Actor Robin Williams dead, Barack obama griefs, Ramsey arsenal

Actor Robin Williams
dead from suspected
suicide
Oscar-winning actor and comedian
Robin Williams died from suspected
suicide on Monday after a battle
with depression.

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LADIES, This will be your childs name, MAPENZI NAYO.....!! Shukuru umezaa

The safe period refers to the
window period where a woman is
less likely to get pregnant if they
have unprotected intercourse.
Technically speaking, this safe
period falls between day 1-7 of the
period and Day 19 to the start of
the next cycle
The normal woman’s menstrual
cycle is supposed to last 28 days.
Of these only days 8 to 19 are
considered fertile i.e. a woman is
likely to have a baby through
unprotected intercourse, all other
days are safe. The cycle is
considered to begin with the first
day of bleeding and ends when
the bleeding starts again.
Opting to have sex during the ‘safe
period’ isn’t fool-proof though. A
lot of women have irregular cycles
and the cycle length can vary from
women to women. That’s why the
so-called ‘safe period’ is in truth
not that safe and it’s better to use
condoms or other contraceptive
methods like the oral pill to
prevent unwanted pregnancies.

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"No more thefts of smartphones"Android and Windows create a new feature in Smartphones.

Google and Microsoft are adding a “kill-switch” feature to their
Android and Windows phone
operating systems.
The feature is a method of making a
handset completely useless if it is
stolen, rendering a theft pointless.
Authorities have been urging tech
firms to take steps to help curb
phone theft and argued that a kill-
switch feature can help resolve the
problem.
Apple and Samsung, two of the
biggest phone makers, offer a similar
feature on some of their devices. The
move by Google and Microsoft means
that kill switches will now be a part
of the three most popular phone
operating systems in the world.
Smartphone theft has become a big
problem across the world. According
to a report by US authorities: some
3.1 million mobile devices were
stolen in the US in 2013, nearly
double the number of devices stolen
in 2012; one in three Europeans
experienced the theft or loss of a
mobile device in 2013; in South
Korea, mobile device theft increased
five-fold between 2009 and 2012;
and in Colombia, criminals stole over
one million devices in 2013.

A “hard” kill switch would render a
stolen device permanently unusable
and is favoured by legislators who
want to give stolen devices the
“value of a paperweight”. A “soft”
kill switch only make a phone
unusable to “an unauthorised user”.
Some argue that the only way to
permanently disable a phone is to
physically damage it.

RIGHT DIRECTION
Experts worry that hackers could find
a way to hijack a kill signal and turn
off phones, and if a phone is turned
off or put into aeroplane mode, it
might not receive the kill signal at
all.
Further, authorities claim that
Apple’s feature — dubbed Activation
Lock, which it introduced on all
iPhones running the iOS 7 operating
system in September last year — has
helped reduce theft substantially.
According to a report by the New
York State Attorney General, in the
first five months of 2014 the theft of
Apple devices fell by 17 per cent in
New York City. Meanwhile, iPhone
robberies fell 24 per cent in London
and 38 per cent in San Francisco in
the six months after Apple
introduced the feature, compared to
the previous six months.
“During the same period, thefts of
other popular mobile devices
increased,” the report says.
Mr Manoj Menon, managing director
of consulting firm Frost & Sullivan,
said the move was a step in the
right direction.
“[It] will go a long way in helping
authorities come one step closer to
realising a vision of zero theft of
mobile phones,” he said.

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Divock Origi to Join Tottenham Spurs! Belgium Origi

