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This is what friendship looks like. Famous besties Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez hung out today (try to calm yourselves), and decided to a have a little bit of fun on Instagram. The pair posed together in the middle of large greenery, which was posted to Swift's social media page, with the clever caption, "Are we out of the woods yet?"

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Chris Pine doesn't even blink when I ask if he'd want Wonder Woman or Capt. Kirk to have his back in a fight. "Wonder Woman would win because she's radical," Pine says while promoting his new movie The Finest Hours with co-star Ben Foster. "And she looks better in a skirt."

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Whether or not Apple launches a new phone this spring, we’re almost certainly going to have to wait until September before the true sequel to the iPhone 6s makes it to store shelves. For iPhone users who weren’t able or willing to upgrade to the most recent version of the phone, the wait can be excruciating. But in the meantime, at least we have concept art.

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Lauren Wasser is speaking out about the potential dangers tampons can cause. Lauren Wasser was a 24-year-old model and aspiring WNBA player when she almost lost her life to Toxic Shock Syndrome. She told VICE in June about what it was like to lose her leg to the disease and sat down with them again recently to warn women about the potential dangers of tampons.

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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso and French forces killed four extremists Saturday and freed more than 126 people to end the seizure of a luxury hotel by al-Qaida-linked militants, Burkina Faso officials said. In addition to the four jihadists, at least 23 people were killed in the attack at the Splendid Hotel and a nearby cafe in Ouagadougou, the capital, the president said. Three attackers were killed at the hotel and a fourth was killed when security forces cleared out a second hotel nearby.

Saturday, 20 February 2016

MUSIC: Lacose – Connect

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Olawale Banjo (born May 23, 1991) popularly known by a stage name Lacose, A Nigerian Dance hall and R&B singer, an instrumentalist and a song writer. Currently signed by Arabambi 411 entertainment. Lacose started at the age of 12yrs as a church guitarist and his music career started 2005. I love playing guitar, inspiration comes around me all day.

ENJOY!

  DOWNLOAD: Lacose - Connect (3.1 MiB, 62 hits)

Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia And Qatar Agree On Oil Output Freeze

The world’s largest producers of oil Russia and Saudi Arabia have agreed to take the measure of freezing oil output at January level which will assist in preventing further decline in its oil prices.
Both countries calculated a heavy loss this past January which equals a twelve-year all time low. The loss follows OPEC’s policy of unrestricted pumping, which has sent prices plummeting to below US$30 a barrel since June 2014 highs of $110.

At the closed door meeting which was held in Doha, ministers from Venezuela and Qatar were in attendance; also Saudi-Arabian Minister of Oil, Ali Al Naimi finally agreed to end the OPEC policy of unrestricted pumping.

January’s output for the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries was at 33.1 million barrels a day, and is recorded as its highest ever; this implies that any impact the freeze will have on the oil price is likely to be very minimal.

Discussing on the new freeze policy, Mr Al Naimi said,
“Freezing now at the January level is adequate for the market, we believe. We recognize today the supply is going down because of current prices. We also recognize that demand is on the rise.”
“It is the beginning of a process which we will assess in the next few months and decide if we need other steps to stabilise and improve the market,”
Russia also recorded its highest level in history in January, producing ten-point-nine-million barrels a day. Russia is not a part of OPEC.

The oil-output freeze move is said to represent a deviation from the original policy earlier adopted at the OPEC’s December meeting where the group agreed to totally remove production caps. The ministers also said for the oil freeze policy to pull through other oil producers including Iran will have to come aboard. 

Iran’s oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zaganeh, has continuously told newsmen:
‘Iran does not intend to cut oil productions, as the country seeks to use revenue from sales to lift its economy out of recession. ‘
Iran, which was earlier sanctioned was also let loose this January allowing the country to drastically increase its oil production.

In a bid to control the low oil price which had caused economic and financial pain across the Gulf, government leaders including UAE and Saudi Arabi reduced public spending to aid in preserving financial reserves of their countries.

