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An Amtrak passenger train with more than 200 passengers on board derailed in north Philadelphia on Tuesday night, killing at least five people and injuring scores of others, several of them critically, authorities said. Reuters was there:

Veteran Nigerian musician and producer OJB Jezreel was reported to have suffered a setback in terms of recovery from his Kidney transplant last year however he has come forward to deny such reports. He sent out a broadcast message and said:

Oshiomhole will wed Miss Lara Fortes on Friday, May 15, 2015 at the Etsako West Local Government Council Marriage Registry in the Auchi area of the state. Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole (Nigerian Monitor) Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole is set to remarry five years after losing his first wife, Clara. Oshiomhole will wed Miss Lara Fortes on Friday, May 15, 2015 at the Etsako West Local Government Council Marriage Registry in the Auchi area of the state, The Guardian reports.

The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star was listed as one of the best dressed on the Vogue website, but was clearly missed off the list Fameflynet/Getty She considers Anna Wintour a friend these days, so it was a surprise to see that Kim Kardashian was left off the front cover for its special edition Met Gala issue. Her dreams were made when Kim and her husband Kanye West controversially made the cover of the US edition, but she failed to even get a mention on the issue, which is on stands in the US now but her sister Kendall Jenner DID make it.

Martin O'Neill planned to include Grealish in his squad to face England and Scotland, but the teenager is not ready to make a decision over his international future Targeted: Jack Grealish has been attacked on the social networking site Aston Villa winger Jack Grealish has been subjected to vile abuse on Twitter from Ireland supporters angry at his decision to turn down a call-up from Martin O'Neill. O'Neill had planned to include Grealish in his squad to face England and Scotland but after a phone call with Jack's father Kevin, he decided not to include him in the squad.

The former couple are reportedly concerned the 25-year-old rapper, who has two-year-old son King Cairo with ex-fiancée Blac Chyna, "will have a negative impact" on the 17-year-old reality TV star Bruce and Kris are worried about kylie's beau Bruce and Kris Jenner are "worried" about Kylie Jenner's relationship with Tyga. The former couple are reportedly concerned the 25-year-old rapper, who has two-year-old son King Cairo with ex-fiancée Blac Chyna, "will have a negative impact" on the 17-year-old reality TV star.

Bujumbura - Unrest was growing in Burundi on Tuesday, with police killing another demonstrator while thousands marched against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term in office. The protester was shot dead during clashes in Bujumbura's Buterere district, police and witnesses said. Seven people were reported to have been injured. The house of a government official and three government vehicles were set on fire.

 Abandoned at sea, thousands of Bangladeshis and members of Myanmar's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim-minority appeared Wednesday to have no place to go after two Southeast Asian nations refused to offer refuge to boatloads of hungry men, women and children. Smugglers have fled wooden trawlers in recent days as fears grew of a massive regional crackdown on human trafficking syndicates, leaving the migrants to fend for themselves.

The outgoing First Lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan has revealed that her intention for hosting the African First Ladies’ Peace Mission is not to deny the’First Lady-elect’ Aisha Buhari, the chance to become the president of the mission but rather to conduct elections to appoint a new president. Patience Jonathan Patience, who is the current president will host the mission on Friday in Nigeria after she summoned a meeting of the mission so as to appoint new executive members. Patience denied reports that alleged the election would be held before May 29 instead of the stated July date so as to deny Aisha Buhari the chance to be president of the mission.

Abuja — The Police Service Commission explained, yesterday, that the former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba was removed from office because of increasing cases of indiscipline in the rank and file of the force. The explanation came on a day the Police Council confirmed Mr. Abba's successor, Mr. Solomon Arase as the substantive Inspector General of Police.

The Ekiti State chapter of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), on Tuesday said seven doctors have received threats of kidnap from unknown gunmen. This is coming barely one week after the former Chief Medical Director of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Dr Patrick Adegun and a nurse with Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, Mrs Margaret Aladenika, were kidnapped. Adegun was kidnapped alongside his wife, Kikelomo, a few metres to the gate of their house located on Goshen Avenue, Federal Housing in Ado Ekiti metropolis.

Some members of staff of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) protesting lack of welfare and the commission’s plan to sack over 1,000 workers in Abuja… yesterday. PHOTO: LADIDI LUCY ELUKPO THE National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) yesterday said it has sacked 406 of its employees for forging appointment, conversion and promotion letters, saying that they have been benefiting financially from the fraud and they are to be handed over to security agencies for criminal prosecution.

A chairman of Ohaneze Nd'Igbo in Anambra state, and chairman of Presidents of Ohaneze in the seven Eastern states, Chief, Dr. Chris Oseloka Eluemuno has said that the President-Elect, General Muhammudu Buhari can only succeed in his campaign against corruption if he can change the structure of Nigeria. Eluemuno who spoke in an interview with Daily Independent in Awka yesterday said he cannot imagine that Buhari will import people from the moon to fight corruption in Nigeria.

