Daily Mail This monster from the deep has netted a British angler a place in the record books. The whopper, caught by plucky Chris Grimmer, is the biggest albino catfish ever caught by an angler.
The 8ft beast tipped the scales at 194lbs - 2lbs heavier than the previous best by blind woman angler Shelia Penfold last year.
I stopped playing games (Sega game system) when I was twenty four years old. That was twenty four years ago and I thought I’d stopped at a late age. But, the game systems changed and I thought it was an opportunity for me to put away childish things.
I don’t get grown men playing video games.
The Sun A LAD of 20 has been killed by a blood clot caused by playing his Xbox for up to 12 hours at a time.
A post mortem revealed that Chris Staniforth - addicted to games such as Halo - had suffered a deep vein thrombosis. It can be triggered by sitting in one position for long spells.
Stunned dad David, of Sheffield, said: "He lived for his Xbox. I never dreamed he was in any danger.
"As a parent you think playing computer games can't do them any harm because you know what they are doing
"Kids all over the country are playing these games for long periods - they don't realise it could kill them."
Chris collapsed seconds after telling a friend how he had been experiencing a strange sensation in his chest.
The pair were chatting outside a JobCentre where Chris had an interview.
David said: "He told his friend how he was woken in the night by a strange feeling in his chest.
“Then he dropped a packet of chewing gum and as he picked it up, he jolted back and began to spasm."
Chris's friend called an ambulance - but paramedics could not save him. A coroner yesterday confirmed DVT had caused Chris's death and it was cited on his death certificate.
This reason this con artist/maid/hooker is going on a media offensive is she and her lawyer are trying to put pressure on DSK to settle for some cash to go away.
Nafissatou Diallo was ushered into Brooklyn's Christian Cultural Center yesterday aboard patent-leather pumps that made the 5-foot-10 former hotel maid and current sex accuser tower over the two dozen supporters who stood guard, including church pastors and a prominent member of the New Black Panther Party.
She was unrecognizable.
Gone were the baggy, gray slacks and lime-green, shapeless blouse she wore in that ill-advised interview on ABC. Gone was the lifeless hair. Who cares if the Manhattan district attorney no longer believes in her? In the 24 hours before staging a press conference/rally/image makeover, Diallo, who accuses powerful French guy Dominique Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her, underwent a glam, head-to-toe makeover -- even as her lawyer attempted to remake the case of rape into a case of race.
Let’s face it; Knox was railroaded because of Anti-American sentiment in Europe. These latest revelations don’t say much for the Italian justice system.
The Sun AMANDA Knox moved a step closer to freedom yesterday - after a court heard how bungling cops investigating the case made 54 mistakes.
Knox, serving 26 years for the brutal slaying of British student Meredith Kercher, laughed along with others in court as the catalogue of blunders was read out.
DNA evidence found on a kitchen knife and a bra clasp were key to convicting Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 26, of Meredith's murder.
But two independent professors gave the appeal hearing in Perugia, Italy, a damning 144-page report on the forensic teams.
There were gasps of disbelief as the court was shown video footage of two cops picking up the clasp, passing it from hand to hand, dropping it, picking it up again and placing it on the floor.
One cop wore grubby gloves and officers put the clasp into a paper bag rather than a plastic one, which the experts said added a "significant" contamination risk. The clasp had been kept in such poor condition it had gone rusty, making further testing impossible.
There’ll gonna be plenty of saps that will believe this fiction that will come over broadcast television on ABC and in print in Newsweek. But, there’s a reason this case is falling apart.
Nafissatou Diallo is a high class hooker working at the Sofitel to score big money turning tricks. DSK stiffed her money for services rendered--oral sex. And the rest is a bunch of lies coming from this hooker’s mouth.
So, why not go on TV and play the victim card and work out a new kind of hustle for the suckers born every minute?
Both are the first mainstream news outlets to publicly name DSK's accuser -- Sofitel maid Nafissatou "Nafi" Diallo, 32, of Guinea.
In a three-hour long interview, Diallo recounted to Newsweek what took place on the day of her alleged attack. She said Strauss-Kahn was standing naked in his room when she knocked on his door.
From the magazine: "Hello? Housekeeping." Diallo looked around the living room. She was standing facing the bedroom in the small entrance hall when the naked man with white hair appeared.
"Oh, my God," said Diallo. "I'm so sorry." And she turned to leave. "You don't have to be sorry," he said. But he was like "a crazy man to me." He clutched at her breasts. He slammed the door of the suite.
