Have they found flight MH370? Search ship detects a black box 'pulse signal' from 3.5 miles below southern Indian Ocean and Chinese air force plane spots '20 pieces of debris'

A Chinese ship that is part of the multinational search effort looking for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has detected a 'pulse signal' in southern Indian Ocean waters, it has emerged.

China's official news agency said a black box detector deployed by the vessel, Haixun 01, picked up a signal today.
The ship said that the signal it picked up has a frequency of 37.5kHz per second, which is the type that the aircraft's black box would send out.
Tonight, Australian officials confirmed that the signals the Chinese ship detected are consistent with an aircraft black box, strengthening the prospect of a dramatic breakthrough in the hunt for the Boeing 777.

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A Chinese ship is said to have detected a 'pulse signal' in the southern Indian Ocean today

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A white floating object spotted by Chinese air force in the southern Indian Ocean today

However, there is no immediate evidence that the signal is linked to the missing jet.
Flight MH370 vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board while it was en route to Beijing, China, from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.

'I still love the woman who tried to murder me': Devoted disabled husband says wife who tried to strangle him in his wheelchair should never have been prosecuted

A devoted husband whose wife has been convicted of trying to murder him said today: 'I still love her and always will'.
Christine Houston, 66, used a cravat to throttle her disabled partner Stewart, 56, and only failed to kill him because a Sainsbury's driver arrived to deliver their weekly shop.
Afterwards she told police she 'didn't have a gun and didn't like knives so strangling was all she could think of', Newcastle Crown Court heard.

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Heartbroken: Stewart Houston was strangled by his mentally-ill wife Christine at home but he says he will always love her and she should never be blamed for what happened to him

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Happier time: Mr and Mrs Houston have been married for 28 years - pictured in 2010 - but her conviction for attempted murder, which he never supported, means that she will never be allowed home again

But Mr Houston said today his full-time carer wife was 'failed' by the NHS who released her from a secure unit on two separate occasions despite her telling staff she wanted to 'suffocate him'.

'They kept this from me and sent her home to care for me 24 hours a day. She was failed by them.

Man beds 200 women in A YEAR by chatting them up on Twitter

A man claims to have wooded hundreds of women into bed using the power of social media.
Ben James reckons he has bedded over 200 women in a year - by chatting them up on Twitter.

The 25 year-old romeo sends out saucy messages and gets hundreds of replies a day from girls including full-frontal naked selfies.

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Self-proclaimed Casanova Ben James pictured with his current girlfriend Abby Lugg. Ben claims he has four or five 'tweethearts' on the go at any one time

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The 25 year-old Romeo sends out saucy messages and gets hundreds of replies a day from girls including full-frontal naked selfies

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One dies during scramble for LG boss’ N20,000 gift

 

The Ijora area.

At least one person was killed while many others sustained injuries during the scramble for about N20, 000 by some touts in the Ijora area of Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the deceased, Saheed Adio, was stabbed to death by some persons during the scramble around 7UP area on March 22, 2014.

According to Police authorities, trouble started after the Chairman, Ajeromi/Ifelodun Local Council Development Area, Shuaib Oromobo, aka Ajidagba, gave the N20, 000 to some hoodlums to share.

It was said that in the process, Adio, who was an ad-hoc employee of the LCDA was stabbed to death. Adio’s role in the sharing of the N20,000 could not be ascertained.

It was learnt that a friend to the deceased reported the matter at the Ajegunle Police Division and the police immediately swung into action.

Proprietor collects N26.6m, fails to register pupils for WASSCE

Oshi Luke

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a school proprietor, Oshi Luke, before Justice A. O. Onovo of the Enugu State High Court, Nsukka, Enugu State, on 10 counts of stealing.

EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said the accused allegedly connived with three employees of his school, OBFO International Academy, and collected N46, 000 each from 580 candidates as the registration fee for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, May/June 2012 examination, but failed to register the pupils for the said examination.

Nine-month-old boy accused of planning murder

A nine-month-old boy has appeared in court in Pakistan on charges of planning a murder, threatening police and interfering in state affairs, it appears.
Baby Muhammad Mosa Khan is one of more than 30 people facing charges after a police raid to catch suspected gas thieves in the city of Lahore, The News website reports. Police say the suspects tried to murder security officers by pelting them with stones. But the Times of India newspaper quotes the infant’s father as saying the group was protesting an electricity shortage.

Leave us alone, kidnappers warn police boss on phone

• Girlfriend helps police nail suspect

The Officer in Charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos, Mr. Abba Kyarri, was shocked to his marrows after his phone recently rang, he picked and heard the voice of a kidnapper he had been trailing, yelling that he should leave him and his gang members alone. The kidnapper had yelled: “Leave us alone! Is the man we kidnapped your father? Is he your family member? What is your own in the matter? Why are you chasing us up and down? Are we armed robbers or is the ransom your money?”

A few hours after receiving the strange call, Kyarri gathered his men and they began restrategising on how to nab the notorious suspect, known as Peter Samuel a.k.a K boy.