I'll only go to Atletico - Costa

Chelsea striker, Diego Costa says the only club he would leave Chelsea for is his old side Atletico Madrid.
However, speaking to South American broadcaster DIRECTVSports after Saturday's FA Cup final at Wembley, Costa said he is not planning to depart from Stamford Bridge and is happy in London.

Costa has been linked with a move to China but insists that, if Chelsea wanted to sell him, he would only go back to Atletico and is not interested in any other clubs.
"I will only leave Chelsea for Atletico," Costa said. "If not, I will stay here. I'm not interested in other clubs.

"I have a contract and no intention of leaving, but if there are changes to be made that might reduce my chances, if the coach won't count on me anymore or is to give space for another striker, I know that I'll have to leave.
"Everyone know what my preferred club is, there's nothing to hide."

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25-Year-Old Man Impregnates 17-Year-Old Girl In Rivers, Mum Rejects Daughter (Photos)

As shared by Chika who lives in Port Harcourt……

‘SAVE A CHILD’S LIFE.

I know I don’t usually do this but this case is very important to me because it involves life. I came back home from workout and met my mum with our fresh fish customer crying  I panicked and asked them what happened and my mum told me that the lady’s daughter is pregnant. Hmmmm. I gave the lady some time to put herself together and asked her what happened.

She said her 17 year old daughter is pregnant for a man of about 25 years old she got angry and sent the girl out of her house because she’s poor and has nothing and no one to  help her , in her words ” the day i no sell fish we no dey see food chop even the man wey give her belle sef  one day  him no even bring groundnut make she chop, naim make me pursue  her for house I no fit take care of her and the pickin, na just this morning somebody bring her come house dey beg me I no know wetin I go do” I asked her if she has registered the girl for antenatal and her response was  ” we no get money to chop talk of to go hospital”.
I want to appeal to my friends to please help this little girl. Yes she has made a mistake but let us not watch her die in the process. The mum said the mam responsible for the pregnancy admitted he got her pregnant but he has nothing doing. Violet is 5 months pregnant she needs medical attention. Her mum’s phone is bad but she promised to bring a number for me to reach her I will post the number here when she brings it to me so you guys can reach out to them.  Save a life today please I am begging everybody. Please save a life.
PS: I spoke with the mum before making this post’

Uruguay, the first country where you can smoke marijuana wherever you like

Alicia Castilla was watering the plants in her garden on a quiet Sunday afternoon when five police patrol cars screeched to a halt outside her home. A team of 14 officers “armed to the teeth” stormed through her gate and arrested the mild-mannered, 66-year-old intellectual. They seized everything they could find: computers, her mobile phone, books, even an orange squeezer.

They also impounded the 29 cannabis plants she was watering and 24g of marijuana they found in her possession. She was taken to a police station where she spent the night handcuffed to a bench.

 “They treated me like the female version of Pablo Escobar,” Castilla told the Observer. But far from resembling the infamous Colombian drug lord who inspired the 2015 Netflix series Narcos, Castilla was a peace-loving, grey-haired author whose book Cultura Cannabis had become an unexpected bestseller. Like many Argentinian sexagenarians, she had recently retired to nearby Uruguay. The seized plants were for her personal use. “I make a living writing about marijuana, not selling it.”

Castilla’s arrest in 2011 sent Uruguay into shock. Although the consumption of recreational drugs had never been outlawed in a country that prides itself on its broad-mindedness and liberal institutions, its cultivation and sale remained forbidden. The author faced between two and 10 years behind bars.

Her imprisonment at the women’s prison in the town of Canelones became round-the-clock news. “I fell into a foul-smelling pit that reminded me of Midnight Express. Cockroaches crawled over the bed, there were rats the size of rabbits in the bathrooms.”

Castilla realised she had become a national celebrity when her fellow inmates broke into spontaneous applause on her arrival. The eldest of the 120 women imprisoned there, her fellow inmates nicknamed her “the reefer grandmother”, a moniker that was quickly picked up by the press.

Thousands marched to demand her release. The protests soon galvanised a longstanding demand for the full legalisation of recreational cannabis. “The media coverage was crazy. Legislators started bringing legal marijuana draft bills for me to look at in prison,” Castilla, now 72, recalls.

Her three-month incarceration (and the lengthy series of trials until the case was dismissed by Uruguay’s supreme court last year) finally paid off. The cultivation of cannabis was legalised in 2014, and in July Uruguay will become the first country in the world where its sale is legal across the entire territory.

