*crying*Iranian woman hanged for killing 'man who tried to rape her'

27 year old Reyhaney Jabbari (pictured
above), was executed today October 25th by
hanging in Iran 7 years after she killed a man
that she claimed had attempted to rape her.
Reyhaney was sentenced to death in 2009 for
the stabbing death of Morteza Abdolali
Sarbandi, a former intelligence officer.
A court ruled that she killed Morteza on
purpose because she had bought the knife two
days before she stabbed him in the back with
it. In her defence, Reyhaney said she'd
stabbed the man out of self defence. The court
overruled her claims and sentenced her to
death, a ruling which was upheld by Iran's
Supreme court.
The execution was carried out today after the
victim's family refused to pardon Reyhaney or
accept money from her family. Many human
rights bodies including Amnesty International
had over the years called on Iran's judiciary to
halt the execution but they went ahead with
it. Her mother confirmed it, saying Reyhaney
was hanged in a Tehran prison very early this
morning.

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Ebola outbreak: Get up to speed with the latest developments

-A doctor in New York City tests positive for Ebola. The European Union pledges more funds to fight the deadly virus. And a military response team begins training.

With multiple developments under way, here's the latest on the Ebola outbreak:

U.S. DEVELOPMENTS

Nina Pham declared free of Ebola

Dallas nurse Nina Pham is free of the Ebola virus, the National Institutes of Health said Friday morning, eight days after she was transferred to an NIH facility in Maryland for treatment.

Pham, the first person to contract Ebola on U.S. soil, said that her first order of business will be to hug her dog, Bentley. Samples from Bentley tested negative for the virus. More specimens will be collected before the end of a 21-day quarantine.

"I feel fortunate and blessed to be standing here today," Pham said. "Throughout this ordeal, I have put my faith in God and my medical team."

President Barack Obama met with Pham in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon.

Pham is one of two nurses who were diagnosed with Ebola after treating Liberia citizen Thomas Eric Duncan at a Dallas hospital. Duncan died on October 8.

Vinson to be transferred from isolation

The other Dallas nurse, Amber Vinson, who is getting treatment at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital, "is making good progress in her treatment for Ebola virus infection," the hospital said in a statement with the CDC.

"Tests no longer detect virus in her blood," the statement said. "She remains within Emory's Serious Communicable Diseases Unit for continued supportive care. We do not have a discharge date at this time."

Vinson is steadily regaining her strength, and her spirits are high, her family said.

U.S. considers mandatory quarantine

The United States is considering a mandatory quarantine for all returning health care workers from West Africa, an Obama administration official said.

Officials do not believe there is a risk of transmission from someone not exhibiting Ebola-like symptoms, but they want to reassure the public, the administration official said.

In response to the New York Ebola case, the governors of New York and New Jersey announced that the states were stepping up airport screening beyond federal requirements for travelers from West Africa.

"This is not the time to take chances," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo -- joined by his New Jersey counterpart, Chris Christie -- told reporters. "This adjustment in increasing the screening procedures is necessary ... I think public safety and public health have to be balanced and I think this policy does that."

The policy allows the states to determine hospitalization or quarantine for up to 21 days for travelers from affected countries. A mandatory quarantine is called for those who had "direct contact with an individual infected with the Ebola virus," including medical workers who treated Ebola patients. In addition, people with a travel history to the affected regions but with no direct contact with Ebola patients will be "actively monitored... and, if necessary, quarantined."

In an example of the new policy, New Jersey on Friday quarantined a unidentified female medical worker who cared for Ebola patients in Africa. The worker has no symptoms, officials said.

Doctor tests positive

A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to New York from Guinea has tested positive for the Ebola virus, becoming the first diagnosed case in the city.

Craig Spencer, 33, returned to New York on October 17 after treating Ebola patients in Guinea, and he reportedly developed a fever Thursday morning.

Go team begins training

A 30-member U.S. military team that could be called on to respond to new cases of Ebola in the United States has started specialized training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. The weeklong training includes infection control and how to use personal protective gear.

WEST AFRICA DEVELOPMENTS

More funds

The European Union will increase its aid to help fight Ebola by $380 million to $1.2 billion, EU head Herman Van Rompuy said on Twitter.

