EU parliament backs new border force

The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a new border guard force to tackle the migrant crisis which could intervene in front-line countries like Greece and Italy from September.

The EU’s 28 member states agreed to set up the force last month as a key part of the bloc’s strategy for tackling the flow of the migrants along with a deal with Turkey sealed in March.



MEPs meeting in Strasbourg, France, approved the new border force by 483 votes to 181 against, with 48 abstentions.

“The legislation will enter into force this autumn,” the European Parliament said in a statement.

Brussels aims to have the force start operations in September and be fully operational by November, under a roadmap to restore the passport-free Schengen Zone after the travails of the migration crisis.

Several countries have reintroduced border controls that were eliminated years ago as part of Schengen as the EU deals with a record flow of more than one million migrants and refugees since the start of 2015.

Under the deal, member states would still manage their borders on a daily basis but could call on emergency support from a pool of at least 1,500 border guards.

The new force represents an expansion of the size and tasks of the existing Frontex border agency, based in Warsaw.

Manchester United complete Mkhitaryan deal

Manchester United have signed Henrikh Mkhitaryan from Borussia Dortmund, the Premier League giants announced on Wednesday.

Mkhitaryan, 27, has penned a four-year deal with United with the option to extend the contract for a further year, the club announced in a statement.


“I am very proud to join Manchester United, this move is a dream come true for me,” Mkhitaryan told United’s website after joining for a fee worth a reported £26 million ($34 million, 30 million euros).

“I am excited to play for a club with such an illustrious history and hope to be part of it for a long time,” the Armenia playmaker added.

“I am thankful for the trust the club and Jose Mourinho have put in me.

“Finally, I believe playing for such a great club honours my father’s memory, and the inspiration and drive he gave to me when I was young.”

Mkhitaryan, whose father Hamlet was also a footballer, scored 41 goals in 140 appearances for Dortmund after joining them from Shakhtar Donetsk in 2013.

He is Armenia’s most successful player and has scored a record 19 goals in 59 appearances for his country.

Mkhitaryan is United’s third pre-season signing and follows both Ivory Coast defender Eric Bailly and star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Old Trafford.

“Henrikh is a very talented footballer who has been in such prolific form for both his club and his country,” said United manager Mourinho.

“He is a real team player with great skill, vision and also has a good eye for goal. I am delighted he has chosen to sign for United,” the Portuguese added.

“I believe he will make an impact on the team very quickly as his style of play is suited to the Premier League. We are all looking forward to working with him.”

United finished fifth in the Premier League last season, 15 points behind shock champions Leicester City, and failed to qualify for the Champions League.

That prompted the club to sack Dutch manager Louis van Gaal and replace him with former Chelsea boss Mourinho.

Record hoarder Ronaldo betters Bale to reach Euro 2016 final

Cristiano Ronaldo beat Gareth Bale in a battle between Real Madrid’s superstar duo and registered more European Championship records as Portugal progressed to the Euro 2016 final win a 2-0 win over Wales.

Ronaldo’s bullet header from Raphael Guerreiro’s cross five minutes into the second-half blew open a cagey encounter and brought the three-time world player of the year level with Michel Platini’s record of nine goals in European Championship finals.



On a record third appearance in the Euros semis, Ronaldo also had a telling part to play in Portugal’s second as his low drive was turned home by Nani.

More records, victory and a return to the final of the Euros after the heartbreak of losing on home soil to Greece 12 years ago, left Ronaldo vindicated after a tournament in which many had questioned whether his best days were behind him at 31.

Bale, five years Ronaldo’s junior, had been the more vibrant of the two in carrying Wales to the first ever semi-final in a major tournament. He had also ended the season stronger as Madrid captured an 11th Champions League in Milan.

And it was Bale who threatened to take the game by storm in the first-half.

The flying Welshman constantly switched positions to escape the swarm of Portuguese bodies that blocked his path to goal.
A brilliantly worked corner finally freed up Bale inside the box, but, on his normally lethal left foot, his shot rose well over the bar.