“It’s important for Uruguay to advance towards a logical regulation of recreational marijuana,” says Eduardo Blasina, director of the recently inaugurated Cannabis Museum located in a large terracotta-coloured property in the old Palermo neighbourhood of Uruguay’s capital city, Montevideo.

“The law gives consumers access to certified, unadulterated marijuana,” says Blasina. “South America’s war against drugs has been absurd, with catastrophic results no matter which indicators you consider, including consumption. If Uruguay’s experience turns out positive, it will be easier for other countries such as Colombia or Mexico, mired in huge problems with powerful narcos, to find a better solution than the disastrous one implemented so far.”

For Laura Marcos, one of the most energetic campaigners for legalisation, Uruguay’s unique history of never having prohibited the consumption of any drug was key. “We found this grey area in the law where consumption was legal but cultivation was not, so every time a marijuana-grower was taken prisoner it was reinforcing the message that the only place to obtain access to a legal substance was on the illegal market.”

But not everyone is pleased with how legal marijuana is being implemented in Uruguay. “I’m happy because now you can plant without going to prison,” says Juan Manuel Varela, the 28-year-old manager of MDAR (Spanish-language acronym for high-quality marijuana), one of the cannabis clubs that have been set up under the new legislation. “But like many things in Uruguay, the new law is a good idea that is being applied badly.”

Cannabis activists such as Varela and Castilla are upset that the new law falls short of full legalisation. Home growers are required to register with the government for a permit that grants them a maximum of six plants, and cannabis clubs such as Varela’s require permits for a maximum of 45 members who are allowed to withdraw only 40g per month from the club’s crop.

Most controversial of all, when the law goes into full effect in July, legal marijuana will only be available at pharmacies. Though the price will be highly accessible, only $1.30 per gramme compared with $3 on the street, consumers must register with the government first. They will then be required to identify themselves with a digital thumb scan to withdraw their weekly maximum of 10g.

The government has taken important precautions to prevent the registry falling into the wrong hands because of the privacy issues involved. Pharmacists will not be given the name of the client associated with each thumb scan. Only the amount of grammes still available from each client’s quota will be revealed on the pharmacy’s screen. Additionally, only seven members of the government will have access to the full registry, and three of them will need to be present simultaneously in order to retrieve any names from it.

“It’s like a police file they’re building of planters and consumers,” says Daniel Vidart, another long-time cannabis activist and author who met, fell in love with and married Castilla shortly after her release from prison six years ago.

The impressively spritely 96-year-old is a personal friend of Uruguay’s former president, José “Pepe” Mujica, who introduced a series of liberal reforms during his 2010-2015 term in office, including same-sex marriage, abortion and the sale of state-controlled marijuana.

Vidart is highly critical of his friend’s marijuana law. “This law actually stigmatises marijuana more than it legalises it,” says Vidart, holding his wife Castilla’s hand. “Why should there be a registry of marijuana consumers and not one of alcohol consumers? Alcohol is a much deadlier drug. This law continues considering that marijuana smokers are so dangerous that they need to be counted by the government. And a registry is more or less safe as long as you have a democratic government, but it could become a weapon against consumers should the political mood change.”

The registry was opened at the beginning of May. So far about 3,500 people (out of Uruguay’s population of 3.4 million) have signed up to buy marijuana at pharmacies. Additionally, since 2014 about 6,700 have signed up as home growers and 57 cannabis clubs have been set up, according to the government’s Cannabis Regulation and Control Institute.

Despite the media attention, sales seem to be likely to get off to a slow start. “Only 30 of the country’s 1,000 pharmacies have signed up to sell marijuana so far,” says Alejandro Antalich, vice-president of the Uruguayan pharmacies association.

“Our society can be conservative, resistant to change, so there is still uncertainty and many pharmacists are waiting to see how the system works before signing up to sell. There is also fear of reprisals against pharmacies from corner drug traffickers upset at losing their clients.”

Castilla also has mixed feelings about the new law. “I would like to see full freedom to plant in your own home,” she says.

Has she registered to plant or buy. “No, I haven’t.” Is she still growing at home? “Yes, I am.” Isn’t she afraid of falling foul of the new law? “I don’t think they’d dare come after me again,” says Castilla with a twinkle in her eye. - The Guardian 

American Airlines Passenger Opened Door and Jumped Off Moving Plane

An airline passenger was arrested Thursday after he opened the plane’s galley door as it was taxiing and jumped onto the tarmac at a North Carolina airport, authorities said.

Tun Lon Sein was seated on American Airlines Flight 5242 just before takeoff, when he suddenly stood from his seat and attempted to open the aircraft’s main door before he was halted by a flight attendant, whom he then tried to bite, federal air marshals said in a criminal complaint, according to CNN.

