Global Aviation plane en - route Gabon from Nigeria missing!

Cameroon Aviation source has reported that a four-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroon on Tuesday has disappeared.

According to report, the plane, owned by the US company Global Aviation, took off from Kano in northern Nigeria at 1800 hours on Monday en route Libreville in Gabon, where it was scheduled to arrive at 2300 hours, after a stop-over in Douala, Cameroon.

The station however said that the plane, with only the American pilot on board, did not make it to Douala, saying the last contact the plane had with the control tower took place in Mongo, which is two hours flight from the Cameroonian economic capital.

Search and rescue operations led by Cameroon’s civil aviation authorities have not yielded any positive results. Reports said.

Queen visits Game of Thrones TV series set!

Queen and Prince Philip visits set of TV series Games of Thrones while on visit to Northern Ireland, where they met members of the cast and crew, before being given a small replica of the programme's iconic Iron Throne as a gift.

The Paint Hall Studios in the city's Titanic Quarter is a focal point for Northern Ireland's growing film industry. 

China - Terrorists using Internet to recruit, plan attacks!

Information from the State Internet Information Office, SIIO, revealed on Tuesday that terrorist groups now engages the internet to recruit members, raise funds and plan attacks in China, 

The Spokesperson for the agency, Jiang Jun, told newsmen at a press conference in Beijing that many internet sites have been placed under surveillance.

He called audio and video materials that promote terrorism a “cancer’’ of the Internet.

“The terrorist forces have turned the internet into a principal tool for their operations,’’ he said.

He said that the groups have sought to spread terrorism and violent beliefs and teach terrorist skills online.

Mr. Jun added that such actions must be struck down decisively.

China launched a campaign on Friday to rid the internet of audio and video materials that promote terrorism and violence.

According to SIIO, the move is aimed at safeguarding social stability in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and long-term peace.

Source: NAN

Ebola epidemic now out of control,MSF calls for massive deployment of medical resources !

According to the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa is now reported to be "out of control" with more than 60 outbreak hotspots, 

"The scale of the current Ebola epidemic is unprecedented in terms of geographical distribution, people infected and deaths," MSF said in a statement.

The incurable disease is spread by contact with bodily fluids including sweat, meaning just touching an infected person is enough to spread the virus.

The rapid spread of the disease, which is deadly in up to 90 percent of cases, has overwhelmed aid agencies and health workers and terrified local communities.

"The epidemic is now out of control," said Bart Janssens, MSF director of operations. "With the appearance of new sites in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, there is a real risk of it spreading to other areas."

"We have reached our limits," Mr Janssens said. "We are no longer able to send teams to the new outbreak sites." Janssens said, as the MSF calls for a "massive deployment" of medical resources by governments in the region to curb the epidemic.

According to Mr Janssens, "Ebola is no longer a public health issue limited to Guinea: it is affecting the whole of West Africa,".

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News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks cleard of phone hacking charges!

According to CNN former newspaper editor Andy Coulson has been found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones on Tuesday. This came after an eight-month trial in London, the UK's Press Association news agency reported. 

Howbeit, the news agency reports  that another of Rupert Murdoch's former newspaper chiefs, Rebekah Brooks, was cleared at the Old Bailey of all charges. 

Brooks was engulfed in emotion in the courtroom as the verdicts were read out. She left the Old Bailey accompanied by her husband, Charlie Brooks, but did not stop to give a comment to the media. 



The verdict came three years after it was revealed that journalists on News of the World hacked the phone of then-missing teenager Milly Dowler in 2002, raising hopes that she was alive and checking messages, when in fact she had been murdered. The resulting public and political outrage led to the closure of the 168-year-old paper and the setting up of a public inquiry to examine journalistic ethics. 

At the time, it was reported that the schoolgirl's voice mail was intercepted, Brooks was editor of News of the World, and Coulson was her deputy. After Coulson succeeded her as editor, Brooks edited The Sun newspaper, and she later became chief executive of the parent company, News International.

British Prime Minister has rendered an apology over the guilty charges of Andy Coulson.



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Lawyer confirms Meriam Yehya Ibrahim's release and.... re-arrest???.

According to CNN, Ibrahim's lawyer, Mohaned Mustafa El-Nour has confirmed the release of Miriam from a Sudanese prison Monday, saying that she was reunited with her husband, Daniel Wadi. Her lawyer said the appeals court found the lower court's ruling faulty.

Agency-Suna also confirmed the news via text message on Monday that Meriam Yehya Ibrahim's death sentence had been canceled and that a Sudanese appeal court had ordered her release.

But Information filtering in says Meriam was re-arrested Tuesday at an Airport in Khartom by security officials as she and her family were about boarding an Airplane to the United States. It is still unclear what new charges Ibrahim faced and why her family was also detained.


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Did Francis really excommunicate the entire mafia from the Catholic Church?

The news that Pope Francis recently declared the mafia excommunicated from the Catholic Church is all over: "Those who in their life have gone along the evil ways, as in the case of the mafia, they are not with God, they are excommunicated," he said on Saturday in the Italian city of Calabria. 

Pope Francis made the remarks during an outdoor mass in Calabria, the power base of the notorious mafia crime syndicate known as the 'Ndrangheta. He was in the area to meet with the family of a three-year-old boy who was allegedly gunned down last year by the mafia. Nicola "Coco" Campolongo, along with his grandfather and another adult, were shot in their heads. The car they were in was reportedly doused in gasolin and set on fire.

Though his comments were harsh, they really shouldn't come as a shock. One of the defining themes of Francis' papacy has been his consistent call for economic justice, which, on many occasions, has manifested itself in his indictment of economic exploitation — something the mafia is known for. 

But Francis' critique of the mafia should not be seen as an official excommunication, according to Chad Pecknold, an assistant professor of theology at Catholic University of America. In Roman Catholicism, anofficial excommunication is a strict censure that deprives the excommunicated of fellowship with the rest of the Church body. When a Church member is excommunicated, she is not allowed to take communion. Excommunication, though severe, is not irreversible. According to Canon Law, the censure is "medicinal," meaning it's given to a Catholic in the hopes of urging him to repentance.

According to Pecknold, the Pope's comment was "just something he said in a homily — which is not a vehicle for disciplinary pronouncements." Further, excommunication is "only for individuals," and not entire organizations. Rather, said Pecknold, what Francis was doing was simply describing the "self-excommunication" the 'Ndrangheta is already experiencing because of their "serious sin."



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