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A teddy bear was the catalyst of a fight that involved a Florida woman setting her ex's house ablaze and stabbing an officer, officials said. Brittany Bonin, 26, and the ex-boyfriend started feuding Saturday when she went to his home to retrieve the stuffed animal that she had given to his daughter, news station WESH reported. She reportedly pushed her way into the home while her ex fled for safety at the house of a nearby off-duty deputy. Before she left, Bonin allegedly set the house on fire and then followed the man to the neighbor's home where she attempted to attack him, according to news station WFTV. Volusia County Capt. Cliff Williams, the off-duty deputy, attempted to protect the man from Bonin but was stabbed shielding him, police said. Police said Williams was brought to Florida Hospital in New Smyrna Beach with injuries that were not life-threatening. Bonin was booked at Volusia County Brach Jail on charges of assault, battery and arson. She appeared before a judge ...

Police arrests 4 Air force officers for vandalising water pipes The Police in Lagos on Monday announced the arrest of four Air Force men and seven others for allegedly vandalising Lagos State water iron pipes value at about N25 million. The Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, confirmed the arrest while presenting the men and other suspects arrested in the last two weeks in the state. Mr. Edgal said that the suspects that wore military camouflage were arrested at Doyin Bus stop, Orile area, where they allegedly vandalised the public utility. He said one Clerk crane and Iveco G3 truck with Reg. no. MUS 772 XD were recovered from them. "The Air Force personnel will be handed over to their Commanding Officer, while other suspects will be charged to court. "The air force men would be brought back to the police for prosecution after they would have been disciplined by their office," Mr. Edgal said. The commissioner also presented three other suspects who specialised in dupi...

The SafeSound Personal Alarm saved Emily Dansby from getting attacked on her way to her car in a mall parking lot. It was just a normal day at the mall for Emily Dansby, a 38 year old mom from Nigeria... until everything went horribly wrong. She had just left the mall carrying her shopping bags, and was walking to her car when the unthinkable happened. "I wasn't parked too far away, and was busy on my phone texting my daughter. It was about a 60 second walk or so to my car from the mall," she remembers, "and I kind of had that feeling I was being watched ." Right as she was unlocking her car, a man quickly came up behind her and tried to grab her. " He told me 'don't fight, you're coming with me! ' as he tried to wrestle me towards his car! I was in shock. Luckily for me I remembered I had my SafeSound alarm on my purse, and since I was too scared to scream for help, I quickly reached for the alarm and pulled the pin. " "Immediatel...

•Myeshia Johnson says Mr Trump said her husband "knew what he signed up for." The pregnant widow of a fallen United States soldier has contradicted President Donald Trump's account of his phone call about her husband's death, saying what he told her "made me cry even worse". Key points: •Ms Johnson says she was angry at his tone and that he forgot her husbands name •Mr Trump responds on Twitter that he did not forget the name and said it without hesitation •John McCain says "we should not be fighting about an American who lost his life" Myeshia Johnson told the American ABC's Good Morning America program that a group of people listened to Mr Trump's call on speaker phone as they drove to receive Sergeant La David Johnson's body. "The President said that he [Sergeant Johnson] knew what he signed up for, but it hurts anyway," Ms Johnson said. "And it made me cry because I was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he s...

PHOTO Alexei Navalny is campaigning furiously ahead of next year's election. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny didn't let 20 days in prison interfere with his bid to be president. Within hours of his release, he flew to southern Russia to continue campaigning. Eric Campbell was the only foreign journalist to witness it. It was raining in Astrakhan. Pouring. Hundreds of bedraggled supporters huddled under leafless autumn trees in the small run-down park the local authorities had grudgingly sanctioned for the rally. But none were going to leave until they'd seen if Alexei Navalny really would take a two-hour flight from Moscow to meet them after just being let out of jail. The strains of Rocky blared from loudspeakers as Russia's most popular opposition figure finally walked in at sunset, flanked by bodyguards and his personal entourage. He looked remarkably clean and relaxed after serving 20 days for organising "unsanctioned" rallies. "I was thinkin...

