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World's Biggest Cow Escapes Slaughter Because It's Too Big To Fit In Abattoir (Pics) THE world's biggest cow will be saved from the chop after its 6ft 4in frame is too big to fit into abattoir, a farmer revealed. Knickers, a seven-year-old Holstein Friesian, is more than twice the size of the rest of the cows in Myalup, Western Australia. Holstein-Friesians are a dairy breed and normally weigh in at about 1,500 pounds and stand about 4ft 1oins tall. Even the breed's bulls only reach just 5ft 10ins and weigh 2,200lbs. Butchers say the giant would produce around 1,400 lbs of trimmed "saleable" beef  - enough for 450 cuts of steak and 370kg of mince. The bovine behemoth stands head and shoulders above other farm beasts and weighs in at an incredible 1.4 tonnes (3,083lbs). Owner Geoff Pearson - whose beast is the biggest of its breed in Australia - said:  "It was too heavy. I wouldn’t be able to put it through a processing facility. "S...

Romeo And Juliet; Couple Die While Hugging Each Other After Drug Overdose. A young couple who planned to travel the world died side-by-side “like Romeo and Juliet” in bed after a double drug overdose. Michelle Avila, 23, and her boyfriend Christian Kent, 20, went out to a party but “weren’t drinking much” because they were both ill, according to reports. They came home about 12.30am and went to bed but the next day Michelle’s family discovered them both dead in the young woman’s childhood bed. The pair, from Newport Beach in Orange County, California, both had colds and had been taking antibiotics but her family believe they died from an opiate overdose – a tragic problem that is becoming more prevalent in the affluent beach community. Michelle was a part-time model and student and aspired to be a journalist. Her beau Christian was studying in San Diego. Michelle’s parents said she didn’t “party too much”, choosing instead to spend her time with Christian and their clo...

Ronaldo Hits 100 Champions League Wins Juventus’ Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo. MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri hailed the impact Cristiano Ronaldo was having on the Italian champions as the Portuguese star became the first player to achieve 100 Champions League wins in on Tuesday’s 1-0 success over Valencia that clinched their passage to the knockout rounds. “Ronaldo gives us a sense of security and confidence,” said Allegri of the beaten finalists in two of the last four editions of the elite European competition. “The team is essentially the same as last season. We’ve grown, become faster in playing the ball, but then, of course, there is Cristiano Ronaldo. “This team is constantly improving – they’re passing and putting the play together more quickly.” Ronaldo — who joined Juventus last summer from Real Madrid — is targeting a sixth Champions League title to add to his four with the Spanish team and one with M...

Liverpool boss, Jurgen Klopp, has named Paris Saint-Germain as the favourite club that can win the Champions League this season. According to Klopp, the French Ligue 1 champions have more chances of winning the Europe topflight league trophy this campaign because they feel no pressure. “I think they [PSG] are favourite for the tournament; in general they are with the quality they have,” Metro UK quoted Klopp as saying ahead of his side’s Champions League clash with PSG on Wednesday night. “I don’t think Paris feel the pressure. I know Thomas Tuchel quite well, and I’m sure he will ensure their boys ignore what the world outside thinks. “They want to go through the group and that will be enough motivation for them.” Klopp added: “They have a really good team who have made an impressive start in the league and they have the chance to go through in the Champions League. “A lot of teams struggled in moments this season. Look to Spain and what the big ones there are doing.”...

Pompeo To Meet New Mexican Counterpart Over Border Issues US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during an event for PEPFAR(President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief) at the US Department of State November 27, 2018, in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski / AFP US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet his counterpart from Mexico’s new government Sunday for talks over a possible deal that would see asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their claims are processed, officials said on Tuesday. The government of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will be sworn in Saturday, with Marcelo Ebrard as the new foreign minister. Ebrard already met Pompeo and US Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen in Houston earlier this month. Since then, Obrador officials have reportedly reached an agreement with the US for asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their applications are processed in the United States. President Donald Trump has confirmed the outlines of the agree...