It had pledged 700 million euros and boosted its pledge to 1 billion euros to fight Ebola in West Africa.

Rising toll

A total of 9,911 confirmed or probable cases, and 4,868 deaths have been reported in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the World Health Organization said. Every district in Sierra Leone has reported at least one case.

Mali's first confirmed case

A 2-year-old girl with Ebola in Mali -- that West African country's first confirmed case -- has died, Mali state TV reported Friday, attributing the information to government health officials.

The girl came from neighboring Guinea, where the outbreak is believed to have started. Her father died of Ebola, and she was taken to a hospital in Kayes after a nurse noticed her symptoms. But WHO said it was seeking confirmation of media reports that the girl went to Guinea to attend the funeral of her mother, who is said to have shown Ebola-like symptoms before her death.

In Mali, there were multiple opportunities for the girl to expose others because she traveled extensively with her grandmother, WHO said Friday.

The girl first came to a clinic Tuesday after entering Mali, WHO Assistant Director-General Marie-Paule Kieny said at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

The two had traveled by public transport through Keweni, Kankan, Sigouri and Kouremale before reaching Bamako. They stayed in the Malian capital for two hours before traveling on to Kayes, as the child was visibly symptomatic, according to a WHO assessment.

In addition to WHO experts already in the nation, the organization is sending additional experts to help Mali with the response.

Mali informed WHO that local authorities are monitoring 43 people who came in contact with the infected girl, including 10 medical workers, said Tarik Jasarevic, a WHO spokesman.

The dozens who had contact with the girl have not shown any symptoms related to the virus, said Markatie Daou of the Health Ministry.

Three-week monitoring for some travelers

All travelers coming to the United States from Ebola-affected areas will be actively monitored for 21 days. Also, all U.S.-bound passengers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea must land in one of the five U.S. airports with enhanced screening for Ebola: New York's John F. Kennedy International, Washington Dulles, New Jersey's Newark Liberty International, Chicago's O'Hare International and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta.

ASIA DEVELOPMENTS

No entry to North Korea

A pair of Beijing-based agencies that specialize in travel to North Korea say they've been told by their "partners in Pyongyang" that the nation won't allow international tourists to enter starting Friday because of the threat of Ebola. It's not clear whether the restriction affects business travelers.

China's pledge to help

China pledged to boost its aid to the three West African nations fighting the Ebola outbreak, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday, according to the country's Foreign Ministry.

The Chinese government will provide a fourth round of assistance to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea that will include emergency funding and supplies worth the equivalent of $82 million, Xi said. China will also dispatch quarantine experts and medical personnel, and it will set up a new treatment center in Liberia, according to the Foreign Ministry.

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Should health care workers who treat Ebola in Africa be quarantined?

When doctors risk their lives and sacrifice their livelihoods to go to West Africa and provide desperately needed treatment to those suffering from Ebola, what should be their reward upon coming home?

Three weeks off, some say -- whether they like it or not.

The governors of New York and New Jersey instituted just such a policy Friday, announcing that airport screening will be stepped up in their states and that any arriving passengers who'd recently been in the West African nations hit hardest by Ebola could be hospitalized or quarantined for up to 21 days -- sick or not.

Measures such as these would affect people who lived or traveled to countries such as Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where all but a handful of the nearly 10,000 documented Ebola cases and almost 5,000 deaths have occurred. And it would also impact those who brought their medical expertise to West Africa, doing what they could to prevent more people from dying or spreading the disease

So there's a tradeoff: Should the focus of American policy be to do everything to prevent anyone from the most ravaged regions from entering the United States, even if it discourages health care workers from going there?

Some U.S. lawmakers, such as Rep. Andy Harris, favor a strict three-week quarantine. (That time duration is significant because it takes anywhere from 2 to 21 days from the time a person contracts Ebola to when he shows symptoms of it; if more time than that passes without symptoms, a person is considered Ebola-free.)

"In return from being allowed to come back into the country from a place where a deadly disease is endemic, you'd have to enter a quarantine facility and be supervised for 21 days," the Maryland Republican told CNN.

