92 Nigerians Die Of Thirst In The Sahara Desert

By SaharaReporters, New York

About 92 Nigerians who died of thirst in the Sahara Desert on their way to Algeria after their long vehicle broke down were buried today by government officials of Agadez State.

A foreign journalist who covered the event told SaharaReporters that some of the corpses, who were mostly women and children, were eaten up by animals and birds in the desert. Some of the bodies are yet to be found.

The reporter also said that the government of the Republic of Niger has declared three days of national mourning over the tragedy.

Some of the survivors explained that their vehicle developed technical faults that could not be rectified, and that they wandered in the hot weather without water to quench their thirst, leading to their death.

The survivors are presently being treated for malnutrition and dehydration.  

Nicole Scherzinger wows in sexy leather Catwoman costume

  

Wow!

The X Factor judge and singer looked lethal (her words, not ours, but nevertheless still pretty accurate) as she dressed up in a racy black Catwoman costume for Jonathan Ross' annual fright night bash.

The brunette beauty turned heads as she arrived at the party in the extreme figure-hugging, boob-baring Ann Summers Dominatrix playsuit, complete with leather Catwoman ears.

A happy-looking Nicole shared a shot of her and two friends in their Halloween outfits with the caption: "Happy Halloween from London everyone! #MEOW #lethal." (See, she said it first!)
 





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Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones back together as actress moves into their New York apartment again

Separated superstar couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones are back together and on the “up and up”.

The American star actor and Welsh wife Catherine have worked through their issues after almost six months apart.

She is back in their Central Park West apartment, and the duo are fighting hard to keep the marriage alive.

A US report claims Douglas, wearing his wedding ring at the premiere of new movie Last Vegas, confessed his good news to friends.

Oscar winning star Catherine also called her husband while he walked the red carpet at the Sin City bash.

The report said “He’s back with estranged wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and he couldn’t be happier.

“He was overheard telling pals that the two have reconciled.

The source claimed Douglas held up reporters at the Ziegfeld Theatre to answer a “very important call” from Catherine.

One event goer added: “She called to wish him good luck and he said, ‘Thanks honey,’. Douglas hung up with a smile and continued down the press line.”

Michael Douglas (L) and Catherine Zeta Jones attend the 40th Anniversary Chaplin Award Gala at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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Later that night, he hit ‘21,’ where he huddled with friends at the top-secret after-party and talked about Zeta-Jones for most of the evening, another source said.

“He was sitting in the corner with friends and people kept asking what’s going on with Catherine.

“Michael said, ‘We are doing great, she’s better than ever,’ and said their kids are doing great.”

The source continued: “They know they have some problems, but are speaking every day and are scheduling future projects with each other in mind,.

“Both of them are wearing their rings; what more is there to say?”

Michael, 69, hopes to spend the American Thanksgiving holiday with his 44-year-old actress wife and their two kids.

This week on TV Michael confessed to Jay Leno on his NBC show: “’I’m very hopeful”

When Leno asked Michael how things were going with Catherine, the Oscar winner replied: “Good I hope. I’ve been away for a while but everything should hopefully be on the up and up.

“Sometimes people take a little bit of a break, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the end. I’m very hopeful.’”




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Ten-year-old Chinese pupil jumps to his death from 30th floor window ‘on teacher’s orders’ because he had not written an apology for talking in class

A ten-year-old boy has died after a teacher 'told him' to jump from a building.

The Chinese youngster, named as Jun Jun, fell 30 floors to his death after failing to write a self-criticism letter demanded by his teacher.

The fifth-grade primary school student had been told to write a 1,000-character apology by his teacher, Miss Chen, for talking in class.

His devastated parents have now launched a campaign against the extreme pressure put on Chinese students.





Devastated: The parents of ten-year-old Jun Jun who jumped to his death from a 30-storey building in China. The parents left devastated by the loss of their son have now started a campaign against the pressure students are put under in Chinese schools and are demanding that the teacher be sacked







Tragic: Jun Jun jumped from the 30th floor of a building and landed on a parked car outside the family home at a residential building in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in southwest China







Jun Jun wrote 'teacher, I can't do it' in his textbook. He also wrote 'I flinched several time when I tried to jump from the building'

Neighbours say the 30-year-old teacher told him to jump out of a building after he didn't do the task.

'Teacher, I can't do it,' was found written in one of his textbooks, along with 'I flinched several times when I tried to jump from the building.'

The child smashed into a parked car beneath the flat where his family live in Jinjiang district.

Due to China's strict one-child policy, it is likely Jun Jun was the couple's only child.

His family have posted a banner outside the school in the southwestern city of Chengdu saying 'The teacher forced our kid to jump off the building'.


'The police investigation is still under way,' an official in Jinjiang district said, refusing to comment further, the Hindustan Times reported.

The boy's school said today on its verified account on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, that the child and some of his classmates had been ordered to write reviews of their behaviour after they disturbed a speaking competition.


He died 'by accident', it said.


Strict discipline is an essential part of China's education system and culture, and tradition demands deference to authority, putting children under pressure to obey instructions.



Campaign: A banner outside Jun Jun's school was put up by his heartbroken relatives. He was reportedly told to jump from a building by his teacher Miss Chen as punishment for not completing a task he was set





Fired: Jun Jun's parents are calling for the teacher that allegedly told him to jump from a building to be sacked




Messages: Photographs of the boy's study book pasted around the school by his parents showed that he had written several times that he had tried to jump from a building




School: The school is based in the southwestern city of Chengdu (pictured here)






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Couple found buried in their back garden after vanishing 15 years ago 'had been shot' as their daughter is arrested on suspicion of murder

An elderly couple found buried in the back garden of their home were both shot, police have said.

The remains are believed to be William and Patricia Wycherley who have not been seen since 1998.

The bodies were found in the garden of a house in Forest Town, Mansfield, on October 9.
It has been reported the couple's daughter Susan Edwards, 55, and her husband Christopher, 57, were arrested on suspicion of murder at St Pancras International railway station in London on Wednesday.




Police have said an elderly couple found in this garden in Forest Town, Mansfield, were both shot


Macabre find: Nottinghamshire Police are still waiting for forensic tests to confirm the remains are those of the Wycherleys, but detectives are 'confident' the skeletons discovered in the back garden belong to the pair

They continue to be questioned by detectives in relation to the deaths as police revealed the cause of death had now been determined.

Mr and Mrs Wycherley disappeared from the house in 1998, according to neighbours.

A spokeswoman for Nottinghamshire Police said: ‘Following an examination of the remains, discovered in the back garden of a house in Blenheim Close, Forest Town, on Wednesday 9 October 2013, a Home Office pathologist has determined that both people died as a result of being shot.’



Murder inquiry: The outside of the semi-detached house in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where police three weeks ago found the remains of William and Patricia Wycherley buried in the back garden after a tip-off

Mr and Mrs Wycherley moved into the house in 1987.


A murder inquiry was launched after the bodies were unearthed in the back garden of the semi-detached house following a tip-off to the police.

Neighbours said Mr Wycherley, a former merchant sailor who would now be 100, and his wife, who would now be 79, ‘disappeared’ from the property in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in the late 1990s.

Rumours later circulated locally and within their extended family that the couple had moved to either Ireland or to the Lancashire coast.



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