Dillish Mathews(Namibia) Wins BBA, Big Brother Africa 2013-The Chase

The winner of Africa’s most controversial TV show, Big Brother Africa, BBA 2013 has been announced.

It’s official, the Namibian lady in house Dillish Mathews is BBA 2013 winner.

The beautiful lady who was labelled underdog and spoilt princess has made history.

Dillish Matthews did her best to stay out of trouble throughout her time in the house.

Even those that engaged in sex scenes like Nigeria’s Beverly Osu didn’t achieve what she achieved.

Dillish Mathews is not without controversy, she messed up when a viral nude shower photo of her leaked to the net.

The second time Dillish Matthews got in trouble was when she got into a big disagreement with Nigeria’s Melvin.

She will be going home with a whopping $300,000 prize.

Mike Tyson Claims He Is 'Close To Death'

Former boxing world champion Mike Tyson has claimed he is "on the verge of dying" due to his struggle with alcohol and drugs.

During an emotional news conference after he made his debut as a boxing promoter, the 47-year-old confessed to still being an alcoholic and drug user.

"I'm a bad guy sometimes. I did a lot of bad things and I want to be forgiven," he said at the conference aired on ESPN's Friday Night Fights.

"I wanna change my life, I wanna live a different life now. I wanna live my sober life.

"I don't wanna die. I'm on the verge of dying because I'm a vicious alcoholic.

"I haven't drank or took drugs in six days, and for me that's a miracle.

"I've been lying to everybody else that think I was sober, but I'm not. This is my sixth day. I'm never gonna use again."

The former heavyweight world champion spoke about his battle when he was asked about ending his 30-year feud with former trainer Teddy Atlas.

In 2007 he was convicted of possession of cocaine and driving under the influence.

He also served three years in prison following a 1992 rape conviction and also served three months for assault in 1999.

Jobless Graduate Appeals For Aid After Having Triplet

Joyce, who is from Delta State but resides with her husband in Port Harcourt, made the appeal, yesterday, saying things had been very difficult for her family since she had the children on July 30.

Joyce, who is a fresh graduate of English language, said her husband is in the entertainment industry, adding that he was yet to find his feet.


She said: “They are my first children. I had them through caesarean operation, CS. The cost of taking care of them is so heavy on me and my husband. I am appealing to Nigerians to assist us.

“Things are rough with us. I have not started working, so to a large extent I don’t do anything for a living.

“My husband earns a little from his job as a musician and this can hardly help the situation. I am begging Nigerians to come to our aide. They should please help.”

She said her mother was still alive but a petty farmer in the village, adding that her father died long ago.

According to her, “we were planning for one child when three came. Thought they are gift from God but we never planned for this number. Nigerians should please come to our aide.” 

Mandela, 95, remains hospitalized; condition is critical but stable

 Former President Nelson Mandela remains in the hospital and his condition is critical, but stable, South African President Jacob Zuma said in a statement.

"While at times, his condition becomes unstable, the doctors indicate that the former president has demonstrated great resilience and his condition tends to stabilize as a result of medical interventions," the statement reads.

Zuma said that doctors are still working to further improve Mandela's health and keep him comfortable.

He also urged South Africans to pray for Mandela, who is 95 years old.

Zuma will travel to Malaysia Sunday.

The Lifetime Award for Global Peace will be awarded to Mandela by the Mahathir Global Peace Foundation, and Zuma will accept the award on Mandela's behalf.

Mandela was incarcerated for 27 years during the fight to end South Africa's apartheid system before coming the country's first black president in 1994.

NASA Commemorates Neil Armstrong with Music Video Dedicated to His Moon Landing

To commemorate the one-year anniversary of Neil Armstrong's death, NASA has put out a video with footage of the astronaut set to a song about his accomplishments. 

"One year after his death, NASA is remembering Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on another world," the agency explained.

"As part of the tribute, Grammy-nominated artist Eric Brace, with some video assistance from NASA, honors Armstrong with an original composition, 'Tranquility Base'," it added.

"Tranquility Base" is what Armstrong called the site of the first ever moon landing. Armstrong was the first man to land and walk on the moon on 20 July 1969. To this day, only 12 people have set foot on the moon, the last more than 50 years ago.

NASA has since focused on less ambitious missions and is only now talking about a possible asteroid capture, while the prospect of a Mars landing seems as far away as it did two or three decades ago.

Scientists Pinpoint 105 Additional Genetic Errors That Cause Cystic Fibrosis

Of the over 1,900 errors already reported in the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis (CF), it is unclear how many of them actually contribute to the inherited disease. Now a team of researchers reports significant headway in figuring out which mutations are benign and which are deleterious. In so doing, they have increased the number of known CF-causing mutations from 22 to 127, accounting for 95 percent of the variations found in patients with CF.

