Ladies >>Must Read : Causes of smelly váginá and how to fix it

Most women experience feminine issues from time to time. Unfortunately, the fact that they’re common doesn’t make them any less embarrassing. Feminine odor is especially frustrating, because it can leave you feeling unclean and gross, even if that’s not the case. There are lots of causes for feminine odor, but here are the top five culprits.

Bacterial vaginosis

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) sounds like a big scary term, but it’s actually very common. In fact, BV is the most common cause of váginal odor, according to the Mayo Clinic.

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Every vágina is filled with naturally occurring bacteria, and BV is simply an overgrowth of that bacteria. According to Mary M. Galenberg, M.D., OB-GYN for the Mayo Clinic, most women in their reproductive years will experience at least one case of BV. The cause is unknown, but unprotected s3x and frequent douching can put you at a higher risk. Other symptoms include itching, soreness and discharge.

Some cases of BV will go away on their own, but Planned Parenthood recommends that all women with BV symptoms visit their doctor for treatment to prevent rare but serious complications. Treatment for BV is usually as simple as a course of antibiotics.

Yeast infection

A yeast infection is also very common (and very uncomfortable!). They present much like BV, with the addition of a thick, white discharge. Yeast infections don’t require antibiotics and instead can be treated with one- or three-course váginal anti-fungal treatments. Your doctor may also recommend a one-time oral anti-fungal treatment.

Symptoms of a yeast infection

Treatment for yeast infections has become very simple and can even be purchased over-the-counter. Most of these treatments tend to get messy, so it’s better to use them overnight.

Galenberg recommends you visit your doctor if you are experiencing these symptoms but have never been diagnosed with a yeast infection, as well as if treatment doesn’t resolve the symptoms or you get four or more infections in one year.

Séxually transmitted diseases

Some STDs can cause feminine odor, the most common being chlamydia and gonorrhea. Both diseases are common and easy to treat, but can cause serious complications if they go untreated. Unfortunately, both are also often undiagnosed because they may or may not produce symptoms. The most common symptoms of chlamydia and gonorrhea include painful urination and puss-like discharge, although an unpleasant odor is often present as well. See your doctor immediately if you are experiencing any of these symptoms and avoid risk by abstaining or using protection during séx.

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) occurs when bacteria (usually séxually transmitted) travel through the vágina into the uterus. It is often a late-stage result of an undiagnosed STD, such as chlamydia. PID usually isn’t diagnosed until you experience chronic pain or have trouble getting pregnant because it often doesn’t have symptoms. If symptoms of PID do present, they may include pelvic pain, odor, heavy discharge, fever, fatigue, painful intárcourse or painful urination.

PID can often be treated with antibiotics, though it may leave behind scar tissue that has lasting effects. According to Galenberg, lasting effects might include chronic pain, infertility or ectopic pregnancies.

Poor feminine hygiene

It’s possible that the cause for your feminine odor may be nothing more than poor hygiene. We’ve got a lot of complicated parts down there, and caring for them isn’t always easy. Make sure you’re covering all your bases to keep your lady parts fresh and clean.

First and foremost, make sure you’re washing thoroughly every day. Women have oil and sweat glands in the váginal area that, while completely natural, can cause odor if not attended to. Use mild, fragrance-free soaps, because anything else can upset that sensitive area and lead to even more troubles. Make sure you wipe from front to back after using the restroom and wear clean underwear every day, even if you don’t have time to shower.

12 Must-haves for women’s health

There are a lot of products out there that claim to help with odor and keep our parts “presentable,” but stay away from them. Dou ches, sprays, cloths and creams all claim to help women achieve some sort of super-cleanliness, but they actually cause more problems than they solve. Douches remove some of the bacteria that work to keep your vágina healthy, and scented products have been known to cause irritation.

First photo of Kim and Kanye's daughter - North West

Kanye West showed a picture of his daughter North West today on The Kris Jenner Show...She looks so much like Kim. She's so adorable!

Obama Mistaken for a Waiter (2003), Before He Was President,

In the wake of the Trayvon Martin case, President Obama on Friday made some unprecedented comments about the prejudice faced by black males in the United States.

His speech about his own experiences with racial prejudice reminded one journalist of an exclusive party that she and Barack Obama, before he was President, both attended, at which Obama was mistaken for a waiter.

Katie Rosman, a journalist with the Wall Street Journal, recalled the incident in a blog post for the publication in 2008.

She tweeted a link to the Wall Street Journal story: 

On a warm weekday evening in 2003, a group that can fairly be described as representative of the media elite gathered at one if its favored venues: the garden behind the Manhattan apartment of journalists Tina Brown and Harold Evans.

