Bangladesh Miracle: Woman found alive 16 days after factory collapse

A woman was pulled alive Friday from the ruins of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh more than 16 days after it collapsed and killed over 1,000 people.
The miraculous rescue came shortly after emergency officials announced that the woman called Reshmi had been located under the rubble of the nine-storey Rana Plaza complex after crying out for help.
She was found sheltering in the ruins of a basement mosque.
Rescuers cheered loudly as she was carried to an army ambulance, managing a faint smile at the crowds who had gathered.

The country’s fire service chief told AFP that the woman appeared to have had access to water during her marathon ordeal trapped underneath the wreckage of the nine-storey Rana Plaza complex, which had caved in on 24 April.

The founded Mother’s Day?

      
Mother’s Day was founded in 1907 by a West Virginia woman as a tribute to her own mother. In her 40s, Anna Marie Jarvis, a college graduate, quit her job and incorporated herself as the Mother’s Day International Association.
Jarvis was so passionate about her vision that she succeeded within 6 years in persuading the governors of nearly every state in the union to embrace Mother’s Day. By 1914, she had won over the U.S. Congress. That year President Woodrow Wilson signed a Congressional resolution declaring the second Sunday in May the nation’s day to honor mothers (for their role in the family, however, not the public sphere).

California's Springs Fire nearly triples in size

                        

A wildfire raging on the coast of Southern California has nearly tripled in size inside 24 hours, engulfing an area of 43 sq miles (111 sq km).

Firefighters have been using engines, aircraft, bulldozers and other equipment to battle the flames 50 miles (80km) north-west of Los Angeles.

Toxic chemicals on fire near Belgium's Ghent

                      

Two people died and 14 were injured when a train carrying toxic, flammable chemicals derailed and caused a major fire near the Belgian city of Ghent. 

The train was travelling from the Netherlands to Ghent's seaport when it derailed as it changed tracks between the towns of Schellebelle and Wetteren at about 02.00 (00.00 GMT).
Six of the train's 13 cars derailed and three caught fire, setting off a series of explosions.
It is unclear how the two people died.

Afghan roadside bomb kills five US Nato soldiers

                                    

A roadside bomb has killed five US soldiers serving as part of the Nato force in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province.

The deaths came after three British troops were killed by a roadside bomb this week in southern Helmand province.

The Taliban launched its annual spring offensive on Sunday, saying it would target foreign military bases and diplomatic areas.

Italy's Michaela Biancofiore resigns over 'homophobia'

                              

A junior equal opportunities minister has resigned the day after being sworn in to Italy's new coalition, having said gay people invited discrimination by "ghettoising" themselves.

Michaela Biancofiore was defending herself against accusations of homophobia made by human rights groups.

But she invoked more wrath with Saturday's comments to Italian media.

Burial wrangle for Boston suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev

                

Peter Stefan: "I keep bringing up the point of Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh or Ted Bundy. Somebody had to do those, too."

The search is on for a cemetery to bury Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev as protesters picket the funeral home holding his body.

The director of the funeral home in Worcester, Massachusetts, likened the task to burying notorious mass murderers from recent US history.

Chelsea Prepare £200,000-Per-Week Deal For Radamel Falcao

 
Sensational news are out claiming that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich will make money no object as he goes for Atletico Madrid striker Radamel Falcao.
The Daily Mail claims that the West London club will offer the 26-year-old a deal worth in the region of £200,000-per-week, to lure Falcao.
The pay package would eclipse the club’s current top earner Fernando Torres, who is understood to earn £175,000-per-week.
The staggering salary underlines how serious the current Champions League holders are about signing Falcao, who is viewed as the hottest property in world football.

Mahama’s Govt Must Listen-Pratt

                     
The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper has attributed the defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate in the Kumbungu parliamentary by-election on Tuesday, to the failure of government and the governing party to read the signs on the wall.
According to Kwesi Pratt Jnr, the decision by government to second Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, who was the NDC MP, to be ECOWAS-ACP General Secretary was a “major mistake” and it is therefore not surprising that the party has lost one of its seats in parliament.
According to Mr Pratt, who was speaking on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem morning show of Thursday May 2, 2013, the rejection of the NDC candidate was a reflection of the displeasure of the people of Kumbungu about government’s decision to replace their chosen son, Mumuni, with a candidate they had earlier rejected at the primary.
The veteran journalist said government’s move was a major miscalculation, coming just four months after the 2012 elections and especially given the constitutional provision of appointing fifty (50) percent of Ministers from parliament.
Ministers, he pointed out, are usually not in parliament and sometimes are sent out of Ghana on official business and may therefore not be available to help pass crucial legislation to further government’s agenda.

Ugandan fans love Efya

                               
Here is more from Ghanaian singer, Efya’s East African tour. After wowing at her Kenyan concert gig, . Last weekend, Efya put up a good show in the Ugandan Capital, Kampala. Strikingly, her Ugandan patrons sang along as she performed ‘Little Things’, perhaps, her most popular song till date. The cheers kept coming as she dazzled in and out of a session that made sense of the decision to bring her down for the event.