Following the struggle, Sein was able to pry the door open and escape onto the tarmac, before airport workers stopped him on the active taxiway. He was then taken to a local hospital for treatment, the report said.

Authorities are unsure what prompted Sein’s commotion because he speaks little English, CNN reports. He was scheduled for a court appearance on Friday, but the hearing had to be postponed, the report said, because the Thai interpreter could not speak Karen, a language of southern Myanmar.
Authorities believe Sein understood the safety requirements as he could see the illuminated seat belt signs and had already entered the United States at Newark, N.J., requiring two other flights before he reached the airport at Charlotte, according to CNN.

American Airlines in a statement said the plane returned to the gate after "a security incident with a passenger." After a re-screening, the plane landed approximately 90 minutes late at its destination of New Bern, N.C., the airline said, according to the report.

Sein was charged with interference with flight crew members and attendants on a commercial aircraft, according to the criminal complaint.

Mother of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick killed in boat accident

The mother of the CEO of the ride-hailing company Uber died in a boat accident in a California lake, the company said.

Bonnie Kalanick, 71, died after the boat she and her husband, Donald, 78, were riding in hit a rock in Pine Flat Lake and sank, Fresno County authorities said.

They are the parents of Travis Kalanick, 40, who founded Uber in 2009. The company has since grown to become an international operation with a market value of nearly $70 billion.

The Kalanicks, from the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, have been longtime boaters. In a memo to Uber staff, Liane Hornsey, the chief human resources officer, called the Friday evening accident an "unthinkable tragedy." She wrote that "everyone in the Uber family knows how incredibly close Travis is to his parents."

Officers were called to the scene and found the couple on a shore of the lake, the Sheriff's office said in a statement.
Bonnie Kalanick died at the scene, and her husband suffered moderate injuries, the sheriff's office said.

An autopsy of Bonnie Kalanick is planned, the office said.
Donald Kalanick is being treated at a hospital and is in stable condition, the company said.

The couple's other son, Cory Kalanick, is a firefighter with the Fresno Fire Department.

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Aaron Ramsey wants Wenger to stay after FA Cup victory

Aaron Ramsey has called on Arsene Wenger to remain with Arsenal this summer after lifting the FA Cup thanks to a 2-1 win over Chelsea on Saturday, as reported by the Evening Standard.

It only took four minutes for Alexis Sanchez to fire the Gunners in front with a great strike but there was a controversial handball in the build up. Chelsea waited until the 76th minute to get their equaliser through Diego Costa, but shortly after Ramsey headed in from an Olivier Giroud cross to put Arsenal into the driving seat with just under fifteen minutes to go.

Welsh midfielder Ramsey was questioned after the match and was asked several questions about the future of his manager. Wenger’s contract is set to expire at the end of the season and there were reports he would reveal his decision after the FA Cup Final. Match winner Ramsey explained: “I hope he stays here, he’s been fantastic for me and fantastic for these players.”

It’s very clear that some of the players and some of the fans agree with the idea of Wenger staying and can admire what he has done for the club, but the fans that want him to leave will say that the FA Cup victory will be papering over the cracks of what has been a poor season.

Taiwan's 'forest bus' charms passengers

With moss-covered seats and an explosion of lush plants and flowers throughout its interior the "forest bus" offers a fragrant leafy ride for passengers used to crammed public transport in Taiwan's capital.

The ordinary single-deck city bus has been converted into a travelling green house decorated with orchids, ginger lilies and a variety of ferns is running on a special route through Taipei, with stops including an art museum, a popular temple and a night market.

Florist Alfie Lin, who created the temporary installation, said he wanted to bring a touch of nature to commuters' busy routines.
"I hope the public will feel that it's a beautiful and interesting experience," he told AFP.

"They can smell the scent of summer on the bus and see the vibrant green plants to feel messages from nature."
Reactions have been enthusiastic, with passengers queueing to board and expressing hopes that it will become a permanent attraction in Taipei.

For now the toll-free bus is running on a week-long trial, ending Sunday, and takes around 20 passengers.
"I feel happy and relaxed on the bus smelling the flowers and plants. I hope it can become a regular service on a double-decker. It would become something special to Taipei," said housewife Celine Wei.

Museum employee Larry Huang is also a big fan of the bus and has been on it three days in a row.

"There is no rushing on and off like a regular bus. We chat and take photos for each other. I feel like I'm at a party with friends," he said. - AFP

“You May Have Dated Or Kissed Him But I Don’t Give A Bleep” – Actor Kunle Afod’s Wife

Nollywood Actor Kunle Afod’s wife Desola, in a beautiful photo she shared on her Instagram page has slammed those who think they can steal her husband, because they’ve kissed or had a relationship with him in the past.

