Dale Bolinger was convicted after three hours of deliberation by jurors

A nurse has been found guilty of planning to kill and eat a 14 year old girl to satisfy his cannibalism fetish.

It took jurors at Canterbury Crown Court three hours of deliberation to convict Dale Bolinger of trying to meet the teenager after sexually grooming her and promising to behead and eat her.

The 58-year-old brought an axe from a DIY store in Broadstairs, Kent, the day before he planned to meet the schoolgirl.

He used a fetish website to discuss beheading and eating women and girls for sexual gratification, the trial heard.

Bolinger told the girl in one online "The idea of us making love and then eating you is a VERY great turn on!

"I have been called a very generous lover and I would be very generous to you before I prepped you for the table."

However, the teenager, a Mexican girl called Eva, said to be living in Germany, failed to show up at Ashford International Station as planned.

The new Thor is going to be a she.

Marvel Comics will introduce the female Thor in its latest comic series in October, it announced, stressing that the new Thor is not “She-Thor” or “Thorita.

Famous Actor James Garner dies at 86

James Garner, the understated, wisecracking everyman actor who enjoyed multigenerational success on both the small and big screens, has died. He was 86.

Police, who were called to his residence Saturday night in Los Angeles, say he died of natural causes.

Garner starred in hit TV series almost 20 years apart -- "Maverick" in the late 1950s and "The Rockford Files" in the 1970s.

He also had a notable film career, starring in such classics as "Sayonara" (1957), "The Great Escape" (1963), "The Americanization of Emily" (1964), "Grand Prix" (1966) and "Victor/Victoria" (1982), as well as the TV movies "My Name Is Bill W." (1989) and "Barbarians at the Gate" (1993). More recent films included "Space Cowboys" (2000) and "The Notebook" (2004).

He was fiercely independent, challenging the studios on both "Maverick" and "Rockford" when he felt he wasn't being treated fairly. He sued studios twice and won both times,

"The industry is like it always has been. It's a bunch of greedy people," he told The Los Angeles Times in 1990.

Garner was given a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2004. The actors' union head issued a statement about his death Sunday.

Israel used ceasefire plan to escalate war

Ukraine launches assault on Donetsk rebels

Heavy fighting breaks out as Dutch inspectors head to crash site of Malaysia Airlines jet shot down 80km away.

Ukraine has launched a heavy assault on the rebel-held city of Donetsk, as international investigators arrived in the region to examine the remains of 298 people killed in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines airliner.

A separatist leader on Monday said Ukrainian government forces were trying to break into Donetsk and fighting was under way near the city's railway station. It is the heaviest outbreak of violence in the region since the MH17 airliner was shot down on Thursday.

Tunisia shuts 'unlicensed' media outlets

Tunisia has closed a satellite television channel and a radio station for promoting "jihad", a few days after armed fighters killed 15 soldiers, according to the government statement.

The decision came after fighters on Wednesday attacked two army posts in the remote Mount Chaambi region near the Algerian border, killing 15 soldiers in the worst attack in the Tunisian army's history.

The statement from the office of Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa said on Sunday that the authorities had decided to shut down Nour FM radio and Al-Insen satellite channel.

The government said "the immediate closure of the unlicensed" media outlets came after they "turned into platforms for takfiris and jihad".

Takfiris are Muslims who accuse other Muslims of apostasy.

Many radio and television stations operate in Tunisia without permission.

The government warned in the statement that it would take "all necessary measures to deal with ... incitement of violence, terrorism and takfir on social networks".

Ebonyi State House of Assembly Speaker impeached, new speaker elected

A stranger knocks, gives woman $119,000 for life-saving treatment

What a difference a day makes.

On July 2, Stephanie Headley was counting the days she had left to live. The Ottawa woman is suffering from an autoimmune disease that, without expensive treatment, will cause her heart to fail.

On July 3, thanks to a mysterious stranger who showed up at her door, she had in her hands more than enough money to get the treatment that can save her life.

Two weeks later, she still struggles to explain the dramatic change in her fortune.

"This is a miracle" she told CNN partner CBC, referring to the mystery donor as an "angel that walks among us."