W ith the departed Jermain
Defoe now too busy
watching ice hockey, Harry
Kane no longer the darling of Tim
Sherwood and Roberto Soldado no
longer the darling of anyone,
Tottenham need a hot young thing
to partner Emmanuel Adebayor up
front and fire them to a Europa
League place. Spurs’ scouting
department have been too busy
swigging beer and watching the
World Cup to care, but in
watching Belgium’s 1-0 victory
over Russia on Sunday, they
managed to spot the goalscorer
Divock Origi, and promptly
phoned up his club, Lille, for a
quote.
The French club are holding out
for £8m for the 19-year-old but
canny negotiator Daniel Levy will
start at £5m and hope to end up
somewhere in the middle. Origi
might only have scored five goals
in 30 league appearances last
season but remember, he’s a
‘starlet’ and most importantly of
all, he’s BELGIAN. Sign him up!
Somebody who didn’t score over
the weekend, but nevertheless
impressed in failing to do so
against a far superior opposition,
is Ashkan Dejagah . The Iranian
shone against Argentina on
Saturday and nearly gave his
nation a shock lead with a diving
header. The 27-year-old is set to
play in the Championship next
season after being relegated with
Fulham but after playing in Brazil
he has decided that might not be
for the best, with Everton
reportedly keen. “I don’t know
what will happen next season. I
still have a contract at Fulham
and have liked it there, but it is a
hard situation. Of course I want
to play in the Premier League, but
I will focus here and then we will
see what happens,” he shop-
windowed.
Another player in Brazil hoping
for a move is Victor Moses. The
Nigerian was hauled off against
Iran in their opening match and
didn’t make it off the bench
during their win over Bosnia. Vic
Mo over the hill? Alan Irvine
doesn’t think so, with West
Bromwich offering the Chelsea
winger a loan move for the
coming season.
Elsewhere, Steve Bruce thinks that
his son could do with some more
competition at centre-back at Hull
and is set to table a £4m offer for
Tottenham captain Michael
Dawson, while Swansea are
poised to offer free-agent
Bafetimbi Gomis a whopping
£80,000-a-week in order to beat
Newcastle and QPR to his
signature.

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Ibrahim toure, brother to Yaya toure and kilo toure, DIES!!!

Besides Ivory coast loosing to
Colombia recently, top quality
players - Kolo and Yaya Toure,
further bemoan the loss of their
younger brother- Ibrahim Toure.
Ibrahim passed on at the age of 28
on Thursday in Manchester.
Football seems to be a household
lingua across the brothers, as the
late Ibrahim Toure was a prolific
striker at a Lebanese team- Al-Safa
SC. Sources indicate that Ibrahim
perished after a short battle with
cancer.
Though Yaya and Kolo have learnt of
the news while in Brazil for the
World Cup tournament, Ivorian
players and soccer fans across the
world, have shown their support to
the players.
The brothers haven’t commented on
the matter as per yet, though fans
across the world continue to
remember them in prayers.
Ivory Coast won her first match 2-1
against Japan and will play her
remaining Group C game against
Greece on Tuesday.

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The Leader of Boko-Haram

A screengrab taken on May 12, 2014,
from a video released by Boko Haram
shows a man claiming to be the
group's leader Abubakar Shekau.

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Argentina v Bosnia- Herzegovina: World Cup 2014 Analysis

Lionel Messi scored a brilliant
goal to help Argentina record a
scratchy victory in their opening
World Cup match
Leo Messi and Edin Dzeko. The
best player in the world and the
best bad player in the world.
Overall, it wasn't
particularly impressive from
Argentina but they got the
job done. Nothing else
matters. They'll need to
improve as the tournament
progresses, though. They've
won with an own-goal and a
moment of magic from Lionel
Messi. Bosnia played well and
will fancy their chances of
going through. I'm off to
record a podcast now, so I'll
leave you with this from
Stevo Toboa siri: "This isn't
really a tactical analysis or
anything, but I've just been
looking at the picture of Dzeko
at the top of the page. Hasn't
he got a pointy filtrum? He'd
make a fabulous Joker." Night!

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Minister under fire for insulting the president