According to Desola, she doesn’t ‘give Bleep’, as her husband is still hers.

Buhari stops pension fraud, releases N54bn for inherited, current liabilities –Presidency

The Presidency on Saturday said the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has brought an end to the series of mind-boggling fraud and scandals around the issue of pensions in Nigeria.

According to a statement made available to journalists, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this while featuring on a programme on the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Kaduna, to commemorate the second anniversary of the Buhari administration.

Shehu said the feat was achieved by strengthening the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, which has introduced a number of measures in the past two years.

One of the these measures, he said, was the automation of pension payment processes.

The presidential spokesman said the Bank Verification Number policy has also been implemented in the pension scheme, with over 103,000 civil service pensioners verified.

“Pensioner records have also been digitalised for secure archiving, with thousands of thousands of old, physical pension folders converted to e-files,” he said.

Man Cuts Off Wife’s Head After DNA Proved 6 Kids are Not His

Karen Rainford , the mother of six who was beheaded in Mountain View was killed by the father of her six younger children. Sources are now saying that the man Rainford told that the children belonged to him found out that none of the children were his.

Days leading up to the murder, the alleged father , after finding out through DNA tests that the children did not belong to him, cut his locks and told people close to him that he would kill her.

Friends said that Rainford would often visit the man’s place of employment in an effort to collect child support. The father was said to be angry that she had followed him from site to site embarrassing him for child support perhaps knowing that the children were not his.

He is being held in jail and has a 2 Million Dollar bond.

Teenage boys allegedly kidnap, rape girl in Bauchi

Two teenage boys have been arrested, allegedly for the kidnap and rape of a teenage schoolgirl in Bauchi.

The teenagers were said to have kidnapped the 16-year-old girl on her way to school and allegedly took her to a mountain in GRA, Bauchi, were they took turns to rape her.

Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Haruna Mohammed, a Superintendent of Police, in a statement issued in Bauchi to newsmen at the weekend said Police detectives from the anti-kidnapping unit of the Command arrested the suspects.

He said the arrest was made possible through an intelligence report.

“On the 26/5/2017 at about 08:00hrs, following intelligence report, Police detectives attached to State Anti-kidnapping unit Bauchi arrested the following syndicate Mahmud Abdullahi, male (18) and Abdullahi Mohammed, male, (19) all of Bauchi town,” he said.

“Suspects kidnapped a 16-year-old girl of Nasarawa ward who was on her way to school, then took her to their hideout behind a mountain at GRA Bauchi and had unlawful carnal knowledge of the victim against her will.

“The victim was rescued and taken to the ATBU Teaching Hospital Bauchi for medical examination where penetration was confirmed.”

According to the Police Spokesman, the exhibit recovered from the suspects include one tricycle with registration number DAS 440 used in kidnapping the girl.

He said Police are investigating the crime after which suspects would be charged to court for prosecution.

Buhari Running Government Of Terror- Fayose

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of running a government of terror.

According to Fayose, Buhari is going after Igbo leaders in the opposition by scheming to silence them through harassment and intimidation.

He said the presidency, in doing that, had turned enforcement agencies like the police and Department of State Services into state machinery designed to terrorise the opposition at all cost.

The governor said this in reaction to the reported raid conducted on the home of the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, by security agencies.

Fayose said, “This is a calculated and sustained attempt to silence all Igbo leaders that are not in the All Progressives Congress with Buhari ahead of the 2019 general elections because he knows it (South-East) is a no-go area for his party.

“They have gone from the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to the Chairman of Capital Oil, Ifeanyi Ubah and now the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. This is muzzling of democracy and it is time we saved our nation from the hands of the terrorists.

“Obviously, it is too early to rate this government that has turned to government of terror using DSS and police as agents of terror. This certainly is not the change we bargained for. We have lost this democracy to military junta of the past masquerading as democrats and we must rise as a people to defend it.

Also speaking on the development, a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, said in a statement, “Raiding the homes of our friends and leaders like Ekweremadu and harassing their children will not deter, stop or silence those of us that are in the opposition.

“It will only harden our hearts and strengthen our resolve. As each day goes by, more and more people have come to accept the fact that the Buhari administration is a government of fascists.” - Punch

10 things that will change how you look at flying

Whether you’re a frequent or once-every-10-years flier, some aspects of flying are universal. You’re probably uncomfortable, possibly dehydrated, and the person next to you is hogging the armrest. But how much do you really know about your experience? From how dirty the plane really is to the real reason behind delays, flight attendants share ten things that will alter your perception of air travel - for better or worse. 