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has likened the ongoing President Muhammadu Buhari's anti-corruption fight to "satan calling Judas Iscariot a sinner". He made the remark while reinstating his earlier stance that Buhari was only after his perceived political opponents with his anti-graft war. In a series of tweets on his official twitter handle, on Monday Fayose wrote: "Someone accused of stealing billions of pension fund was returned to the FG civil service, and you still think Buhari is fighting corruption? "Didn't I tell Nigerians that Buhari was not fighting any corruption? Didn't I say that Buhari was only after his political opponents? "Fellow Nigerians, are you now convinced that Buhari's anti-corruption fight is like Satan calling Judas Iscariot a sinner? "I said it then that the kind of corruption that will be witnessed in this govt of Buhari will be unprecedented, am I not being vindicated?"

Robert Scoble, a longtime fixture of the Silicon Valley punditocracy, has been publicly accused of sexual harassment and assault by multiple women. In a public Facebook post on Friday, Scoble wrote that he was "deeply sorry to the people I've caused pain to. I know I have behaved in ways that were inappropriate." "I know that apologies are not enough and that they don't erase the wrongs of the past or the present," he continued. "The only thing I can do to really make a difference now is to prove, through my future behavior, and my willingness to listen, learn and change, that I want to become part of the solution going forward." The revelations come months after many top Silicon Valley luminaries, including Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital and Dave McClure of 500 Startups, among others, were named as abusers by The New York Times . As is the case in many industries that have been dominated by men for decades, inappropriate behavior and sexual hara...

The UK government objected to the term "pregnant woman" in a United Nations treaty, claiming sports.rm "excludes" transgender people who give birth and should be replaced with "pregnant people," reports said Sunday. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) voiced their opposition to the term in a statement regarding the UN's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that asserts a "pregnant woman" must be protected and not subjected to the death penalty, The Sunday Times reported. In a proposed amendment, the government said the term "pregnant woman" should be substituted with "pregnant people" because otherwise it may "exclude transgender people who have given birth." "We requested that the UN human rights committee made it clear that the same right [to life for pregnant women] extends to pregnant transgender people," the FCO said in a statement. According to FoxNews, the proposal sparked f...

*A 40-year-old man suffering serious injuries was taken to hospital before police arrived at the house - officers have now arrested him on suspicion of murder Police have launched a murder investigation after a woman's body was discovered at a house in Rochdale. The 39-year-old woman's body was discovered by officers after they were called to an address on Birch Crescent, Newhey , at around 11.35pm last night. An investigation has been launched to establish the circumstances surrounding her death and police are treating it as murder. A 40-year-old man suffering serious injuries was taken to hospital before police arrived at the house - officers have now arrested him on suspicion of murder. Detective Superintendent Howard Millington from GMP's Major Incident Team said: "My thoughts continue to remain with this woman's loved ones at this devastating time, I can't imagine what they are going through right now. "We have had a team of officers working on this i...

*Police were called to Piccadilly bus station after a suitcase was found on the 192 bus and a man reportedly ran from the scene A suitcase has been left on a bus at Piccadilly bus station sparking a security alert. Police were called to Portland Street after the suitcase was found on the 192 bus at 11.35am. Greater Manchester Police officers are on their way to the scene to investigate. It's understood a man got onto the Stagecoach bus and dropped the suitcase in the middle aisle. He then reportedly ran off the bus service, which was travelling from the city centre to Stockport. A spokeswoman for GMP said: "We were called just after 11.35am to reports of a suitcase left on a bus. "We were called to Portland Street. Officers will be making their way to the the scene." SUITCASE POSED NO THREAT. A spokeswoman for GMP has confirmed the suitcase was found to contain women's clothing. INCIDENT OVER. Police have confirmed that the incident has been dealt with. No bus se...

- Authorities in Kogi state have expressed shock over the death of a senior civil servant who reportedly killed himself because he had not been paid salaries - Deborah Ogunmola, the state's head of service, said the death of Edward Soje should not be blamed on the government - Ogunmola said Soje continued to receive his salaries till December, 2016, even while he was accused of age falsification The Kogi state government on Sunday, October 22, said Edward Soje, the late director who recently killed himself was last paid salary in December 2016 because of age falsification. The government, however, dispelled rumours that Soje took his life because he was being owed salaries. It was gathered  in a statement by Deborah Ogunmola, the Kogi state head of service. Ogunmola, who claimed to be related to Soje's wife said there was no evidence that he killed himself because he had not been paid. The statement read:  "For the records, these are the facts surrounding Soje's employ...

• Commends Jonathan for sacrificing personal ambition for public interest The European Union (EU) has denied the perception in some quarters that it favoured a particular candidate above the other in the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria, stressing that the EU was more interested in deepening democracy and the electoral process than who emerged president. Former Chief Observer of the 2015 EU Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) and member of the European Parliament, Santiago Fisas, who made the clarification in Abuja at the weekend in response to questions from journalists on his assessment of the 2015 polls, also commended former President Goodluck Jonathan for sacrificing his personal ambition for the interest of the people. "The international community was not in favour of any candidate. The election was done in a proper way and I praise former President Goodluck Jonathan for accepting defeat. I think it has proved that he is a man of the state that he put the interest of ...

PHOTO Brett Cowan was attacked in August 2016 while playing cards with other inmates. A prisoner who tortured Daniel Morcombe's killer in a "vigilante act" in a Brisbane jail has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Brett Peter Cowan is serving a life sentence for the 2003 murder of the 13-year-old Sunshine Coast schoolboy. Adam Paul Davidson, 31, pleaded guilty in the District Court in Brisbane today to torturing Cowan in August 2016 by pouring boiling water from a mop bucket over him and then striking him with it. Davidson has served almost 11 months in custody for the attack and is due to be released on parole next month. Prosecutor Mark Whitbread told the court Davidson attacked Cowan from behind while he was playing cards with other inmates, with the intention to hurt but not kill him. "He immediately tipped the bucket over the complainant's head," he said. "[Cowan] felt extreme pain ... he started screaming and stood up." The pros...

Jamie Harron, 27, has been sentenced to three months in jail in Dubai for touching a man's hip as he carried a drink through a crowded bar. He was arrested for public indecency at the Rock Bottom bar on 15 July. The electrician, from Stirling, claimed he was simply trying to avoid spilling his drink when he touched the man. It was thought the case against Harron might have been dropped after reports that the businessman he touched had withdrawn his complaint. But on Sunday the campaign group Detained in Dubai, which has been supporting Harron, said he had been sentenced to three months in jail for public indecency. The group said he would appeal against the jail term but he faced further court proceedings for drinking alcohol and for allegedly swearing at the businessman he touched.

Georgina Callander was one of 22 people killed when Salman Abedi detonated a nail bomb at Manchester Arena in May The mum of Georgina Callander, who was killed in the Manchester Arena bombing has recalled the moment she watches her daughter die. Lesley Callander arrived at the scene moments after ISIS terrorist Salman Abedi detonated a nail bomb killing 22 people, including several children. Speaking to the Daily Star Sunday the 54-year-old, from Lancashire, recalled the harrowing moment she found her 18-year-old daughter among the bodies which were strewn across the lobby. Georgina was lying on a makeshift stretcher with paramedics desperately trying to resuscitate her. Mrs Callander said: "I was talking to her. I was saying, 'Please Georgina, please just try, it's mummy, please try'." She travelled in the ambulance with her daughter as it took Georgina to hospital with medics still frantically trying to save her life. When they arrived she sat and waited as repe...