Some, though, think such a policy would be counterproductive. It might prevent some cases of Ebola in the United States over the short term, they say, but over the long run it could backfire if highly trained American doctors have even more incentive not to head to Africa to help corral the disease.

Dr. John Carlson, a pediatric immunologist at Tulane University, is one of them.

He has spent four weeks working with Ebola patients at a hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and is scheduled to return to New Orleans on Saturday. Health care workers already sacrifice a lot by volunteering their time to help those who most need it; tacking on more time or not being able to venture out in public or go to work might seem like a punishment, discouraging people such as him from doing it again.

"If I lose three weeks on my return and don't get to do the work I'm supposed to do," Carlson said, referring to his job at Tulane, "means this wouldn't be workable for me."

Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention director Dr. Tom Frieden expressed a similar view earlier this month, arguing that stringent travel restrictions may create more problems than they solve.

"It makes it hard to get health workers in, because they can't get out," he said. "If we make it harder to respond to the outbreak in West Africa, it will spread not only in those three countries (in West Africa hit hardest by Ebola) but to other parts of Africa and ultimately increase the risk here" in the United States.

Official: New guidelines coming 'shortly'

That said, change may be coming.

Some of it may come at the state level, as happened in New York and New Jersey.

That policy shift was spurred by the hospitalization of Dr. Craig Spencer, a Doctors Without Borders physician who'd treated Ebola patients in Guinea and arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on October 17; he eventually was diagnosed with Ebola.

Since then, a female health care worker who recently been in West Africa has -- hours after showing no symptoms after touching down at northern New Jersey's Newark Liberty Airport -- developed a fever, New Jersey health department spokesman Donna Leusner said. That woman is now in isolation at Newark's University Hospital. Quarantined woman tests negative for Ebola

This came the same day New York and New Jersey outlined their new policy.

The policy allows the states to determine hospitalization or quarantine for up to 21 days for travelers from the affected countries. A mandatory quarantine is called for those who had "direct contact with an individual infected with the Ebola virus," including medical workers who treated Ebola patients. In addition, people with a travel history to the affected regions but with no direct contact with Ebola patients will be "actively monitored... and, if necessary, quarantined."

This is on top of the federal policy requiring all travelers coming to the United States from Ebola-affected areas to be actively monitored for 21 days, starting Monday. Already, such travelers landing in New York's Kennedy, Washington Dulles, New Jersey's Newark Liberty International, Chicago's O'Hare International and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta must go through enhanced screening.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Friday that the federal government's policies could change even more.

"That is something that is right now under very active discussion, and you'll be hearing shortly about what the guidelines will be," Fauci said, answering a reporter's question about quarantines.

Some experts say there might be some middle ground between the two extremes of physically confining people in one place for 21 days or just letting them do whatever they want (beyond, as is now recommended, taking their temperature daily and monitoring themselves for other symptoms).

One possibility is to have those travelers do more than temperature checks.

Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness, thinks that checking daily for decreases in white blood cell counts or platelets -- which could be, but aren't necessarily, a sign of an Ebola infection -- could be one such measure.

And Mike Osterholm, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota, thinks that there should be stricter controls on what a person who has come from West Africa does in his or her first three weeks in the United States. For instance, he thinks they shouldn't take public transportation or go to crowded places like bowling alleys, both of which Spencer did before officials say he was symptomatic.

Public health experts say there's plenty of scientific evidence indicating that there's very little chance that a random person will get Ebola, unless they are in very close contact (close enough to share bodily fluids) with someone who has it.

Still, there's also a sense that authorities have to do something because of Americans' fears -- rational or not -- and belief that the country is better off being safe than sorry.

As Osterholm says, "You want to try to eliminate not just real risk, but perceived risk."

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Iranian woman hanged for killing 'man who tried to rape her'

27 year old Reyhaney Jabbari (pictured above), was executed today October 25th by hanging in Iran 7 years after she killed a man that she claimed had attempted to rape her. Reyhaney was sentenced to death in 2009 for the stabbing death of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former intelligence officer.

 A court ruled that she killed Morteza on purpose because she had bought the knife two days before she stabbed him in the back with it. In her defence, Reyhaney said she'd stabbed the man out of self defence. The court overruled her claims and sentenced her to death, a ruling which was upheld by Iran's Supreme court.