In a summary of their research to be published online in Nature GeneticsAug. 25, the scientists say that characterizing those additional mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene will not only bring certainty to families about a CF diagnosis or carrier status, but will also accelerate the design process for new drugs tailored to a particular mutation. There already is one such individualized drug on the market.

"Since not all mutations cause disease, sequencing the DNA in both copies of your CFTR gene and finding an abnormality in one wouldn't tell us if you are a carrier for CF unless we knew if that abnormality causes CF," says Garry Cutting, M.D., professor of pediatrics in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "Until this new work, more than a quarter of couples in which both partners were found to carry a CFTR mutation were left wondering if their mutations were going to affect their offspring. Now it's down to 9 percent," he says.

U.S. Electrical Grid on the Edge of Failure

This is according to a mathematical study of spatial networks by physicists in Israel and the U.S. Study co-author Shlomo Havlin of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, says that the research builds on earlier work by incorporating a more explicit analysis of how the spatial nature of physical networks affects their fundamental stability. The upshot, published August 25 in Nature Physics, is that spatial networks are necessarily dependent on any number of critical nodes whose failure can lead to abrupt—and unpredictable—collapse.

The electric grid, which operates as a series of networks that are defined by geography, is a prime example, says Havlin. “Whenever you have such dependencies in the system, failure in one place leads to failure in another place, which cascades into collapse.”

“I suppose I should be open-minded to new research, but I'm not convinced,” says Jeff Dagle, an electrical engineer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., who served on the government task force that investigated the 2003 outage. “The problem is that this doesn’t reflect the physics of how the power grid operates.”The warning comes ten years after a blackout that crippled parts of the midwest and northeastern United States and parts of Canada. In that case, a series of errors resulted in the loss of three transmission lines in Ohio over the course of about an hour. Once the third line went down, the outage cascaded towards the coast, cutting power to some 50 million people. Havlin says that this outage is an example of the inherent instability his study describes, but others question whether the team’s conclusions can really be extrapolated to the real world.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Instagram, other sites go down

AirBnB says its site was one of those affected. Other services that were slow or unavailable included Instagram and Twitter's Vine video-sharing application.

Online home rental service AirBnB tweeted at 4:32 p.m. ET that it was one of several websites and apps that were temporarily down because Amazon server problems.

Instagram sent a tweet saying it was aware some users were having trouble loading Instagram and that was working on the problem. Vine later sent a similar tweet.

Amazon Web Services provides companies with online storage and computing power. Its website showed several problems resolved on Sunday evening, with a few remaining.

Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Robots trained as carers and security guards

experts believe that Linda, a £25,000 robot who resembles a human-sized chess pawn, could be the perfect solution to one of the biggest hazards facing elderly residents in care homes: falls.

Not only could robots like Linda patrol corridors for 24 hours a day, providing much more continuous surveillance than any human, but they could save nurses valuable time by performing additional tasks such as carrying messages or escorting patients to appointments.

The project, known as STRANDS (Spatio-Temporal Representations and Activities for Cognitive Control in Long-term Scenarios) is focused on programming robots to learn about their environment and recognise when something is amiss.

A second arm of the project will see the robots deployed as security guards in office buildings, patrolling and picking up signs of unusual activity such as open windows or people moving around at night.

the telegraph

Hoodlums strip party chieftain naked in Ogun

Pandemonium broke out in Abeokuta when a  chieftain  of  the All  Progressives Congress, APC, in  Ogun State, Mr Emmanuel Ajala, was beaten blue black by suspected political thugs,who also stripped him naked.

Ajala was attacked at about 6:30pm, on Saturday, while going to his Gbonagun home in Abeokuta. His  attackers were apparently on his trail.

Vanguard gathered that three men operating on a motorcycle were alleged to have overtaken the politician’s car and flagged him down then pounced on him.

Ajala, a former legislator in Abeokuta South Local Government of the state, was also reported to have been dragged down from the car, while his cloth was  torn.

It  was, however, gathered that he was saved  from the attackers when they sighted an oncoming vehicle and took to their heels.

Narrating  his ordeal, the politician said: “They  accused me of being too bold to comment on political issues, which they considered uncomplimentary and  warned me to desist.

“It was an oncoming car they saw that made them to bolt away. I have equally reported the case to Obantoko police station.”

Contacted, the Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said the victim reported at the police station, but had failed to report back as scheduled for further investigation of the case, explaining that his failure to report back will affect investigation.

“The man reported the case, and he was asked to be followed to the scene, but said he was scared and when asked to also come back the following day for further investigations, he failed to report.

“There is no way the police could investigate without him. He has killed investigation, so whether his claim is true or not, nobody can tell.”

vanguard