Ronaldo even resorted to tracking Bale himself on his next forray down the right.

– Wayward passes –

However, there was no stopping a barnstorming run from inside his own half on 22 minutes as Bale charged past two Portuguese challenges only to see his final effort disappoint again as he fired straight into the grateful arms of Rui Patricio.

Ronaldo grew increasingly frustrated with wayward passes from teammates that met with a shrug of disdain.

He did not manage a shot until 41 minutes when James Collins was the first of a possee of Welsh defenders lining up to block his effort behind before Ronaldo planted a header over just his first sight of goal.

All changed in a second period dominated by Portugal in which Ronaldo showed his power and why he is now favourite to add a fourth Ballon d’Or to his collection.

Bale scored the most headed goals of any player in Europe this season, but none could match the force with which Ronaldo rose to thump home Guerreiro’s cross to finally break Wales’s spirit.

Chris Coleman’s men had barely recovered their composure by the time Ronaldo was taking aim once more.

This time his effort was headed wide until Nani stretched to prod home his third goal of the tournament.

Ronaldo could have had more. A fiercely dipping free-kick flew inches over and he only failed to move level with France’s Antoine Griezmann as the tournament’s top scorer when he fired into the side-netting after rounding Wayne Hennessey as Wales were pulled apart on the counter-attack.

Ronaldo and Bale received yellow cards as tempers flared in the final quarter, yet there was no spoiling Ronaldo’s party that now rolls onto a Paris final on Sunday.

The two parted on friendly terms with a long post-match embrace before man-of-the-match Ronaldo went to pay tribute to Portugese fans.

Luck has undoubtedly shone on Portugal in France. They were the only side to progress through the group stages with three draws and had not won a game in 90 minutes before facing the Welsh. They squeezed past Croatia and Poland after extra-time and on penalties respectively.

Yet, Ronaldo will believe he is owed some good fortune on the international stage having lost out in the Euro 2004 final and 2006 World Cup semi-final by the slenderest of margins.

Four years ago when Ronaldo was robbed of the chance to take a penalty in a semi-final shootout loss to Spain he looked to the sky and whispered “no justice.”

He will have the chance to right that perceived wrong when Portugal play hosts France or world champions Germany in the final.

However, that challenge will only make Ronaldo’s crowning glory greater if he finally manages to deliver Portugal their first major international win.

Messi, father sentenced to 21 months in prison for tax fraud

A court in Spain on Wednesday sentenced Barcelona striker Lionel Messi and his father to 21 months in jail for tax fraud and slapped them with a fine of 3.7 million euros ($4.1 million).

But these prison sentences are likely to be suspended as is common in Spain for first offences for non-violent crimes carrying a sentence of less than two years.



The Argentina and Barcelona star and his father Jorge Horacio Messi were found guilty of using companies in Belize and Uruguay to avoid paying taxes on 4.16 million euros of Messi’s income earned from his image rights from 2007-09.

The income related to Messi’s image rights that was allegedly hidden includes endorsement deals with Banco Sabadell, Danone, Adidas, Pepsi-Cola, Procter & Gamble and the Kuwait Food Company.

Dabiri-Erewa condemns stabbing to death of Nigerian teenager in London

Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora has condemned the gruesome stabbing to death of another Nigerian teenager in London. In a statement by her Special Assistant on Media, Abdur-Rahman Balogun in Abuja, Dabiri-Erewa said the killing of 17-year old Fola Orebiyi, was unacceptable to the government and people of Nigeria.


Dabiri-Erewa said the killing of Orebiyi and other extra judicial killing of Nigeria citizens in UK was becoming worrisome. She called for full investigation of the incident and urged the UK government to make sure that justice prevails.

While condoling the family of the deceased boy on the ugly incident, she prayed unto God to give the bereaved family the fortitude to bear the painful loss. She said that while Nigeria will not condone crime and criminal tendencies, it takes exception to the harassment, killing and execution of her nationals abroad unjustifiably. Dabiri-Erewa urged Nigerians to support President Muhammadu Buhari administration in making Nigeria a better place, urging them to support the administration war against corruption.

A Nigerian student, Fola Orebiyi, was reportedly stabbed to death in a street clash on Sunday July 3, in Notting Hill, London, by a gang of youths. He was reportedly involved in a fight on a nearby estate with a gang of youths, who chased him into the busy road where he was stabbed in the neck in front of shocked passersby and tourists. Following the stabbing, he collapsed and bled to death and all efforts by the Police and paramedics to resuscitate him, proved abortive. The deceased’s neighbour, Osman Sahal, told the police:

“He was a nice boy and very considerate; none of us can understand how this could have happened. “As far as I knew, he was never in trouble. I suppose we must now wait for the police to investigate.”

Orebiyi, who completed his General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) at Holland Park in London, was studying for his A levels at the Chelsea Academy before his death. After the incident, a yet-to-be identified 15-year-old boy was arrested by the London police in connection with the death. An anonymous teenager was quoted to have told the police:

“I know what happened; he was protecting a friend over a silly beef which turned violent.”  

She said:

“It was traumatising. It took half an hour for the ambulance to arrive even though there are hospitals all around. I spoke to the person who called the police and he said it took them so long to get here.

Flight is delayed for 7 hours by woman insisting on immediate divorce from husband

An unnamed woman in her 40s was so fed up with her marriage that she held up a plane, its entire passengers and crew for seven hours because she wanted an immediate divorce and wanted to get off the airplane immediately.
According to reports, shortly after she boarded the flight along with several hundred passengers flying from Moscow to Vladivostok, Russia, she told the crew she needed to get off in order to get a divorce.

The Rossiya Airline flight was almost ready for take off when the incident took place.xxxAccording to witnesses, the woman was heard saying: "I am not in the mood to fly now."xxxShe then went on to demand that flight attendants let her off the plane.

In accordance with safety regulations, more than 500 other passengers were also forced to disembark the aircraft.

The report didn't indicate whether the woman's husband was also aboard the plane at the time she made her decision.
A certain Elena Ashtein who uploaded a video of the incident to Instagram wrote: "One girl decided not to fly to the coastal town. Moreover, she changed her mind at the time of takeoff.

"For more than an hour [they] tried to persuade her to stay.  "But she said that she decided to get a divorce, and she had to get out."

Source: UK Mirror

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Niger Delta Avengers launches multiple attacks on oil facilities

The Niger Delta Avengers on Sunday said it has launched a series of coordinated attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta.

Oil installations belonging owned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Chevron and NPDC were blown up in the attacks carried out between 9:15 pm on Friday night and 1:15am on Sunday, the group said on Twitter.

At 9:15pm on Friday the @NDAvengers blow up Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Crude Oil Trunk Line to Warri Refinery.



— Niger Delta Avengers (@NDAvengers) July 2, 2016

At 11:26pm on Saturday @NDAvengers blow up two NPDC major crude trunk lines close to Batan flowstation in Delta state.

— Niger Delta Avengers (@NDAvengers) July 3, 2016

ALL FIVE OPERATIONS WAS CARRIED OUT BY @NDAvengers STRIKE TEAM. WELL DONE SOLDIERS.

— Niger Delta Avengers (@NDAvengers) July 3, 2016

At 1:15am on Sunday @NDAvengers blow up two major Chevron Oil Wells. WELL 7 and WELL 8 close to Abiteye flow station in Delta state.

— Niger Delta Avengers (@NDAvengers) July 3, 2016


The Niger Delta Avengers are a new militant group who started attacking oil and gas infrastructure early this year in Nigeria’s oil-rich but poor southern swamplands.
The group had indicated  its willingness to enter talks with the government on an end to the attacks, on condition that independent foreign mediators were involved. This after initially declining an offer of dialogue from the government.

Like previous militant groups before them, the Avengers are fighting for a greater share of the country’s oil revenues and greater political autonomy.

But the group has stressed it only targets oil infrastructure, not people.

The sabotage has gored Nigeria’s economy — the central bank governor has said a recession is “imminent” — and pushed up the global price of oil.

Restoring peace to the Niger delta is one way to get the country’s economy back on track.

Last week Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari met with a delegation from the Niger delta and issued a press release pledging to “rebuild” the region.

Previous militants had stopped waging war in the creeks after the introduction of a costly amnesty program in 2009.

China to hold drills in disputed waters ahead of court ruling

China will hold military drills in the disputed South China Sea, the government said Sunday, ahead of an international tribunal ruling over Beijing’s maritime claims in the resource-rich area.

The drills will be held in waters around the Paracel Islands from July 5 to 11, with other ships prohibited from entering the waters during that time, a short statement by the maritime safety administration said.

The military exercises come as an international tribunal in The Hague prepares to rule on a case brought by the Philippines challenging China’s claims in the strategic waterway.



Manila lodged the suit against Beijing in early 2013, saying that after 17 years of negotiations it had exhausted all political and diplomatic avenues to settle the dispute.
Beijing, which asserts sovereignty over almost all of the South China Sea despite rival claims from Southeast Asian neighbours, insists that the Permanent Court of Arbitration has no jurisdiction over the issue and has boycotted the proceedings.

Basing its claims on a vaguely defined “nine-dash” Chinese map dating back to the 1940s, it has rapidly turned reefs into artificial islands capable of hosting military planes.

Manila contends that the “nine-dash” line has no basis under international law and Beijing has no “historic” claim to the ocean.

Tensions in the South China Sea have alarmed other nations, and most notably the United States which has key defence treaties with many allies in the region, and in a show of strength has sent warships close to some of the Chinese claimed reefs.

But President Xi Jinping said in a speech last week that China will never compromise on sovereignty, and that the country was “not afraid of trouble”.

In an apparent stab at the US, Xi said: “We will not show up at other people’s front doors to flex our muscles. That does not show strength or scare anyone.”

Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also have overlapping claims to the waterway.

Flash floods kill 33 in northern Pakistan

Flash floods caused by torrential monsoon rains have killed at least 33 people in northern Pakistan, the majority from a village near the border with Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.

The rains began late Saturday and were concentrated mainly in the northwestern province of Khybher Pakthunkwa, which has been badly affected by flooding in recent years that some scientists have linked to climate change.

The worst hit district was Chitral, on the country’s northwest border, where flood waters swept away a mosque, dozens of houses and army post in the remote village of Ursoon, district mayor Maghfirat Shah told AFP.



Thirty-one people were killed in the village, and at least eight of the dead are thought to be soldiers.
A statement issued by the provincial disaster management authority said 82 houses were affected by the waters, and efforts were underway to provide food and relief items to the villagers.

Another senior local official, Osama Waraich, said that the bodies of eight of the victims from Ursoon had been found on the Afghan side of the border.

Separately, two Chinese engineers were killed and five Pakistani workers injured when the heavy rains caused the roof of a construction site to collapse at Tarbela Dam, spokesman for the Provincial Disaster Management Authority Latifur Rehman said.

In April rains and landslides killed 127 people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Gilgit-Baltistan region and Pakistani Kashmir.

Poorly built homes across the country, particularly in rural areas, are susceptible to collapse during the annual spring and monsoon rains in July-August, which are often heavy.

Severe weather in recent years has killed hundreds and destroyed huge tracts of prime farmland.

During the rainy season last summer, torrential downpours and flooding killed 81 people and affected almost 300,000 people across the country.

The worst flooding in recent times occurred in 2010 and covered almost a fifth of the country’s total land mass. Nearly 2,000 people were killed and 20 million affected.

Rapid deforestation brought about by decades of illegal logging in the country’s north and the growth of farming along the river Indus in the south is believed by experts to have exacerbated the effects of the annual floods.

Energy-starved Pakistan relies on a multitude of dams and barrages to prevent Himalayan rivers from flooding and help meet its power needs, but some academics believe the slowing of rivers due to the structures mean that silt accumulates, decreasing their capacity.

A research paper commission by conservation group WWF and published in 2000 looked at various countries, and warned of similar consequences. It noted the drainage of wetlands as well as deforestation associated with dams led to a loss of natural ‘sponges’ to absorb flood waters during rainy season.

Guinea-Bissau records first three cases of Zika

Guinea-Bissau has recorded three cases of Zika, becoming the second country in West Africa where the dangerous viral disease has been detected, the government said on Saturday.

“Three cases of contamination by Zika virus have been confirmed,” a statement quoted Health Minister Domingos Malu as saying.



The cases occurred in the Bijagos archipelago, a group of 88 islands of which 23 are inhabited, Malu told a cabinet meeting on Friday.

The communique gave no further detail about the three cases, their location or how the disease may have arrived on the Bijagos.

A hospital source told AFP that investigations were underway but the first case may have occurred early last month on Bubaque, one of the Bijagos islands.

A former Portuguese colony of 1.6 million people, Guinea-Bissau suffers from chronic poverty and instability.

Previously, the only other country in West Africa where Zika had been detected was Cape Verde, an archipelago in the Atlantic, where 7,500 cases have been recorded since October 2015.

Saturday’s statement said the authorities were taking steps to prevent further spread of the mosquito-borne virus.

It announced that an anti-Zika commission had been set up, comprising several ministers under the authority of Prime Minister Baciro Dja.

Zika is benign in most people but has been linked to microcephaly — a shrinking of the brain and skull — in babies, and to rare adult-onset neurological problems such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which can result in paralysis and death.

In an outbreak that started last year, about 1.5 million people have been infected with Zika in Brazil, and more than 1,600 babies born with abnormally small heads and brains.

Niger Delta Avengers says members not arrested

The Niger Delta Militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, has denied reports that two of its members were arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).

The spokesman for the DSS, Tony Opuiyo, said in a statement on Friday that suspected members of the militant group, Selky Kile Torughedi and Christian Oluba aka Sensor, were arrested for different offences.


Opuiyo said Torughedi was arrested on 17th June, 2016, in Calabar, Cross River State, for planning to assassinate one M.B. Yahaya, a serving military officer. Oluba “was arrested while perfecting plans to carry out explosive attacks on critical oil and gas pipelines, including critical storage points.”

But the spokesman for NDA, Mudoch Agbinibo, described the alleged arrests as false, claiming that both Torughedi and Oluba were ‘sleeper agents’ of the Service.

“Reports from national dailies that two suspects Mr Christian Oluba alias Sensor, and Selky Kile Torughedi arrested by DSS are alleged members of Niger Delta Avengers is laughable, the fact is they are sleeper agents of the DSS sent after the Niger Delta Avengers,” said Agbinibo in a statement on Saturday.

“If DSS are denying this, let them allow the suspects to speak to the press. We (Niger Dleta Avengers) don’t have any connection with these boys. We dare the DSS to allow the boys to tell the world their side of the story.

“DSS and Nigeria Army can’t win the Niger Delta war by feeding their President with false information about situation of things in the Region. It’s all-good because as it seems the DSS is now having internal crisis with most of their sleeper agents and it a sign that God is on our side.”

Agbinibo reiterated that underdevelopment, environmental degradation, lack of infrastructure and the issue of self-determination were behind his group’s activities in the region. These are the areas and urged President Muhammadu Buhari to focus on providing solutions to them.

