A reporter is facing the threat of jail time after allegedly violating a judge's order not to take video of "The Bachelor" star Chris Soules appearing in court in his hit-and-run case.

Prosecutors are pursuing contempt of court proceedings against KWWL's Elizabeth Amanieh, a reporter for the NBC affiliate in Waterloo, in what could be the first case of its kind against an Iowa journalist in decades. If convicted, she could be punished with a $500 fine and up to 180 days in jail....


http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/17/nbc-reporter-facing-jail/

Humans are constantly evolving. We may not notice it or even think much about it, but our bodies are changing.


This fact has made many wonder what humans will look like in the future. Scientists have come up with a number of possible scenarios, and some of our future appearances are truly grotesque, while others seem plausible.


Future Humans Will Be Taller


Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialized nations has increased approximately 10 centimeters (about four inches).

In 1880 the average American male was 5’7”. Today, he’s 5’10”. Humans are becoming taller and there is reason to think this trend will continue. Evolution cannot explain our increase in height, but genetics can. Improvement in childhood nutrition has been the most important factor in allowing humans to increase so dramatically in stature....

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/15/what-will-humans-look-like-in-the-future-some-possible-scenarios/

Chelsea defender David Luiz accepted he would be a “liar” to say he was ignoring the prospect of winning a Premier League and FA Cup ‘Double’ with the Blues.

The Blues are already halfway to that achievement after wrapping up the Premier League title ahead of their FA Cup final against London rivals Arsenal on May 27.


But before that showpiece match, Antonio Conte’s men could become the first club in the Premier League era to win 30 league games in a season with victories over Watford on Monday and already-relegated Sunderland on Sunday’s final day of the season....

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/15/david-luiz-reveals-desire-to-win-the-ouble/

A Chechen national, who introduced himself as a person from the team of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov commented on the recent publication of "gays in Chechnya" caricatures in France's notorious Charlie Hebdo publication. One of the caricatures ridicules Chechen President Kadyrov.


"What are they expecting us to do? Threats of massacre or promises of apologies? They are not even clowns or freaks, but jackals: it's clear that editors [of Charlie Hebdo] need PR," the Chechen said in an interview with....

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/15/chechen-man-pledges-terrible-punishment-for-chechnya-gays-caricatures/

Ace Comedian, Alibaba has said that many who marry because the sex is good, find out later that good sex doesn’t pay bills.” The motivational speaker shared the post via his Instagram page Sunday morning.



According to him, those whose only take in a relationship is sex soon find out, to their chagrin, that they really have no stake in such relationships at all, especially when someone else has a multiple of sex, brain and good character to offer. He said, they are soon beaten out of the marital game because, like beauty, even sex fades........

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/14/good-sex-doesnt-pay-bills-alibaba/

A passenger train has derailed in northern Greece, leaving four passengers dead and at least five seriously injured, including the driver, the state railway has said.


The intercity train was traveling from Athens to Thessaloniki when it went off the rails near the station at the village of Adendro on Saturday night.


One carriage crashed into the ground floor of a two-storey house while others toppled onto their sides, their windows smashed....

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/14/at-least-4-dead-after-train-derails-in-greece/

PARIS – France has inaugurated new president, Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old independent centrist who was elected on May 7.

The president of the Constitutional Council, Laurent Fabius, proclaimed the official result of the vote in a ceremony Sunday at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris.

Macron formally took power after his predecessor, Socialist Francois Hollande, met with him for one hour and left.


Macron is the youngest president in the country's history and the 8th president of France's Fifth Republic, created in 1958.....

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/14/france-inaugurates-emmanuel-macron-as-new-president/

Jim Parsons, right, and Mayim Bialik, "The Big Bang Theory." (CBS)
Just two weeks ago, a pair of “The Big Bang Theory” cast members were still engaged in extended contract negotiations, putting the future of the popular comedy’s core seven stars in doubt.

But in writing Season 10’s finale (Thursday on CBS), producers didn’t plan any alternate endings for Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch’s characters should the actresses not close new deals to return in the fall....

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/13/big-bang-had-no-plan/

Multiple suicide bomb attacks at the University of Maiduguri(UNIMAID), on Saturday, delayed the commencement of the Computer-Based Test for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,(UTME) candidates at centres in the university.


Three suicide bombers,early today detonated their explosives, at the gate of the University killing a security guard and injuring one soldier.


The six test centres in the university recorded low turn out following the incident.


http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/13/unimaid-bomb-blasts-delay-utme/

Nigerian Stanley Okawuchi scored a soft late goal to ensure Zamalek of Egypt made a winning start Friday in the CAF Champions League group phase.


Stanley Okawuchi

The five-time champions scored twice in the second half to overcome plucky CAPS United of Zimbabwe 2-0 during matchday 1 in Mediterranean city Alexandria....