The occasion was the publication of “The Clinton Wars,” by Sidney Blumenthal, a former aide to President Bill Clinton. Editors from the New Yorker and the New York Times were in attendance along with media figures like Steven Brill and Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner. The guests mingled and sipped wine. Even Clinton showed up, instantly becoming the epicenter of attention.

I had not been invited but attended the event as the “plus one” of political columnist Eric Alterman, who wrote about the party in The Guardian on Thursday. At the time, I was a freelance journalist not yet employed by The Wall Street Journal. Eager for an opportunity to find a good story or meet an editor who might give me work, I accepted Alterman’s invitation to join him at an event littered with literati.

Once there, though, I felt awkward and out of place.

Standing by myself I noticed, on the periphery of the party, a man looking as awkward and out-of-place as I felt. I approached him and introduced myself. He was an Illinois state senator who was running for the U.S. Senate. He was African American, one of a few black people in attendance.

We spoke at length about his campaign. He was charismatic in a quiet, solemn way. I told him I wanted to pitch a profile of him to a national magazine. (The magazine later rejected my proposal.)

The following year I watched as he gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, and then won his Senate seat that fall. On Tuesday, Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States.

But what I will always remember is as I was leaving that party in 2003, I was approached by another guest, an established author. He asked about the man I had been talking to. Sheepishly he told me he didn’t know that Obama was a guest at the party, and had asked him to fetch him a drink. In less than six years, Obama has gone from being mistaken for a waiter among the New York media elite, to the president-elect.

What a country.

Culled from Dailymail.

Snoop Dogg On 2Pac’s Advice Regarding His Wife..

What people don’t know is that Tupac really kept me and my wife together. There came a point in time where I just felt like I didn’t need to be in a relationship. It was becoming a headache to me, and all these girls wanted to be with me. I was like, “F—- that, I can have any bitch that I want.” We was flying back from Belize with a gang of the homies from Death Row. [The homies] was like, “Yeah man, f—- that bitch! My baby momma ain’t sh—.” They was tellin’ me about how their relationships were. Then Pac just was like, “Man, f—- that! That’s your son’s mother. You love her. She’s the only one that’s gonna love you.” The sh— he was sayin’, it was real.

It was sounding crazy comin’ from him because he didn’t have no relationship like that. For him to tell me that, the sh— really stuck in my heart. When I got home [me and my son’s mother] pieced it back together. We worked it out and eventually got married. I gave him a lot of credit for that because I didn’t have no direction. I didn’t have nobody to talk to and I was young and I didn’t really know. His advice stood out more than the negative advice did.

Kanye West 'bitterly slams Taylor Swift and Pink in unearthed audio from 2009'

Unearthed audio of another vitriolic Kanye West rant has emerged online.
The 36-year-old was apparently secretly recorded while dining with friends at the Corner Bistro in New York's West Village after the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Gawker reports.
In a leaked recording, a man who sounds like the rapper is heard screaming as he goes on an expletive-ridden rant. (The website was unable to verify it was the star. Mail Online reached out to his spokesperson but is yet to receive a response.)
It appears to have been taped shortly after Kanye stormed the stage during Taylor Swift's Best Female Video acceptance speech, complaining that Beyoncé deserved to win the gong.

It seems he continued to rage about the decision after the show in the company of his friends.
He also took aim at Pink, bitterly complaining that she appeared onstage at the VMA Awards while he wasn’t asked to perform his hit track, Heartless.
He reasons with his pals why Taylor should not have won the gong all while referring to his own 'hard' work.
'When I heard Eminem's verse on the Drake s***, I went back and rewrote my s*** for two days,' he screams.


'I canceled appointments to rewrite! I f***in' care! You know what I'm saying? And that's what I'm saying.
'Because I did that, Taylor Swift cannot win over Beyoncé! Because I wrote my verse in two days, Taylor Swift cannot beat Beyoncé. As long as I'm alive!
'And if I'm alive, kill me then! Kill me then! As long as I'm alive, you gonna have to deal with it," he rants.
The rapper is also heard sounding off about how he didn't get invited to perform at the VMAs, despite having massive success with his song, Heartless.