NDA has emerged as the most prominent militant group in the Niger Delta region in 2016 with series of attacks launched on oil installations belonging to Shell, Chevron, ENI and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

‘Shabaab mortar fire’ kills two in Somalia

Two people were killed and 18 were wounded early Saturday in the southwestern Somali town of Baidoa in a mortar attack by suspected Shabaab jihadists, a senior official said.

“Shebab militants fired mortar shells late last night, striking different neighbourhoods in Baidoa,” the governor of Bay region, Abdirashid Abdullahi, told AFP.


“The casualty number reached about 20, two of them died and eighteen others were hospitalized, five of them with minor injuries.”

There was no immediate claim of responsibility from the Shabaab, an Al Qaeda-affiliated group blamed for a string of bloody attacks in Somalia and neighbouring Kenya.

Witnesses told AFP that most of the shells landed in civilian areas close to Baidoa’s airport, where the biggest Ethiopian base in the AMISOM mission is located.

AMISOM — the African Union Mission in Somalia — is tasked with shoring up Somalia’s internationally-backed but fragile government.

“There were several blasts near the airport but most of them landed (on) houses occupied by civilians, several people died and others wounded”, Musdhaf sheik Mumin, a resident said.

The Shabaab were forced out of the capital, Mogadishu, five years ago but continue to carry out regular attacks on military, government and civilian targets in their battle to overthrow the internationally-backed administration.

This year is considered critical for the group, which is eager to disrupt an expected change of government leadership due in the coming months.

Seven Japanese confirmed dead in Bangladesh hostage attack

Seven Japanese nationals involved in a hostage attack in Bangladesh have been confirmed dead, Japan’s government said late Saturday.

“Embassy officials confirmed that seven Japanese were included in the bodies sent to hospital by the Bangladesh government,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a news conference in Tokyo.


The seven victims included five men and two women, Suga said, adding that it was “extremely regrettable” that the terror attack resulted in the fatalities.

The attackers, moving at the start of the Eid holiday, took foreigners hostage at a restaurant, killing 20 before troops rushed in Saturday. Many of the victims were hacked to death.

The Bangladesh military said most of the fatalities were either Italian or Japanese. Thirteen hostages were rescued.

The Japanese government had earlier said one Japanese was rescued but there were concerns about the fate of seven other Japanese citizens.

Clinton interviewed by FBI about State Dept emails

The FBI quizzed Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton on Saturday about her use of personal email while serving as secretary of state, a campaign spokesman said.

Questions over Clinton’s use of a private account and homebrew server during her time as America’s top diplomat have dogged her presidential campaign for more than a year, and fueled voter concerns that she is not trustworthy.


An aide said the interview at FBI headquarters in Washington lasted about 3.5 hours.

“Secretary Clinton gave a voluntary interview this morning about her email arrangements while she was secretary,” spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement.

“She is pleased to have had the opportunity to assist the Department of Justice in bringing this review to a conclusion. Out of respect for the investigative process, she will not comment further on her interview.”

Clinton, aiming to become the nation’s first female commander-in-chief, has apologized for exclusively using a private email account and her own server during her time as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

Opponents argue that this breached rules about protecting classified documents from cyber attack and may have amounted to a crime.

The FBI interview came amid revelations that US Attorney General Loretta Lynch held an impromptu meeting with Clinton’s husband, former president Bill Clinton, at the airport in Phoenix, Arizona this week. The exchange touched off a political firestorm.

On Friday, Lynch vowed to respect the decisions of the FBI and the prosecutors on whether to charge Hillary Clinton.

The top US law enforcement official admitted that the private encounter with Bill Clinton had “cast a shadow” over the investigation into the emails in the runup to the November general election.

But Lynch insisted that she, as a political appointee, will not overrule investigators or otherwise interfere in the legal process regarding the probe, and that the integrity of the Justice Department will be upheld.

Nine Italians killed, one missing in Bangladesh attack

Nine Italians were killed and a 10th was listed as missing after militants attacked a restaurant in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka and took hostages, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Saturday.