KIEV/MOSCOW - Senior Russian
parliamentarians urged Ukraine on
Sunday to sack its foreign minister
for calling President Vladimir Putin a
"dickhead" during a violent protest
outside Russia's embassy in Kiev.
Acting Foreign Minister Andriy
Deshchytsia tried to persuade
protesters not to use violence at the
rally on Saturday evening, during
which the Russian flag was ripped
up, vehicles overturned and stones
and eggs thrown at the embassy.
"We must fulfil our international
obligations, including defending the
right of Russia to have an embassy
in Ukraine ," he told the protesters,
angered by pro-Russian separatists
shooting down a military cargo plane
in east Ukraine, killing 49 people.
But challenged by the protesters, he
added: "Did I say that I am against
you protesting? I am for you
protesting. I am ready to be here
with you and say 'Russia, get out of
Ukraine'."
"Yes, Putin is a dickhead, yes," he
went on to say and the protesters
responded by chanting the phrase.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov, in a telephone call with his
french counterpart on Sunday,
"expressed outrage over the inaction
of the Kiev authorities who allowed
the rioting outside the Russian
embassy," the ministry said in a
statement.
Lavrov has protested to the
Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe about the
violent rally at the embassy and the
United States and the European
Union have condemned it.
Alexei Pushkov, head of the Russian
lower house of parliament's
international affairs committee, said
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
should dismiss Deshchytsia.
"Poroshenko should change his
foreign minister. He doesn't control
himself very well," Pushkov said on
Twitter, and went on to suggest in
televised comments that Moscow
should halt all dialogue with Kiev
and cut off gas supplies to Ukraine.
Leonid Kalashnikov, Pushkov's deputy
on the same committee, told Ekho
Moskvy radio station in Moscow that
Deshchystia came from the protest
movement that toppled Ukraine 's
previous, Moscow-leaning president
and did not know his "craft".
"I can't really imagine how anyone,
especially a Russian representative,
can sit down at the negotiating
table with him after such an
outburst," Kalashnikov said.
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said
arrests had been made after the
rally, during which windows were
smashed and a gate damaged, and
that stabilising the situation in
Ukraine depended on Moscow's
"readiness to stop supporting
terrorists" in east Ukraine.
Defending his actions, Deshchytsia
told Ekho Moskvy that he had told
the demonstrators they could
protest peacefully but should not
resort to violence.

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UK rejects Kenya’s petition for review of miraa ban

Hopes for Kenya to resume selling
miraa (khat) in the United
Kingdom dimmed after the British
High Commission insisted that the
ban will not be reviewed.
In a statement Thursday, the Head
of Communications at the British
High Commission in Nairobi
Stephen Burns said the ban comes
into effect on June 24, 2014.
“This decision was in no way
targeted at Kenya directly. The UK
Government has had a long-
standing intention to review the
legal status of miraa.
“As the Home Secretary set out in
July 2013, this decision was not
taken lightly and the UK
recognised the economic
implications for a number of
countries, predominantly in the
Horn of Africa and the Arabian
Peninsula,” the statement read.
Mr Burns said the British
Government was aware of
economic impact the ban will have
in Kenya.
He said the UK Government will
give Kenya aid to support economic
growth.
He said the ban followed the
British Parliament’s approval of
the Government’s decision to
reclassify miraa as a Class C drug.
He said the UK is one of the last
countries to reclassify miraa, with
the majority of other EU member
states already having done so, as
well as most of the G8 countries
including Canada and the USA.
“That the UK is at serious risk of
becoming a regional hub – with
evidence already suggesting that
the UK is being used as a transit
hub for onward illegal miraa
trafficking to the Netherlands
(where miraa was banned in
January),” Mr Burns said.
The stand by the British
Government comes days after
President Uhuru Kenyatta pledged
to intervene to have the ban
reviewed.
Speaking in Meru County,
President Kenyatta said the
Government was committed to
saving their source of livelihood.
Former Prime Minister Raila
Odinga also petitioned the British
Government to review the ban on
miraa .
Mr Odinga wrote to British Prime
Minister David Cameron last Friday
asking him to extend the deadline.

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US President Barack Obama says he’s a “good, fun dad”

