An Ohio mother was sentenced to life in prison for her involvement in the rape of her 12-year-old daughter. Jeannie Mae Carpenter pleaded guilty earlier this month to helping her live-in boyfriend, James John Kirksey, rape one of her children. Judge Frank Fregiato handed down the sentence to the 37-year-old woman Wednesday in a Belmont County courtroom. Carpenter pleaded guilty to charges of one count of complicity to commit rape, two counts of permitting to child abuse, one count of endangering children, and one count of obstructing official business, WTRF reported.
The extremely elusive giant squid are typically never seen by the human eye but one four-metre long Architeuthis decided to put on a show for a group Japanese spectators on Christmas Eve. The massive orange and white live squid was filmed swimming next to a boat's moorings in Toyama Bay on the west coast of Japan, according to Motherboard. Such large squid live deep underwater and are normally only found dead floating on the surface of the ocean or washed up on beaches, according to Ocean Portal.
A couple in Ecuador is making history with a unique pregnancy: The father-to-be is carrying the baby of his transgender partner.
Fernando Machado and Diane Rodríguez announced their pregnancy, believed to be the first of its kind in South America, on social media earlier this month and it's received widespread attention in a continent that has seen a sudden explosion in the rights and visibility of trans people.
Rodríguez, who was born Luis, is one of Ecuador's most-prominent LGBT activists and says she and her Venezuelan-born partner, whose birth name was María, decided to publicize the pregnancy to help change attitudes in the staunchly Roman Catholic society. Although both take hormones, neither has undergone gender-reassignment surgery, so the child-to-be was conceived the old-fashioned way with no known medical complications to date.
"We're trying to break the myths about transsexuality," Rodríguez told the Associated Press.
So far, church leaders have remained silent, something that Rodríguez says both surprises and pleases here.
"The church is always criticizing gays and homosexuals for adopting children, so it would be a contradiction to criticize us for giving birth naturally," she said from her home in Guayaquil.
An Indian man has been accused of kidnapping and raping a female colleague for five days to force her to convert to Islam.
Engineer Syen Emad Hasan, 30, proposed to the 27-year-old woman but she rejected him and said her family would not allow 'an inter-religious marriage', police said.
He harassed her until she cut short a work trip to Dubai. When she returned home to confront Hasan, he abducted her, locked her up at his house and took away her phone.
Hasan and the woman, who has not been named, worked together at a Dell computer repairs shop in Gachibowli, Hyderabad.
When she left the company and moved to Dubai in August, he 'continued to torture her on social media', police said.
'The woman told us she was forced to talk to Hasan as he showed her photos and videos of them together in Hyderabad, and threatened to send them to her father, said Inspector Ravinder.
He added: 'He [Hasan] also demanded that she send inappropriate photos of her.'
When she returned home to Hyderabad to confront him, he snatched her away to his flat in the al-Hasanath colony, Indian Express reported.
'He took three days’ leave and brutalised and sexually assaulted her,' said an officer of Hyderabad's 'She Team', a police unit tasked with investigating sexual assault.
They added: 'He threatened to continue doing so until she agreed to marry him after converting to Islam. He even threatened to set her on fire and strangle her.
The world's most obese man has died from a heart attack at the age of 38.
Andres Moreno, who weighed 980lbs at his heaviest, passed away on the morning of Christmas Day while he was being rushed to hospital from his home in Ciudad Obregón in Sonora, Mexico.
He suffered a fatal heart attack in the ambulance and could not be revived, his publicist said.
'Andres died at 8.30am on Christmas Day in an ambulance from a heart attack as he was taken from his house to San Jose Hospital,' publicist Carmen Palacios said in a statement today.
A heart-broken family has released a series of photographs of a three-year-old child, who they claim has died as result of severe abuse by the toddler's own mother and her boyfriend.
Pu Jinyu, from Kaiyuan in Yunnan south-west China, had been living with his mother and her boyfriend when he died in hospital, according to People's Daily Online.
While his mother, identified by her surname Wang, has claimed that the boy died after falling off the bed, his uncle thinks that the bruises all over his body show that he has been brutally beaten. The case is now under investigation.
Marine biologists have discovered a brand new species of lanternshark that is so stealthy, they've likened it a Japanese ninja.
The skin of the shark also contains so-called photophores, that make the fish 'glow' as it hunts its prey in the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
Although the researchers have dubbed it Ninja lanternshark, its official name is Etmopterus benchleyi - named after the novelist Peter Benchley who wrote Jaws.
With red tentacles that appear to 'hatch' from a fleshy egg-like sac, it is little wonder this woodland fungus was mistaken for an alien life-form online.
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Images of the fungus, known as devil's fingers, sparked a Twitter frenzy after they were posted by wildlife enthusiast Dan Hoare with the caption 'alien eggs hatching in the New Forest'.
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Hacking group Anonymous has launched a massive cyber attack on Turkey, accusing the country's leaders of supporting ISIS.