The execution was carried out today after the victim's family refused to pardon Reyhaney or accept money from her family. Many human rights bodies including Amnesty International had over the years called on Iran's judiciary to halt the execution but they went ahead with it. Her mother confirmed it, saying Reyhaney was hanged in a Tehran prison very early this morning. ..post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com

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Oh So Cute! Ciara Shares Adorable Pictures of Baby Future

Motherhood certainly looks good on Ciara who has not been shy to share pictures of her adorable son on Instagram.

The 29-year-old singer who is celebrating her birthday today has blessed her fans with the cutest and most adorable picture of her son, Future Zahir Wilburn, as the two of them enjoy a flight together.

Ciara and 5-month-old baby Future wore matching camouflage shirts and Ciara captioned her picture, “Up In The Air Having In Flight Fun With #MyBabySoldier. THIS Smile Is Contagious. Lef Lef Righ Lef!!”

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‘Photobomb’ & ‘Overshare’ are the Top Words of the Year for Collins and Chambers Dictionary

This year has been the year for new words due to the use of social media with slangs like ‘Twerking’, ‘Selfie’, and more getting added to the dictionary. Well, as the year wraps up dictionaries are releasing their words for the year and this year two words have taken the top slot so far – Photobomb and Overshare.

Last Year Oxford dictionary revealed ‘Selfie’ as its word for the year (click here if you missed it) and while Oxford dictionary won’t release the 2014 word till November, Collins dictionary and Chambers dictionary are getting a jump-start on things.

Let’s talk about ‘Photobomb’.

This is a word that has certainly become more popular in the past months through Instagram and twitter pictures. “Photobomb” is defined by Collins as “to intrude into the background of a photograph without the subject’s knowledge”. A few pictures went viral this year like Wizkid taking a look at Draya’s behind on a red carpet or the several picture of Jennifer Lawrence pulling funny faces behind people being interviewed on the red carpet.

Overshare on the other hand simply refers to ‘too much information’ being provided on social media, especially by celebrities. “Overshare” is defined by Chambers as “to be unacceptably forthcoming with information about one’s personal life”. Whether it is updates on a toddler’s toilet training or selfies on Snapchat that leave little to the imagination.

Kim Kardashian seems to have mastered the art of over-sharing.

what other  words do you think have made an impact this year?......post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com

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Usher Covers Billboard Magazine; Talks His Body, Justin Beiber, a New Girlfriend & More

Usher covers the newest edition of Billboard magazine and the American singer is explaining his place in ‘RnB’ by wearing a crown.

The 36-year-old singer has been one of the people in the past decades who have continued to climb steadily on the charts with good music. One of his newest singles ‘Good Kisser’ has been one of the biggest hits this summer.

Usher has however not released an album in a while and in this issue of Billboard he talks to the magazine about album delays, grooming Justin Beiber, his hot body, dating his manager and much more.

Read excerpts from the interview below!

On Delaying His Album: “I just ain’t ready,Meaning I have more that I want to say and more that I want to do. My process is pretty different. L.A. Reid will tell you, it takes two albums to make one with Usher.”

On Justin Bieber:“Our relationship is more man-to-man now, He’s making his own decisions and it’s important to show support. I can say I’m not happy with all the choices my friend has made, but I’m supportive of him. I try my hardest to give as much positive reinforcement as I can. I’ll punch him in the f—ing chest when I need to, and give him a hug and kiss when I need to. It’s more than just mentoring. I love the kid.”

On his extra fit body:  “These days, I try to eat for my blood type when I’m not eating for the fat kid inside me. But the idea is to eat the foods that work best for your body. For my blood type the meats I can eat are pork, beef and fish.”

On Grace Miguel:“I have an incredible partner and manager. She has helped me through some of the hardest times in my life and my career. … One thing that has come from having a great partner like Grace is being able to cherish the places that I’ve gone. In the past I’d do what I have to do and get on the bus to the next city. Life has become a vacation.”

On being mentored by Diddy as a teenager: “I’d say I earned my stripes in New York City. My time with Puff, it gave me chutzpah. I got to see performers like Tupac Shakur, Redman, Method Man, Ice Cube. I got to perform onstage with the Notorious B.I.G., be in sessions with him and Craig Mack. I got to be part of the driving force that was Bad Boy, that was Puff.”