In the second rant, he takes aim at Pink who had done two stage performances that night.
'What the f*** was Pink performing? Don't nobody know that song. Pink performed twice! Two songs? How the f*** Pink perform two songs and I didn't even get asked to perform 'Heartless'?' he asks to anyone in the crowd.
'Heartless is the biggest song of the year! It had the most spins of the first quarter! I don't know that Pink song!'
Kanye, who had told Jay Leno on his talk show following the ordeal that he was struggling with the loss of his mother Donda who died in 2007 due to cosmetic surgery complications, is also heard blaming the industry for her death.
When asked by one of his pals why he was so angry, Kanye also takes aim at MTV, who had invited him to the VMAs in the first place.

'(I am angry) because my mother got arrested for the f***in' sit-ins. My mother died for this fame s***! I moved to f***in' Hollywood chasing this s***. My mother died because of this s***. F*** MTV,' he yells.
Following his onstage ambush, Kanye apologised to Taylor after President Barack Obama called him a 'jackass' over the incident.


The U.S. President voiced his opinion on the shameful act, which was beamed live to 27 million households in America, and shortly afterward the rapper finally did the decent thing and called the country star.
The President's colourful remark was made during an interview with U.S. network CNBC and was meant to be kept off the record.
But the comment leaked out to news sites after a reporter from rival network ABC posted the comment on micro-blogging site Twitter.
'Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential,' reporter Terry Moran wrote.
Despite saying sorry on his blog and talking about the incident on TV, it took him two days to speak to Taylor and offer a personal apology.
Taylor had appeared on TV show The View where she admitted that she had been 'rattled' by his onstage hijack and said he hadn't apologised to her.
'He has not personally reached out or anything but if he wanted to say hi (I would),' she said.
'I'm not gonna say that I wasn't riled by it. I had to perform live five minutes later so I had to get myself back to the place where I could perform.'
He then called Taylor, and she accepted his apology, according to publicists from the show.
Kanye took a massive drubbing following the awards ceremony.
During one his emotional apologies on The Jay Leno show, Kanye said he was sorry for being 'rude'.


He told the talk show host he was planning to take a break from the music industry and to assess his behaviour, which he partly sought to excuse with the death of his mother.
As the host introduced his guest, he said: 'This really wasn't planned but Kanye wanted to talk, so please welcome Kanye West.'

When he sat down, Leno said to him: 'Tell us about your day. Have you had a tough day today?'
His voice cracking, Kanye said: 'It's been extremely difficult, just dealing with the fact that I hurt someone or took anything away, you know, from a talented artist - or from anyone.
'But I need to, after this, take some time off and just analyse how I'm going to make it through the rest of this life, how I'm going to improve. Because I am a celebrity, and that's something I have to deal with.
'It was rude, period.
'And, you know, I'd like to be able to apologise to her in person. And I wanted to...'
Kanye appeared on the verge of tears when asked what he thought his late mother would have said about the incident.
When Leno asked when he knew he was doing something wrong, West replied: 'As soon as I gave the mic back to her and she didn't keep going.'
The talk show host then asked if he thought his mother would have been disappointed in his behaviour.
After pausing for several seconds, he said: 'Yeah.
'Obviously, I deal with hurt.
'And you know, so many celebrities, they never take time off.  I've never taken the time off to really - you know, just music after music and tour after tour.
'I'm just ashamed that my hurt caused someone else's hurt - and I don't try to justify it because I was just in the wrong. That's period.
'I only wanted to help people. My entire life, I've only wanted to give and do something that I felt was right.
'And I immediately knew in this situation that it was wrong and it wasn't a spectacle. It was actually someone's emotions that I stepped on.
Despite his public and personal apologies to Taylor, in 2010 Kanye appeared to had taken them back when he alluded that he was 'peer pressured' into saying sorry, and that he still stood by his 'message'.
'I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined,' he told The New York Times.

Drunken 'Wall Street banker'got a knock-out punch by black man for N-word rant after claiming he'd just been fired from his and his wife had left him'

An apparent banker, pictured lying on the ground outside a cafe in New York's West Village, is said to have been punched in the face and knocked out by African American Dennis Reddish, 25, after man, who claimed he had just been fired by Goldman Sachs and split from his wife, used allegedly racist language. The victim of the physical attack suffered massive head trauma. Reddish now faces an assault charge.

Malala Yousafzai inspirational speech at the UN yesterday

Malala is the 16 year old Pakistani school girl and education activist who was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus on 9 October 2012. She marked her 16th birthday by addressing the United Nations at its headquarters yesterday Friday July 12th. Read her inspiration speech below and watch the video after the cut..