5-foot-10 Diallo worried about hurting Strauss-Kahn and told him, "Sir, stop this. I don't want to lose my job," ultimately running from the room "spitting" after supposedly refusing the French politician's advances.
In her first public appearance, the DSK maid today told a gathering at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn that she and her daughter cry every day. "I'm here today to tell everybody how much I'm going through," Nafissatou Diallo said.
She added that her daughter pleads with her to stop crying, saying she needs Diallo to be strong for her.
"What happened to me I don't want to happen to any other woman," she said. AFTER 8 HOURS, DSK MAID CAN'T CONVINCE DA SHE'S NOT AFTER CASH "I said, 'God, why me? But I just want to thank everybody" for their support, Diallo said.
After her brief remarks, she was led out of the building while community leaders spoke.
Diallo, who is accusing former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault at the Sofitel hotel, and her lawyers spent nearly eight hours yesterday huddled with Manhattan prosecutors -- but failed to convince them she was not out to get money from the ex-IMF boss, sources told The Post.
The evidence her lawyers had counted on were audio recordings of calls between accuser Nafissatou Diallo and a jailed friend.
In a statement, the London Metropolitan Police said, "Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square NW1 shortly before 16.05hrs today, Saturday 23 July, following reports of a woman found deceased. On arrival officers found the body of a 27-year-old female who was pronounced dead at the scene. Enquiries continue into the circumstances of the death. At this early stage it is being treated as unexplained." A suspected drug overdose took the life of the singer, Nick Buckley of the Sunday Mirror tweeted.
Earlier in the day, Gatt tweeted a statement from her manager saying that she was withdrawing from all of her upcoming performances, writing, "Amy Winehouse is withdrawing from all scheduled performances. Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen."
Half-naked political activists have been brutally dispersed by an embassy employee while protesting in Kiev in support of Georgian photo journalists accused of espionage.
A local journalist is reported to have been injured during the dispersal.
A group of girls from the Ukrainian FEMEN movement gathered in front of the Georgian embassy in Kiev on Monday, holding huge fake cameras and posters saying “No pictures — no democracy!”
During the protest, which was meant as part of an international campaign backing the Georgian photo journalists recently arrested on espionage charges, a man emerged from the embassy and attacked first the topless activists, and then one of the journalists who was taking photos of the event.
I don’t think the MSM will give this much airplay. But, I’m sure Chris Matthews will use it in his “side show” segment.
UK Telegraph A Spanish lawyer has formally accused Barack Obama of crimes against humanity for ordering the assassination of Osama bin Laden
Daniel Fiol lodged a written complaint at the International Criminal Court accusing the US president of breaching the Geneva Convention.
Navy Seals acting on Mr Obama's orders shot the al-Qaeda leader dead on May 2 after storming his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
In his written complaint, the Majorca-based lawyer said bin Laden should have been "pursued, arrested, tried and convicted" on behalf of "the victims of some terrible and appalling atrocities". The killing of bin Laden was even worse as it took place in foreign territory, Pakistan, without the permission of that government, he said.
A 61-year-old woman has been arrested for groping a female TSA agent's breast.
Yukari Mihamae was flying home to Colorado when she allegedly put her hands on the TSA agent at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Arizona.
Police said she is accused of grabbing the agent's 'left breast through her clothing and squeezing and twisting it with both hands without the victim's permission'.
Oh no, we mustn’t offend Muslims. They’re still emotionally immature even after 1,500 years.
Daily Mail A mother was ordered not to breastfeed her baby in public because she was in a ‘multicultural building’.
Emma Mitchell, 32, was about to feed 19-week-old son Aaron when a receptionist at a town hall warned her to stop.
Last night Mrs Mitchell condemned council staff, saying it was time people recognised the law which allows nursing mothers to breastfeed in public.
‘It was just awful. I felt humiliated, intimidated and guilty through the whole thing,’ she said.
‘What I was doing was one of the most natural things a mother can do. You hear everywhere that breast is best for your baby, so why wouldn’t I be allowed to do that?’
The incident occurred when Mrs Mitchell, from Oldham, was in the Citizens’ Advice Bureau in Oldham Civic Centre.
Casey Anthony's defence team have been branded insensitive and loutish after they were spotted celebrating their court victory with a lavish champagne party.
