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A Mom Posted A Picture Of Her Sick Toddler Online And Thousands Of Strangers Mocked It
For the family of Mariah Anderson, every day is a gift. Last month, her mother Kyra Pringle posted a picture of her daughter on Facebook to celebrate her second year of life, News 2 reported. According to Pringle, somehow the photo began being shared all over the Internet. This why I say watch who you have kids with .... Baby look like the leprechaun.
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Tshwane metro cop stable after shootin
A Tshwane metro police officer who was shot by criminals during a foiled robbery at a petrol station last week is in a critical but stable condition hospital. The officer, whose name is with held for his own safety, is expected to undergo surgery today while a second metro police officer who was also shot at is due to undergo counselling after being traumatised by the shooting. “They were approached by a man who sought their assistance saying he was almost hijacked near a Total garage,” Tshwane metro police spokesperson Console Tleane said.
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Boko Haram releases beheading video - Africa | IOL News
AP This is 2014 file photo taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, showing their leader Abubakar Shekau. Abuja - Nigeria's Islamist sect Boko Haram released a video purporting to show it beheading two men, its first online posting using advanced graphics and editing techniques reminiscent of footage from Islamic State. The footage will stoke concerns that Boko Haram, which evolved out of a clerical movement focused on north-east Nigeria, is expanding its scope and seeking inspiration from global militant networks including al-Qaeda and Islamic State.
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Jihadi John tried to enter SA
According to British media, Emwazi was arrested as he tried to force his way past a security checkpoint onto a Johannesburg-bound flight without a passport. Emwazi has beheaded several Islamic State hostages over the past year. It is reported that at the time of his arrest in Tanzania he was with two members of Somalia-based Islamic terrorist organisation al-Shabab: Bilal Berjawi and Mohamed Sakr. It is not clear why Emwazi wanted to fly to Johannesburg.
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Kelly Khumalo: Love like this
Singer Kelly Khumalo’s love life has been media fodder for years now it seems. Khumalo a talented vocalist, seems to be in the media more for her boyfriends than her songs. In an interview with the several news publications, Nzama claimed that Khumalo pushed, shoved and poked Nzama in the eye, because she wanted him to leave his first wife. This is not the first reports of Khumalo fighting.
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Plane tickets show Kunene funded EFF
SUSHI king Kenny Kunene and his business partner Gayton McKenzie have bankrolled Economic Freedom Fighters leaders despite vehement denials by its leaders. Sowetan has seen electronic copies of business class airplane tickets for a round trip from Johannesburg to Durban for Julius Malema which Kunene paid for. Malema made the EFF business trip in July 2013. Kunene also bought new tyres for EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu's BMW 7 series which cost him about R10000.
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Meryl Streep's Daughters Look Flawless In This Fashion Campaign
Those are some good genes — and jeans.
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Emwazi’s mother recognised son in video - World News | IOL News
REUTERS A masked, black-clad militant, who has been identified by the Washington Post newspaper as a Briton named Mohammed Emwazi, brandishes a knife in this still image from a 2014 video obtained from SITE Intel Group. The mother of Mohammed Emwazi realised he was Jihadi John when she saw a beheading video, it emerged yesterday. A close up exterior view of the Quintin Kynaston Secondary school in St John's Wood, north west London where Mohammed Emwazi, otherwise known as Jihadi John, was a pupil.
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Nigeria: 'Synagogue - Collapsed Building Not as a Result of Structural Defects'
The consultant engineer, Mr. Oladele Ogundeji, who supervised the construction of the collapsed six-storey guesthouse belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), yesterday, told the Coroner's Inquest investigating the incident that the collapse was not due to structural defects. Ogundeji, a structural building engineer also told the inquest presided over by Chief Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe that the foundation of the collapsed guesthouse was built to standard with 28 columns. The Lagos State Government inaugurated the Coroner's inquest under the state Coroner's System Law No.7 of 2007 to investigate the cause and circumstances resulting in the death of 166 people following the building collapse and bring its findings and recommendations to the appropriate authorities.
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Madikizela-Mandela’s Qunu house claim ‘baseless’
WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela had not explained why she waited until Nelson Mandela had died before claiming to own the former president’s Qunu property, said struggle lawyer George Bizos SC in court papers on Monday. The court dispute over who rightfully owns the Qunu property is one of a number of ugly, public spats involving members of the Mandela family following the death of the revered statesman. Mr Bizos’s affidavit on behalf of the executors of Mandela’s estate — Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, Eastern Cape High Court Judge President Themba Sangoni and Mr Bizos — was filed in the Mthatha High Court on Monday.