"Thank you to every person who has prayed for my fast recovery and a new life. I cannot believe how much love people have shown me. I have received thousands of good wish cards and gifts from all over the world. Thank you to all of them. Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me. Thank you to my elders whose prayers strengthened me.
Dear brothers and sisters, do remember one thing. Malala day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights. I speak - not for myself, but for all girls and boys.
Dear friends, on October 9, 2012, the Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. They shot my friends too. They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed. And then, out of that silence came, thousands of voices.

The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born. I am the same Malala. My ambitions are the same. My hopes are the same. My dreams are the same.

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone. Neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorists group. I am here to speak up for the right of education of every child. I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists especially the Taliban.

I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there is a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me. I would not shoot him. This is the compassion that I have learnt from Muhammad-the prophet of mercy, Jesus christ and Lord Buddha. This is the legacy of change that I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
The wise saying, "The pen is mightier than sword" was true. The extremists are afraid of books and pens. The power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women. The power of the voice of women frightens them.

That is why they are blasting schools every day. Because they were and they are afraid of change, afraid of the equality that we will bring into our society.

They think that God is a tiny, little conservative being who would send girls to the hell just because of going to school. The terrorists are misusing the name of Islam and Pashtun society for their own personal benefits.

Women and children are suffering in many parts of the world in many ways. In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labour. Many schools have been destroyed in Nigeria. People in Afghanistan have been affected by the hurdles of extremism for decades.

We call upon the world leaders that all the peace deals must protect women and children's rights. A deal that goes against the dignity of women and their rights is unacceptable.

We call upon all governments to ensure free compulsory education for every child all over the world.
We call upon all governments to fight against terrorism and violence, to protect children from brutality and harm.

So let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism and let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.
One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world. Education is the only solution. Education first."

Rihanna hooking up with Drake?

Now that Rihanna and Chris Brown are done for good, new reports claim she's back with someone she dated briefly in the past... Drake. Below is how MediaTakeOut is reporting it...

MediaTakeOut.com confirmed this morning that Rihanna is back together with Drake. This is not a rumor - it is fact - confirmed by a person on Rihanna's tour. According to a snitch Drake has been spending time with Rihanna - flying around the world to secretly meet her.

Tells the insider, "Rihanna and Drake have history, and they really want to make this into a real relationship - so they're keeping this quiet. I think Rihanna's in love."

Read another report after the cut...

From The Daily Mail 

Away from the stage Rihanna is said to have rekindled her romance with Canadian rapper Drake following her break-up with Chris Brown.

‘When she was dating Chris, he banned her from talking to Drake,’ a source told Look magazine.

‘She really missed him that time – yes, they went out years before but he was also a good friend to her – so calling him was one of the first things she did when she realised she was over Chris.

Baby stabbed 90 times with scissors by his Chinese mother after he bit her as she was breastfeeding him

An eight-month-old boy is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed 90 times by his mother, mostly in the face, for biting her while she was breastfeeding.
Xiao Bao needed more than 100 stitches after the incident in Xuzhou, eastern China's Jiangsu Province.
The infant lives with his mother and two uncles, who make a living recycling rubbish. It was one of the uncles who discovered Xiao Bao lying in a pool of blood in the yard of their home and rushed him to hospital.

The child’s mother later confessed that she stabbed the baby after he bit her during breastfeeding.

Neighbours have pleaded with the local government to take the baby away, but they have said that they will not.
Apparently, they said that there was no confirmation the mother was suffering from a mental illness and said, regardless, the baby still has two guardians in the form of his two uncles.


Mental illness remains a relatively closed topic in modern China, and neither medication nor modern psychiatric treatment is widely used.
An analysis of mental health issues in four Chinese provinces, published in 2009 in the British medical journal The Lancet, estimated that 91 per cent of the 173million Chinese adults that were believed to suffer mental problems never receive professional help.

The Royal baby and Blue Ivy will be cousins! New Prince or Princess of Cambridge revealed to be 23rd cousin twice-removed with Beyonce and Jay-Z's daughter

Culled from Dailymail Uk.

The son or daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will have not only the blood of actual British royalty running through his or her veins, but also the (slightly more diluted) blood of American music royalty. And Hollywood royalty, too.

It has been revealed that the Royal baby, who will be known as HRH Prince or Princess [first name] of Cambridge, will be a distant relative of celebrity couples Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, and all their respective children.

The baby prince or princess, believed to be due on Saturday, 13 July, will be 23rd cousins twice-removed with Beyonce's baby Blue Ivy Carter.

Kate and William's first child will also be related to a host of Hollywood stars, including Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, according to family-tracing website findmypast.co.uk.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's baby will also be distant cousins with Celine Dion's three children, as well as the children of Maggie Gyllenhaal, star The Dark Knight, and Kill Bill actress Uma Thurman.