1. Gate agents have more power than you realise. While you’re waiting in the boarding area, gate agents are watching for anything suspicious and keeping an eye out for any drunk passengers; they can deny someone boarding for appearing intoxicated. They have power over your seat too: it doesn’t happen regularly, but if you’re overly demanding or rude to a gate agent, they could decide to give you a bad seat. If you fought with a gate agent over a carry-on and then you’re informed your seat has been changed from a 14A window to a 38B middle, that’s probably why.

2. Flight attendants don’t start getting paid until the plane leaves the gate, so they hate delays even more than you. Although they “clock in” when they arrive at the airport, flight attendants don’t start getting paid - starting at around $20 (£15.43) an hour - until the airplane door is shut and the plane pulls away from the gate. That means when passengers fight about carry-on luggage or ask for a cup of water in the middle of boarding, flight attendants are dealing with it for free. That also means when a flight is delayed and you’re sitting in the airport for hours, flight attendants are too, not making bank.

3. Most things on the plane are cleaned way less often than you think. Take your cues from what flight attendants do. You probably won’t see a flight attendant drinking airplane coffee – they opt for bottled water and get their coffee or tea before the flight, as the hot water used to brew it comes from a tank on the plane, whose cleaning frequency even flight attendants don’t know. If you do take a cup, know that tray tables are rarely sanitised, despite the fact that they’re used as headrests, footrests, baby changing tables, food trays, used tissue storage, and fingernail clipping stations. Bring disinfecting wipes.
And there’s a reason all flight attendants cringe when you walk into the bathroom without shoes on. Bathrooms are restocked for toilet paper or paper towels and given a spray of Lysol between trips, but they aren’t thoroughly cleaned or sanitised after each flight. That mysterious liquid on the ground is probably not water or cleaning spray. Actually, you should keep your shoes on whenever possible. Thousands of people have walked through the plane and you don’t know what they’ve stepped in. If someone gets sick on the plane, a cleaning crew comes in, but they don’t clean the entire carpet – just the problem area.

4. Flight attendants life-hack everyday objects in the air. If you ever find a coffee bag in the bathroom, it’s not there by accident. Flight attendants use the grounds to absorb the smell and make the bathrooms a little less horrible. They use this trick if someone vomits too. They’ll also use vodka or gin to sanitise surfaces and their hands, since planes don't have a lot of cleaning supplies.

5. You might not be told the real reason your flight is delayed or cancelled. Bad weather anywhere along your route - not just where you’re flying to and from - can cause delays. Flights are also required to have a minimum number of crew members present to fly. Due to delays on other flights, flight attendants might be unable to make another flight they were scheduled for later, or they might have reached the limit of the number of hours they can legally work in a day, which is 16 hours. To prevent a complete domino effect, there are flight attendants scheduled on “standby,” which means they are scheduled to sit at an airport and can be called to work a flight if needed. But if there still aren’t enough, your flight could be cancelled.
More rarely, delays can be due to terror threats or safety issues. For example, there could be a threat called in on planes departing a specific country, and until the threat is under control or debunked, flights will be delayed or cancelled. The airline may just tell passengers the plane is experiencing mechanical issues in order to prevent unnecessary panic.

6. Flight attendants sleep in secret rest bunks in larger planes. Flight attendants are required to take a certain numbers of breaks on flights longer than six hours, and on larger planes used for international travel, there’s a door that leads to a secret room with bunks for flight attendants to rest on their breaks. The door itself is usually hiding in plain sight when you board the plane, but it requires a key to get in.

7. It’s against airline rules to take pictures or video of airline personnel or the plane’s interior. While the specific rules vary between airlines, it’s a matter of safety. Anything you put out on social media can be used to gather information about the setup of an airline or the uniform of the flight attendants.

8. Airplane food is actually really, really bad for you. While airplane food never had the greatest reputation to begin with, it’s doesn’t just taste bad - it’s unhealthy. Because of an airplane’s elevation, your taste buds actually become numb to certain flavours and food tastes more bland. To combat that, extra sodium and sugar is added to the food to give it more flavour. If you don’t want to leave the flight bloated and dehydrated, try to eat before your flight if possible, or bring your own food.