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he and President Donald Trump agreed to take further action against North Korea following its latest missile launch. Abe told reporters after the call that Trump pledged to "take all necessary measures to protect" Japan and that Abe praised his commitment to do so. He also called on China and Russia to do more to stop Pyongyang. "We have made consistent efforts to resolve the North Korean problem in a peaceful manner, but North Korea has ignored that entirely and escalated the situation in a one-sided way," Abe said, according to Bloomberg. "The international community, starting with China and Russia, must take this obvious fact seriously and increase pressure." Abe said Japan would pursue concrete steps to bolster defense system and capabilities under the firm solidarity with the U.S. and do utmost to protect the safety of the Japanese people. The White House said in a statement after the phone call that t...

Sherin Mathews went missing on October 7 (Image: Facebook/Richardson Police Department) Police searching for a three-year-old girl who went missing after her dad allegedly made her stand outside her home as a punishment have found a body. Sherin Mathews has not been seen since around 3am on Saturday, October 7. Police in Richardson, Texas, said they feared she had been abducted and issued an 'Amber Alert'. As a massive search investigation was launched, officers arrested her father Wesley Mathews, 37, over the incident. He allegedly told police he made Sherin stand by a tree outside their home alone when she didn't finish her milk. When he returned 15 minutes later the child was gone. Two weeks later, police have found a child's body less than a mile from the spot where Wesley said he told Sherin to stand. Official identification is yet to take place, but it is sadly believed to belong to Sherin. A cause of death is yet to be identified. Mathews was charged with child e...

Vile David Craigie's new partner has mental health problems and believes she is a four-year-old girl, friends say A killer who battered a young mum to death with a dog chain is out of jail and now plans to marry a highly vulnerable woman, friends say. David Craigie terrorised Sonya Todd for five hours before she died. He was sentenced to six years for culpable homicide in 2008. He is now in a relationship with a 31-year-old woman who has serious mental health problems, the Daily Record reports. His new partner – who we have chosen not to identify – has spoken online about having foetal alcohol syndrome, ADHD, split personality disorder and behavioural problems as well as being emotionally unstable. She moves from hostel to hostel in Glasgow and regularly posts live videos on Facebook that are viewed by thousands of people. It's not known how the couple met but they have been together for a number of months and intend to marry some time next year – a decision that has alarmed ma...

The US Air Force is preparing to put nuclear bombers back on 24-hour ready alert for the first time since the Cold War. B-52 planes loaded with nuclear weapons would be positioned to take off at any moment, with crews on standby at a base in Louisiana. The move comes amid rising tensions between the US and North Korea, with President Donald Trump saying that Washington is "prepared for anything" when it comes to Kim Jong-un's regime. There are fears that a new war could break out as the hermit state tries to develop a nuclear warhead capable of hitting the US mainland. Gen David Goldfein, the US Air Force chief of staff, told Defense One that his branch was preparing to put the B-52 bombers back on 24-hour ready alert for the first time since the Cold War ended in 1991. He downplayed any suggestion that it was due to any particular conflict, such as tensions with North Korea. The general said: "This is yet one more step in ensuring that we're prepared. "I lo...

The Kogi State Government has said the late director in the state civil service, Mr. Edward Soje, who committed suicide was paid in December last year. According to a statement issued yesterday night by the state Head of Service, Mrs. Deborah Ogunmola, Soje continued to receive his salaries up till December 2016, even when the staff screening and verification exercise was ongoing. "His pay was stopped after proof emerged that he falsified his age records. "Following engagements with the labour unions which spanned several months, the Kogi State governor magnanimously commuted the disciplinary action against certain categories of offenders by granting them pardon. Soje fell into that category. "Pardoned staff were processed for reinstatement and payment in batches. Soje was in the September 2017 batch and he was aware of this fact. "The Kogi State Teaching Service Commission where he worked had forwarded a template for payment to the government and Soje was aware tha...