Records show that the future royal's 23rd cousin twice-removed is Blue Ivy Carter, the daughter of musical couple Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z, through Blue Ivy's relation to the Queen through French royal heritage.

Celine Dion's three children will be 26th cousins thrice-removed, while the three children of Jennifer Garner and Oscar-winner Ben Affleck will be the closest relatives - 11th cousins, due to family lines connecting through Affleck and Princess Diana.

And Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's six children will be 27th cousins to the baby, linked through both parents' family ancestry.

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Uma Thurman are also on the Royal family tree, as their children will be 20th cousins twice-removed and 22nd cousins, respectively.

There were even Royal-Hollywood links found as far back as the 13th century, with King Edward III being distantly related to Hollywood mother Hilary Duff, making her son Luca 19th cousin to the Royal baby.

Using published research from the leading authorities on royal descents, findmypast.co.uk studied the ancestry of each celebrity through a computer genealogy database programme. 

Researchers looked at the ancestry of Queen Elizabeth II, the Duchess of Cambridge and Diana, Princess of Wales, to uncover their relationships to various celebrities.

Using published research from the leading authorities on royal descents, findmypast.co.uk studied the ancestry of each celebrity through a computer genealogy database programme. 

Researchers looked at the ancestry of Queen Elizabeth II, the Duchess of Cambridge and Diana, Princess of Wales, to uncover their relationships to various celebrities.

Debra Chatfield, a family historian at findmypast.co.uk said: 'It's long been said that the USA and UK have a special relationship, and that is certainly the case between Hollywood's elite and the Royal Family.  

'The closest relation we found to the Hollywood children was the late Princess Diana.

'Diana's ancestry includes a number of early settlers on the east coast of the USA that can be traced right up to the modern day. 

'There are 1.6 billion records on findmypast.co.uk that people can search through, so they can trace their own family ties. There is always a chance people may find their own Hollywood connection.'

Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina reveals engagement to 'brother' Nick Gordon

The late Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown has announced she is engaged.  

And the lucky man in question, as many suspected, is is Nick Gordon, the man Whitney raised through as her own son, who has been described as a 'brother' to the 20-year-old. 

Which means that rather than celebrating her news, Bobbi has come out of the traps to defend herself.

Their relationship has been the subject of scrutiny and a fair amount of eyebrow raising since their mother passed away in February last year. 

And so Bobbi tackles the scandal in the post on her Facebook page. 

She writes: 'YES, we me nick (sic) are engaged. I’m tired of hearing people say “eww your engaged to your brother or if Whitney was still alive would we be together or would she approve of this.”'

'Let me clear up something, we aren’t even real brother and sister nor is he my adoptive brother. My mom never adopted him. In fact, mommy was the one who even said that she knew that we were going to start dating. My mom knows me better than any of you.'

She continued: 'A lot of ‘yall are saying that y’all are only saying this all out of love. Which is bull because if that was so, all you would want is for me to be happy.  

'People need to seriously stop judging my relationship. Pretty sure it’s my own decision who I want to be with. 

'Yes, my relationship may not be perfect. We will have rough patches, just like every other relationship.

'And we have had our rough patches. You may or may not agree with my relationship. You may or may not respect it. Judge me, go ahead.

'Your opinions are yours and mine are mine. It is my life and not yours. The decisions I make have nothing to do with you. Goodnight.'

Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose officially tie the knot

Rapper Wiz Khalifa and his fiancée Amber Rose have finally become Mr. and Mrs. after deciding to get married in a courthouse Monday, and they are planning to hold a ceremony later this year.

“Me and Amber got married today. Weddings this fall. Thought I’d let yall know,” the new dad tweeted.

Rose gave fans a hint on Instagram last week that their marriage was near when she posted a photo of Wiz with the caption, “My soon to be husband…. I Love his crazy hair @mistercap :-) “

However, many wondered whether or not they held secret nuptials without anyone ever knowing back in January when the then-pregnant Rose used the H-word after a videographer in Los Angeles gave her a Ninja Turtles ice cream bar.

“My husband loves Ninja Turtles! That’s really cute, thank you,” she told him.

Wiz popped the question back in March 2012, and announced the happy news on Twitter. ”She Said Yes!!!” the rapper wrote, and included a pic of his fiancée’s hand flashing a gorgeous and blinding engagement ring.

Beyoncé and Solange snub father Mathew Knowles wedding.

He divorced daughter Beyonce's mother Tina after more than 30 years of marriage

But Mathew Knowles has clearly moved on with his life.

