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Suicide Bombing Hits Yemen Capital

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw9840_LtOu508SMhqlW-OUez9xmEc5NBnwTLBS_Y_q_uKUnFQE-goPE61vphA5pMbKkSZ7eqeh16A0O5afodn9T12f8fEni8EAdW9xdEyBNGEeRcxClhfHXFj8H0XUKeaS0CGLm5tOV3Z/s1600/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FNTMzNS5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-759224"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6068148239187067106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw9840_LtOu508SMhqlW-OUez9xmEc5NBnwTLBS_Y_q_uKUnFQE-goPE61vphA5pMbKkSZ7eqeh16A0O5afodn9T12f8fEni8EAdW9xdEyBNGEeRcxClhfHXFj8H0XUKeaS0CGLm5tOV3Z/s320/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FNTMzNS5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-759224" /></a>A deadly suicide bomb has ripped through the heart of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, causing multiple casualties, witnesses say.
 At least 10 people were reported to have died in Tahrir Square, in the centre of the city, which appeared to target a Shia checkpoint and rally.
 The bombing comes amid continuing political instability in Yemen.
 Al-Qaeda's local offshoot has vowed to fight Yemens's Shia Houthis, who recently took control of Sanaa.
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Suicide Bombing Hits Yemen Capital

A deadly suicide bomb has ripped through the heart of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, causing multiple casualties, witnesses say. At least 10 pe...

St. Louis Policeman Shoots, Kills Black Teenager, Triggering Protests

A white off-duty St. Louis city policeman shot and killed a black teenager who fired on him on Wednesday, police said, triggering protests just miles from the flashpoint suburb of Ferguson.
 Ferguson has been racked by near nightly protests since the fatal shooting in August of black 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer.
 In Wednesday's incident another officer, a 32-year-old working for a security company, fired 17 times at another 18-year-old, who had himself fired at least three shots, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief Sam Dotson said.
 The dead man was one of three people who fled after being approached and then chased by the officer, a six-year veteran of the department who was wearing his city police uniform, Dotson told a news conference.
 A crowd of around 200 gathered at the scene in south St. Louis. Many of the protesters marched to a major thoroughfare, partially blocking traffic and chanting "Whose streets? Our streets?" as a police helicopter hovered overhead.
 At one point, roughly a dozen people punched and kicked two occupied police vehicles, one that was marked and another that was unmarked. Demonstrators then broke the back window of a marked police vehicle.
 As of early Thursday morning, none of the protesters had been arrested, Dotson said.
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St. Louis Policeman Shoots, Kills Black Teenager, Triggering Protests

A white off-duty St. Louis city policeman shot and killed a black teenager who fired on him on Wednesday, police said, triggering protests j...

U.S. Military Says Airstrikes Hit Islamic State Near Kobani

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD4kEe1Xyd53-FvHL3HaoM4QutTJTcfES-_C8UGPdaq81Ol-at5Gv4fc2YBhy_7zTRc1Jj1fKoP5U3_zBaeOYJEw5IfPYWeR2-I-uMXD5r6pCD_tl-RU8fbW1qZIYfJDcpx3AXCHHWSdEa/s1600/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FNTMxOS5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-752752"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6068148216005013714" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD4kEe1Xyd53-FvHL3HaoM4QutTJTcfES-_C8UGPdaq81Ol-at5Gv4fc2YBhy_7zTRc1Jj1fKoP5U3_zBaeOYJEw5IfPYWeR2-I-uMXD5r6pCD_tl-RU8fbW1qZIYfJDcpx3AXCHHWSdEa/s320/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FNTMxOS5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-752752" /></a>Six airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition targeting the Islamic State group have struck the militants near the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the U.S. military.
 The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on Wednesday said the airstrikes destroyed an armored personnel carrier, armed vehicles and artillery piece belonging to the militant group.
 The airstrikes were part of nine overall strikes in Syria over the last two days conducted with partner United Arab Emirates, using bomber, fighter, and remotely piloted aircraft, it said. "All aircraft exited the strike areas safely," it added.
 The strikes near Kobani appear to have pushed back the militant group, which had appeared set to seize the Syrian town bordering Turkey after a three-week assault. Airstrikes in the area redoubled after the Islamic State hoisted its black flag on the eastern edge of Kobani on Monday.
 Two other strikes targeting Islamic State near Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria, hit a training camp for the militants and the group's fighters there, according to CENTCOM. Another strike near Deir al-Zor destroyed a tank, it said.
 The United States, Britain and the Netherlands also conducted five strikes against Islamic State in Iraq on Tuesday and Wednesday using fighter and remotely piloted aircraft, the statement said.
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U.S. Military Says Airstrikes Hit Islamic State Near Kobani

Six airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition targeting the Islamic State group have struck the militants near the Syrian Kurdish border town of ...

