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Mariah Carey's "GMA" performance was all that and much more, as the singer's appearance was derailed by a wardrobe malfunction and the 43-year-old chanteuse cursing on live TV. The back of Carey's dress -- which was created by Donatella Versace -- split open as she was talking to host Lara Spencer. The two then did their best to manage the precarious situation, as Carey's bust began to spill out of her outfit. "Oh shoot, now the back of my dress just popped," she said. "I love you Donatella, but it popped."   Spencer described the debacle as "a TV moment" and cut to commercial. When the broadcast returned, Carey was wearing a pink number. As she welcomed fellow singer Miguel to the stage, she let out an "oh sh-t" on live TV and followed it up with a "you didn't hear that!" Eventually, the pair performed "#Beautiful," Carey's big comeback single . Take a look at her wardrobe malfunction abov

“Flash or disk?” That question — whether the future of data storage would be defined by flash memory or hard drives — has been a looming battle in the storage industry for the last several years. Hard drives, of course, remain the heart of the storage industry. Manufacturers shipped 524 million disk drives in 2012, according to iSuppli, more than ten times the 39 million flash drives that were shipped in the same period. Worldwide manufacturing capacity for drives at the end of 2012 came to around 125,000 petabytes per quarter, compared to around 10,000 petabytes per quarter for flash. By volume, hard drives are tough to beat.

Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not  allowed to be buried together. In the Protestant part of this cemetery, J.W.C  van Gorcum, colonel of the Dutch Cavalry and militia commissioner in Limburg, is  buried. His wife, lady J.C.P.H van Aefferden, is buried in the Catholic part.  They were married in 1842, the lady was 22 and the colonel was 33, but he was a  protestant and didn’t belong to the nobility. This caused quite a  commotion in Roermond. After being married for 38 years, the colonel died in  1880 and was buried in the protestant part of the cemetery against the wall. His  wife died in 1888 and had decided not to be buried in the family tomb but on the  other side of the wall, which was the closest she could get to her husband. Two  clasped hands connect the graves across the wall. ( Link )

You might remember Microsoft's recent ad comparing the Windows RT flavored 64GB ASUS VivoTab Smart with the fourth-generation Apple iPad . Microsoft even used Siri's voice as a Voice Over announcer. Now, in a more hard-hitting spot, Microsoft shows off capabilities that the ASUS VivoTab has that the Apple iPad doesn't offer out of the box and also shows how the ASUS slate is thinner than the iPad (.32 inch versus .37 inch) and is lighter (1.16 pounds versus 1.44 pounds). Microsoft is more than happy (gleeful, perhaps?) to show that while the Apple iPad only has the OneNote app, the ASUS slate comes with Microsoft Office. Again, the Redmond based software giant reminds you that while the iPad doesn't multitask, the Windows RT powered tablet does do more than one thing at a time. Want to expand the native storage on your tablet? Good luck looking for the microSD slot on the Apple slate. You can buy an adapter and kudos to Microsoft for pointing that out. But guess w

Top recruiters share how they use social media to source and screen job candidates. Social media for job seeking and social media for recruiting, sourcing and screening job candidates with guests Steve Levy blogs at The Recruiting Inferno and Tom Bolt who blogs at Make HR Happen . download here (right-click, save as)

  Police in Philadelphia are looking for a 21-year old man who shot up a strip club with an assault rifle.  They say that Henry Pettigrew is responsible for firing off his gun in the Purple Orchid Genteman’s Club after getting into an argument with the bouncers. According to witnesses, Pettigrew became angry that the DJ wouldn’t play his song. When the bouncers tried to put him out, Pettigrew got even more upset and attacked a customer that he thought was a bouncer.  When the man tried to get away in his SUV, Pettigrew shot at him with an AK-47 and hit him in his right hip. “Fortunately where it hit him, it hit the flesh of his body and it didn’t hit any vital organs,” Lt. Johnny Walker of the Philadelphia Police Department said. Surveillance shows the man trying to get back into the club, but falling down because he was drunk.  He then started to shoot everywhere. “Just wildly, obviously with an AK-47 with a banana clip, it can fire multiple rounds at a high rate of speed very qui

Gospel singer Kirk Frankin is now in the cross-hairs of the gay community for speaking out against homosexuality. LGBT activists are putting pressure on the DC government for paying the singer $80,000 to perform this year for the city’s Emancipation Day celebration.