22 Killed, 22 Injured In China’s Chemical Plant Blast An explosion and fire near a chemical factory left at least 22 people dead and 22 others injured in northern China on Wednesday, authorities said. The incident near Hebei Shenghua Chemical Co. in Zhangjiakou, a city some 200 kilometers (124 miles) northwest of Beijing, also burned 50 large and small trucks, the local propaganda department said on its Weibo social media account. The injured were taken to hospital for treatment following the blast, which occurred at 00:41 am, according to the statement. The charred and smoking remains of trucks and cars were scattered on a road as firefighters worked at the scene, according to photos posted on Twitter by state broadcaster CGTN. “On-site search and rescue work and investigation of the cause of the accident are still underway,” the propaganda department said. Source :channelstv

The number of syphilis patients in Japan has risen to 6,096, this year, a 47-year-high, the Tokyo-based National Institute of Infectious Diseases reported on Wednesday. The latest figures as of Nov. 18 have already surpassed 2017’s 5,820 cases, with the numbers climbing especially among men in their 20s to 40s and women in their 20s, according to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The number of syphilis cases has increased dramatically since 2011, when the nation saw 827 cases, according to the ministry. However, the cause of the rapid rise remains unclear. About a quarter of the 6,096 cases or 1,548 were found in Tokyo this year, followed by 1,043 cases in the prefecture of Osaka, the institute said. Of the 5,081 patients in the January-to-September period, men accounted for 66 per cent and women 34 per cent, according to the institute. The ministry urged people to use condoms to prevent the disease or get tested immediately if they feel they might be inf...

I Was Miserable In My Office Job – Woman Who Makes Money By Selling Her Sex Videos. A model has revealed how much she rakes in a month selling her sex videos on Snapchat. Jodie Carnall refers to herself as a Snapchat Premium girl and charges a monthly fee of between £20 and £200 to her subscribers and makes up to £4,000 a month. She told the BBC she also advertises her services on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The reality star started selling explicit content of herself when men began contacting her online after she appeared on the ITV dating show in 2016. Jodie, who also starred on Coach Trip, said: “It’s like a proper business. “It’s like people that sing, or go and gig, or artists that sell their own paintings. I’m just selling pictures and videos of me.” She added: “I’m not an escort. I’ve been offered thousands of pounds to meet men and I say ‘no’.” But she admits to getting abuse for her sexy displays. Jodie added: “People cal...

Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has opened up on why his team fear Liverpool’s terrific form this season, in a bid to win the Premier League title.   Pep Guardiola Pep Guardiola has admitted that Liverpool’s efforts this season are helping motivate his Manchester City team in the Premier League title race. City are two points clear at the top of the table, with Liverpool the closest side to the defending champions after 13 games. Liverpool and City are the only two sides left unbeaten this season, with Jurgen Klopp’s side tipped to be Guardiola’s most serious rivals this season. Guardiola has needed to see off some fierce competition at different clubs, including the 2009/10 season when Barcelona beat Real Madrid to the La Liga title by just three points. “I remember perfectly that season, how tough it was. Madrid with Manuel (Pellegrini) played incredibly good,’  he said. “It was so nice because we did those 99 points when the year before we won...

Two men have been arrested after allegedly kidnapping and gang-raping their former teacher in a rural community in South Africa.The unnamed woman, a teacher at a high school near Marken, Limpopo, South Africa, was said to have been abducted from her home on Monday after two men broke in while she was asleep. FILE PHOTO The two detainees, aged 18 and 20, are believed to be part of a group of men who tied her up with a rope before loading her into the boot of her VW Polo. The men then allegedly gang raped her before dumping her in the bushes and fleeing in her car. A police spokesperson said the suspects were ‘well known to the victim’ as previous students and neighbors. ‘Preliminary police investigations have since revealed that the two suspects involved in this chain of crime incidents are well known to the victim as she previously taught them at the same school and they are also staying in this village,’ said police spokesperson Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe. ‘Durin...

Fans of Ghanaian singer Becca are not happy with her after un-following everyone on Instagram, except her Nigerian husband. For reasons best known to her, the ‘Daa ke Daa’ hitmaker had unfollowed her previously tall list of following including her boss, Nana Appiah Mensah of Zylofon, Nana Ama McBrown, Yvonne Okoro, Zynnel Zuh, Sarkodie, and many, many others. This seems to have angered some of her friends and followers who feel disrespected by Becca. In a new video she posted to promote a new song she has sang with Patoranking, Becca urged her fans and followers to download the music and share it far and wide. But instead of responding positively, some of the fans have asked Becca to go and play the song for her husband only to listen to it. For instance, an Instagram user who felt peeved by Becca’s action, plainly told Becca to go and play the song for her husband alone, adding that Becca shouldn’t expect her fans to hype the song for her since she had unfollowed everyone: See reac...