An emerging market economist, Jason Tuvey feels the oil-freeze agreement is “unlikely to significantly alter the economic outlook for the Gulf Cooperation Council”

He said:
Even if all Opec members, including Iran, agree to comply with the target, high production will still keep oil prices low, depressing the economic outlook for Gulf states.
Photo Credit, TheNational

A Tale of Two Cultures: G&M Couture debuts its first collection (Prints, Fringes, Flares & Capes)

G&M COUTURE is a combination of 2 Netherlands based, African power fashion houses, founded by Guyso couture and Maf couture. The two brands have come together combining their passion, experiences as individual and designers by creating a collection using two fabrics which brings two cultures together creating AFRICAN COUTURE FASHION. 

Guyso couture and Maf couture (under G&M COUTURE) have recently launched their first collection spring/summer 2016 collection – a come back after 2 years. The collection is a quirky mix of bold tribal African prints and other prints translated into fringes, flared plants, caped dresses, tops and jackets, a mix of short and long dresses, palazzo pants and accessories.

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“If I’m laying down with a man butt-naked and his condom is on, and I say no, it means no”- Amber Rose

 

Amber Rose was a guest on one of OWN's newest shows 'It'sNotYou, It'sMen', hosted by TyreseGibson and RevRun, and during her appearance (airing Saturday), Rose revealed that she gets "sexually assaulted constantly," and proceeded to go toe-to-toe with the male hosts, who suggested that perhaps fans' willingness to act in such ways is due to the way she presents herself.
She said:
"When I walk down the street, people think because I'm famous, or I'm cool and I'm taking pictures, that they can just grab my ass or put their hand under my skirt or, ‘Oh Amber, can I come grab your boobs?' Girls do that to me all the time, and it does get like, I love you girls so much, but it does get like, stop grabbing on my boobs constantly and my butt. And guys, too. This is my privacy."
After hearing this, Rev Run offered that maybe this is the case because of "a representation of what you're wearing and stuff and seems like, in their mind, what you're representing." His co-host, Tyrese, echoed similar sentiments, telling Amber, "I'm just saying, the comfort-ability some people find in wanting to touch or grope you…it's an energy that is sent out there that creates that type of response". Rose was quick to disagree and explain why she feels that is not a valid argument.

"No it doesn't, and I'm gonna tell you why. If I'm laying down with a man butt-naked and his condom is on, and I say, ‘You know what? No. I don't wanna do this. I changed my mind.' That means no. That means f—k no," she says. "It doesn't matter how far I take it or what I have on, when I say no, it means no."

Friday, 19 February 2016

Man beats his mum to death two days after being released from Prison after 30-year murder sentence


Two days after completing a 30-year prison sentence for a 1984 murder conviction, a New Jersey man allegedly killed his 64-year-old mother.  On Wednesday, Steven Pratt, 47, pleaded guilty to manslaughter, admitting his role in his mother's beating death, police say. 

A statement from prosecutors obtained by PEOPLE confirms Pratt, an Atlantic City resident who lived with his mother, repeatedly struck his mother Gwendolyn Pratt in the head the morning of Oct. 12, 2014. Police responded to the Pratt home that morning and found Gwendolyn's lifeless body inside. 

The statement says officers immediately took Pratt into custody and an autopsy later revealed the victim died from blunt force trauma to the head.  Pratt faces 25 more years behind bars when he is sentenced within the next few months, police say. 

On Oct. 10, 2014, Pratt was released from a New Jersey prison, where he'd spent the previous three decades for the fatal shooting of Michael Anderson. 

When he was 15, Anderson caught Pratt smoking marijuana with friends and confronted the boy.
During that incident, Pratt struck Anderson in the face with a lead pipe. After being hit, Anderson retreated, but hours later, Pratt knocked on his apartment's door. When he opened it, Pratt shot Anderson.