  Ricky Naputi, thought to be one of the world’s fattest men, died in November of last year, but had been filmed during his final days for a TV special. The tragic final days of one of the world’s fattest men were spent desperately hoping to lose the weight that kept him bedridden for five years. Ricky Naputi, who weighed nearly 900 pounds, died in November 2012, but before he passed, the 39-year-old opened up his home to reality TV cameras from TLC. The cable network aired his story Wednesday night in a special called “900 Pound Man: Race Against Time.” Naputi, who lived in the U.S. island territory Guam, was bedridden and confined to his home, unable to walk or to bathe himself.

No fewer than 13 students were injured and property worth millions of Naira destroyed following a windstorm that struck Government Science Secondary School, Batagarawa, Katsina State. An eyewitness told a correspondent who visited the school on Saturday that the incident occurred on Thursday at about 7.20 p.m. He said the windstorm, which was followed by rainfall that lasted for 20 minutes, blew off several roofs, up-rooted some trees and destroyed some structures in the school compound. No life was lost, 13 students were injured. The windstorm destroyed Malamawa House, a hall, a mosque, some classrooms, the school library and up-rooted some electric poles. As a result of the incident, JSS 1 and JSS 11 students as well as SSS 1 and SSS 11 students were directed to go home by the school authorities. JSS 111 and SSS 111 students were to remain in school for their examinations. The students, who were sent home, were seen with their belongings moving to the town to get transport to

Michael Adebolajo (centre) appeared in court in Kenya in 2010 on suspicion of planning to join a terrorist group One of the suspects in the Woolwich murder was arrested in Kenya in 2010, the UK Foreign Office has confirmed. It said Michael Adebolajo was arrested there and it gave consular assistance "as normal" in the circumstances. Boniface Mwaniki, head of Kenya's anti-terrorism unit, told the Associated Press Mr Adebolajo was believed to have been preparing to train and fight with Somali militant group al-Shabaab. He said Mr Adebolajo was arrested with five others and later deported. The Kenyan government had previously denied he had ever visited the country. Mr Adebolajo, 28, and a second man, Michael Adebowale, 22, were arrested on suspicion of the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday. They remain in custody in hospital in a stable condition after being shot and wounded by police at the scene after the killing. A friend of Mr Adebolajo, Abu Nusayba

Enlarge photo A female suicide bomber has blown herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan, injuring at least 18 people.

British soldier, Drummer Lee Rigby President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed shock over the gruesome murder of a British soldier, Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in the Woolwich area of London, United Kingdom. A statement on Thursday by Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity said the president, while condemning the unfortunate incident, conveys his sincere condolences to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron and the British people over the senseless and barbaric act. “President Jonathan notes that a terrorist attack anywhere is an attack on the way of life of all free nations and must be collectively condemned by all persons irrespective of race, ethnicity or religion. “It is in this spirit that the Nigerian government is partnering with the British Government, as well as all other stakeholder sovereigns to stand up to and fight terrorism and extremism in whatever guise or pretence it chooses to present itself. “P

Wednesday, May 29, has been declared public holiday by the Federal Government of Nigeria to mark the 2013 Democracy Day. This was contained in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Annesthesia Nwaobia on Thursday in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. According to the statement, the Interior Minister, Comrade Abba Moro had declared the public holiday on behalf of the Federal Government. Moro urged Nigerians to deepen their participation in democratic governance to enable them pass on the baton of credible and good governance to upcoming generations. He congratulated Nigerians on the attainment of yet another successful year of the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan. Moro urged the citizenry to support Jonathan’s efforts towards improving on democratic governance in the country. He further urged all Nigerians to continue to pray for the success of President Jonathan’s government towards the restoration of peace and unity in all parts

Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has filed a N10 billion libel suit against the Executive Secretary of Anti-Corruption Network, Mr. Dino Melaye. Adoke is accusing the member of the House of Representatives and his group of discrediting him through publication of defamatory articles in both a Nigerian-based newspaper as well as an online news medium. The AGF said the publications quoted a letter sent by Anti-Corruption Network to President Goodluck Jonathan complaining of his (Adoke’s) alleged abuse of power, while asking the president to sack him. ACN alleged that Adoke had on December 2012, disclosed that the police killed 7,106 persons extra-judicially in four years, out of which 2,000 were detainees and suspects. The letter further questioned what the AGF did to ensure that drug convicts sent to prison in Lagos, did their terms since the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,NDLEA, is under his ministry. The petitioners were said to have also stat