US President Barack
Obama says he’s a “good, fun dad” who at
times might cause his two teenage daughters
to cringe.
In an interview aired Thursday, America’s first
father also joked that he sought a second
term so the Secret Service could keep a close
eye on 13-year-old Sasha and 15-year-old
Malia.
“I think they would say that I am a good, fun
dad who teeters on the edge of being
embarrassing sometimes,” Obama told NBC’s
Today show when asked how his girls would
describe him.
Obama commented ahead of Father’s Day –
Sunday here in the United States – in an
exclusive with Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of
Obama’s Republican predecessor in the White
House, George W. Bush who also grew up in
the glare of the public eye.
Obama said he and First Lady Michelle are
“really proud” of their daughters, adding they
don’t have to check on their homework or “nag
them too much about stuff.”
“They’ve got their acts together,” he said.
As for their budding social lives? The president
says he doesn’t worry too much about that.
“They’ve got their heads on straight. They’re
strong, confident young ladies.”
Still, the Secret Service detail shadowing the
two sisters likely means a better night’s sleep
for the commander-in-chief.
“Well as you know, from experience, shaped
under this a little bit, they do have a secret
service detail,” he told Hager Bush.
“Which I joke, the main reason I ran for re-
election was to sustain that all the way through
their high school years.”
In other comments, Obama – who grew up
without a father – said he promised himself
early on he would be a present dad once he
had a family of his own.
“I made a decision in young adulthood that it
was going to be important for me to make sure
that I was there for my kids,” said Obama,
known for making a point of regularly having
dinner with his family and attending school
sports games.
“The one thing the girls know about me is I
love them to death.”

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UK rejects Kenya’s petition for review of miraa ban

Hopes for Kenya to resume selling
miraa (khat) in the United
Kingdom dimmed after the British
High Commission insisted that the
ban will not be reviewed.
In a statement Thursday, the Head
of Communications at the British
High Commission in Nairobi
Stephen Burns said the ban comes
into effect on June 24, 2014.
“This decision was in no way
targeted at Kenya directly. The UK
Government has had a long-
standing intention to review the
legal status of miraa.
“As the Home Secretary set out in
July 2013, this decision was not
taken lightly and the UK
recognised the economic
implications for a number of
countries, predominantly in the
Horn of Africa and the Arabian
Peninsula,” the statement read.
Mr Burns said the British
Government was aware of
economic impact the ban will have
in Kenya.
He said the UK Government will
give Kenya aid to support economic
growth.
He said the ban followed the
British Parliament’s approval of
the Government’s decision to
reclassify miraa as a Class C drug.
He said the UK is one of the last
countries to reclassify miraa, with
the majority of other EU member
states already having done so, as
well as most of the G8 countries
including Canada and the USA.
“That the UK is at serious risk of
becoming a regional hub – with
evidence already suggesting that
the UK is being used as a transit
hub for onward illegal miraa
trafficking to the Netherlands
(where miraa was banned in
January),” Mr Burns said.
The stand by the British
Government comes days after
President Uhuru Kenyatta pledged
to intervene to have the ban
reviewed.
Speaking in Meru County,
President Kenyatta said the
Government was committed to
saving their source of livelihood.
Former Prime Minister Raila
Odinga also petitioned the British
Government to review the ban on
miraa .
Mr Odinga wrote to British Prime
Minister David Cameron last Friday
asking him to extend the deadline.

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Gunmen posing as preachers kill dozens in northeast Nigeria

Maiduguri,Nigeria: Suspected
Islamist militants pretending to be
preachers rounded up and killed at
least 42 villagers in northeastern
Nigeria, a police source said, as an
escalating insurgency increasingly
targets civilians.
The shootings on the outskirts of the
city of Maiduguri late on Wednesday
came a day after officials said
raiders killed scores in three other
settlements in Borno state, where
the Boko Haram militant group first
launched its campaign to carve out
an Islamist caliphate.
The attackers, who were wearing
military-style uniforms, drove into
the village of Bardari, told people to
gather for a sermon and opened fire,
the police source told Reuters. "The
people couldn't identify them in
time as terrorists," the source
added.
No group claimed responsibility for
the attack. But Boko Haram has
stepped up its revolt and mounted
nearly daily attacks in the area since
it made world headlines in April by
abducting more than 200 schoolgirls
in another part of the state.
The mass abduction, and Boko
Haram's fightback against a military
offensive, has increased political
pressure President Goodluck
Jonathan, who has faced regular
street protests by activists criticising
his response.
Jonathan has accepted help from
the United States and other foreign
powers who are alarmed at the
prospect of further turmoil in Africa's
largest economy and oil producer,
and its potential impact on a fragile
region. Borno state borders Niger,
Chad and Cameroon.

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