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Many questions are already being raised about the grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri in August. However, many of those questions will, by necessity, remain unresolved: without hearing the same evidence the jury has heard in closed sessions over the past four months, it’s very hard to assess the soundness of their decision. What is safe to say about the failure to indict is that it isn’t entirely surprising.  While allegations of police brutality are common in the US, it is extremely rare for them to result in criminal charges—or even disciplinary sanctions. This is not a new problem. In 1998, Human Rights Watch examined mechanisms for police accountability in 14 large cities. We found that excessive use of force by police officers, including unjustified shootings, severe beatings, fatal chokings, and rough treatment, persisted bec...

Old school rap artist, Cool C has been on death row for nearly two decades – now he would be executed on January 8, 2015. According to MTO, the rapper who was convicted of murdering a Philadelphia police officer, with his accomplice legendary rapper Steady B, when they attempted a bank robbery, during which an Officer, Lauretha Vaird was killed would be executed next year. Cool C was tried and convicted of capital m****r, while Steady B, got life imprisonment without parole. So sad!!! The wrong things people do to make money – What do you think of death penalty though???

Eminem caught our attention when he rapped about raping Iggy in a shocking new song, but it was the ‘Fancy’ singer who had the last laugh when she took the stage to accept AMA awards for best rap artist and best rap/hip-hop album. You tell him, Iggy! Iggy Azalea, 24, proved her prowess in the rap game when she picked up not one but two American Music Awards at LA’s Nokia Theatre on Nov. 23. And while she was dominating the night, she couldn’t resist taking a subtle but effective dig at rap rival Eminem, 42. Who’s the realest now, Slim? Iggy Azalea Disses Eminem In Her AMAs Acceptance Speech — Who’s The Realest Now? Iggy totally rocked the 2014 AMAs, where she performed her singles “Fancy” and “Beg For It” before closing the show with a sexy rendition of “Booty” with Jennifer Lopez. But she was never more badass than when she took the stage to accept the awards for best rap artist and best rap/hip-hop album,...

Paul Biya (born Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo, 13 February 1933) is a Cameroonian politician who has been the President Of Cameroon since 6 November 1982. Imagine president Jona in this outfit, Lool.

Earlier on this year at the Grammys, US media houses mistook Cameroonian singer Dencia for Nicki Minaj. Turns out it has happened again at the 42nd American Music Awards.

British singer Katie Melua shared some pictures and a short video on Instagram detailing how a spider lived in her ear for a week. In the video, screen shot above, you can see the eight-legged terror chilling out in her ear! *Shivers*. Read her story below... "So I had a rustling in my ear for a week and went to the doctor to have it checked out this morning. THIS little fella is what they found!" "Basically I used these old in-ear monitors to block out sound on a flight, little spider must have been in them and crawled inside my ear and stayed there for the week. It was no hassle at all, apart from the occasional shuffling noises..." "Though the thing looked TERRIFYING up-close on the doctor's camera, once he took him out ( using a micro Hoover ) it was pretty small, and now its in this little test tube, alive and seemingly fine.."

Chelsea Handler must be missing the attention from her recently concluded talk show, because the shock jock has now gone on a social media offensive against Instagram on their topless policy against women's posted pictures. This is similar to the protest by Bruce Willis' daughter, Scout against Instagram back in June, read here. I wonder where all this is leading? Chelsea posted a topless picture of herself seating on a horse, right next to another one of Russian President, Vladimir Putin. Not too long after that, Instagram took it down, but she posted the picture again, and several others which have also been taken down.

Miley Cyrus appears to have moved on and Patrick Schwarzenegger is her new heartthrob. The young couple, both 21, put their budding romance on full display yesterday night at a University of California football game. Patrick Schwarzenegger is Arnold Schwarznegger's first son and a student at the university. I was one of those who was sad when Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth split up last year. After they got engaged when she was barely 19, I was hopeful that though they met so young, they could make it work. Well they broke up, and now both have moved on. Reports are that Miley and her new boo have been dating for a couple of months now though they were first photographed together on Halloween morning outside of his apartment. From these latest pictures, Miley looks like someone that just loves love. Best of luck to her this time.

A Saudi husband has reportedly divorced his wife after she failed to reply to a WhatsApp text message he sent to her. The couple have been married for two years, and the man sent the message from his office and waited for a response from his wife. But none came. Thinking something must be wrong, he rushed home to find her watching television. When he asked her why she did not respond, she said she was busy chatting with friends on WhatsApp and wanted to reply later. He divorced her instantly, the report added. The man was quoted as saying by the Gulf News; 'I sent her messages on Whatsapp and knew she had read them because of the latest update on the application but still she didn't answer me or acknowledged my messages.' The husband, in his 30s, said he was frustrated by his wife's seemingly endless interest in using her phone for chatting with friends and family. This news sounds funny, but it's a reality of life in the time of mobile phones. And now Whatsapp...