  A house has been raided in connection with the murder of a soldier in Woolwich yesterday afternoon. The police swooped on the house as the name of one of the suspects was revealed on internet forums and Twitter as Michael Adebolajo. He was the alleged killer seen ranting on video shortly after the murder of a soldier is believed to be Michael Adebolajo.

A 26-year-old civil servant, Mr. Abubakar Dauda, has been arraigned before a Kuje Area Court for alleged adultery and child abuse. The police prosecutor, Ocheche Samuel, told the court presided over by Justice Nuhu Ibrahim that the matter was reported to the Kuje Police Station by one Hamza Shaibu of Lanto Road, Passali, Kuje on April 30. He informed the court that the accused who resides opposite the Central Mosque at Passali, impregnated the complainant’s 14-year-old daughter, Fatima Hamza. According to the prosecutor, the accused allegedly invites Fatima to his bedroom through the help of his sister whenever he wants to have sex with her. He added that investigation proved that the accused had been having carnal knowledge of the girl since 2012 and she was now five months pregnant. Ocheche said the offense contravened the provisions of Section 387 of the Penal Code. When the charges were read, Dauda pleaded not guilty and the Judge granted him bail in the sum of N200, 000 with a re

A book seller, Chibueze Akamu, on Wednesday was sentenced to three months imprisonment by a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, for having being found guilty of selling pirated books. The convict, a resident of No. 69, Owodunni Street, Iwaya, Yaba, Lagos was charged by the Nigerian Copyright Commission,NCC,. He had pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of piracy and sale of pirated books. Delivering the judgment, Justice Saliu Saidu said: “Having pleaded guilty to the charge before this honourable court, the accused is hereby convicted as charged. “The accused is sentenced to three months imprisonment on each count’’ The judge said, noting that the terms would run concurrently. The prosecutor, Mrs Lynda Alphaeus, had told the court that the accused was apprehended on April 25, at Oyingbo, Lagos. She said the accused was caught at the bus stop, selling pirated copies of the book, “The Accidental Public Servant”, authored by former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir

Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejirika, has accused his men of collaborating with members of the Boko Haram sects by exposing top secrets of their operations to the insurgents. The army boss said this in Abuja at a seminar on personnel management and development organized by the Army Transformation and Innovation Center. Ihejirika said that soldiers who have been collaborating with Boko Haram insurgents had hindered military operations, even causing the death of his men. The COAS boss warned soldiers to stop such acts, and vowed to deal with those found guilty of the offence decisively. He added that he had advised Commanders to take it easy while dismissing soldiers, but maintained that if a soldier’s misconduct was in terms of disloyalty, then the Army would have no choice than to dismiss and jail such officer. General Ihejirika revealed that, as part of its readiness to tackle security challenges in the country, the Army was training more than 1000 amphibious s

  Mercy Johnson is indeed living life to the fullest! This month, star actress Mercy Johnson resumed work; she is back on location with director and producer, Elvis Chucks. Everything is new! New hubby, new baby, new house and now a new car – customized with “Odi wife”! Her hubby deserves a pat on the back for knowing how to spoil a woman! Oh by the way, she sent a thank you note to all her fans, see the photo of the car and read the note below: Here goes her thank you note: ‘I want to say thank you to the fans, friends, colleagues and producers who were there for me. Many of them proved to be friends on and off work. Many adjusted their schedules for me and sent in their greetings during the child dedication. I resumed work this week with grateful heart and understanding that I am here because God through the help of people made it possible. Or how could I explain the overwhelming votes I got at AMVCA despite been away and inactivity on social media? How could I explain the numbers

  Fred Amata and his kids Pioneer actor, producer and director, Fred Amata turned 50 recently,  and his friends gathered in Lagos to celebrate him…..how sweet! – So many old faces in Nollywood showed up – the likes of Lilian Bach, Ras Kimono, Paul Obaze etc. See photos below: