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Corruption: Saraki gives Senate 2 weeks to probe CCT chairman

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Danladi Umar President, Bukola Saraki, yesterday mandated the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions two weeks to conclude the probe of allegation of corruption against the chairman of Code of Conduct Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar. Justice Umar is to face the probe,following a petition to the Senate over allegations of fraud, bribery and inflation of contracts by a Non Governmental Group under the aegis of Anti-Corruption Network, being operated by Senator Dino Melaye.

Android 6.0 Marshmallow update roadmap: Samsung Note 5, S6 early next year but what about S4?

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BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 03: A visitor looks at a Galaxy Note 5 smartphone at the Samsung stand during a press day at the 2015 IFA consumer electronics and appliances trade fair on September 3, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. The 2015 IFA will be open to the public from September 4-9. (Photo : Sean Gallup/Getty Images) A leaked document posted by Phone Arena shows that Samsung's Galaxy Note 5 will get the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update next month. This was followed by the Galaxy S6 Edge+, Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge that will be getting their updates on Jan. 2016. The Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note Edge have been approved and will be updated by Feb. 2014. The Galaxy S5 has also been approved but will be updated by the company on April 2016.

Jose Mourinho: Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich trusts under-pressure coach, says Michael Emenealo

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The club's technical director claims that Mourinho retains the support of Chelsea's hierarchy Chelsea technical director Michael Emenalo with manager Jose Mourinho Getty Images Chelsea technical director Michael Emenalo has said that the club’s owner Roman Abramovich fully backs under-pressure manager Jose Mourinho. Despite the defending champions’ dreadful start to the Premier League season, Emenalo says the decision to retain confidence in the 52-year-old Portuguese coach has been taken at the very top of Chelsea’s hierarchy,

Neymar transforms from Lionel Messi’s butler to Barcelona’s lord of the manor

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Lionel Messi has been injured since September but Neymar has taken over his mantle and leads Barça into Saturday’s clásico three points clear of Real Madrid   They followed Leo Messi every step of the way, willing him to take his next step, then his next, then his next, from the Camp Nou to the Cruz Blau clinic and on towards the Santiago Bernabéu, his target and theirs. The countdown began the moment he tore the medial ligament in his left knee against Las Palmas and it has quickened as the clásico comes closer, but the tone has changed. It is different now: there is expectation not desperation,

North Korea Proposes Talks With South Korea at Truce Village

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North Korea has proposed talks with South Korea to be held on Nov. 26 at the truce village on their militarized border, the North's official KCNA news agency said Friday. The talks, if held, would be the first government-level meeting focused on easing tension since the two sides agreed to improve ties following an armed standoff in August. The North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, its main agency handling inter-Korean ties, proposed to hold working-level contact for government talks, KCNA said.

Third body found at scene of Paris attacks police raid in St-Denis

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Paris prosecutor says an as yet unidentified person died with alleged ringleader and woman in seven-hour siege   The scene of the seven-hour siege in St-Denis, Paris. Photograph: Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA A third body has been found in a terrorist hideout north of Paris that was the scene of a ferocious shootout with police, French officials said, as European Union ministers met for emergency talks on tightening border security. The Paris public prosecutor said a third, as yet unidentified person died in the seven-hour St-Denis siege on Wednesday alongside Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the jihadi suspected of planning the Paris attacks that left 129 people dead last Friday, and a woman now formally identified as his cousin.

80 hostages released from Radisson Blu hotel in Mali

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Taoiseach says no proposal for Ireland to send troops to Mali or ‘anywhere else Footage taken by a Chinese tourist purports to show the outside of the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali as a hostage situation is happening. Video: New China TV tages have been freed from the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali’s capital Bamako amid a special forces operation, according to the State broadcaster.

Beyoncé, Blue Ivy, And Gwyneth Paltrow All Sing On The New Coldplay AlbumBy Alex Ronan

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Photo: Kevin Mazur/Kevin Mazur What if Coldplay made a club banger? They’ve answered that burning question on their soon-to-be-released album A Head Full of Dreams. As Chris Martin explained to the Wall Street Journal, “I thought, it’s such a shame that Coldplay could never have one of those late-night club songs, like ‘Turn Down for What.’”

Mali hotel attack: '170 hostages seized' in Bamako

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The security forces are outside the hotel and blocking roads into the neighbourhood Gunmen have launched an attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in the centre of Mali's capital, Bamako.

Donald Trump is not ruling out using databases to track Muslims

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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Newton, Iowa, November 19, 2015. REUTERS/Scott Morgan  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is not ruling out the use of databases to track Muslims. In Iowa Thursday, he was asked by an NBC News reporter about whether he'd use databases to track Muslims. Trump responded, "There should be a lot of systems -- beyond databases. I mean we should have a lot of systems. And today you can do it. But right now we have to have a border, we have to have strength. We have to have a wall, and we cannot let what's happening to this country happen any longer."

Jennifer Lawrence’s Most Embarrassing Wardrobe Malfunction Has Happened to Us AL

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LJennifer Lawrence is notorious for her antics both on the red carpet and off. She famously fell in her gorgeous Dior gown on her way up to receive her Academy Award in possibly the most graceful fall in the history of time — though some of her other trips have been less, ahem, elegant. Recently, she’s been making the rounds promoting the last film in The Hunger Games series and admits the clumsiness continues. “I fell in every single city on the press tour,” she said. “I fell ’round the world.” You would think that we have already witnessed the most “embarrassing” (psh, more like relatable) moments in J.

First solo exhibition by the American artist Mickalene Thomas in Belgium opens at Galerie Nathalie Obadia

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Mickalene Thomas, Shinique: Now I Know, 2015. Rhinestones, acrylic and oil on wood panel, 243,84 x 304,8 cm. Courtesy Mickalene Thomas & Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris/Bruxelles. ©Mickalene Thomas Studio. Galerie Nathalie Obadia announces «I am your sister», the first solo exhibition by the American artist Mickalene Thomas in Belgium, following her first exhibition in France in 2014. For this show, Mickalene Thomas, one of the most respected multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker on the contemporary American scene, offers a «double» exhibition at the Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Brussels. Alongside a selection of her most recent paintings,

Facebook Debuts The Digital Breakup With New Tools For Former Flames

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Breaking up is hard enough without having to see your ex’s newfound happiness flung in your face every time you log on to Facebook. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you want to unfriend or block your ex. There should be some middle ground. Today, Facebook says it will begin to experiment with new tools that will help people better manage these complicated relationships. The tools will be designed to give users the option to digitally distance themselves from their former loved ones without having to take drastic measures.