ISIS are using a charming ring to smuggle women and ladies into their country for sex slavery

ISIS terrorists have set up an international sex ring by smuggling kidnapped Yazidi women to foreign countries, rescued captives have revealed.

Dozens of women who were snatched from Yazidi villages across northern Iraq are said to have been taken to nations including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Chechnya, where they are being held as sex slaves.

The terror group abducted hundreds of women and young girls when it laid siege on the undefended towns in August 2014, killing thousands of men in the process.

'At this moment we do not know how these girls were moved outside of Iraq or Syria but we believe they could have smuggled them out of the countries overland,' said Mihemma Xelil the mayor of Shingal, one of the Yazidi villages attacked by ISIS.

Many of the women were moved to the nearby cities of Mosul and Tal Afar but they were soon taken to the groups strongholds, the Rudaw news agency quoted him as saying.

Survivors have told of how the 'most beautiful' women are sent to horrendous auction houses in ISIS's de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria, where they are stripped naked and sold to the highest bidder.

Xelil said: 'Many of the abducted women still have access to their cellphones and speak to their families and ask for ransoms to be paid for their release.'

Of around 6,000 people abducted by ISIS in Sinjar province, almost 4,000 are still thought to be imprisoned by the terror group, local government officials have claimed.

Ransoms have been paid for 'many' of the victims, according to Hussein Koro who manages the office on behalf of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

Koro told Rudaw: 'In many cases, when we could not verify a source and therefore decided not to pay the ransom, the relatives of the victim paid it themselves and many times it turned out to be false sources who were after the ransom money.'

Xudeda Misto, 75, from Shingal, has not seen his wife, three daughters or his son since they were abducted by ISIS thugs in 2014.

He said: 'They have asked for $15,000 for my eldest daughter who is now in Syria, but I have only $5000 and could not make the rest.'

Amnesty International has said hundreds - possibly thousands - have been forced to marry, been 'sold' or given as 'gifts' to ISIS fighters or their supporters - and many held as sexual slaves are girls younger than 14.

In May, ISIS released a chilling document in which it justified the kidnapping and rape of Yazidi girls it enslaved.

The shocking admissions were made by a jihadi bride in the ninth edition of Islamic State's propaganda magazine Dabiq in a feature entitled: 'Slave girls or prostitutes.' She describes the cruel sex crimes as Sunnah which roughly translates as 'a way of life'.

Ese has been handed over to her parent by the Nigerian Police Force

Ese Oruru, the 14 year old girl "abducted" by one Yinusa and taken to Kano where he converted her to a Muslim and married her was at the police headquarters in Abuja yesterday. Ese is still insisting that she was never abducted and that she and Yinusa have been "friends" long before she followed him to Kano. She also insist that she is 17 and not 14 as her parents are claiming. Meanwhile she will be handed over to her parents today at a press conference which will have the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, in attendance.

Photo: American, Russian break record after year in space

US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth Wednesday after spending almost a year in space in a ground-breaking experiment foreshadowing a potential manned mission to Mars.

The 340-day mission saw Kelly break the record for the longest single stay in space by a US astronaut, while Kornienko is now fifth on the list for lengthiest mission by a Russian cosmonaut.

“We have landing,” Russian Mission Control confirmed after the trio touched down southeast of the settlement of Dzhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan at around 0430 GMT.

After returning from his lengthy stint in space Kelly was clearly in high spirits as he was lowered to the ground by burly Russian rescue workers at the landing site.

“The air out here feels great. I’ve no idea why you guys are so bundled up,” NASA TV reported him as saying as he sat upright in a chair on the steppe in temperatures just below zero.

Kelly and Kornienko returned with Russia’s Sergei Volkov, who was stationed at the ISS for over five months and was met upon landing by his father, retired cosmonaut Aleksandr Volkov.

The “one-year crew” mission — which began on March 27 last year — was the longest by any astronauts aboard the ISS and seen as a vital chance to measure the effects of a prolonged period in space on the human body.

They have been subjected to a battery of tests and other experiments in preparation for a future manned mission to Mars and beyond.