Floyd Mayweather taunts Manny Pacquiao FLOYD Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao proved a box office smash, even if their welterweight title fight didn’t live up to the hype. The May 2 fight obliterated the pay-per-view record, with 4.4 million buys generating more than $400 million in revenue. With a live gate of nearly $72 million and other revenue, the bout grossed more than $600 million and likely made Mayweather more than $200 million.

Transfers: Latest news, rumours and gossip for Arsenal FC in 2015. Arsene Wenger given green light to bid £10m and offer a £120,000-a-week, three-year deal Wanted man: Petr Cech is Arsene Wenger's No 1 target Photo: ACTION IMAGES Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger wants Petr Cech to push for a move to the Emirates this summer. Wenger is in desperate need of a world-class goalkeeper and has pin-pointed 32-year-old Cech as his No 1 priority signing. According to The Sun, he has been given the green light to bid £10 million and offer the Czech star a £120,000-a-week, three-year deal.

SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had his defense minister executed with anti-aircraft fire for insubordination and dozing off during a formal military rally, South Korean intelligence said Wednesday, hinting at possible instability in the Pyongyang leadership. If confirmed, it marks another demonstration of Kim’s ruthlessness in dealing with even the most senior officials suspected of disloyalty, following the execution of his uncle and one-time political mentor Jang Song-Thaek in 2013.

Karachi: In a brazen assault, gunmen donning police uniforms attacked a bus carrying Shia Ismaili community members and shot the passengers in the head, killing at least 47 people in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, the latest in a series of terror attacks targeting minorities. Police officials said it appeared that six to eight assailants on motorbikes first opened fire on the bus just near the Dow Medical College and then entered the bus when it stopped at Safoora Chorangi, Gulistan-e-Johar area of Karachi.

 Ik Ogbonna’s 8 months pregnant fiancee Sonia has said they must stick to each other forever because of what they share.She wrote Ik Ogbonna and I share exactly the same mental disorder,we simply must stick to each other forever ,no one else could possibly understand”

Fresh from telling his fans on twitter to trek from Lagos to Abakaliki to watch him perform, rap star MI Abaga has hit the headlines again after finding a new wife for himself while performing at Abakaliki Star Music Trek which held at Abakaliki Township Stadium on Saturday, May 9, 2015.

Tickets for Steven Gerrard’s final home game for Liverpool this weekend are on sale for more than £1,300. On Tuesday, the prices on ticketbis.net ranged from more than £100 to £1,324.64 before the captain’s farewell against Crystal Palace at Anfield on Saturday. Tickets at that top price in the Main Stand normally sell at £47 for what is a Category C game.

Photos taken of the Barca superstar have revealed a striking full sleeve tattoo on his arm – and it really doesn’t suit the four-time World Player of the Year. Unlike his rival Cristiano Ronaldo, who hasn’t inked his body,

© AFP / Rizwan Tabassum (file photo) | Pakistani policemen escort Shiite Muslims during an Ashura procession in Karachi on December 16, 2010 Gunmen on motorcycles killed 41 people in an attack on a bus in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, police said, in what appeared to be the latest violence directed against religious minorities this year. Television channels carried pictures of a pink bus covered in bullet holes and an interview with Police Superintendent Najib Khan who said 41 people had been killed.

Neymar scored twice as Barcelona progressed to their first UEFA Champions League final since 2011 despite a 3-2 second-leg semi-final defeat at the Alianz Arena yesterday night. A Lionel Messi double and Neymar’s strike at Camp Nou last Wednesday had given the Liga leaders a 3-0 lead after the first encounter and Bayern were unable to complete a remarkable fight back six days later despite a spirited display.

If you are avid user of online search engines, you might want to delete your entire search history soon, all thanks to the new HBO documentary “Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop.” The new documentary directed by Erin Lee Carr takes on the case of Gilberto Valle, a former NYPD police officer who allegedly cooked up a scheme in an online chat room to kidnap, rape, and eat dozens of women. Valle was fired from his job as an NYPD officer after his cannibal chat-room conversations were discovered.

Nollywood actress, Adaora Ukoh, has denied rumour that went viral sometimes ago that she was dating a married man. The actress also said at a point in time, she wanted a secret wedding ceremony, but that it did not happen, clarifying that the affair then was not with an already married lover. According to her, she is too beautiful to take another woman’s man as her sweetheart, noting that marriage is what she is thinking about, but wants is at the appointed time.

The tour of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, which President Goodluck Jonathan promised his soon-to-be successor, Muhammadu Buhari, about a fortnight ago, has now been slated to take place on May 28. Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State, who disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Council of State meeting in Abuja, said Buhari would be conducted round the Villa, alongside the Vice President-elect, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

Taiwo Awoniyi scored a second-half hat-trick as the Flying Eagles dumped Hoffenheim U23 team 5-2 in a test match on Tuesday. The African champions created the more chances and could even have won by a wider margin but for some wastefulness in front of goal. Kingsley Sokari stamped his authority in midfield, skipper Musa Muhammed and Mustapha Abdullahi powered down the flanks from their fullback positions and the guile and power of Chidera Ezeh and Godwin Saviour troubled the opponents’ defence early on.