News Journal: 2013

Tuesday, 31 December 2013

NZ’s Corey Anderson slams fastest ever ODI century

Corey Anderson slammed a century off just 36 balls against the West Indies and start 2014 with a real bang. Anderson finished the innings on 131 off 47 balls with 6 fours and 14 sixes. The match was curtailed to just 21 overs-a-side due to bad weather. New Zealand finished on a mind-numbing 283-4 off just 21 overs.At one point, Anderson...

Rapper Doe B Shot And Killed In Alabama

Rapper Doe B is dead following a shooting in Alabama. He was 22 years old. Doe B, real name Glenn Thomas, of Montgomery died after an early morning shooting on Saturday, Dec. 28, local NBC affiliate WSFA reported. Police responded to a call of multiple gunshots at the...

Airline sorry for 'H8GAYS' confirmation code

A US airline has apologised to a passenger after he was given a boarding pass with the confirmation code ‘H8GAYS’. Jeff White discovered the code after checking in for a Delta Air Lines flight from Pensacola, Florida, to Albany, New York. Delta Air Lines apologised for any “concern or misunderstanding”, but insisted that the...

It’s fine for a guy to walk around topless on a hot summer’s day but in many countries it’s ILLEGAL for a woman to be topless in public. LA based filmmaker Lina Esco’s “FREE THE NIPPLE” is based on true events about a topless group of women who bravely fought the censorship laws in New York. The film is almost done. Now we need your...

Soineya (which translates to “sleep together shop”) is Japan’s first “co-sleeping specialty shop” where customers can pay to sleep in the arms of a beautiful girl with no strings attached. You get to pick the girl you want to sleep with, how long you’d like to sleep for, whether...

Accidentally crushed her nephew under her 1,028-pound frame,she decided to lose as much of the weight as possible And Now...

In Jan. 2012, she was acquitted of the 2008 murder of her nephew, Eliseo, which she allegedly did when she accidentally rolled over and crushed him under her 1,028-pound frame. Next, she decided to lose as much of the weight as possible. Her life since her acquittal is now the focus of a new documentary, "Half-ton Killer: Transformed," debuting...

Billboard honoring Mandela mistakenly featured a picture of Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman, who played Nelson Mandela in the movie Invictus, must have done one heck of a job because a billboard in India confused him for the anti-apartheid fighter. NDTV.com reports that a billboard honoring Mandela mistakenly featured a picture of Morgan Freeman with...

Washington state smokes about twice the amount of marijuana than previously thought, a new study claims. Federal data and survey information compiled by the Rand corporation puts yearly marijuana use in Washington state in the range of 135 metric tons to 225 metric tons during 2013, with...

Lions Defend A 12 Year Old Ethiopian Girl From Rapists

Ethiopia – A missing girl who was taken and beaten by seven much older men attempting to force her in a marriage with one of them was found being guarded by three lions who apparently had chased off her captors, a policeman said Tuesday said Sgt. Wondimu Wedajo, on telephone from the capital of Bita Genet. She was beaten...

A protest against Brazil's ban on topless sunbathing fell flat yesterday, with only a handful of women turning up. Thousands of women were expected to gather on Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema beach, taking off their bikinis in defiance of Brazilian law, which describes female toplessness as an "obscene...

Man wakes up from 10 hour sleep with knife stuck in his back

If you’ve ever been to Trenton, New Jersey, you know the city can seem a little bit sketchy — like it’s the kind of place where getting stabbed isn’t that big of a deal. Turns out that’s the case. According to NJ.com, a man in Trenton woke up from a deep, ten-hour sleep to find a knife had been stuck in the middle of his back the entire...

262 Pounds Of weed Falls From The San Diego Sky, Two Arrested

These suspected drug dealers got high. Really high. U.S. Customs and Border Protection But the marijuana they allegedly hoped to deliver won't be getting anyone high. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection found more than 260 pounds of marijuana bundled tightly together in San Diego last Monday, and arrested two men who...

Facebook fan's challenge to meet 730 friends face-to-face

A social media fan has set himself a challenge to be reunited with every single one of his 730 Facebook friends in person. Daniel Shaw, 38, has Facebook friends all over the world and has vowed to meet each one face-to-face. The youth worker has set himself the challenge of meeting at least 730 within a year – meaning he needs...

Merrick McKoy allegedly shot and killed 19-month-old Mia McKoy-Phanthavongsa. He wrote on Facebook moments before shooting her that his relationship with the girl’s mother was the motive. The chilling message: ‘I told u I can’t live without u lol u thought I was joking now me n Mia out this b----.’ A jilted Colorado man captured the...

Police have launched an investigation after banknotes worth tens of thousands of pounds were mysteriously found floating down a river. Detectives are liaising with the Bank of England after £60,000 worth of damaged notes were seen floating in the water by a stunned dog walker - but so far there are no clues to where it has come from. The...

The 31-year-old woman, who was not identified, was nude when she entered the L Train at the Granville station on Saturday. She allegedly told riders to leave the train as she headed towards the motorman's car, where she planned to take over the controls. A 31-year-old woman was tossed in a psychiatric ward after she boarded...

Florida teen who fatally shot commissioner dad after insult over Megan Fox is guilty of murder

Jason Beckman, now 21, who killed his father, South Miami city commissioner Jay Beckman, after his father joked that he couldn’t ‘handle’ the actress, faces life in prison.Jason Beckman was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of his father, South Miami city commissioner Jay Beckman in April 2009.A Florida teen who...

Britain's first sex-change parliamentarian has told how she became a lesbian after she was raped. Former UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire, 45, was born a boy but had gender reassignment surgery on the NHS 18 years ago. Today she revealed how four years after the operation, just as she was beginning to find women attractive, she was raped...

For mega-wealthy young men of the Gulf Arab states nothing says 'I am rich' more aptly than to Instagram yourself and your lion or cheetah posing alongside your Mercedes or Lamborghini or motoring along in a speedboat. Showing off the Persian Gulf's latest 'ultimate status symbol', the penchant for posting big cat photos on Instagram...

Need some extra cash? If you live in New York and are willing to spend a lot of time in public restrooms, you can earn $100 a day for reviewing the facilities, the Daily Dot reports. Michael Li, the creator of ToiletFinder.com, which helps people find nearby restrooms, makes the offer on Craigslist: He needs a copywriter...

Cigarette-smoking toddler who shocked the world with his 40-a-day habit has given up... but now he's addicted to food

At the age of two he shocked the world after being pictured chain-smoking cigarettes. Two years on he's now a normal, cheeky five-year-old - and, while he's managed to kick the habit, he now has another addiction. Food. Aldi Rizal became an international media sensation when he was discovered in a poor village in Sumatra, Indonesia,...

From the surface there is nothing special about the hilly countryside around the city of Cankiri in Turkey. However 1,300ft below ground is a stunning salt mine which was first dug by primitive humans around 5,000 years ago. Despite its incredible age the mine is still in use today and produces more then 500 tonnes of salt each year...