The nine fatalities comprised four men and five women, Gentiloni told the press, adding that relatives had been notified.


A tenth Italian was in the restaurant when the attack unfolded but was not among the 20 listed as dead, he said.

Local media said the Italian dead included a 33-year-woman who had been in Bangladesh for 18 months for work, a 52-year-old woman textile exective and a 47-year-old entrepreneur who was the father of three-year-old twins.

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had earlier prepared the nation for bad news, saying the country was “like a family which has suffered a painful loss.”

The attackers who believed they were “destroying our values” would not get a drop of encouragement from Italy, he said.

“We are stronger,” Renzi said.

“The terrorists want to rip away the daily fabric of our lives. Our duty is to reply with even greater force, by affirming our values, the values of freedom of which we are proud, and which are stronger than hatred or terror.”

The attackers, moving at the start of the Eid holiday, took foreigners hostage at a restaurant, killing 20 before troops moved in Saturday. Many of the victims were hacked to death.

The Bangladesh military said most of the fatalities were either Italian or Japanese. Thirteen hostages were rescued.

Pope Francis sent a message of condolence to Bangladesh, condemning “barbarous acts” that were “offences against God and humanity,” the Vatican said.

Latino model is Instagram's latest man crush thanks to his good looks and fine cooking skills

27-year-old Franco Noriega is not only a model-turned-chef, with a huge Instagram base of 114000 followers, he has his admirers.

He moved to New York from Peru in 2007 to pursue his dream of becoming an actor but took up modelling after being spotted by renowned fashion photographer Mario Testino who is also from Peru.

 His career took off and he has since modelled for Dolce & Gabbana, Calvin Klein, Hugo Boss and Roberto Cavalli.
Noriega who maintains his impressive physique through exercise and dieting has decided to share his secrets with interested fans and customers. To this end, he has become a chef and opened a restaurant in the New York, a Peruvian rotisserie called Baby Brasa, specialising in 'clean' food. The restaurant can only sit 12 people but he says he wants to influence people in his local community to eat better.

He said:

'I eat clean and healthy. I'm basically doing that here. I'm not serving anything that I don't eat myself.'

 He plans to open a second restaurant as soon as he gets planning permission.

After reaching the top as a male model, Noriega went back to school after which became a Creative Director at Macy's.

 Despite his busy schedule, the inspirational entrepreneur has not quit modelling just yet, saying:

'The restaurant business is very demanding, and I'm really focused 100 percent on it. But I believe there's time for everything.'

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Source: DailymailUK

Graphic Photos: Reverend killed by herdsmen in Nassarawa State

According to @uncanny_sam, who shared the photos on twitter, his uncle Reverend Zakariya was killed by herdsmen in Obi LGA of Nassarawa State on June 30.

"We have become preys that's hunted by a marauding beast in our land. I will keep shouting till justice is done. How long will we suffer this, he left a very young family, 3 of his children are currently in the university" he tweeted.

See the graphic photos after the cut.

Parents share hilarious photos of their kids asleep in all sorts of odd places

Kids may bullet around like a bundle of unending energy but like these pictures show, when they're maxed out, they just drop wherever they may be and its off to dreamland. Parents have shared photos of their adorable tots asleep anywhere but in their comfy beds, one little fella is even snoozing at the wheels. The photos have been submitted to a UK online bed retailer Time4Sleep, which is searching for the sleepiest tot in the UK. More photos after the cut.

Photos: Bride and groom in their wedding dresses stop on the road to buy roasted corn

This couple, Mr and Mrs Ike C. Ibe, came out in their wedding outfits to buy roasted corn just after their wedding today. The happy groom who shared the photos on IG wrote

"IKE C. IBE Its not a movie. It's my wedding this morning. And it's a maze of life. Eating corn on the way after wedding --Priceless. This is the way we roll".

More photos after the cut.