In an unapologetic display many have slammed as inappropriate considering the serious nature of their case, Jose Baez and his team were seen downing drinks as they watched reaction to their client being found not guilty of brutally murdering her two-year-old child Caylee.
Stunned onlookers gasped and shouted abuse to protest the scenes, while high-profile commentators were clearly outraged, with one comparing the scenes to the work of the devil.
The sensational acquittal of Casey Anthony after a dramatic six-week trial has stunned America, with angry spectators comparing the trial’s outcome to the infamous verdict in the OJ Simpson case. Anthony, 25, is poised to walk free tomorrow morning and sell her story for millions, after the jury failed to find her guilty of the murder of her daughter Caylee. But inside trendy restaurant Terrace 390 in Orlando, where waiters carry iPads and beer sells for as little as $3, the party-loving young mother's defence team celebrated and drank with complete disregard for the strength of feeling surrounding them.
People are really upset, but I still say a basic question hasn’t been answered. How did Casey die? A cause of death was never determined. So if that was the case, how can prosecutors prove Anthony did it?
This the ballgame!
You can’t convict based on a theory. Proof needs to be shown, and these lawyers for the state failed to do it.
Casey Anthony, a woman demonised by the prosecution during a six-week murder trial over the death of her two-year-old daughter Caylee, now stands to make millions from her story after sensationally being found not guilty. A jury of seven woman and five men took ten hours to clear the 25-year-old on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child. No firm deals have been struck to tell Casey's incredible story, although talk shows, book publishers and film makers will be lining up to secure interviews and rights to a story that has gripped and fascinated a nation.
The verdict was immediately slammed by those who believed Casey was guilty of her daughter's murder, with a former state prosecutor claiming the jury 'failed' to reach the right decision - comparing the trial's outcome to that of the infamous OJ Simpson case in 1995.
Former Michigan Prosecutor Carl Marlinga said the verdict was: 'Like the OJ Simpson case - a clear failure of the jury system.'
'Just because we say the jury system we have is the best, that doesn’t make it perfect.'
Casey smiled with delight as she was cleared of the murder of Caylee, after one of the most controversial verdicts in recent history.
Hundreds of people outside the Orange County Courtroom in Orlando, Florida, gasped yesterday as the verdict was made public.
Casey had been accused of drugging her young daughter, suffocating her and dumping her body in overgrown woodland.
The verdict, which came as a surprise to many following the case, drew a dramatic line under a compelling trial, which has seen a family torn apart by accusations of rape and incest.
Speaking to the Detroit Free Press, Mr Marlinga said he was 'shocked.....stunned and a little bit sickened' by the jury's decision'.
He said: 'I’ve probably never seen a better circumstantial case.
'Juries have to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.That doesn’t mean beyond all doubt.'
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. needs to immediately resign!
In his zeal to score a big win for his office, Vance allowed DSK accuser to work as a prostitute while she was being secretly housed in a hotel at taxpayers’ expense! Some heads need to roll here because this is prosecutorial misconduct of the highest order.
The Sofitel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of a sex attack in his suite wasn't just a hotel hooker -- she continued to work as a prostitute in a Brooklyn hotel where she was stashed by prosecutors, The Post has learned.
The so-called victim, whose web of lies has crippled the Manhattan DA's case against the former International Monetary Fund boss, played host to a parade of paying male visitors in the weeks after Strauss-Kahn's arrest, a prosecution source said.
"While she was under our supervision, there were multiple 'dates' and encounters at the hotel on the DA's dime," the source said of her paid hotel room. "That's a great deal for her. She doesn't have to cover her expenses."
The woman has a regular fleet of gentlemen callers who range from wealthy clients she met at the Sofitel to counterfeit-merchandise hawkers and livery-cab drivers, said sources close to the defense investigation.
Some of her clients also gave her pricey jewelry, the source said.
Nothing happened in the first two weeks of her stay at the hotel, when she was under around-the-clock supervision provided by the DA's Office, said a law-enforcement source.
Prosecutors were apparently worried about the woman's emotional state and that reporters knew where she lived.
There was an additional concern that DSK representatives might try to bribe her or that she might get cold feet. And because she couldn't go home, they decided that having her stay in a hotel under their watch was the best way to keep her safe and secure her cooperation.
But starting about June 1, the arrangement changed -- she was dropped off and picked up when prosecutors needed her but was otherwise free to do as she pleased, the source said.
It's unclear how many encounters took place, the source said.
The woman is still being housed by the DA's Office but it's unclear if it's the same location or how much money has been spent to house her, the source said.