AT&T To Pay $105 Million Over Unlawful Billing

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi473-EeVJAhXXoEtvymIkcmV0nr2CZjBxK_LrcOd3M-B7x6m-EiepOzh8TyXYhMmNLRUTWKrjacXV0Nc-9sUuc43LuvoYNmxfvZmbeJSTfr_csX3tMMw989NIUjZ7qUEhgkJEK1_GZDMmD/s1600/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FNTMyNy5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-729407"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6068148116523183842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi473-EeVJAhXXoEtvymIkcmV0nr2CZjBxK_LrcOd3M-B7x6m-EiepOzh8TyXYhMmNLRUTWKrjacXV0Nc-9sUuc43LuvoYNmxfvZmbeJSTfr_csX3tMMw989NIUjZ7qUEhgkJEK1_GZDMmD/s320/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FNTMyNy5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-729407" /></a>AT&T's wireless business will pay $105 million in penalties and refunds to consumers for unlawfully billing its customers' cellphone accounts, federal and state regulators announced Wednesday. AT&T Mobility, one of the country's largest mobile phone companies, agreed to pay $80 million to the Federal Trade Commission to provide refunds to customers who were billed "hundreds of millions of dollars" in unauthorized charges for items including ringtones and text messages with love tips and horoscopes, the commission said. In addition, AT&T will pay $20 million in penalties and fees to 50 states and the District of Columbia and a $5 million penalty to the Federal Communications Commission for the practices, known as mobile cramming. The settlement is the largest of seven such actions the F.T.C. has taken since April 2013. "This case underscores the important fact that basic consumer protections — including that consumers should not be billed for charges they did not authorize — are fully applicable in the mobile environment," Edith Ramirez, the F.T.C. chairwoman, said in a statement. AT&T said that it discontinued billing for those types of third-party charges in December 2013. "While we had rigorous protections in place to guard consumers against unauthorized billing from these companies, last year we discontinued third-party billing for Premium Short Messaging Services," the company said in a statement. "Today, we reached a broad settlement to resolve claims that some of our wireless customers were billed for charges from third parties that the customers did not authorize. This settlement gives our customers who believe they were wrongfully billed for P.S.M.S. services the ability to get a refund." The payments stem from charges, typically $9.99 per month, that were billed by other companies to the accounts of AT&T customers over several years, regulators said. AT&T kept at least 35 percent of the charges, the F.T.C. said, even as many as 40 percent of the billed customers complained about the practices. In 2011 alone, the commission said, AT&T received more than 1.3 million calls to its customer service lines about the charges. In October of that year, AT&T altered its refund policy to lower the amount of charges that could be returned to customers to two months' worth from three months, a policy shift that the company characterized as intended to "help lower refunds," the F.T.C. charged. The settlement is by far the largest yet that regulators have brought against mobile phone companies for cramming. Over the last year and a half, the F.T.C. has filed five cases against content providers — the companies that originated the charges. The largest of those involved the surrender of about $10 million in assets by the companies involved. In July, the F.T.C. filed a similar case against T-Mobile, which is contesting the charges.
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AT&T To Pay $105 Million Over Unlawful Billing

AT&T's wireless business will pay $105 million in penalties and refunds to consumers for unlawfully billing its customers' cellp...

Sir Alex Ferguson Praises Louis van Gaal’s Start At Manchester United

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 Sir Alex Ferguson has praised Louis van Gaal for "clearing the decks" at Manchester United since taking over as manager in the summer after steering Holland to the World Cup semi-finals.
 In his first public statement since the Dutchman arrived at Old Trafford to succeed the sacked David Moyes, Ferguson told MUTV: "Louis van Gaal has made a lot of changes and, thinking about that, actually maybe he's doing the right thing, to clear the decks and build his own team. Because he's got the experience and coaching ability to do that. The way he's approached it I think has been brilliant."
 Van Gaal spent £150m on summer signings, including paying a British record £59.7m for the Argentina winger Ángel di Maria from Real Madrid, and cleared out 14 players.
 Ferguson's comments came in a programme called Sir Alex: Life After Management in which he admitted that during a holiday in December he had a fleeting wish to be working again. "It was the first time I've ever had a holiday in my life in December," Ferguson said. "And I'm sitting there at pool side in Abu Dhabi and I said to Cathy [his wife], 'I should be at Carrington!'"
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Sir Alex Ferguson Praises Louis van Gaal’s Start At Manchester United

Sir Alex ferguson Sir Alex Ferguson has praised Louis van Gaal for "clearing the decks" at Manchester United since taking over as...