9. Flight attendants are extremely prepared in case of a medical emergency, but there’s a limit to what they can do. Flight attendants are trained to be able to use the first-aid kits and Epi-pens that come equipped with the plane, in addition to knowing CPR and the Heimlich manoeuvre. But for more serious incidents - and to use certain medical equipment on the plane - they have to locate a doctor on board. In the event that there’s no doctor on the flight, there’s actually a number to call that connects through a wifi connection to an on-call doctor to provide assistance until the flight can divert to get that person to a hospital. If the flight is flying over the ocean and there’s no place to divert, flight attendants have to treat the passenger to the best of their ability, either alongside an on-board doctor or with assistance from the ground.
Flight attendants also cannot legally pronounce someone dead - only a licensed medical professional can do that. So unless there is a doctor on board, a passenger is still “alive” until they reach the ground. While in-flight deaths don’t happen frequently, flight attendants do have to deal with the body if that happens. They try not to move the body, instead reseating passengers to other empty seats on the plane and covering the body with a sheet. If there aren’t any empty seats, those passengers unfortunately have to stay next to the body until the plane lands.

10. Turbulence can be incredibly dangerous if you’re inside the plane, but it’s nearly impossible for it to bring down the plane. There’s a reason flight attendants recommend you wear your seatbelt as much as possible during a flight, even if the seatbelt sign is off. Even on a clear, sunny day, turbulence can come out of nowhere. If you’re not sitting with your seatbelt on, bad turbulence can cause you to hit the ceiling or wall, resulting in broken bones or worse. But while turbulence can feel scary, it’s not going to bring down the plane. Airplanes are designed to withstand extreme turbulence, and the wings of an airplane can actually bend up to 90 degrees. - Cosmopolitan

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Liam Payne reveals the surprising career baby Bear has ahead of him

The 23-year-old spoke about becoming a parent along with his girlfriend Cheryl, after the arrival of their baby son Bear in March.

Liam Payne is clearly excited about becoming a father for the first time, so much so that he may be sharing a little too many details about parenting.

The One Direction star appeared on Graham Norton on Friday to promote his debut single Strip That Down, which dropped the week before.

During the interview, Liam revealed that he hadn’t actually met Cheryl’s father until after they had found out she was pregnant.

‘My missus was pregnant when I was meeting her dad for the first time so I thought I had better get rid of the life-sized dinosaurs I had in my garden.
‘I had bought them drunkenly off the Internet,’ he revealed.

Speaking about how the tot is doing, Liam revealed: ‘He is two months old now and massive.’

Interestingly, Liam already thinks his son will be a sports star when he grows up: ‘He’s really tall and will probably be a basketball player.’

£5.4 million up for grabs as jackpot rolls over to Wednesday

There will be an estimated £5.4 million jackpot in Wednesday's Lotto draw as no-one scooped the top prize on Saturday.

The winning numbers were 39, 31, 41, 54, 20, 22 and the bonus number was 33, Camelot said.
Set of balls four and draw machine Arthur was used.

No-one matched five of the six numbers plus the bonus.
There were 54 people who matched five numbers to win £1,520 each.
Some 3,381 ticket holders matched four numbers, pocketing £156 each.

There were also 87,371 ticket holders who matched three balls to win £25.
The winning Thunderball numbers were 16, 13, 18, 26, 39 and the Thunderball number was 03.
There were no winners of the £500,000 Thunderball top prize or of the £350,000 Lotto HotPicks prize.

There was one Millionaire Raffle winner who scooped £1 million and 20 Millionaire Raffle winners who each take home £20,000. - PA

United close in on Perisic deal

Jose Mourinho is closing in on a deal to sign Inter Milan winger Ivan Perisic, according to Sky Sports.

Perisic has been linked with a move away from Inter Milan this summer as the Serie A side look to balance their books after a poor season, despite making several high-profile signings.

Mourinho has long been a fan of Perisic and the player was linked with a move to Stamford Bridge when the Portuguese boss was in charge at Chelsea.

United are set for a big summer as they look to build on what has been a challenging first season in charge for Mourinho.

Bin Laden’s son steps into father’s shoes as al-Qaeda attempts a comeback

The voice is that of a soft-spoken 28-year-old, but the message is vintage Osama bin Laden, giving orders to kill. When the audio recording began turning up on jihadist websites two weeks ago, it was as if the dead terrorist was channeling himself through his favorite son.

“Prepare diligently to inflict crippling losses on those who have disbelieved,” Hamza bin Laden, scion of the Sept. 11, 2001, mastermind, says in a thin baritone that eerily echoes his father. “Follow in the footsteps of martyrdom-seekers before you.”

The recording, first aired May 13, is one in a string of recent pronouncements by the man who many terrorism experts regard as the crown prince of al-Qaeda’s global network. Posted just two weeks before Monday’s suicide bombing in Manchester, England, the message includes a specific call for attacks on European and North American cities to avenge the deaths of Syrian children killed in airstrikes.