Weightlessness reduces muscle mass and bone density and is believed to diminish eyesight by increasing cerebrospinal fluid around the optic nerve.

Kelly, 52, was also part of an experiment comparing his development and changes in space with his identical twin brother — Mark — back on Earth.

– Gorilla in space –

In his year aboard the space station Kelly has been an avid Internet poster, capturing stunning views on his Instagram page and tweeting regularly to nearly a million followers while travelling some 143 million miles (230 million kilometres).

In one particularly eye-catching stunt the bald-headed astronaut posted a short video of himself dressed up in a gorilla suit and floating through the ISS in pursuit of a colleague.

“Needed a little humour to lighten up a year in space,” he wrote on Twitter on February 23, when he posted the video.

One image Kelly tweeted captured the economic divide between North and South Korea as visible from space, with the South aglow with electric lights and the North cast in a blanket of darkness.

Another impressive shot was one of the Milky Way which Kelly described as “old, dusty, gassy and warped. But beautiful.”

“Spaceflight is the biggest team sport there is, and it’s incredibly important that we all work together to make what is seemingly impossible possible,” Kelly said when handing over command of the ISS to fellow NASA astronaut Tim Kopra on Monday.

Kelly, Kornienko and Volkov leave behind Kopra, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and the European Space Agency’s British astronaut Tim Peake.

NASA’s Jeff Williams and Roscosmos’ Oleg Skriprochka and Alexey Ovchinin, will join them following a launch from Baikonur later this month.

Bolivian court probes fate of president’s love child

The government of Bolivian President Evo Morales has gone to court to establish whether a child he fathered out of wedlock is alive or dead, the latest twist in a high-level scandal gripping the Latin American country.
Morales previously acknowledged he had a child with his ex-girlfriend Gabriela Zapata during a two year affair but claims she told him the infant died shortly after birth.

Zapata is now at the center of a corruption scandal shaking his administration, and in a plot worthy of a telenovela, her aunt revealed last week that the child was not dead, but alive and well.

The 56-year-old Morales, through the government and directly, has voiced doubts and is now seeking the final word on the matter through the courts.

“We are absolutely convinced that sadly, the boy has passed away,” Defense Minister Reymi Ferreira said Tuesday. He said Morales asked for Zapata’s family to prove any claim to the contrary.

“An appeal has been filed with the child magistrate, calling for the child to be produced by the family, privately, within five days,” Ferreira added.

He also said damages were being sought “to put to rest any doubt anyone may have, and for it to be seen who is lying.”

Zapata’s aunt then said that her niece would bring the boy forward, but wants to do so before international media due to security concerns.

The 28-year-old Zapata is detained on orders of a prosecutor investigating allegations she used her influence with Morales on behalf of a Chinese engineering group, CAMC, which obtained $560 million in government contracts.

She faces charges of money laundering, embezzlement and abuse of influence, prosecutor Edwin Blanco said Sunday.

Zapata, who until recently was a senior manager at CAMC, entered into a relationship with Morales in 2005 when she was 18 years old. Morales said it ended two years later.

A reporter’s bombshell disclosure last month of the previously unpublicized relationship set off an investigation into influence peddling just weeks before Bolivia was to vote on whether to change the constitution to allow Morales to run for a fourth term.

The February 21 referendum was the first electoral defeat for Morales, who has been re-elected three times and already is Bolivia’s longest serving president.

A congressional committee is investigating the contracts awarded to CAMC, and opposition members of congress have called for Morales and Zapata to testify.

The opposition accuses Morales of favoring Zapata, and insists their relationship lasted at least until 2015, despite Morales’s denials.

The president has said their child would now be eight or nine years old, and that he would like to raise the boy if he were alive. Morales has a son and daughter whom he has recognized, from other previous relationships.

Did Jada’s campaign to boycott the Oscars affect this year’s show ratings?