The global 'hacktivist' collective has threatened to sabotage servers of Turkey's airports, banks, military services and government facilities unless they stop aiding ISIS.
Last week, Anonymous brought down up to 40,000 websites across Turkey by attacking the country's 'root servers
Brunei bans Christmas as Public Celebration |Muslims who celebrate it with up to 5ye in prison
The super-rich ruler of Brunei has told residents of his country that if they plan on celebrating Christmas, they could face up to five years in jail.
In fear the the religious holiday will affect the faith of its country, the tiny oil-rich nation’s Sultan, Hassanal Bolkiah, has banned the public celebration of Christmas.
Any Muslims caught celebrating Christmas, and non-Muslims who are discovered organising celebrations, could face the lengthy prison sentence.
While non-Muslims are allowed to celebrate the holiday within their own communities, they must not disclose their plans to the nation's Muslims – which make up 65 per cent of the 420,000-strong population.
Man jumps into tiger enclosure at China zoo
A man had to be rescued from a tiger enclosure at a zoo in central China after jumping into the feline compound to practice a "somersault."
The man was visiting Tiger Mountain, an attraction at Wang Cheng Park in the city of Luoyang.
In the video footage, the man, who was dressed in black, was seen riding alone on the chairlift as it travelled over the enclosure.
He started to get up out of the seat and seemed to hesitate for a moment before leaping off and falling into the net below.
Miss Universe pageant host Steve Harvey makes huge gaffe, names wrong winner
Miss Universe pageant host Steve Harvey announced the wrong winner at the end of Sunday night's big show in Las Vegas and was forced to make an embarrassing apology.
After announcing Miss USA, Olivia Jordan, as the third runner-up, Harvey initially named Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo, as the night's big winner, relegating the remaining contestant, Miss Philippines, Pia Alonzo Wurzbach, to the second runner-up spot.
But after Arevalo received the crown and a bouquet of flowers, Harvey announced he had made an error and that Wurzbach was in fact the winner.
A stunned Wurzbach, who had taken her place with the other contestants behind Arevalo, then walked out to center stage. Last year's Miss Universe, Colombia's Paulina Vega, then removed the crown from Avrevalo's head and placed it on Wurtzbach.
With both pageant contestants standing at the front of the stage, the show concluded.
Harvey, who was hosting the contest for the first time, held up the card announcing the order of finishers for Fox network cameras to see up close afterward. He said he re-read the card and noticed it said "first runner-up" next to the Colombia contestant's name before he asked producers if he had made a mistake. Talking with reporters afterward, Harvey and an executive for pageant owner WME-IMG called it human error.
"Nobody feels worse about this than me," Harvey said.
In addition to his on-air apology, Harvey expressed contrition on social media. However, he initially misspelled the home countries of both contestants before also fixing that.
Wurtzbach later said she felt conflicting emotions as the mistake happened: joy when she was told she had indeed won, concern for Aravelo and confusion at the whole situation.
Wurtzbach said she tried to approach Aravelo onstage afterward but the Colombian was crying and surrounded by a crowd of women. She said she realized it was, "probably bad timing."
Even before Sunday night's oops moment, the pageant was involved in another controversy when a backlash against the pageant's former owner Donald Trump led Univision to pull out of the broadcast and the businessman to sell it in September.
Trump was quick to weigh in on Sunday's error, declaring the mistake would "never have happened" during his time as owner.
Shortly after Sunday night's confusion, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos tweeted a message on his official account to Ariadna Gutierrez. "For us, you will continue being miss universe! We are very proud!"
Philippines presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda didn't address the controversial win but said, "in bagging this victory, Ms. Wurtzbach not only serves as a tremendous source of pride for our people, but also holds up the banner of our women and of our country-as a true representative of what the Filipina can achieve."
Miss Puerto Rico suspended for anti-Islam rant accusing Muslims of 'terrorizing' the USA
Miss Puerto Rico Destiny Velez has been indefinitely suspended by the official Miss America Organization after sending a series of offensive anti-Muslim messages on Twitter.
Velez, 20, launched an anti-Muslim tirade at filmmaker Michael Moore on Thursday after he shared a photo of himself outside of Trump Tower in New York City with a sign reading: 'We are all Muslim.'
Moore's photo was in response to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US, which inspired the hashtag #WeAreAllMuslim on social media.
The former beauty queen sent a number of tweets directed to Moore including one that said Muslims have 'terrorizing agendas,' according to a grab of the tweets obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Five members of a Mexican drugs cartel taped to a lamppost ready for police
Astonished police in Mexico have arrested five members of a notorious drugs cartel found bound to a lamppost with gaffer tape.
The men - suspected of killing a taxi driver earlier this week - were discovered by passers-by in Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, in the northern state of Chihuahua, who called police.
Witnesses told local media they had been gagged, blindfolded and strapped to a street light with thick gaffer tape and rope.
Arun Rajput, 20, from a remote village in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, has been labelled a devil by villagers, forcing him to live the life of a recluse.