The 61-year-old married former model Gena Charmaine Avery last Sunday in Houston, Texas, but Beyoncé, 31, and her sister Solange, 27, were not in attendance.

'Unfortunately, Beyonce and Solange had previous engagements which made it impossible for them to attend,' Mathew told TMZ.

Beyonce is currently in the midst of her Mrs. Carter tour, and Solange is touring to promote her new EP True. 

She performed at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, the night before her superstar sister also took to the stage at the Super Dome.

Mathew - who was also Beyonce's former manager - married former realtor, Gina, 48, following an 18 month engagement.

He split from from wife Tina in 2009 after it was revealed he had an affair and a baby boy, Nixon, with actress Alexsandra Wright.

Mathew quit his job as a medical equipment salesman to manage Beyonce's early group, Girl's Tyme, which eventually morphed into Destiny's Child in 1990. 

Twenty-one years later, in 2011, she ended their professional relationship, while relaying that their personal relationship remained full 'of love'.

Rumours circulated about more going on behind-the-scenes than Beyonce let on as Mathew and Tina headed for divorce.

Ties were after all not easy to sever with Mathew having producer credits on many of his daughter's projects.

He also served as the founder of Music World Entertainment, a label that, through Columbia Records, has released albums by Beyoncé, sister Solange Knowles, Sunshine Anderson, and former Destiny's Child members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.

'My dad knew that I needed his approval,' Beyonce said in a recent documentary.

'And I think my father wouldn't give it to me. Because he kept pushing me. And kept pushing me. And kept pushing me. Every time my dad pushed me, I got better and stronger.'

'I needed a break, I needed my dad,' she said. 'I had to let go.'

The music manager, who still oversees the careers of several gospel singers, previously admitted he found it 'incredibly painful' to cut professional ties with Beyoncé.

Despite Matthew claiming it was joint decision for him to stop being her manager, Beyoncé - who has 18-month-old daughter Blue Ivy with her rapper husband Jay-Z - later revealed their split has taken a toll on their personal relationship.

Islamic extremists shoot dead 29 students and a teacher at a boarding school in Nigeria

At least 29 students and a teacher have been killed after Islamic extremists attacked on a boarding school in northeast Nigeria.
Survivors, who are being treated for burns and gunshots wounds, say some students were burned alive in the pre-dawn attack today on the Government Secondary School in Mamudo town in Yobe state.
Farmer Malam Abdullahi wept over the bodies of his two sons, aged ten and 12.
'That’s it, I’m taking my other boys out of school,' he told The Associated Press. He said he had three younger children in a nearby school.


He said there was no protection for students despite the deployment of thousands of troops since the government declared a state of emergency mid-May in three north-eastern states.
'We were sleeping when we heard gunshots. When I woke up, someone was pointing a gun at me,' said 15-year-old Musa Hassan.
He put his arm up in defence, and suffered a gunshot that blew off all four fingers on his right hand, the one he uses to write with.


He said the gunmen came armed with jerry cans of fuel that they used to torch the school’s administrative block and one of the hostels.
Dozens of schools have been torched and unknown scores of students killed among more than 1,600 victims murdered by extremists since 2010.
The attackers set fire to buildings and shot pupils as they tried to flee, according to Reuters. Several of the students were being treated for burns, he added.
It was the deadliest of three attacks on schools since the military launched an offensive in May to try to crush Boko Haram, an Islamist insurgent group whose nickname translates as 'Western education is sinful' in the northern Hausa language.


Potiskum is in Yobe state, one of three covered by a state of emergency declared by President Goodluck Jonathan in May, when he ordered extra troops into the region to try to quell a rebellion seen as the biggest security threat to Africa's top oil producer.
Police responded to queries by email as the mobile phone network was cut to much of the northeast as part of the state of emergency.
The hit-and-run strikes have raised fears the seven-week-old military offensive has pushed the militants fighting for a breakaway Islamic state in northeast Nigeria into hiding, but failed to stop them launching devastating attacks.
Suspected Islamist militants opened fire on a school in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri last month, killing nine students, and a similar attack on a school in the city of Damaturu killed seven just days earlier.
Nigerian forces say their offensive has enabled them to wrest back control of the remote northeast from Boko Haram, destroy key bases and arrest scores of suspects.

900 million Android devices are at risk from a bug that allows hackers to hijack phones and steal data

A ‘master key’ that could give hackers complete access to mobile phones and tablets running Google’s Android software has been revealed.

