Lessons from the 'World's Ugliest Woman': 'Stop Staring and Start Learning'

When she was in high school, Lizzie Velasquez was dubbed "The World's Ugliest Woman" in an 8-second-long YouTube video. Born with a medical condition so rare that just two other people in the world are thought to have it, Velasquez has no adipose tissue and cannot create muscle, store energy, or gain weight. She has zero percent body fat and weighs just 60 pounds.
In the comments on YouTube, viewers called her "it" and "monster" and encouraged her to kill herself. Instead, Velasquez set four goals: To become a motivational speaker, to publish a book, to graduate college, and to build a family and a career for herself.

Woman Allegedly Gives Birth To A Horse In A Church

 
A woman has allegedly given birth to a horse during a prayer session held at the World Liberation Ministry located along old Sapele-Benin express road. The incident took place on tuesday. The horse however was dead by the time Journalists arrived at the church. It was reported that the woman started screaming during the prayer session and began to bleed from the vagina before the horse came out.
 The cleric said he doesn't know whether the horse was alive or dead since he didn't go near it. People rushed to the church to see the horse as soon as the news of the incident spread.
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We Performed Major Surgery For Ruptured Appendix on Mrs. Jonathan -Horst Schmidt Klinik

A spokesperson for the Horst Schmidt Klinik in Wiesbaden, Germany has revealed that the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan was in a bad state of health when she arrived at the hospital last week.
The hospital’s official, who confirmed that initial records showed that Mrs. Patience Jonathan had earlier been treated for food poisoning in Nigeria before being brought to the Horst Schmidt Klinik, however, said she was responding to treatment after she had undergone a major surgery for a ruptured appendix to remove the poisons in her intestine.

Usain Bolt To Play For Manchester United Against Real Madrid

Usain Bolt, the 100m race world record holder and olympic champion may have his dream of playing for the club come true as Sir Alex Ferguson, the Manchester United manager has hinted that Bolt might have the opportunity to play for the Red Devils in a friendly match against the Real Madrid legends next year.

Bolt has always been a huge fan of manchester united and had urged fans to help persuade Sir Alex to sign him up.

Bolt has previously trained with the Manchester United squad and said he was willing to leave athletics for a spot in the Red Devil's team. 

The charity game will take place on 3 June, 2013 at old trafford.

Dana Air Free To Resume Operations

The Federal Government on wednesday lifted the suspension which had been placed on the operating license of Dana Airlines. According to a statement by Joe Obi, Special Assistant(Media) to the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, the Federal Government was satisfied with the air-worthiness of the airline after a rigorous technical and financial audit of the airline.
The operating licence of the airline was suspended following the crash of one of their planes carrying 153 passengers and crew into some residential and commercial buildings in Iju-Ishaga, Lagos, claiming the lives of all the people on board as well as four persons on ground.

Snooker-Table Made With Mud, Sticks & Fruits

What will you call this? Ingenuity, creativity, thoughtfulness,desperation?

Just A Little Video To Cheer You Up

I stumbled across this video and I just couldn't stop laughing so I decided to share it with you guys. Hope you enjoy it.

Kidnapped ESUT Vice-Chancellor Released

Prof. Cyprian Onyeji, the vice chancellor of the Enugu State University of Science and Techonology (ESUT), who was kidnapped on the 15th of August, 2012, has been released. The kidnappers had demanded a ransom to the tune of N200 million but we have no idea about if a ransom was paid and how much was paid to secure his release.

Charly Boy Speaks On Why He Posed Nude

Charles Oputa, known popularly as Charly Boy and Area Fada, has in a recent interview talked about why he likes being controversial as well as on the issue of posing nude. View the controversial images and the excerpts of the interview after the break.

Chinedu Ikedieze a.k.a Aki Poses With Daughter

Isn't she cute?

Family Stop Woman From Jumping Off a 9-Storey Building To Her Death, Unknown To Them That She Had Earlier Thrown Nephew Off The Same Roof

The picture shown above is that of a woman being stopped from committing suicide by jumping off the roof of the nine-storey building shown. Unknown to them, the woman, Sheng Fi, had hours earlier smothered her four-year-old nephew just a few hours earlier and thrown his body off the same roof in Southern China. Sheng had a fight with her sister-in-law, the boy's mother, and killed the boy as a result of the fight.

The woman's daughter was brought to the roof of the 100ft tall building to talk her down after which they made the move to grab her before she could jump. Sheng admitted to throwing the boy's body off the same roof. A police spokesman told the local media that she'll be killed by a firing squad for murder.
The incident took place in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province of China. China is highly placed among the list of the countries with the highest suicide rates in the world, appearing ninth in the WHO's list of countries by suicide rate.

Brazilian Builder Cheats Death After 6-foot Metal Bar Pierces His Skull

I know you must be wondering how someone could survive that. The picture above is that of Eduardo Leite, a 24-year-old construction worker with a 6-foot metal bar through his skull. The metal bar fell from above and pierced his head while he was working. Doctors at the Miguel Couto Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, successfully removed the iron bar from Eduardo's skull during a five-hour surgery. Eduardo was reported to have shown no negative consequences after the operation.

ESUT VC Abductors Demand N200 million Ransom

Prof. Cyprian Onyeji, the vice chancellor of the Enugu State University of Science and Techonology (ESUT) was kidnapped by unknown gunmen about three days ago on his way to work. It has been learnt that his abductors, who are in contact with his family, have demanded for N200 million as ransom. The institution's authorities have indicated that it won't be involved in any form of negotiation with the kidnappers.

Chinese Baby Born With 16 Toes

The little boy has eight toes on each foot and five fingers on each hand but no thumbs on both hands. The condition is a rare genetic one known as polydactylism. The boy's father said that surgery will be done to remove the extra digits.

Miss China Wins the Miss World Crown

Miss China, Yu Wenxia, has emerged the winner in the just concluded 2012 Miss World beauty pageant held at Ordos, Inner Mongolia, in China. She is the second person from china to clench the Miss World title after Zhang Zilin won the crown in 2007. Yu Wenxia, a 23-year-old music student says she aspires to become a music teacher. Sophie Elizabeth Moulds of Wales was the first runner-up while Jessica Michelle Kahawaty of Australie was the second runner-up.