The Academy Awards hit an eight-year low for ratings Sunday night, according to early results. The new low came after Smith, his wife and others decided to skip the ceremony to draw attention to systemic racism in the industry. According to early results in the country’s biggest 56 cities, the 88th Academy Awards scored a 23.4/36 MM rating, which means that during the 8:30pm-Midnight broadcast, about a quarter of households in those cities were watching the show and 36 per cent of all TVs were tuned to the ceremony.
That’s down six per cent from last year’s Oscars, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, and the lowest overnight ratings since Jon Stewart hosted in 2008, according to Variety. Final results will be out later this morning. The ratings tank may be due in part to the #OscarsSoWhite boycott, headed by Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith.
After the nominees for this year were announced, the Hollywood power couple said they would not be attending the ceremony to draw attention to systemic racism in the movie industry.

For the second year in a row, all of the acting nominees were white. Director Spike Lee also took part in the boycott, instead attending a Knicks basketball game in New York City Sunday night. This year’s awards ceremony was hosted by black comedian Chris Rock, who used his entire opening monologue to school the industry on the lack of opportunities black actors are given in Hollywood.

Baby girl found abandoned in a cardboard box

A baby was abandoned in a cardboard box at the entrance of the camel pen along Seventh Ring Road. A team of paramedics accompanied by securitymen was dispatched to the scene when the Operations Room of the Interior Ministry received report about the incident. Paramedics confirmed that the baby was in good condition before referring him for checkup. The search for his parents is underway.

Controversial S. African Pastor still going on with the business of stepping on his members

Controversial South African pastor, Penuel Mnguni, who has in the past given his members grass and fabrics to eat as part of his deliverance session, is still at his game despite being shut down and his church burnt down last years. During his sermon last Sunday February 28th, Penuel was pictured stepping on his followers who came for deliverance. According to the church’s post, the Pastor asked those who are sick to step out and follow him around the church. He then asked them to sleep on the floor and proceeded to step on them while praying. After praying, he asked them to check if they felt any pain in their body and they responded saying they felt nothing. Really!!! See more photos…..

Kris Jenner says she ‘doesn’t understand’ ex Caitlyn Jenner’s decision to date men now

Jenner’s recent revelation that she wants to date men. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians matriarch sat down with Ellen DeGeneres this week who brought up the ‘confusing’ subject regarding her former spouse of 23 years.

‘The last time you were here on the show, you were here with Bruce on Valentine’s Day,’ the host recalled.

‘And now she is Caitlyn. It’s confusing because for a while she was not saying whether she was going to date women or men, and now apparently she has said that she’s going to date men.’

‘I saw that, too,’ said the 60-year-old reality star, before adding that the situation was ‘confusing for sure,’

‘I think that I really want her to be happy and be really comfortable in all the things where she says she wasn’t her true authentic self for most of her life. [She] knew when she was 4 that she felt like that. So you don’t want somebody to be miserable or in pain or any of that.’

On a trailer for the new season of I Am Cait, Caitlyn, 66, is seen telling a friend: ‘To be honest with you, I don’t see myself dating women in the future. I’ve been there, done that, got three ex-wives,’

Nervous Adele kicks off world tour in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Adele has kicked off her first world tour in four years with a concert in Belfast that received overwhelmingly positive reviews despite the bestselling singer’s bout of pre-gig nerves.

The show in Northern Ireland’s main city late on Monday was sold out months in advance and fans came from as far as Japan and South Africa to catch a first glimpse of the British ballad singer.

The 100-stop tour includes dates in London in March, Paris in June, as well as New York’s Madison Square Garden and the Staples Center in Los Angeles, culminating with two dates in Mexico City in November.

“I know some of you have been dragged along but I’m going to win you over,” Adele joked with some 11,000 fans gathered in Belfast, the BBC reported.

“Although some of my songs get a bit depressing.”

The 27-year-old singer, who has been frank about her stage fright, also informed fans that she was suffering “bowel movements” because of nerves.

Dressed in a long black dress with golden threads, she performed 18 hits including “Hello”, “Rolling in The Deep”, “Set Fire to The Rain” and “Skyfall”, the theme song to the James Bond film of the same name.

Adele last performed in Britain in September 2011.