I dont know if i wanna try these. But, A hospital in eastern China is offering fathers-to-be a chance to experience the pain of childbirth after several new moms complained they got little sympathy from their partners. Free sessions are held twice a week at Aima maternity hospital in Shandong province and about 100 men have signed up to be tortured. Most are expectant dads but there are thrill seekers too among the volunteers for "taster sessions". For the simulations, pads attached to a device are placed above the abdomen, giving electric shocks that induce pain. The test subjects writhe in agony for up to five minutes as a nurse gradually raises the intensity on a scale of one to ten. Song Siling, who is trying for a baby with his girlfriend, shut his eyes and grimaced as the needle on the electrode monitor inched forward with a beep. "It felt like my heart and lungs were being ripped apart," said Song, who made it to level seven before frantically waving to t...

Erica Mena and fiancé Shad Moss AKA Bow Wow have announced their wedding date. “The date is set. April 2015 #MRANDMRSMOSS,” he writes. No word on the official day or location yet… N.B - keep it here for info on the day and location

Tottenham striker, Emmanuel Adebayor says he cannot allow his mother and siblings into his house because they want to destroy him with witchcraft Emmanuel Adebayor has claimed that his own mother and relatives have been plotting ‘juju’ (witchcraft) against him aimed at bringing his career to a premature end. In an interview with Ghana’s Peace FM, Adebayor’s Cousin named Maggie (Margaret) said the football star sent his biological mother packing from his house. That Adebayor dragged his mother out of the house and since then he has been very cruel to the family, doesn’t take care of their needs. And things are so bad they have no choice but to resort to the media. She explained: “For the past six years Adebayor has rejected his mother and his immediate family whilst doing charity outside on the premise that our mother is a witch,We have been thinking of his future as a footballer and did not want this issue out in the media but it is becoming too mu...

Blessing Okagbare has married fellow athlete Igho Otegheri in a traditional wedding held over the weekend in Sapele, Delta State. The couple announced their engagement back in September, read here . Wishing them a happy life together and all the blessings of marriage! Check out more photos from their wedding, and the pre-wedding photoshoot below...

David Jones, a 45-year-old carpenter from Sussex, started taking an interest in snakes from the moment he caught his first grass snake on a railway line near to his home as a young boy. Before spending 121 days in a locked room with 40 black mambas, cobras, boomslangs and puff adders, however, he had never actually handled a venomous snake - making his world record even more impressive. Or barmy. Surpassing the South African former world record holder Natie Swart's effort by eight days, Jones survived the four months, eating, drinking and sleeping in the same small enclosure as the reptiles without being bitten, and has now returned to Britain. "It was something that I've wanted to do for a long time, although I can't explain why - I just love snakes," says Jones, looking back on the experience. "Prior to this I used to enjoy spending the day looking for them under logs, catching them and then releasing them." Handed two tubs filled with live rats an...

China has jailed almost two dozen people including "wild imams" who preach illegally in the western region of Xinjiang where the government says Islamists are waging a violent campaign for a separate state, Chinese media reported on Tuesday. The 22 suspects were sentenced to prison terms ranging from five to 16 years at a mass public sentencing in Xinjiang on Monday, the state-controlled China News Service reported. As well as the imams, or Muslim religious leaders, those sentenced included religious leaders who engaged in religious activities after being sacked, as well as those who broke the law while at their posts, it said. Others were accused of inciting ethnic hatred, using superstition to destroy the law, and picking quarrels and provoking trouble, it said. Xinjiang is home to a mostly Muslim minority group known as Uighurs. China has vowed to crack down on religious extremism, which it blames for a string of violent attacks this year in Xinjiang and elsewhere. Ex...

A 90-year-old man is facing up to 60 days in jail for feeding the needy due to a new law that bans people in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from meal- sharing with the public. Arnold Abbott risks being fined $500 and spending time in prison after police officers apprehended him while he was handing out meals to homeless people in a park on Sunday. He was arrested and charged along with two ministers from the Sanctuary Church, which prepares hundreds of meals to dish out every week in their kitchen, while shocked onlookers shouted to officers "shame on you!" in a video published by NY Daily News . Mr Abbott said: "One of police officers came over and said ‘Drop that plate right now,’ as if I was carrying a weapon."  He added: "These are the poorest of the poor, they have nothing, they don't have a roof over their heads. How do you turn them away?" In 1999, Mr Abbott sued the City of Fort Lauderdale after he was banned from feeding the homeless on the bea...

Real Sociedad have appointed former Everton and Manchester United manager David Moyes as their new coach, the Basque outfit revealed on their website late on Monday night. Moyes was the Spanish side's top target after previous coach Jagoba Arrasate was sacked earlier this month, but negotiations dragged on over the weekend and former Betis boss Pepe Mel was waiting in the wings to take over if a deal for the Scot fell through. Real Sociedad had said that a successor to Arrasate would be named on Monday, however, and the Basque outfit confirmed the 51-year-old's appointment on their website. "Real Sociedad have reached an agreement with David Moyes to be the club's first-team coach until June 30, 2016," a short statement read. The club added that details of the Scot's unveiling as coach and the names of his backroom staff would be revealed on Tuesday. Moyes, whose turbulent 10-month spell at Manchester United came to an end in April, becomes the highest-pai...

Adenrele Olufemi “Denrele” Edun, known mononymously as Denrele, is a Nigerian TV presenter for Channel O. He was also a TV presenter for Soundcity.