A man spotted running naked around bars and restaurants in a city centre is thought to have to plunged to his death down a 50ft hole on a building site.
Officers launched an investigation after a man's naked body was found at the bottom of a lift shaft at the One Smithfield Square site near the Northern Quarter in Manchester yesterday afternoon.
Greater Manchester Police detectives believe he is the same man seen by revellers 'looking lost' and trying to get into Northern Quarter nightspots barefoot and wearing no clothes on Friday night.
He was witnessed in the area by dozens of people at around 8.30pm, with one woman seeing him enter Solita restaurant in what appeared to be a 'confused state' in front of a room full of diners.
She said: ‘He walked in at the back of the restaurant, which was pretty much full at the time and stood there for a short while.
Plunge: Police launched an investigation after the naked body was found at the bottom of a lift shaft at the One Smithfield Square site in Manchester
Teenagers as young as 13 to be allowed to sign up to LinkedIn to help them as they plan their future careers
Site is to lower its age limit from 18 to 13 in the UK and 14 in the US
Company has stressed it will remain a 'professional network'
But it says it can offer service to those planning on applying to university
Professional social networking site LinkedIn will drop its age limit to allow youngsters from the age of 13 to sign up to help them plan where to go to university.
The site will be lowering its age-limit from 18 in a bid to attract young people who are already planning their careers.
While the company has stressed the site will remain 'a professional network', but claims it's new service will offer a service to those planning on applying to college or university.
The age limit is expected to be dropped to 13 in the UK and 14 in the US, it has been reported.
According to The Telegraph, the site says it is growing at the rate of two users every second and currently has around £238m members across the globe.
Small, discreet and completely innocent looking, this tiny 'key fob phone' has been widely advertised as a 'fun item'.
But they are deadly serious to the prisoners inside British jails, who have been smuggling them in to make illegal calls.
The tiny handsets, which sell for £40 on various auction sites, can be easily hidden from guards, and offer inmates the chance to make calls or texts.
Although they do not have internet access, possession of the phone is highly prized - as seen by the 7,000 handsets and SIM cards seized in English and Welsh prisons last year, The Times reported.
Various sellers boast that the phones, which often have logos on, are made with minimal metal and are largely constructed of plastic.
This will be useful to buyers who want to use them in prison as they will evade the metal detectors used in prisons to hunt out contraband items.
Having a mobile phone in jail is a criminal offence carrying a two-year sentence and/ or an unlimited fine.
Currently there are approximately 41,000 confiscated mobile phones in storage, costing the Prison Service £20,000 per annum, according to official figures.
At present, inmates are given enough money to buy stamps and make phone calls to keep in touch with their family.
Currently, prisons cannot destroy mobile phones that are confiscated, but a new Bill hopes to change that.
In February, a Bill giving prisons new powers to destroy or dispose of unauthorised property found in the possession of prisoners received Royal Assent.
Little more than a week after a giant python crushed two young Canadian boys to death, police have recovered 40 of the snakes from a hotel room.
The reptiles were found in several plastic storage bins on Thursday night in a room in Brantford, Ontario, where a
Officers have opened a probe into the incident but they did not say where the couple were at the time or whether the pair would be charged with breaking local laws that prohibit owning pythons.
The snakes, which ranged in length from 30 centimeters to 1.4 meters, were in poor health and have been taken in by the Canadian Society for the Protection of Animals, where a veterinarian is
BEIJING: The death toll from devastating floods at opposite ends of China following torrential rains and the aftermath of a typhoon has risen to more than 130, the government and media said Tuesday.
Flooding in the northeast, which has been described as the worst there in decades, has killed 85 people and left 102 missing in recent days, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Another 49 people, meanwhile, have perished in Hunan, central China, and in the southern provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi, the ministry of civil affairs announced.
The flooding has destroyed homes and sent rivers of mud flowing into city streets.
Desperate residents scrambled to escape the rising waters, using makeshift rafts and any implements they could find -- including inflatable paddling pools -- to flee. Many had to climb trees to avoid being swept away, pictures showed.
President Xi Jinping "has demanded all-out efforts in putting people's lives first", Xinhua reported Monday.
There are apples, the fruit, and Apple iPhones, and usually it’s pretty easy to tell the difference.
Unfortunately, an Australian woman caught up in a scam ended up paying $1,200 for two pieces of fruit.
The crime of produce happened on a Website called Gumtree. According to the Herald Sun, the 21-year-old scam victim placed an ad asking if anyone had an iPhone for sale.
She got a response from another woman who said she could sell her two. The two met at a McDonald’s where the buyer handed the seller $1,200 and was handed two “iPhone boxes that looked new.” The
woman didn’t check to see what was inside.
She finally looked once she got home, and found fruit, not phones, inside.