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Latest Naija Celeb Trend – Chrome Plated Cars! Lynxxx & Don Jazzy

Oh boys & their toys!

Today Lynxxx shared this pic before heading off to his friend’s wedding. We couldn’t help but notice the chrome plated Mercedes C class conspicuous in the background.

Earlier this year, we also saw Don Jazzy’s gold plated Bentley with a “Mavin” custom plate, named after his record label.

We wonder what celeb will be next to hop on the trend.

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See pics of 15yr old Jaylen Fryberg, who opened fire in his school yesterday killing two

15 year old Jaylen Fryberg (pictured above), a member of the Tulalip Native-American tribe, entered his school cafeteria yesterday morning around 10.41 am, walked over to a table, pulled out a gun and shot five students. He killed one, injured four, who are in critical condition at the hospital, and then he took his own life by shooting himself in the head with his father's gun.

The incident which lasted for about two minutes took place at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Washington D.C yesterday. See photos from the chaos that ensued and the full story after the cut...

Photos of the killer below...

 He was an avid hunter and regularly shared photos of his gun on his Facebook page

From UK Daily Mail

This is the teacher who is said to have heroically accosted a 15-year-old boy as he fired bullets across his high school cafeteria. Megan Silberberger ran into the room after hearing Jaylen Fryberg shoot dead one classmate and critically wound four others.

Students dived for cover and others fled but as the popular teenager stopped to reload his gun, witnesses told KIRO-TV, Silberberger walked over and grabbed his arm.

In a two-second struggle, Fryberg is said to have pointed the gun at her before shooting himself dead.

The shocking account suggests Silberger, a first year social services teacher and part-time soccer player, may have prevented a massacre at the Washington school.

Nonetheless, hundreds of students, teachers and parents piled into a nearby church tonight for a candlelit vigil as the community reels in shock struggling to cope with the tragic loss of life as four teenagers are treated in hospital

Erick Cervantes, the first student who called 911 during the attack, told KIRO-TV: 'I believe [Megan Silberger] is actually the real hero.

'She's the one that intercepted him with the gun. He tried either reloading or tried aiming at her. She tried moving his hand away and he tried shooting and shot himself in the neck. It started off with an argument, but then I looked back and there was just gunshots and just people falling down. She heard the gunshots first and she came in running through the door, right next to it. It wasn't [a] wrestle. She just grabbed his arm, and it lasted like two seconds, and I heard another shot.'

That shot, he says, was the one that killed Fryberg. The shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School lasted just two minutes between 10.41am and 10.43am on Friday. 

The horrific attack has left the entire community reeling as friends described Fryberg, a member of the Tulalip Native-American tribe, as a 'well-respected, great guy'.

Authorities are now scrambling to determine a possible cause for the shooting as the four survivors fight for their lives in hospital.

Pupils have told news stations Fryberg was suspended from the football team in recent weeks after being involved in a fight over 'racist' comments.

Minutes after the shooting as police came to the school

Students mourn after the shooting...

 

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Dear LIB readers: Do you by chance know who got me pregnant?

Lol...I figured the person who sent me this email must be joking because this doesn't make sense...but still thought to share 'cos it's kinda interesting. Read below...My fellow readers please help me. I have been dating two men at the same time for about 6 months. Actually my first boyfriend I have been dating since 2012, I met another guy 6 months ago and I also started dating him but I am now in a dilemma. I had sex with two of them almost at the same time and now I am pregnant. I had sex with boyfriend A on August 2nd and had sex with boyfriend B on August 7th, now I am 11 weeks pregnant. I plan to keep the baby I just don't know which of them I am supposed to tell I'm pregnant. I have no preference. Any of the two can be my baby daddy. Can anyone help me figure this out? Keep your judgements to yourselves please, only serious answers needed...post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com

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Bovi throws daughter,Elena a fabulous Birthday party as she clocked one‎

 

 

 

Check out photos below ...Did you see that tweet?..He may be damn right...hehehehehe‎

 

 

 

Chai,his wife is damn pretty....Bovi has eyes‎ ooo

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