Researchers Just Discovered The Brightest Dead Star Ever Found

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKgXSVHGAkejTlMqCo_8nQo4aiXwlKq5kgSWJLngS_fVx06PMNl9wWmdKGoNKBz8nd-dnh2Qly_yKs_FStdUy8tHubrzddeNr-G3G3arxe5yOukjRi03iP3ZFKE4tUTjZWLf8NMXDBO8t_/s1600/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FNTMzOC5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-746669"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6068140460057568658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKgXSVHGAkejTlMqCo_8nQo4aiXwlKq5kgSWJLngS_fVx06PMNl9wWmdKGoNKBz8nd-dnh2Qly_yKs_FStdUy8tHubrzddeNr-G3G3arxe5yOukjRi03iP3ZFKE4tUTjZWLf8NMXDBO8t_/s320/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FNTMzOC5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-746669" /></a>Dead star
 Astronomers using NASA's NuSTAR telescope array have found something beautiful about 12 million light-years from our planet Earth: The brightest dead star, or pulsar, ever found.
 It's only called a dead star because it's the leftovers from a supernova — this thing is still very much alive, pumping out around 10 million suns' worth of energy, according to NASA. Scientists originally thought the pulsar, located in the Messier 82 galaxy, was a black hole, but it turns out that isn't the case at all.
 "You might think of this pulsar as the 'Mighty Mouse' of stellar remnants," said Fiona Harrison, the NuSTAR principal investigator at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, in a NASA release about the pulsar. "It has all the power of a black hole, but with much less mass."
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Researchers Just Discovered The Brightest Dead Star Ever Found

Dead star Astronomers using NASA's NuSTAR telescope array have found something beautiful about 12 million light-years from our planet E...

Baba Forgive Us - PDP Leadership Begs Obansanjo

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-d2QXCfEg_uXEOKcnD8HJ2DqTaQSpPSZS5qtObKEXA5m-0K6ksp8-E76cKaFYFmU-yWMNLLPRWLCUfB9mXxGE7bU8vnoPsG3kZ1_WLix2q6q-nJlmhyJrBHtGJjgbmG_GDezXdMVOnG_/s1600/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FNTMzOS5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-773380"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6068133704207498146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-d2QXCfEg_uXEOKcnD8HJ2DqTaQSpPSZS5qtObKEXA5m-0K6ksp8-E76cKaFYFmU-yWMNLLPRWLCUfB9mXxGE7bU8vnoPsG3kZ1_WLix2q6q-nJlmhyJrBHtGJjgbmG_GDezXdMVOnG_/s320/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FNTMzOS5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-773380" /></a>Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria The national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Adamu Mu'azu, on Wednesday led the Senate president, David Mark and former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, to apologise to the former president for all sins committed against him. The party appealed to the former President Obasanjo to return and lead the party. Obasanjo, who has refuse to identify with the party due to the disagreements he has with President Jonathan and the leadership of the PDP under Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, resigned from active participation in the party's activities. The former chairman of the board of Trustees refused to identify with the party. The former President had criticised President Jonathan on many occasions and even written an open letter to him, in which he accused him of many atrocities. He had also criticised the way the President had handled the insecurity crisis in the North-East, an action that had made the President to also reply the former president. Mu'azu made the plea while receiving former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, who was accompanied by Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko, back to PDP at the party's national headquarters yesterday. Daniel, who led other members of Labour Party back to PDP, started the apology session as he begged for Obasanjo's forgiveness for any wrong done to him by the party. Mu'azu then joined, saying, "I want to join OGD, I want to join my dear senior brother and indeed all the teeming members here to very sincerely apologise to our leader, to our baba, my baba, General, President Olusegun Obasanjo to forgive us. "We cannot continue. I know he has been very prayerful. In the Villa, I know he used to pray every morning. Very early, 5:30 to 6am, he is praying. "And I know he keeps on praying all the time. As we say in our Lord's Prayer: 'Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who trespass against us'. "Baba, you have to forgive us. I beg you in the name of the almighty God, so that you too are forgiven. We are your children. We are making mistakes, we have made mistakes, we have apologised, we will not agree even if you want to throw the baby with the bath water, the baby will not go with you. So, please Baba, we apologise. "Come and lead us. Even the president is waiting for you. Come and lead us. You are our leader, we appreciate you, we thank you for your leadership. We thank you for your courage. And we assure you that by the grace of God, we are all good boys and girls." Daniel, on his part said, "Let me seize this opportunity to publicly apologise to the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo. Whenever there is a quarrel between a son and a father, the son can never be right even if it is a battle of principle. "We therefore plead that President Obasanjo should be called upon that he cannot abandon his house. All we the children are standing by to apologise and apologise and apologise again," he said. While he noted, "we have learnt our lesson," he however added he has returned to "my party and all the challenges we have in PDP have been settled." According to him, "What we are talking about is automatic waiver and this issue of automatic waiver has been guaranteed. I, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, former governor of Ogun State for eight years, is now back to the PDP." The Senate president, Senator David Mark, who is also chairman of the PDP South-West Integration Committee said, "if Baba is annoyed, we offer our apology. This is in line with the Yoruba tradition because it is proper for the young ones to offer apologies to the elderly." He added "Ogun State gave us a former president and therefore, there should not be any reason why the whole of Ogun State should not be entirely PDP." Mark however noted that there is a new wind sweeping all the six states of the zone back to the PDP as all the former members who are returning back to the party were on self exile. He guaranteed all returning members of a level playing ground, adding, "when the level playing ground doesn't favour you, please don't go away. Don't go away, remain within and fight to get the level playing. "There must be proper integration. Not one group swallowing another. The integration must be genuine. If we are united, we win, but divided we lose."
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Baba Forgive Us - PDP Leadership Begs Obansanjo

Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria The national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Adamu Mu'azu, on Wednesday le...