A police mugshot of a wanted man has gone viral after many hilariously mocked the man's bizarre haircut.   West Midlands Police shared a photo of  James Flynn , from  Birmingham , on their official Facebook page on Wednesday. They declared the 28-year-old wanted in connection with harassment and making threats.  Flynn's photo has since generated over 23,000 comments and has been shared more than 11,000 times, because of his hairdo  Dean Philp added: 'All that's missing is the numbers underneath his hair and he'd look like a bloody barcode.' Lee Mills added: 'Hair like an Aldi barcode.'  Kieran Gladwish joked: 'Scanned this picture and just got charged 5p for a bag.' Another joked: 'You need to arrest the barber for crimes against hairmanity.'  One Natasha Murphy wrote: 'There's a lot of hair-tful comments on this thread. This guy could be on the fringes of society.'  'He needs to know that good times...

Cigarette sales in South Korea kept falling this year on higher price and the government-led anti-smoking campaign, a Government report showed on Monday. Cigarette smoking The number of 20-cigarette packs sold here was 28.98 million for the first 10 months of this year, down 1.9 per cent from the same period of 2017, according to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance. The monthly average cigarette sale tumbled from 3.63 million in 2014 to 2.77 million in 2015 as the cigarette price rose by 80 per cent to 4,500 won (4 U.S. dollars) per pack. The monthly average figure gained to 3.05 million in 2016, but it declined to 2.94 million in 2017 as the government ordered tobacco companies to put graphic warnings on the upper part of both cigarette packs beginning December 2016. The reading shed to 2.9 million in the January-October period of this year. Despite the lower tobacco sale, the government collected 8.6 billion U.S. dollars in taxes from sales of cigarette for the f...

Everything you need to live well In January 2019, a liberal-arts student from New York born to immigrant parents will become the first black woman to lead Harvard University’s Crimson newspaper in its 145-year history. Kristine Guillaume, who is studying literature, history and African-American studies, was elected this month with a promise to steer the traditional bastion of the establishment towards a more diverse, digital-first future. She has previously served as a chair of a diversity and inclusivity committee, responsible for making The Harvard Crimson more diverse and welcoming to students from all backgrounds. “If my being elected to the Crimson presidency as the first black woman affirms anyone’s sense of belonging at Harvard, then that will continue to affirm the work that I’m doing,” she told The New York Times. The 20-year-old is the third black president and first black woman to helm the organization since it was founded in 1873. The Crimson has tr...

Zayn Malik Reveals He No Longer Practises Islam Everything you need to live well Born and raised in a Muslim family, British singer Zayn Malik has revealed that he would not call himself a Muslim and has dropped the religion. The  Pillow Talk  crooner, revealed this in an interview with British Vogue when he confirmed that he has stopped identifying as Muslim because he no longer “believes any of it.” The former One Direction band member revealed he never talked about his religious beliefs but added, “I’m not professed to be a Muslim”. When asked if he would call himself a Muslim now, he answers thoughtfully, “No, I wouldn’t”. He admitted that although he had a “spiritual belief’ of a god, he did not endorse Islam religious practices such as daily prayer and eating halal meat. He said, “I don’t believe you need to eat a certain meat that’s been prayed over a certain way, I don’t believe you need to read a prayer in a certain language five times a d...

Mourinho, players “fully united”— Woodward  Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward insists manager Jose Mourinho and the squad are “fully united” following a mixed start to the season. Manchester United’s French midfielder Paul Pogba (R) embraces Manchester United’s Belgian-born Brazilian midfielder Andreas Pereira after the UEFA Champions League group H football match between Young Boys and Manchester United at The Stade de Suisse in Bern on September 19, 2018. / AFP PHOTO After losing two of their first three Premier League matches, against Brighton and Tottenham in August, United’s campaign has slowly improved and featured a memorable victory in the Champions League at Juventus. But a 3-1 defeat in the Manchester derby on Sunday has left United 8th in the Premier League table, 12 points behind champions Manchester City at the top. Speaking in a conference call with investors on the New York Stock Exchange following the release of United’s first quar...