Police from the Queensland town of Upper Mount Gravatt, near Brisbane, pointed out that people should be “wary” when buying online.
A 25-year-old man committed suicide on Thursday morning by electrocuting himself on an overhead power line in Nakuru, Kenya.
According to an eyewitness, Susan Wachuka, the young man removed all of his clothing before climbing the transmitter line.
“We thought it was usual of him to UnCloth,” she said.
The man, who was only identified by the locals as Emmanuel, is said to have been a carpenter who was having mental problems, adding that he was always quiet.
Prof. Tam David-West, the former Minister of Petroleum, said there were "more thieves in the Nigerian government than saints". David-West made the observation while speaking at a town hall meeting organised by the University of Ibadan chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
He spoke thus: "Any government that fails to invest in education is a vagabond government. The problem with Nigeria is that we have more thieves than saints in government.
"We drill over two million barrels of crude oil per day. Why should we be poor? ASUU is saying, 'Put money in education to improve education quality for our children and those yet unborn'.
"The same government that does not have money for education budgeted N1bn each to feed the President and Vice-President for a year. Are they eating rock in Aso Rock?
"It is not having university degree that makes you a good leader. Late President Umaru Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan are the first set with university degrees -- but that has not translated to significant changes. Churchill was not the best in his class but one of the best world leaders."
He said there was no justification for any lawmaker to earn more than a university professor.
"They spend less time and may not even have five credits, yet a Senator in Nigeria earns more than 10 professors. A Senator in Nigeria can pay President Obama's salary four times over. When people get to the top they become insane," he noted.
It was a horrifying moment when a police van was recently pushed off a bridge in Cairo by angry protesters. As if that was not enough, demonstrators attacked the burning wreckage, throwing stones at it.
The dramatic pictures show the van being ambushed by dozens of people before crashing through a protective fence on the bridge. It then falls upside down and then rolls onto its roof as it lands. Blood can then be seen on the ground as nearby police officers pull injured men out of the crushed vehicle.
People who have sex four times or more a week earn higher wages than their less-sexually active colleagues at a statistically significant level, according to a discussion paper from Nick Drydakis, a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor, a private, independent organization focused on labor market research.
To come up with the findings, Drydakis, who is also an economics lecturer in the business school at Cambridge, England-based Angila Ruskin University, analyzed a year-long survey of 7,500 Greek households. The survey asked the representative sample respondents how many times they had sex per week, whether they were employed, how much money they made and how many hours per week they worked, among other questions.
But before you rush to go between the sheets, it's important to note that Drydakis' findings don't indicate that more sex directly translates into a raise. Instead, the study found that the two factors are correlated. See, people who have frequent sex tend to be happier, have higher self-esteem, better reasoning ability and are less likely to be depressed. Other research has found that workers with health problems tend to make less money due to limited productivity and in some cases, discrimination.
US President, Barak Obama has written President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of their meeting scheduled to hold later in the year.
The letter was handed to President Jonathan on Wednesday by the US Under Secretary on Political Affairs, Wendy Sherman during an audience with the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Speaking to journalists at the Presidential Villa after handing the letter to President Jonathan, said Sherman said the letter partly contained issues concerning the Bi-National Commission which is really an invaluable tool for the two countries to work together for a strong
relationship between them and to support Nigeria as it moves forward to meet all the challenges before it.
According to her, the issues before the bi-national commission also ranges from security to governance, education, and agriculture.
"The bi-national commission is really an invaluable tool for the two countries to work together for a strong relationship between them and to support Nigeria as it moves forward to meet all the challenges before it," she said.
Speaking further, she acknowledged that Nigeria was a nation that is very important not only on the continent but around the world.
Cisco has been whittling away at its workforce and selling off consumer businesses such as home networking, in a turnaround begun in 2010, when it started losing ground to nimbler rivals like Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks.
The company that once specialized in providing the backbone of the Internet now sees software and equipment for datacenters and corporate cloud networking as its keys to growth. But Wednesday's results suggest the pace of expansion has been slower than anticipated, analysts said.
"The environment in terms of our business is improving slightly but nowhere near the pace that we want," said Chief Executive John Chambers on a conference call following quarterly earnings. "We have to very quickly reallocate the resources."
Cisco said last month it plans to buy cyber security company Sourcefire Inc for $2.7 billion. The company has made it a priority to improve security across its hardware, software and cloud products.
Chambers also said the current business environment was underperforming his expectations. Despite strength in the United States, weakness in Asia and mixed results from Europe continued to dog its business.
If you have an OS Windows 8, good news because
The latest version of Microsoft Windows, Windows 8.1, will not be available to the public until October, according to reports.a preview version of the software has been available since June and Microsoft is almost ready to release Windows 8.1 to manufacturers. But the update will not be rolled out to existing machines until later in the Autumn, according to sources cited by TheVerge.com.