The recording provides fresh evidence of ominous changes underway within the embattled organization that declared war against the West nearly two decades ago, according to U.S., European and Middle Eastern intelligence officials and terrorism experts. Decimated by U.S. military strikes and overshadowed for years by its terrorist rival, the Islamic State, al-Qaeda appears to be signaling the start of a violent new chapter in the group’s history, led by a new bin Laden — one who has vowed to seek revenge for his father’s death.

Encouraged by the Islamic State’s setbacks in Iraq and Syria, al-Qaeda is making a play for the allegiance of the Islamic State’s disaffected followers as well as legions of sympathizers around the world, analysts say. The promotion of a youthful figurehead with an iconic family name appears to be a key element in a rebranding effort that includes a shift to Islamic State-style terrorist attacks against adversaries across the Middle East, Europe and North America.

“Al-Qaeda is trying to use the moment — [with] Daesh being under attack — to offer jihadists a new alternative,” said a Middle Eastern security official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss counterterrorism assessments and using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. “And what could be more effective than a bin Laden?”

Hamza bin Laden is hardly new to the Islamist militant world. His coronation as a terrorist figurehead has been underway since at least 2015, when longtime al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri introduced him in a video message as a “lion from the den” of bin Laden’s terrorist network. But in recent months, he has been promoted as a rising star on pro-al-Qaeda websites, with audio recordings from him urging followers to carry out attacks or commenting on current events. Longtime terrorism analysts say the promotion of Hamza bin Laden appears calculated to appeal to young Islamist militants who still admire Osama bin Laden but see al-Qaeda as outdated or irrelevant.

“Hamza is the most charismatic and potent individual in the next generation of jihadis simply because of his lineage and history,” said Bruce Riedel, who spent 30 years in the CIA and is now director of the Brookings Institution’s Intelligence Project. “At a time when Zawahiri and al-Baghdadi seem to be fading, Hamza is the heir apparent.” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the Islamic State’s leader.

But Hamza bin Laden is not advocating his father’s style of jihad. Osama bin Laden was notorious for his ambitious, carefully planned terrorist operations, directed by al-Qaeda’s generals and aimed at strategic targets. His son, by contrast, urges followers to seize any opportunity to strike at Jewish interests, Americans, Europeans and pro-Western Muslims, using whatever weapon happens to be available.

“It is not necessary that it should be a military tool,” he says in the May 13 recording. “If you are able to pick a firearm, well and good; if not, the options are many.”

The faceless man

Strikingly, for a man who aspires to be the jihadist world’s next rock star, Hamza bin Laden insists on keeping most of his personal details hidden from public view. Even his face.

No confirmed photographs exist of the young terrorist since his boyhood, when he was portrayed multiple times as an adoring son posing with his famous father. He is believed to be married, with at least two children, and he lived for a time in the tribal region of northwestern Pakistan, although his whereabouts are unknown.

His refusal to allow his image to be published may reflect a well-founded concern about his personal safety, but it complicates the militants’ task of making him a terrorist icon, said Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that monitors Islamist militancy on social media.

“People loyal to al-Qaeda and against the Islamic State are looking for inspiration, and they realize that he can provide it,” Stalinsky said. “But for today’s youth, you need more than audio and an old photograph.”

What is known about Hamza bin Laden comes from his numerous recordings as well as intelligence reports and scores of documents seized during the 2011 raid by U.S. Navy SEALS on Osama bin Laden’s safe house in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Included in the document trove were personal letters from Hamza to his father, as well as written instructions from the elder bin Laden to his aides on how Hamza was to be educated and provided for.

The documents reveal a special bond between Hamza bin Laden and his father that persisted despite long periods of separation. The 15th of Osama bin Laden’s estimated 20 children, Hamza was the only son born to the terrorist’s third wife, and by some accounts his favorite, Khairiah Sabar, a Saudi woman whose family traces its lineage to the prophet Muhammad.

He spent his early childhood years with his parents, first in Saudi Arabia and later in Sudan and Afghanistan, where his father began to assemble the pieces of his worldwide terrorism network. A family friend who knew Hamza bin Laden as a child said he showed both promise and early flashes of ambition.

“He was a very intelligent and smart boy, very fond of horseback riding, like his father,” said the friend, a longtime associate of the al-Qaeda network, contacted through a social-media chat service. “While his parents wanted him to stay away from battlefields, he had arguments with them about it.”

Then came the 9/11 attacks, which brought the bin Ladens international notoriety and made Hamza’s father the world’s most wanted man. As U.S.-backed Afghan militias closed in on al-Qaeda’s mountain redoubt at Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden dispatched several of his wives and children to Iran, believing that the Islamic republic’s leaders could offer protection from U.S. airstrikes.