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Teen Allegedly Urged Friend To Kill Himself, Then Tweeted How Much She Missed Him
Moments before 18-year-old Conrad Roy was going to kill himself last summer, he had second thoughts and climbed out of his running truck. The message allegedly came from Michelle Carter, who police now say sent Roy a series of texts in the last days of his life encouraging him to commit suicide. Roy apparently listened; police later found him dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. In a report, police said that before dying, Roy told Carter “he was scared and didn’t want to leave his family,” the Sun Chronicle reported.
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Samsung answers iPhone 6 with Galaxy S6
Samsung Electronics introduced a flagship smartphone with a curved screen and mobile-payment system, seeking to spark sales after a painful year that saw its leadership eroded by Apple and Chinese upstarts like Xiaomi. The new Galaxy S6 and its double curved-screen variant the Galaxy S6 Edge, released on Sunday on the sidelines of an annual trade show here, outlines Samsung’s latest strategy for finding its footing: take on Apple’s iPhone head on, while bringing even more of the manufacturing process under its control. In the US, Samsung said it would be offered by all the major carriers, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. The stakes are high for Samsung, which saw its previous flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, fall flat with consumers.
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CCTV footage to help catch crooks
Business manager, Louis du Toit, was shot and killed moments after walking out of the Pretoria Chicken and Meat wholesaler, apparently on his way to a nearby bank to deposit the weekends business earnings.
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Soli statement draws rumours amid split - IOL Tonight
Gallo Images END OF THE ROAD: Soli and Toni are getting a divorce. Soli last week confirmed to the Daily Voice that he is divorcing his wife of over 30 years, Toni. Soli posted a heart-wrenching essay on his Facebook and Twitter accounts, entitled “In My Own Words”. In it, the Taxi Radio star says: “I have left my wife and partner of the last more than 30 years, Toni Philander.
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POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: Zuma faces no-confidence vote in Parliament
DEPUTY President Cyril Ramaphosa and President Jacob Zuma will come under the spotlight in Parliament this week when Mr Ramaphosa answers questions in the National Assembly and Mr Zuma faces a motion of no confidence. After opposition MPs had complained about the loss of signal in the chamber, Mr Ramaphosa reportedly sent a note to State Security Minister David Mahlobo, after which the signal came back on again.
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Di Maria was sold by Real Madrid for being 'too ugly'
Real Madrid sold Angel di Maria to Manchester United because the Argentine was “too ugly” for the European Champions, according to Barcelona’s assistant Director of Football Carle Rexach.
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Pabi Moloi reinvents hersel
Having won prestigious prizes and graced popular magazine covers, not to mention hosting an O Magazine workshop with Oprah Winfrey, Pabi Moloi is one of the sharpest, smartest and most in-demand presenters around today. The bubbly radio and TV personality has hosted several award shows and demonstrated her star power when she was only 18, landing the converted 94.7 Hot Jock Talent Search title. With a newfound love for fitness and nutrition, Pabi has now reinvented herself and elevated her lifestyle to match her genuinely wholesome image. The Power FM presenter is now at the top of the invite list to host sporting brand events, like her recent gig at the Adidas running shoe launch last year.
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Khulubuse Zuma's Aurora still trying to get out of paying workers: Cosatu
General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi was speaking to reporters after the proceedings of an urgent application by Khulubuse Zuma to have claims of approximately R1.5 billion against Aurora set aside. Zuma's case was premature and inappropriate, Vavi said. National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Matlosane regional secretary Joseph Monisetse said he was very concerned about Zuma's application. Zuma's court bid could hinder efforts by liquidators to hold the directors of Aurora responsible for the apparent stripping of assets at the mines in Springs and Orkney.
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Roxy's rocky road to LA
Since moving to the US five years ago, the sultry beauty has gone from living in a hostel and working in a factory to joining one of the world's top modelling agencies, interviewing stars on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards, and playing a part in an upcoming movie. Jooste, 30, from Atlantis, has been modelling since she was 18, despite being just 1.67m tall. Speaking from California, Jooste attributed her modelling success to barging into Wilhelmina Models in Los Angeles two years ago. It was like I was dreaming," Jooste said.
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Homeless man shot by LAPD officer was from Cameroon [+video]
It shows a black man being wrestled to the ground by four police officers, a struggle, and then a white officer drawing his handgun and firing it repeatedly into the man’s body at close range. According to activists on social media, the man was known as Africa, and was from Cameroon. A homeless man, they say, with a long history of mental illness. According to the LAPD: “The officers attempted to use a Taser to subdue him, but the suspect continued to fight.
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