"I can't say with 100 percent certainty that it's not true," a senior prosecutor said about whether the woman was turning tricks while at the hotel.
Also, The DA suspects that the $100,000 she deposited into her accounts over the last few years included proceeds from sex-for-money exploits, said another prosecution source. End of story
Finally, the real details of what happened at the exclusive New York hotel between former IMF honcho Dominique Straus-Kaun and the once portrayed unassuming West African chamber maid has come to light.
One of the aspects of this story that was splashed in newspapers all over the world was that DSK forced the maid to perform oral sex.
As far as I’m concerned, being a man, I thought it had to be a bogus claim because no way would a man, unless he was armed with a weapon, would force a woman to perform oral sex, when she could easily bite down and cause series damage.
I didn’t see not one report that DSK was armed, so that tidbit of information was very hard to believe. Yet the media went with it as if it was gospel.
This chambermaid, who also was a prostitute, wasn’t innocent at all. She was an opportunist looking for a big pay. She thought she hit the jackpot with DSK. And when things went bad, then that’s when she cried rape.
Before she ever walked into Dominique Strauss-Kahn's dazzling suite at the Sofitel, his accuser was well aware of his VIP status -- and planning to get her hands in his deep pockets, sources told The Post.
"She figured he's a rich dude, and she would get paid," said a source close to the defense investigation. "She was told by the crew she ran with that this was a gold mine."
The maid, who routinely traded sex for money with male guests, parked her cleaning cart outside Suite 2806 on the morning of May 14 and keyed her way into the room -- knowing what he looked like from a photo hanging in a maid closet that identified him as an important guest.
Multiple versions have emerged of what happened next, but nobody disputes that the 32-year-old maid performed oral sex on the Frenchman known as "the Great Seducer."
Sources now tell The Post that when the two were finished, the woman demanded cash from Strauss-Kahn -- but he refused to pay.
"There was an expectation of money after the fact, but he was dismissive," the source said.
And not gently, the source said -- DSK brushed off the maid's request as he turned his back and got dressed.
She pressed her case.
"She remained in the room with him while he got dressed for at least nine minutes," the source said.
The humiliating exchange sparked the maid's anger, prosecutors suspect.
The woman's lawyer has charged that DSK angrily grabbed her breast and vagina, leaving her with bruises to the groin area.
The fight also apparently prompted DSK to bolt the Sofitel in such a hurry that he left behind a cellphone.
Unraveling the explosive events became more complicated with the accuser's varying versions of what happened both in the hotel suite and afterward, prosecutors say.
In the hours following the incident, she told cops Strauss-Kahn chased her, grabbed her, locked the suite's door and then dragged her into a bedroom to force her to perform oral sex.
She claimed she broke free only to be dragged into a bathroom to complete the sexual encounter -- and that at one point Strauss-Kahn tried to pull off her pantyhose and rape her.
She also claimed she didn't know who her alleged attacker was.
"She didn't know who Dominique Strauss-Kahn was at the time of the incident. I was the one who explained to her," a relative told AFP.
Fighting for the poor is something most politicians like to boast about on a daily basis. But one Philippines mayor has taken the phrase literally after she was caught on camera punching a stubborn sheriff in the head as he tried to demolish a shanty town.
Sara Duterte-Carpio, mayor of Davao City, was trying to stop the demolition of shanty area where 217 families live. Pleading with Sheriff Abe Andres, Mrs Duterte-Carpio is seen growing increasingly frustrated.
After being turned down by the sheriff, Mrs Carpio asks to have the demolition postponed for two hours while relief work could be undertaken for the families. But after Mr Andres again refuses, the mayor looses her temper and lashes out at the sheriff, striking him repeatedly on the head.
It has reached a point where everything that comes out of Obams’s mouth has to be taken with a grain of salt. He couldn’t even get the ages of his own children right.
Since NATO’s Operation Unified Protector took over from the American-led Operation Odyssey Dawn on 31 March, the U.S. has flown hundreds of strike missions, according to United States Africa Command (AFRICOM).
The White House originally claimed that U.S. planes were mostly providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and played down the number of bombing raids.
However AFRICOM spokeswoman Nicole Dalrymple said: 'U.S. aircraft continue to fly support missions, as well as strike sorties under NATO tasking.
The unassuming West African woman the media portrayed as an innocent victim, turns out to be a predator on the lookout for a big pay day.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the true victim here!