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/13/nigerian-okawuchi-seals-win-for-zamalek/

Some 500,000 worshippers gathered in Fatima Saturday to watch Pope Francis declare two child shepherds who had visions of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago saints, the Vatican said.
Pope Francis waves to the crowd after the “Urbi et Orbi” blessing for Rome and the world from the central loggia of St Peters’ basilica following the Easter Sunday mass on April 16, 2017 at St Peter’s square in Vatican.

Christians around the world are marking the Holy Week, commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, leading up to his resurrection on Easter...

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An 8-year-old boy shown on surveillance video being knocked to the floor unconscious at school two days before he killed himself told staff he had fainted and never said he had been bullied or assaulted, a school spokeswoman said Friday.


Gabriel Taye's mother didn't learn of the bullying until her attorneys saw a copy of an email written by a Cincinnati police homicide detective in an investigative file that describes the scene outside a boys' bathroom, her lawyers said.

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/13/school-cincinnati-boy-who-killed-himself-never-said-he-was-bullied/

US and South Korea preparing an "Arab Spring" in North Korea?


"Instability," "regime change," and "collapse" of the North Korean system are discussed by US and South Korean experts

It seems unlikely that the US will attempt to militarily attack North Korea and start a conventional war on the Korean Peninsula, especially after Pyongyang has withdrawn from nuclear weapons, which is seen as a deterrent mechanism for that country.

But even after President Donald Trump lowered the tone of his rhetoric, North Korea remains vigilant. Recently, the official daily Rodong Sinmun said that "Washington still has plans to occupy the northern part of the Korean Peninsula with the help of its allies, Japan and South Korea."

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/10/us-and-south-korea-preparing-an-arab-spring-in-north-korea/

Lagos—No fewer than 66 inmates of the Kirikiri Medium Prisons, Lagos, yesterday, breathed an air of freedom as the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Oluwafunmilayo Atilade, ordered their release.


Atilade gave the order during a visit to the prison as part of efforts to facilitate administration of justice in the state and reduce overcrowding in the facility.


The prison which currently accommodates 3,326 inmates, has 2, 789 awaiting trial, while 537 have so far been convicted.

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/10/lagos-cj-frees-66-inmates-at-kirikiri-medium-prison/

ABUJA-The cliche’ “the more you look, the less you see was exactly what played out at the Presidential Villa, Abuja as Journalists covering President Muhammadu Buhari and his official activities were literary barred from covering his meeting with the released 82 Chibok girls.

82 Chibok girls with President Buhari shortly before leaving for London

With the official statement from the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu on Saturday that the girls freed on the same day would be formally received by the president on Sunday, State House correspondents set out early for the event.

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/07/journalists-barred-from-covering-buharis-reception-for-82-freed-chibok-girls/

Emmanuel Macron was elected French president on Sunday in a resounding victory over far-right rival Marine Le Pen after a deeply divisive campaign, initial estimates showed.

Macron, running as a centrist, won between 65.5 and 66.1 percent of the vote ahead of Le Pen on between 33.9 percent and 34.5 percent.

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/07/breaking-emmanuel-macron-elected-french-president/

The “mother of all bombs” dropped on Islamic State militants in Afghanistan last month may not have been as effective as U.S. military officials have led on, analysts studying the airstrike said.


Alcis, an institute for geographical analysis, surveyed the targeted area in the Nangarhar province where the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat was used, The Guardian reported Friday. The group determined that 38 buildings and 69 trees were destroyed in a near 500-foot radius, which contradicts statements made by residents who told local media the bomb damages houses up to two miles away.


The group added that the imagery shows no 1,000-foot crater and that much of the damage done appeared to be caused by ground fighting....

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/07/analysts-downplay-effectiveness-of-moab-strike/

Members of the San Diego Police Department collect evidence at the scene of a fatal police officer involved shooting of a 15-year-old boy in one of the parking lots in front of Torrey Pines High School, early Saturday morning. (Howard Lipin/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

SAN DIEGO – Police shot and killed a 15-year-old student Saturday after he pointed a BB gun at them in a high school parking lot, authorities said.....

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In line with the policy of the Federal Government to secure oil pipelines, the Western Naval Command (WNC) of Nigerian Navy (NN) has expanded its operations to curtail pipeline vandalisation and illegal oil bunkering in the creeks.


The Command, which is saddled with the responsibilities of seaward defence of Nigeria’s maritime space, combating illegal activities like piracy, sea robbery, illegal bunkering, crude oil theft, smuggling, poaching, dumping of toxic wastes and trafficking of arms, has also increased coastal surveillance to protect the nation’s territorial waters...

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/07/how-we-tackle-pipeline-vandalism-illegal-oil-bunkering-in-creeks-bankole/

Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Enugu state has warned that Ndigbo will not seat aloof to watch the deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, humiliated for unsubstantiated reason.

The apex Igbo body said it’s warning is coming on the heels of the alarm raised by Ekweremadu that the federal government through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is planning to rope him in a phantom allegation.

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/06/ohanaeze-warns-on-consequence-of-ekweremadus-humiliation/

Stephen Hawking is giving humanity a tall order: Colonize Mars in the next century or watch as life on Earth fizzles out.