Hope with a cost

For 12 long years, the single mother of four has battled systemic scleroderma. The disease causes her body to overproduce collagen, making her skin, vital organs and blood vessels hard. Eventually the disease would have caused her heart to fail. And Headley says she felt time was running out.

But Headley had hope.

She told the Canadian TV stations, CBC and CTV, that she'd found a doctor in Chicago who could do a stem cell treatment. One with an 80% success rate.

However, the treatment came with a hefty $125,000 (US$ 116,000) price tag -- far out of reach for Headley.

Ukraine: more than two hundred bodies found

30 Days in Atlanta to hit the cinemas soonest

Oby Ezekwesili detained and later released by SSS at Abuja Airport

TWAL Exclusive Photos: Jermaine Jackson pictured with Peter Okoye's wife and kids

Former Minister of Petroleum, Rilwanu Lukman dies at 75

Former Minister of Petroleum, Rilwanu Lukman has died. He died this morning July 21st in Austria. He was 75. 

Wow!!! Popular Rapper Ja Rule Is Now A Born Again Christian

The rapper had change of heart during his film promotion at a church. 
The 38-year-old famous rapper in an interview revealed that he and his wife are now born again Christians.
Born Jeffery Atkins, the rapper who was released last year from prison after serving time for tax evasion, was on a church tour in promotion of his film "I'm in Love with a Church Girl," at the Hillsong Church in New York city when he gave his life to Christ.
"Then the pastor comes out, Carl Lentz ... tatted up. When I saw him, he had some (Jordans) on, jeans, a T-shirt. He came out and he started preaching, and I felt like he was talking to me," Atkins said.
"I got saved at that church, me and my wife. We went up on stage, we got saved and it just gave me a good feeling."

Think CSI! Joke Silva, Bimbo Akintola, Keppy Ekpeyong-Bassey star in “Lasgidi Cops”

Coming soon to the TV screens is a series titled – Lasgidi Cops.

Just like international crime thriller series like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Criminal Minds, this one is full of suspense, twisted plots and drama. But a different story line.

In Lasgidi Cops, the characters try to uncover a plot to organize a crime to ultimately take over the government of the state.

Starring in the series are acclaimed actors including Joke Silva (Commissioner of Police), Keppy Ekpeyong-Bassey(Lawyer) and Bimbo Akintola (Chief of Prosecution), as well as rising talents such as Kehinde Bankole (Journalist),Wole Ojo (Strategist), Adesua Etomi (The Chameleon), Kelechi Udegbe (The Go-to-Guy) and Olumide Oworu (The Hacker)

The series is produced by Ola, with direction by Ani Ekins and Ola Naresh as the Director of Photography. It will broadcast on TV stations across Africa, Europe and North America, as well as on online and mobile platforms.

The trailer will be released soon.

Celebrating Nelson Mandela's 96TH Birthday

Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa from 1994-99, would have turned 96 on Friday, 18th July.

"I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances," Nelson Mandela

Babcock is owned by The Seventh Day Adventist Church and the abhor meat consumption for its members. The Vice-President (VP) of the university, Prof Iheanyichukwu Okoro while speaking with The Nation said meat diet exposes people to cancer, and other diseases and above all, shortens life. He said the church felt it should introduce vegetarianism in all its institutions because the church has adopted vegetarian diet officially, therefore its institutions also must follow suit. “The seventh Day Adventist Church, owners of Babcock, is not just only concerned about the spiritual well being of people but the physical and it has been shown without doubt in all scientific literature that vegetarian diet is superior to any meat diet. I can tell you with the vegetarian diet that they are taking, they look healthier than when they go home,” he said. According to Okoro, members of the church are allowed to eat only ‘clean meat’ in accordance with Biblical injunction. “They are not allowed to eat pork, dog, camel or vulture meat because they are unclean meat,” he said.

The Management of Babcock University has taken its stand on the mode of dressing in the University and the decision not to introduce meat in their meals and there’s no reversing it.

Babcock is owned by The Seventh Day Adventist Church and the abhor meat consumption for its members.

The Vice-President  (VP) of the university, Prof Iheanyichukwu Okoro while speaking with The Nation said meat diet exposes people to cancer, and other diseases and above all, shortens life.