When this story first broke, I ignored it because I thought it would be one of those stories that comes and goes. Besides, before this frenzied rush to judgment happened, I’d wager that 9 of 10 people didn’t know that the IMF was.
But, the story only grew because it had the template the Left loves to write about--poor working-class Muslim Black woman sexually assaulted by a rich and powerful French-White guy. It was the Duke Lacrosse case with an international reach. The accuser had to be telling the truth because she was a minority, and they always have to be getting the short end of the stick in life according to the media. DSK was obviously guilty because he was a rich and powerful womanizer that gets what he wants.
Twenty-eight hours after a housekeeper at the Sofitel New York said she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, she spoke by phone to a boyfriend in an immigration jail in Arizona.
Investigators with the Manhattan district attorney’s office learned the call had been recorded and had it translated from a “unique dialect of Fulani,” a language from the woman’s native country, Guinea, according to a well-placed law enforcement official.
It was another ground-shifting revelation in a continuing series of troubling statements, fabrications and associations that unraveled the case and upended prosecutors’ view of the woman. Once, in the hours after she said she was attacked on May 14, she’d been a “very pious, devout Muslim woman, shattered by this experience,” the official said — a seemingly ideal witness.
Little by little, her credibility as a witness crumbled — she had lied about her immigration, about being gang raped in Guinea, about her experiences in her homeland and about her finances, according to two law enforcement officials. She had been linked to people suspected of crimes. She changed her account of what she did immediately after the encounter with Mr. Strauss-Kahn. Sit-downs with prosecutors became tense, even angry. Initially composed, she later collapsed in tears and got down on the floor during questioning. She became unavailable to investigators from the district attorney’s office for days at a time.
Now the phone call raised yet another problem: it seemed as if she hoped to profit from whatever occurred in Suite 2806.
The story of the woman’s six-week journey from seemingly credible victim, in the eyes of prosecutors, to a deeply unreliable witness, is drawn from interviews with law enforcement officials, statements from the woman’s lawyer and a letter from prosecutors to Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s defense team released in court on Friday. Some of the events were confirmed by both law enforcement officials and the women’s lawyer; others rely solely on law enforcement officials. In the end, it was the prosecutors’ assessment of the housekeeper’s credibility that led them to downgrade their confidence in the case and agree on Friday that Mr. Strauss-Kahn could be freed from house arrest.
The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as investigators have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who charged that he attacked her in his Manhattan hotel suite in May, according to two well-placed law enforcement officials.
Although forensic tests found unambiguous evidence of a sexual encounter between Mr. Strauss-Kahn, a French politician, and the woman, prosecutors now do not believe much of what the accuser has told them about the circumstances or about herself.
Since her initial allegation on May 14, the accuser has repeatedly lied, one of the law enforcement officials said.
Senior prosecutors met with lawyers for Mr. Strauss-Kahn on Thursday and provided details about their findings, and the parties are discussing whether to dismiss the felony charges. Among the discoveries, one of the officials said, are issues involving the asylum application of the 32-year-old housekeeper, who is Guinean, and possible links to people involved in criminal activities, including drug dealing and money laundering.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers will return to State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Friday morning, when Justice Michael J. Obus is expected to consider easing the extraordinary bail conditions that he imposed on Mr. Strauss-Kahn in the days after he was charged.
Indeed, Mr. Strauss-Kahn could be released on his own recognizance, and freed from house arrest, reflecting the likelihood that the serious charges against him will not be sustained. The district attorney’s office may try to require Mr. Strauss-Kahn to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, but his lawyers are likely to contest such a move.
The revelations are a stunning change of fortune for Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, who was considered a strong contender for the French presidency before being accused of sexually assaulting the woman who went to clean his luxury suite at the Sofitel New York.
Prosecutors from the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., who initially were emphatic about the strength of the case and the account of the victim, plan to tell the judge on Friday that they “have problems with the case” based on what their investigators have discovered, and will disclose more of their findings to the defense. The woman still maintains that she was attacked, the officials said.
“It is a mess, a mess on both sides,” one official said.
Most magicians are capable of unbelievable feats, after all it's their stock in trade, but how many have unbelievable feet?
Dynamo, whose real name is Steve Frayne, has showed some rather nifty feet as he walked on water for his latest jaw-dropping stunt.
The Bradford-born illusionist, 28, made it half way across the stretch of the river in front of the Houses of Parliament in London before he was picked up by a River Police boat.