Alexis Petridis, music critic for The Guardian newspaper, gave the concert four out of five stars, praising her “fantastic voice” and calling the performance “solid — if unsurprising”.

The Sun, the biggest selling daily in Britain, gave her five stars saying the show “proved why she is the most successful artist of the 21st century”.

The show was “polished and perfect”.

The Independent called on the singer to be the “bawdy, ballsy person she is on stage when she writes”.

Adele has broken several records with her third and latest album, featuring the ballad “Hello”.

Photos: Footballer loses teeth after sickening collision with teammate in Chelsea match

Robbie Brady lost two teeth when he clashed with Gary O’Neil during Norwich City’s 2-1 loss to Chelsea on Tuesday night. Left-back Brady was forced off after the sickening collision with his Canaries team-mate, and his club are yet to reveal the full extent of the damage caused.

Alex Neil’s side were dragged further into the relegation mire as goals from Kenedy and Diego Costa secured all three points for the champions at Carrow Road. See more photos Below…

Jay Z signs DJ Khaled to Roc Nation label and presents him the last original Roc-a-Fella chain

Jay Z signed DJ Khaled to Roc Nation management. The news was made public when DJ Khaled posted a video of the Rap mogul presenting him with a Roc-A-Fella chain at a J. Cole concert in Madison Square Garden.

“I don’t have an original one,” Jay Z says of the chain. “I don’t own an original one like at all. Zero. This is my last one.”

“God is great,” DJ Khaled responds.

Jay Z also gave a Roc-A-Fella chain to J. Cole when the North Carolina rapper’s Dreamville label signed with Interscope.

DJ Khaled took to Instagram to share his thoughts on joining Jay Z’s Roc Nation.

“Allow me to reintroduce myself!!!!” DJ Khaled writes, referencing Jay Z’s “Public Service Announcement.” “Meet my manager. His name is Jay Z. Jigga. Hov!!! Special cloth alert! The blessings coming in have been overwhelming. So much blessings I needed the right team to help me embrace it right. And when I say embrace I mean brand partnership. When two special cloth brands come together history gets made. I’d like to thank fan luv for walking with me thru the journey of more success. They don’t want us to win!!!! So what we gonna do is win more. When I say we, I’m talking fan luv! I’m talking my brother Lenny S! Always seen my vision !!I’m talking Chaka!! I’m talking JIGGA NATION!!!!! I’m up to something. I will never stop!!! I will not lose JIGGA VOICE!!! Ride with me thru the journey of more success. God is the greatest! Bless up. #WeTheBest #JAYZ #Rocnation @wethebestmusic JUS KNOW IM WORKING ON NEW MUSIC !!”

Idris Elba’s secret second ex-wife revealed, speaks of painful break up

Idris Elba was married to Kim Norgaard for four years (from 1999 – 2003) and they share a teenage daughter together, but what people don’t really know is that Idris secretly got married again back in 2006 to lawyer Sonya Hamlin


Idris Elba’s secret second wife is today revealed as a US lawyer who ended the marriage after just four months. Sonya Hamlin, now 44, claimed she was drunk when she and the Luther star wed at a Vegas chapel.

The pair had a whirlwind romance and a friend said: “It’s a heartbreak story. She cared about him and when they broke up it tore her up.”
Idris, 43, had just finished his role as Stringer Bell in The Wire in 2005 when they were introduced by his manager, a college pal of Sonya.
According to the sources Idris and Sonya broke up over whether or not to have children and his desire to move to L.A.

According to Sonya they called it quits after only four months after saying “I do!” because he wanted to focus on his acting career in L.A., while she was comfy making a solid career for herself as a successful lawyer on the east coast. Elba and Hamlin had been living together in Maryland for a few weeks after he wrapped filming on The Wire. A source tells UK’s The Sun about the wild night they tied the knot in Las Vegas.

“I remember Idris. They were both very nice, not intoxicated or nothing crazy like that. They arrived at 5-6pm,” a source at the chapel says. “I recognised him because my brother’s a fan of The Wire. They were having a lot of fun. The person checking them in was joking about them marrying in Vegas and Idris was giving it back.”