He said the church felt it should introduce vegetarianism in all its institutions because the church has adopted vegetarian diet officially, therefore its institutions also must follow suit.

“The seventh Day Adventist Church, owners of Babcock, is not just only concerned about the spiritual well being of people but the physical and it has been shown without doubt in all scientific literature that vegetarian diet is superior to any meat diet. I can tell you with the vegetarian diet that they are taking, they look healthier than when they go home,” he said.

According to Okoro, members of the church are allowed to eat only ‘clean meat’ in accordance with Biblical injunction. “They are not allowed to eat pork, dog, camel or vulture meat because they are unclean meat,” he said.

Nigerians reaction to the removal of Adamawa state governor

On July 15, 2014, Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State was impeached by the State House of Assembly on allegations of gross financial misconduct. We have asked ordinary Nigerians what they thought of the development.

What happened

Both Nyako and his deputy, Bala Ngilari, were served with the impeachment notice a month ago. Ngilari, who has resigned, is accused of extra-budgetary expenditure. On Tuesday, seventeen of the 25 members of the Assembly adopted the report of the investigation panel.

Following the news, the APC (All Progressives Congress), to which Nyako now belongs after leaving the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) in November 2013, has, traditionally, exchanged blows and stingy comments with its main political opponent.

TWAL Exclusive:Kate Henshaw goes into politics: contesting for House of Reps

Veteran actress Kate Henshaw has joined politics. She will be contesting for House of Reps under the PDP umbrella. This is to show that more entertainers are involving themselves in the politics of Nigeria. I hope she wins.

Photo: Solar powered car made by Nigerian inventor

OMG! Malaysian passenger plane shot down in Ukraine, 295 dead

A Malaysian Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed in eastern Ukraine. There were 280 passengers and 15 crew members on board. 

Ukrainian Interior Minister said all on board are dead and that the plane was shot down by Russian ground-to-air anti-aircraft missiles at 32,000 feet and at 500mph.

The plane, a Boeing 777, came down near the city of Donetsk, which is a border between Russia and Ukraine where a Ukrainian transport plane was shot down at 21,000 feet on Monday July 13th and a military jet shot down last week from the Russian side of the border.

The Interior Minister said pro-Russian separatists have been hunting down their planes for weeks. 6 Ukrainian military jets have been shot down in the last few months by the Russians. There's been military conflict between Ukraine and Russia for a while. And now they are shooting down passenger planes? The plane departed Amsterdam at 12.30pm and went down around 4.30pm. 

Presidency hired Washington PR Firm for $1.2m? Oby Ezekwesili slams firm on Twitter

'Those who want to take power through the backdoor will die' - Gov Akpabio

"Just as God threw Lucifer unto the Earth, those who have betrayed the governor of Akwa Ibom State will not enter the Government House. And because of impatience, Absalom (son to King David) wanted to take over by killing King David. And when David heard, he asked the people to leave him. This did not end up well with Absalom. He died before his father. Those who want to take power through the backdoor will die and the PDP will continue,” he said.

Oscar Pistorius in nightclub fight after a man confronts him over murder trial

He's still in court facing charges for the murder of his girlfriend but that didn't stop him from having an incident at a nightclub when a man confronted him about the trial. Don't think this will be good for his case.

Police arrest Boko Haram member who says he's the 'Chief Butcher' of Balmo Forest

Chief Butcher of Balmo Forest.

Many killed, churches, houses razed as Boko Haram invades Borno

Suspected members of Boko Haram sect very early yesterday morning July 14th invaded Dille Village in Askira-Uba LGA of Borno State, killing at least five people and razed 3 churches including the Church of Brethern in Nigeria, EYN, as well as shops and residential buildings.

Security officials were said to have arrived the village in two Nigerian Air Force fighter jets and killed many of the terrorists. Dille village is around the shores of Sambisa forest.

Nyako Adamawa State Governor

Adamawa State House of Assembly members this afternoon July 15th impeached the state governor, Murtala Nyako, following a report by a 7-man investigative committee that probed allegations of gross misconduct and financial impropriety against him.

Germany's Homecoming

There's some fantastic photos from Germany's WorldCup homecoming in Berlin.

Paletton - The Color Scheme Designer

Paletton - The Color Scheme Designer