award winning sitcom 30-Rock, but it turned out the lady was faking the whole thing and I assumed a disease like that was too preposterous to be true.

But that is the situation a family in the United States are facing with their newborn daughter Kiira Kinkles, according to Yahoo. The four month old was born to Kirsti and Jason Kinkles in California; and she was born with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, more commonly known as EB.

The condition affects only one out of 20, 000 newborns, and it causes skin to be so fragile that it can blister or even tear from the slightest bit of contact. According to her parents the only way to pick the baby up is with a soft blanket wrapped around her as a protective barrier.

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Vladimir Putin Admits He is in Love | Fuelling Rumours Over Relationship With Olympic Gymnast-Alina Kabayeva

Russia’s Vladimir Putin has admitted he is in love, fuelling rumours over a relationship with Olympic gymnast-Alina Kabayeva. Though he refused to name who the woman is, Putin denied he had ‘completely gone wild’ in his romantic life—however he revealed that he ‘loves’ and is loved in return. It surely seems like Vladimir Putin has … Read more

European Court of Justice Has RULED that British Citizens Should Be Able to Bring Family into UK…Without VISAS

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Surely, this does not mean every British citizen of Ghanaian descent can fly to Ghana and pack his entire village of Uncles, Aunties and Nephews—and bring them all into UK without even the need for visas.

But it surely means that, the UK is losing control over its borders to non EU citizens too. Meaning, a British can easily bring his wife and children of whatever nationality easy into the country without any strict restrictions (maybe even without the need for a visa if the wife or children have resident anywhere in EU).

Before the ruling, UK ministers had required European nationals’ overseas family members to get a travel permit before travelling to Britain.

But the European Court of Justice found a British citizen living and working in Spain did not have to get a travel permit for his Colombian wife to visit the UK.

The European Court of Justice ruled in a case of Sean McCarthy, who has dual British and Irish citizenship, and married to a Colombian woman-Patricia McCarthy Rodriguez.

Mrs McCarthy Rodriguez, who has two children with her husband – both with British citizenship, had to get a “family permit” every six months to visit the UK with her family.

Frustrated by the requirement to apply for visa/permit all the time, together with her husband they took their case to court under the freedom of movement rules claiming she should be able to travel without the visa because she had an EU Residence Card issued by the Spanish government.

The European Court then ruled in the couple’s favour, stating that, the rules did not allow the British government to stop family members entering the country if they did not have a visa.

What this means is that, if I am a British citizen married to a Ghanaian settled in France (she does not have to be a French citizen, just has to have a resident permit), my wife should be able to travel with me into UK without the need for a visa…

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Don’t Do Drugs: ‘Stoned’ Columbia University Student Jumps Naked From 8th Floor Of Dormitory…In Critical Condition

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So this guy’s receiving an Ivy League education yet he can’t be bothered to take proper care of himself.

19 year old Brandon Marco is an undergraduate at Columbia, and resides at the 14 storey Wien Hall on the campus of the University.

According to the NY Daily News Brandon was behaving weirdly, probably after an inhalation session in his dorm room.

“He wandered into a neighbouring room down the hall from his, acting irrationally and apparently under the influence of drugs”

Whilst in there, he stripped out of all his clothes, which set off alarm bells in the head of the room’s occupant, a female student.

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Horrific Slaughter At Pakistani School Orchestrated By the Taliban | 132 Students Between 12 and 16 Years Old Killed

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What kind of animals would carry out such actions on little children without batting an eye; brain dead, brainwashed animals- that’s who.

The type of atrocities being committed in the name of Allah keeps mounting up. The IS have taken terrorism to a whole new level, and now this attack by the Pakistani Taliban exhibits a depravity the former would be proud of.

The cowards attacked Peshawar Army Public School yesterday December 16, with military officials identifying seven attackers. All seven wore explosive vests, and were carrying automatic weapons which they used to fire indiscriminately into classrooms filled with kids.

Aside that, they set off bombs at different locations within the school; and according to this New York Daily News Report, set a female teacher ablaze right in front of a classroom full of kids.

“They literally set the teacher on fire with gasoline and made the kids watch” A witness told the publication.

And when they were finally cornered by Pakistani military, they blew themselves up, causing more carnage.

The terrorists were from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and attacked the Army school because the kids of army personnel who have been carrying out a sustained offensive against them were enrolled there.

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Duchess of Cambridge-Kate Middleton is Still Recycling Her Dress | Money Must be Tight at the Castle

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Duchess of Cambridge-Kate Middleton

Duchess Kate Middleton is trending on the fashion blogs once again—for recycling Jenny Packham dress.

Pregnant Kate, wore the Jenny Packham dress at a fundraiser back in February (left), and she wore the same Jenny Packham last night to the St. Andrews University 600th anniversary dinner in NYC (right)—and people are talking.

According to E!, she has not wore the dress just twice; she even wore it 14 months ago, meaning she has wore the same dress 3 times…

We know it’s a Jenny Packham dress, however wearing it 3 times to 3 very important event by not just anyone from the castle but the Duchess of Cambridge is a big NO…

She looks good in the dress though!

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Was He Right or Wrong? | A Stranger Passes a Note to Man Sitting In Front of Him At A Football Game Claiming His Pregnant Girlfriend is A ‘Cheat’ After ‘Seeing Her Sending Romantic Texts to Another Man During The Game’

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Lye

Relationships are full of drama and sometimes cheating—and an American football fan became a mini God at a recent football match by doing what some say was ‘right’ and others say was ‘wrong’.

According a man called ‘Lye’, he sat near a couple he didn’t know at a Detroit Lions football game, and repeatedly saw the woman (about 8 months pregnant) texting another man which she called Jason in text. Just beside her partner, this woman told the other man on the phone that, she wishes she was with him instead and once she is done, she will see him soon.

Lye claims that anytime the woman’s partner ( the man she was seated near her) tried to put his hands over her neck, reach out to her or have a conversation, she will quickly hide the phone—and sometimes she would tilt the screen away from her man towards him so he saw all the messages.

As a man, he was a little upset and together with the fact that the woman disrespected her partner in front of others made him feel sorry for the man so before the football game ended, he got up and got a pen to write the above note for the man. He asked the man to read when he arrives at home.

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After Serving Almost 30 Years in Prison | US Court Clears Kwame Ajamu of All CHARGES

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Kwame Ajamu in Court

No amount of restitution can make up for the wrong done Kwame Ajamu, his reputation and more importantly, his entire life.

After serving almost 30 years in prison for murder, a crime he denied; a US court on Tuesday cleared all charges against Kwame Ajamu, now 57 and out on parole since 2003.

The Court room was full of the expression of emotions with Ajamu saying “ I’m so happy today that this battle had come to an end.” Cuyahoga County Judge Pamela Barker also stepped down from her bench to give Ajamu a hug, the Associated Press reports.

In 1975, two people attacked Harold Franks with acid, and one of the people shot him. A third person drove a getaway car. A 12-year-old boy, Eddie Vernon, served as the state’s main witness in the case, and a jury convicted Bridgeman (as he was known at the time), along with his brother Wiley Bridgeman, then 20, and Ricky Jackson, 19.

The above three people received death sentences, but their sentences were later commuted. Kwame Ajamu was released on parole in 2003 after serving 27 years.

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