The bug could allow hackers to hijack phones, allowing them to steal data, listen in to calls or send junk email and text messages.

Researchers say the loophole has been present since 2009, and claim around 900 million devices are at risk.

Jeff Forristal of Bluebox, the firm which uncovered the key, said the implications of the discovery were ‘huge’.

‘It can essentially take over the normal functioning of the phone and control any function thereof,’ he wrote on the firm’s blog.

Forristal said the firm made Google aware of its finding in February.

However, the firm did not respond to MailOnline’s request for a comment.

The bug takes advantage of the way Android handles cryptographic verification of the apps installed on the phone.

Android uses the cryptographic signature as a way to check that an app or program is legitimate and to ensure it has not been tampered with.

The Bluebox team found a way to bypass these checks, tricking Android so malicious changes to apps go unnoticed.

Any app or program written to exploit the bug would enjoy the same access to a phone that the legitimate version of that application enjoyed.

‘Installation of a Trojan application from the device manufacturer can grant the application full access to Android system and all applications (and their data) currently installed,’ wrote Forristal.

‘The application then not only has the ability to read arbitrary application data on the device (email, SMS messages, documents, etc), retrieve all stored account & service passwords, it can essentially take over the normal functioning of the phone and control any function thereof (make arbitrary phone calls, send arbitrary SMS messages, turn on the camera, and record calls).

‘Finally, and most unsettling, is the potential for a hacker to take advantage of the always-on, always-connected, and always-moving (therefore hard-to-detect) nature of these “zombie” mobile devices to create a botnet.’

Forristal is planning to reveal more information about the problem at the Black Hat hacker conference being held in August this year, and said the bug could have huge implications for firms who allow people to connect their Android phones and tablet to secure company networks.

He confirmed that one third party device, the Samsung Galaxy S4, already has a fix for the flaw, but that Google’s own Nexus handset did not.

However, experts say that there is currently no evidence that the flaw has been exploited.

‘I imagine that Google would move quickly to add some logic to look for such attacks,’ Dan Wallach, a professor specializing in Android security in the computer science department of Rice University, told the Ars Technica website.

‘Without that available to an attacker, this is likely to only be relevant for Android users who use third-party app stores (which have lots of other problems).’

ANOTHER ANDROID TROJAN COMES IN PIRATED JAY Z APP

McAfee Mobile Security has identified a new Android Trojan embedded in a pirated copy of an exclusive app from rapper Jay Z

On the surface, the malware app functions identically to the legitimate app. However, in the background, the malware sends info about the infected device to an external server every time the phone restarts

The malware then attempts to download and install additional packages

The only visible indication that a user is infected comes via a time-based trigger that is set to activate on 4th July, Independence Day in the US

On that day, the malware will replace the wallpaper on the infected device with an altered image of President Obama that comments on recent events in the US

The security company thinks that there is a hacktivist agenda behind the Trojan but has not ruled out the possibility that additional malware may target financial transactions or other data

'I'm not in jail, I'm in my casino': 50 Cent

 Rapper 50 Cent has denied claims he attacked his ex-girlfriend and trashed her condo - and he certainly isn't letting the allegations get him down.

The Candy Shop hitmaker, 37 – whose real name is Curtis Jackson - has been accused of kicking an unnamed ex-girlfriend, who police say has a child with him, and destroying some of her things during a dispute at her condo in Toluca Lake, California, on June 23 but 50 Cent claims to have no knowledge of the incident.

And he found a rather unusual way to make it clear to his fans that he is not behind bars, but instead living it up at his luxury mansion.

In what could be seen as some cavalier social networking, the rapper posted several pictures of himself at his home on Instagram. 

But it was the accompanying captions that were the most obnoxious, with 50 writing phrases such as 'I'm not In jail I'm in casino', 'I'm not in jail I'm in my kitchen fool#' and I'm not in jail I'm by my waterfall, alongside his snaps.

The images were taken around the hitmaker's sprawling Connecticut estate.

However, City Attorney Mike Feuer said in a statement: 'Regardless of perceived celebrity or notoriety, domestic violence is a serious crime, and alleged perpetrators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law by this office.'

Police officers were called to the property, where the woman claimed she locked herself in her bedroom after she got into an altercation with 50 Cent but alleged he kicked down the door and kicked her, resulting in an injury.

The rapper, who is facing five charges, including one count of domestic violence and four counts of vandalism, reportedly left the house before police arrived.

If convicted, the award-winning star could face up to five years in jail and $46,000 in fines.

He is set to appear in court on July 22.