Facebook buys machine translation start-up
Facebook has bought a speech recognition and machine translation start-up, in a move it hopes will connect users across language barriers.
Facebook announced the acquisition on Monday of Mobile Technologies, the Pittsburgh-based developer behind the app Jibbigo.
It is thought that the translation expertise brought by the startup could be used to translate News Feed posts and offer voice search in multiple languages.
Jibbigo was launched in 2009 and allows users to make a voice recording or type text in one of 25 languages, and then have a translation immediately appear on screen or read aloud.
The app, available on the iOS and Android operating systems, makes money through the sale of offline translator packs.
A man from Houston, USA, committed suicide by shooting himself in his wife's hospital room on August 11, 2013, Sunday, just three and a half hours after she had given birth to their baby, local police report.
"Family members said he has been distraught recently," Houston police spokesman Mr. John Cannon said on August 12, 2013, Monday.
The man, whose identity has not been disclosed, shot himself in a private room at Willowbrook Methodist Hospital in Northwest Houston on Sunday afternoon, Mr. Cannon said. The
Four men were arrested Sunday in Newport Beach on suspicion of stealing a bag containing a sandwich - valued at $10 - from a parked car, USA.
4 Men Arrested For Stealing A $10 Sandwich
Oscar Iglesias, 25, of South Gate, Daniel Godinez, 23, and Edwin Yhuit, 27, both of Cudahy, and Daniel Garcia, 28, of Chula Vista, were arrested on suspicion of vehicle burglary and conspiracy, Newport Beach police spokeswoman Jennifer Manzella said.
A woman praying solo in a U.K. church was saved on Sunday - by the higher power of Twitter, which she turned to after being accidentally locked inside the house of worship by a volunteer that morning.
"I'm locked inside St. Andrews Church! I was in private praying chapel and when I came out, everyone was gone and doors locked. #Plymouth #help," tweeted Sarah Greep, a jam maker and mother of two who is based in the English seaside city of Plymouth, in Devon.
After first making some unsuccessful attempts to call church volunteers, whose names and numbers were listed in the back of a pamphlet-and because her phone battery was low and service was cutting in and out - Greep decided to turn to a medium with a bit more reach.
More than 100,000 people have applied for a one-way trip to Mars, as a part of the ambitious multi-billion dollar project that aims to colonise the Red planet starting in 2022.
100,000 People Will Go to Mars and Not Return
While it remains questionable how humans would be able to survive on Mars, it has not stopped a whopping number of people from signing up for The Mars One project.
"There is also a very large number of people who are still working on their profile, so either they have decided not to pay the application fee, or they are still making their video or they're still filling out the questionnaire or their resume.
So the people that you can see on-line are only the ones that have finished and who have set their profiles as public," said Bas Lansdorp, Mars One CEO and co-founder.
Lansdorp did not specify how many have paid the fees, completed their profiles and configured them as private.
The application process specifies anyone 18 or older may apply, but the fee depends on a user's nationality. For US citizens, the application fee is $38.The company said it sets the price based on the gross domestic product per capita of each nation."We wanted it to be high enough for people to have to really think about it and low enough for anyone to be able to afford it," Lansdorp said.
As far as the first crew is concerned, the mission will cost $6 billion, Lansdorp said.
He said the idea is for it to be funded by sponsors and media that will pay for broadcasting rights of shows and movies documenting everything from the astronauts' training on Earth to their deployment and colonisation of Mars.
A mechanic is believed to have murdered his wife and then killed himself when he was hit by a train.
Nigel Maude, 58, died on the tracks near the rural village of Hoghton, Lancashire, on Sunday morning.
British Transport Police went to his home nearby to inform his wife of 30 years Judith where they found her body in an upstairs bedroom.
Detectives with Lancashire Police have now started a murder investigation but say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.
Today, neighbours spoke of their shock at the deaths of a 'happy and quiet' couple, who had two daughters and four grandchildren.
Mr Maude worked as a mechanic and lived with his wife in a semi-detached home in Charles Crescent in Hoghton. They had lived there since inheriting the property from his parents.
Next door neighbour, Celia Livesey: 'They were a devoted couple and all they lived for was their family.
A man was arrested Thursday after police say he sexually penetrated a cat on more than one occasion.
Ryan Havens Tannenholz, 28 -- a self-described "furry" who dresses up as a dog he calls Bubblegum Husky -- is charged with six counts of crimes against nature, and one count of cruelty to an animal, the Idaho Statesman reported.
Police say the Boise man abused the cat multiple times between January 2012 and January 2013.
It's unclear how they learned about the Tannenholz's alleged actions, but an arrest warrant was issued for him in late July.
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