Police hunt for two Brit teen girls feared to have fled to Syria including 15-year-old 'jihadi bride' Yusra whose mother has begged her to come home

Counter terrorism officers are hunting for two British teenage girls feared to have fled to join jihadis in Syria, including a 15-year-old whose mother has begged her to come home.

Officers from the South East Counter Terrorism unit are supporting the families of 15-year-old Yusra Hussien and the 17-year-old girl from Lambeth, south London, who flew to Turkey last week in the hope of crossing the border to Syria.

A police spokesman said: 'They are working to identify where the girls are and to encourage them to return safely.'

Meanwhile Yusra's mother, Safiya Hussien, today spoke of her agony at not knowing where her daughter was. 

Safiya Hussien, left, wept as she begged her daughter Yusra, 15, to come home, saying: 'We are heartbroken'

Did US Ebola victim change flights at Heathrow? Patient flew from Liberia to Brussels but route to Dallas could have taken him through London

Fears are growing that the Ebola victim currently in quarantine in Dallas, Texas, could travelled via London's Heathrow airport on his way to the U.S.
The patient was infected with the deadly virus in Liberia. He is known to have then flown to Brussels, Belgium, but there are no direct flights to Dallas from there.
That raises the alarming prospect that he may have travelled via Heathrow, the world's busiest international airport, to take a connecting flight back home to Texas

Immigration control at Heathrow: There is a chance the Ebola patient in isolation in Dallas, Texas, may have flown home from Liberia to the U.S. via London's Heathrow Airport, the world's busiest international airport

'Jesus NEVER existed': Writer finds no mention of Christ in 126 historical texts and says he was a 'mythical character'

Historical researcher Michael Paulkovich has claimed that Jesus of Nazareth was a ‘mythical character’ and never existed.

The controversial discovery was apparently made after he found no verifiable mention of Christ from 126 writers during the ‘time of Jesus’ from the first to third centuries.

He says he is a fictional character invented by followers of Christianity to create a figure to worship.

Writer Micheal Paulkovich has claimed that there is a little evidence for a person known as Jesus existing in history (painting of The Last Supper pictured). Jesus is thought by most historians to have lived from about 7BC to 33AD in Judea in the Roman Empire

Bungling Secret Service allowed a three-time felon carrying a firearm to travel in an elevator with Obama this month

Just three days before a knife-wielding veteran broke into the White House, Secret Service let an armed felon ride in the same elevator as President Obama.

The startling revelation that the commander-in-chief's life was compromised was revealed today, as the director of the Secret Service testified before Congress to explain the recent lapses in security.

The newest security slip-up happened on Mr Obama's September 16 trip to Atlanta, Georgia for a briefing on the Ebola crisis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At the CDC, Mr Obama and his security detail entered an elevator when a contract security officer operating the lift started taking photos and video of the president.

How did that happen? President Obama rode in the same elevators as a convicted felon carrying a handgun when he visited the CDC on September 16, it was revealed on Tuesday

Church of England vicar who told girl, 13, to rape her nine-year-old sister in online chats is jailed for just two years

Church of England vicar James Ogley pictured outside court during an earlier court appearance

A Church of England vicar who told a 13-year-old girl to sexually abuse her nine-year-old sister during an online chat has been jailed for just two years.

Reverend James Ogley, a married father of two young children, told the teenager he wanted her and her sister to have sex with their own mother.

In another online exchange, he told the teenager to rape her younger sibling.

Boko Haram terrorists tried in secret, jailed for 75 years

 

Alleged Boko Haram members
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A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday convicted three persons for participating in acts of terrorism and being members of   the outlawed Boko Haram sect.

The convicts – Ali Mohammed, Adamu Karumi and Ibrahim Usman – will collectively spend 75 years in jail.

The trio were among the 17 suspected insurgents arraigned before Justice Buba on   eight counts of conspiracy to commit terrorism, illegal possession of firearms and being members of the violent sect.

Arraigned along with them but discharged   before the conclusion of the   trial were   Bala Haruna, Idris Ali, Mohammed Murtala, Kadiri Mohammed, Mustapha Daura, Abba Duguri and Sanni Adamu.

Others were Danjuma Yahaya,   Musa Audu,   Mati Daura, Farouk Haruna, Abdullahi Azeez, Ibrahim Bukar and Zula Diani.

Hilary Clinton lauds New York Times, New Telegraph partnership

Former United States’ Secretary of State, Senator Hilary Clinton, has lauded the partnership between the New York Times and New Telegraph, for the publication of the international edition of the highly reputable American newspaper in Nigeria.

In a telephone conversation with Chairman and Publisher of New Telegraph, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, Clinton, who was a senator representing New York in the American Congress, said the partnership signalled cooperation between two great institutions. She expressed the hope that the partnership with the New York Times would help New Telegraph to deepen democracy, as well as promote justice and human rights in Africa’s most populous nation.