The marriage lasted only two months before Hamlin filed for divorce. The Sun reports how the split was triggered by constant fighting over Idris wanting to live in Los Angeles.

“One of the reasons it ended was her practice was doing well here but Idris wanted to be in LA,” another source adds. “At some point he had a choice between being a husband or a heartbreaker. He chose his career over her.”

Sonya’s mother, Betty Hamlin, recalls her daughter’s heartbreak after she and Idris called it quits. “It was a very painful relationship.” Another friend adds, “It’s a heartbreak story. She cared about him and when they broke up it tore her up.”

Steven Gerrard woed as Galaxy thrashed in CL exit

Steven Gerrard’s hopes of leading the Los Angeles Galaxy to CONCACAF Champions League glory came to an abrupt end on Tuesday as Mexican sides dominated against their American quarter-final opponents.

Gerrard partnered new Galaxy signing Nigel De Jong in the Los Angeles midfield as the Major League Soccer side traveled to Torreon in Mexico to face Santos Laguna after grinding out a 0-0 draw in last week’s first leg.

But Galaxy’s hopes of advancing to the semi-finals of North America’s most prestigious continental club competition were wrecked in little over half an hour as Santos roared into a 3-0 lead en route to a 4-0 victory.

Another Galaxy new signing — former Chelsea and England star Ashley Cole — missed the tie after flying back to Rome for the birth of his first child.

The 35-year-old’s absence was all too evident as Santos punished some shambolic defending to take a stranglehold on the tie.

Martin Bravo shot Santos into the lead after 19 minutes, hooking home a volley from the edge of the six-yard box after Galaxy failed to deal with a corner.

Ulises Davila doubled the lead four minutes later when his shot from outside the area deflected off Jelle van Damme and looped past Los Angeles goalkeeper Dan Kennedy.

It got worse for Los Angeles on 36 minutes when Cape Verde international Djaniny steered a header into the far post after more defending to make it 3-0.

Bravo grabbed his second on 61 minutes to complete the scoring on a night to forget for the visitors, who looked desperately short of match practice as they prepare for the start of the new MLS season this weekend.

Earlier, another Major League Soccer side exited when DC United could only draw 1-1 with Queretaro to go out 3-1 on aggregate.

DC United’s slender hopes of overturning their 2-0 first leg deficit were dealt a devastating blow after only four minutes in a sparsely populated RFK Stadium as the Mexicans took the lead.

A swinging cross into the area was met by Edgar Benitez who deftly cushioned his header into the path of Angel Sepulveda who drilled a low shot into the bottom left hand corner.

The home side pulled a goal back on 84 minutes when German-born midfielder Julian Buscher lashed in a swerving long-range effort that ripped into the top corner, but it was too little too late.

The youngest billionaire teenage horse rider

Alexandra Andresen was handed $1.2 billion at the age of 19 and has made it into the Forbes magazine as someone worth at least one billion dollars.

It is the first time the dressage competitor, who is from Norway, appeared on the list – along with her 20-year-old sister Katharina.

The pair totted up as the 1,475th richest people in the world.

The girls had a lucky break when their father Johan F Andresen transferred 80 per cent of his stake in private equity firm Ferd Holdings, to his daughters in 2007.

The company sold for $500 million in 2005 and the money was re-invested in property and hedge funds.

The Andresen’s became wealthy while working in the tobacco industry, and Alexandra’s great, great, great grandfather founded the biggest producer in Norway.

After the sisters turned 17 they were required to make their tax returns and personal wealth public.

Alexandra said: ‘I feel a great responsibility.

“In a way I think that I have not made me deserving of this, while I want to help develop Ferd and make it even better.

“Finding a way to give something back, I think is difficult

“The fact that my family has resources has given me many opportunities, especially in the riding, because it requires a lot of capital.

“But it is not enough to have money to succeed.”