Hamza rarely, if ever, saw his father after that. He was still in Iran in his early 20s, living under a kind of house arrest, when he wrote a long missive to his father complaining about his life “behind iron bars” and expressing a longing to join his father as a mujahid, or holy warrior, in his fight against the West, according to a copy of the letter found in bin Laden’s safe house.

“What truly makes me sad,” he wrote in 2009, “is the mujahideen legions have marched and I have not joined them.”

Iran allowed the bin Laden clan to leave the country the following year, and by the time of the 2011 Navy SEAL raid, Hamza’s mother and other family members were living at the elder terrorist’s Pakistan hideout. Notably absent from the Abbottabad compound was Hamza. On Osama bin Laden’s orders, aides had kept him in a separate hideout with the intention of sending him to Qatar to be educated, according to U.S. and Pakistani counterterrorism officials. Already, the patriarch was beginning to see his son as a future al-Qaeda leader, judging from the letters he wrote to his aides shortly before his death.

“Hamza is one of the mujahideen, and he bears their thoughts and worries,” Osama bin Laden wrote in one such letter. “And at the same time, he can interact with the [Muslim] nation.”

Jihadist royalty

Hamza bin Laden’s sense of personal destiny only deepened with the death of his father and half brother Khalid at the hands of U.S. commandos.
By 2015, when Zawahiri introduced Hamza to the world as an al-Qaeda “lion,” the then-26-year-old already had the voice of a veteran Islamist militant, urging followers in an audio recording to inflict the “highest number of painful attacks” on Western cities, from Washington to Paris.

A year later, he delivered a more personal message intended as a tribute to his dead father. Titled “We are all Osama,” the 21-minute spoken essay included a vow for vengeance.

“If you think that the crime you perpetrated in Abbottabad has gone by with no reckoning, you are wrong,” he said. “Yours will be a harsh reckoning. We are a nation that does not rest over injustice.”

Terrorism analysts have noted several recurring themes in Hamza bin Laden’s audio postings that distinguish his Islamist militant philosophy from the views expressed by both his father and putative al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri. One difference: Unlike Zawahiri, Hamza bin Laden has eschewed overt criticism of the Islamic State, perhaps to avoid antagonizing any followers of that terrorist group who might be inclined to shift to al-Qaeda.

The bin Laden family friend suggested that the omission is deliberate, part of an effort to position Hamza bin Laden as a unifying figure for Islamist militants. The associate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to comment freely, noted that Hamza bin Laden enjoys multiple advantages in this regard, as he can claim to be both a descendant of the prophet and a son of jihadist royalty.

“The calculation is that it will be very difficult for the Daesh leadership to denounce Hamza, given who he is,” the family friend said.
The other distinction is Hamza bin Laden’s persistent calls for self-directed, lone-wolf attacks against a wide array of targets. Here, he appears to be borrowing directly from the playbook of the Islamic State, which has fostered a kind of Everyman’s jihad that does not depend on instructions or permission from higher-ups. His Internet postings have lauded Army psychiatrist and convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, who murdered 13 people in a rampage on the base in Texas in 2009, and the two Britons of Ni­ger­ian descent who hacked British soldier Lee Rigby to death on a street outside his London barracks in 2013.

None of those assailants were known al-Qaeda members. Yet, by applauding such attacks, Hamza bin Laden appears to associate himself with a more aggressive style of terrorism that appeals to young Islamist militants, analysts and experts said. 

Such messages also convey an impression of a terrorist network that, while battered, is far from defeated, said Bruce Hoffman, a former U.S. adviser on counterterrorism and director of Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies.

“He brings assurance that, even though al-Qaeda has been hammered in recent years, it’s still in good hands, with a junior bin Laden who is ideally situated to carry on the struggle,” Hoffman said. “Since a very young age, Hamza bin Laden wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps. And from al-Qaeda’s perspective, now is the critical time for him to come of age and assume the reins of authority.” - The Washington Post

Cruel mum locked two young kids in boot of her car while she went shopping

A cruel mum has been arrested after she locked her two young children in the boot of her car while she went inside a Wal-Mart store to shop.

Police in Riverdale, Utah, in the USA, say witnesses heard the children , aged two and five, making a noise and saw the car shaking.
They got the older child to pull the emergency latch and called for help.

Tori Lee Castillo, 39, is in custody on suspicion of child abuse after being arrested on Thursday when she returned to the car. 

Police said welfare services were contacted and the children were turned over to a responsible party.- Daily Record