After last year claiming that humans have 1,000 years left on Earth, Hawking says in a new documentary that we instead have about 100 years until we'll need to jump ship as Earth is overwhelmed by overpopulation, climate change, disease, and artificial intelligence.


It might be a bit premature to start packing, but the BBC's Expedition New Earth will explore technological and scientific advances that will enable life in space or a colony on another planet....

http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/05/humans-have-100-years-left/

Abuja – The President of Niger Republic, Mahamadou Issoufou, has rescheduled his proposed visit to President Muhammadu Buhari.

R-L President Muhammadu Buhari, President of TChad Mr Idriss Déby and President of Republic of Niger, Mr. Mahamadou Issoufou after a book Launch on President Muhammadu Buhari tittle:

The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria by Mr John N Paden...

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the smash-hit, award-winning London play about the fictional boy wizard as a grown father of three, will open in New York in spring 2018.

The show will make its official Broadway debut on April 22 at the Lyric Theatre, currently under renovation in preparation for the North American premiere, producers of the London show said on Thursday.


http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/04/harry-potter-play-to-open-in-new-york-in-spring-2018/

An engineering student at Saint Louis University prompted a campus-wide lockdown and a hunt for a possible shooting suspect on Wednesday after his class assignment to build a toy gun was mistaken for a real weapon.


The private university in Missouri issued a shelter in place order Wednesday afternoon after a witness reported seeing someone in a black hoodie go into a dorm with what looked like a gun, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.


After questioning two students, police and university officials tracked the source of the scare to a toy gun. SLU spokesman Jeff Fowler says the first student questioned was the individual who witness the supposed gun which led police to interviewing the second student who showed police to his dorm where the toy gun was.



http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/04/class-assignment-to-build-toy-gun-prompts-university-lockdown/

In this July 15, 2015 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy speaks in San Diego. (AP)


WASHINGTON – As one justice settles into his new job at the Supreme Court, is another about to leave?


Eighty-year-old Justice Anthony Kennedy is so far refusing to comment on speculation that he may soon retire after 29 years on the court.
But that hasn't stopped President Donald Trump and, obliquely, the Republican senator in charge of high court confirmation hearings from weighing in on the prospect that Kennedy could step down as soon as this spring or summer. If not this year, several former law clerks said they would not be surprised to see the justice retire in 2018.



http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/04/rumors-surround-justice-kennedy-exit/

FBI Director James Comey said during Senate hearings that Russia was the largest threat on Earth, especially for the American democracy. NBC News journalist Bradd Jaffy posted a part of the unprecedented statement on Twitter.


"Certainly, in my view, [Russia] the greatest threat of any nation on Earth, given their intention and their capability," Comey, the head of one of the largest special services in the world told the Senate.


http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/03/fbi-chief-names-russia-greatest-threat-on-earth/

More than two decades before he railed against Donald Trump’s “temperament” and “core values,” a young Barack Obama dreamed of becoming the billionaire businessman.


Obama revealed his idolization of The Donald – and what he stood for – in a never-published book written with a classmate during his Harvard Law School days, portions of which are published in the upcoming Obama biography “Rising Star.”


http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/03/donald-envy-manuscript-obama-once-wanted-to-be-like-trump/

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has emphasized the importance of the contribution of Indian society to the growth, development and efforts towards self-reliance of the Nigerian economy. He said this during an interactive session with Indian Professional Forum at his presidential library, Abeokuta, Ogun State.




http://www.streetcurb.com/2017/05/03/obasanjo-charges-indian-community-on-self-reliance-partnership/

ABUJA—The Federal Government is set to establish a taskforce on the implementation of key objectives of its recently launched Economic Growth and Recovery Plan EGRP.
Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udo Udoma, who disclosed this at an ERGP Implementation stakeholders’ dialogue session in Abuja yesterday, said:



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Carrie Fisher attending the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California.
Photo: AFP Culture Obituary Hollywood’s ‘princess’ Carrie Fisher dead at 60.

'Carrie was one-of-a-kind who belonged to us all — whether she liked it or not,' says co-star Mark Hamill

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This sign was posted at Honolulu’s Café 8 ½.

Honolulu’s Café 8 ½ gets rave reviews on Yelp for its “Radiatore Verde” and “Italian stir fry,” among other popular dishes at the eclectic mom-and-pop restaurant – but the response to its new 'policy' barring pro-Trump patrons has been decidedly more mixed.

A bright yellow, handmade sign posted on the restaurant's front glass door declares:

“If you voted for Trump you cannot eat here! No Nazis.”



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US President Barack Obama (R) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greet veterans at Kilo Pier overlooking the USS Arizona Memorial on December 27, 2016 at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Photo: AFP/Nicholas Kamm Japan Pearl Harbor Abe pledges Japan will never wage war again

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Abe became the first Japanese prime minister to visit the memorial built over the remains of the sunken battleship USS Arizona


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