17-year-old model has her eyes gouged out, ears sliced off & stabbed 140 times ‘by her jealous older sister who was high on drugs’

A TEENAGE model had her eyes gouged out and ears hacked off after allegedly being stabbed to death by her older sister in a drug-fuelled frenzy.

17-year-old Stefania Dubrovina was stabbed 140 times during the savage attack, after which her body was brutally mutilated.

The nude model’s 19-year-old sister Elizaveta has been arrested for the horrific killing, which took place in St Petersburg in the girls’ native Russia.

 Local newspapers claim she was jealous of her younger sibling, copying her dress style, hair and makeup. There are reports Elizaveta had previously been treated in a mental hospital, and a pal claimed the elder sister was always “a bit crazy”.

A female friend told one paper Stefania had gone to the flat of an unnamed 42-year-old man on the night of the murder.

She said: “It is not 100 per cent proved that she had romantic relations with his man. We are only sure that this man organised photo sessions for Stefania. She visited him a week before too.”
A local police source said the two sisters and the man had been having a party.

When the man went out to buy more alcohol, Elizaveta allegedly attacked her sister with a knife.

St Petersburg entertainer Stas Baretsky, who knew Stefania for about two years, said he was “shocked” and at death of the “modest and attractive girl”.

 He also denied rumours that the naked model took part in porn movies and escorting.

“Stefania was never involved in it,” Baretsky said. “She was not filmed in porn films either. She simply tried to boost her career in modelling.”

The girls’ aunt Ekaterina Dubrovina called the murder a “shocking tragedy”.

Hilarious: Young couple among 18 caned in Indonesia for spending time alone

18 people were publicly caned today Tuesday, March 1 for breaking Islamic law in Indonesia’s Aceh province. Among them was a young unmarried couple who were caught spending time alone together. The punishment was meted out by a hooded man with a rattan cane on a stage next to the mosque in Banda Aceh, before a large, enthusiastic cheering crowd.

According to AP, the young couple aged 19 and 21 were given eight strokes each after they were found spending time alone together, which is against the law for unmarried Muslim couples in the province.

While authorities did not disclose the offenses committed by the others, six young men were also caned 40 times each after they were caught drinking alcohol, which violates Islamic law, at a birthday party in a hotel room.

Public caning happens on a regular basis in Aceh, the only province in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country to implement Islamic syariah law, but is less common for women.

Aceh began implementing shariah law after being granted special autonomy in 2001, an effort by the central government in Jakarta to quell a long-running separatist insurgency.

Moscow Nanny who beheaded Girl, 4, was furious husband had taken 2nd wife

38 year old mother of three, Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, showed police the flat in Moscow, Russia where she killed 4 year old Nastya Meshcheryakova (bottom right), after which she was seen walking the streets of Moscow brandishing the dead girl’s head for an hour before she was arrested. It was claimed that she was extremely angry that her husband had taken another wife in another country while she was working in Russia but she told police she was haunted by ‘voices’ in her head.

Justin Gatlin breaks Usain Bolt’s 100m record at 9.48seconds but it won’t count

Usain Bolt is officially the world’s fastest man at 9.58 seconds for 100m but his record was broken yesterday by American athlete Justin Gatlin at 9.45 seconds. Unfortunately for Justin, the feat won’t count because it was at a Japanese TV Show rather than an IAAF organized event/competition. Usain Bolt’s record was set at Berlin World Championships in 2009 and hasn’t been broken since then, but Gatlin is expected to be Bolt’s major rival at this year’s Rio Olympics. See more pics below…

Khloe Kardashia goes braless as she shows off her cleavage

The 31-year-old reality star was spotted putting on quite an eye-popping display while out and about in the Van Nuys neighbourhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday. 

Khloe rocked a very low cut silk black top which not only showed off plenty of her cleavage but also her toned tummy.

The revealing garment was just one part of her casual chic look as she sported a pair of ripped jeans and black Christian Louboutin heels.

Her medium-length blonde lob was worn down into waves as she sported natural, complimentary make-up on her face topped off with a swipe of dark pink lip.

No doubt she also mantains a strict diet as she could be seen gripping onto a tupperware container of food while ma