The New York rapper has starred in several films including the semi-autobiographical Get Rich or Die Tryin', which was also the name off his 2003 album.

Jackson started dealing drugs at age 12 during the 1980s crack epidemic that hit urban America hard and left drug dealing to pursue a rap career.

He has become on of the world's highest selling rappers and founded his own record label G-Unit Records in 2003.

50 Cent formerly dated talk show host Chelsea Handler and singer Ciara.

Gang in India 'chop off eight-year-old girl's arm with sword

A gang in India chopped off an eight-year-old girl's arm with a sword as her family tried to secure the release of her kidnapped younger brother.

Uzma Ara had travelled to Patna, in Bihar, east India, with her family in a bid to free the four-year-old boy who was snatched from a street near their home in Darbhanga district.

Uzma's father Ainul Ansari claims the gang targeted the little girl as she is the main witness to the alleged kidnapping of his son Julfikar.

Indian media report she is seriously ill at a government hospital in Patna after losing part of her right arm.  

The family say she was attacked near the city's train station on Friday as they looked for a hotel to stay in. 

Mr Ansari said the gang had followed them to Patna where they were due to file a complaint with police. 

The Janata Dal government headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has now ordered a new investigation into the attack and their missing son.

Uzma's mother Nasreen Khatoon appealed directly to the chief minister at his weekly forum.

Criminal Investigation Department director general A.K. Upadhyay told Gulf News: 'The investigating agency will probe the case afresh with two angles — chopping off of the girl’s arm and kidnapping of her brother.'

The family say local police have maintained the child lost her arm in a train accident.

Mr Ansari, a tailor, said he has been forced to pay 300,000 rupees (£3,300) to the gang over the past few months, Gulf News reports.

He says that local police refused to investigate and when the family refused to pay any more, the gang kidnapped his son. 

Opposition politicians have now criticised the local government for failing to investigate the allegations straight away. 

Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain was quoted by Gulf News as saying that the chief minister has presided over a 'total collapse of law and order' in Bihar. 

Obamas at the 'Door of No Return:

 President Barack Obama has spent the afternoon touring a Senegalese island where Africans were shipped across the Atlantic into slavery and he called the visit a 'very powerful moment.'  

Obama says visiting Goree Island Thursday with his family helps them fully appreciate the magnitude of the slave trade. They toured the museum at the Maison des Esclaves where slaves were gathered before going through the 'Door of No Return' and being forced onto ships bound for North America.

Obama also said that, as an African American and an African-American president, the trip gaves him even greater motivation to stand up for human rights around the world, and the visit came just hours after he clashed with his Senegalese hosts over gay rights. 

He said the island is a reminder of what happens when civil rights are not protected. 

The timing of the visit was pointed as it came the day after the Supreme Court ruled against the Defense of Marriage Act.

President Barack Obama on Thursday praised the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage as a 'victory for American democracy'.

Obama said recognition of gay unions in the United States should cross state lines and that equal rights should be recognized universally. 

It was his first chance to expand on his thoughts about the ruling, which was issued Wednesday as he flew to Senegal, one of many African countries that outlaw homosexuality.

Senegalese President Macky Sall rebuffed Obama's call for Africans to give gays equal rights under the law.

'We are still not ready to decriminalize homosexuality,' Sall said, while insisting that the country is 'very tolerant' and needs more time to digest the issue without pressure. 

'This does not mean we are homophobic.'

Obama said gay rights didn't come up in their private meeting at the presidential palace, a mansion that looks somewhat similar to the White House. 

But Obama said he wants to send a message to Africans that while he respects differing personal and religious views on the matter, it's important to have nondiscrimination under the law.

'People should be treated equally, and that's a principle that I think applies universally,' he said.

A report released Monday by Amnesty International says 38 African countries criminalize homosexuality.

In four of those - Mauritania, northern Nigeria, southern Somalia and Sudan - the punishment is death. 

These laws appear to have broad public support. A June 4 Pew Research Center survey found at least nine of 10 respondents in Senegal, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria believe homosexuality should not be accepted by society.

Papi Nbodj, a 19-year-old student who stood by the road to the presidential palace to see Obama's arrival, said homosexuality is against the religious beliefs of most in Senegal.

'We are in a Muslim country, so we certainly cannot have it here,' he said. 

'And for me it's not OK to have this anywhere in the world.'

Sall sought to reassure Obama that gays are not persecuted in Senegal. But under Senegalese law, 'an improper or unnatural act with a person of the same sex' can be punished by up to five years in prison.

As for Wednesday's court ruling, Obama said he's directing his administration to comb through every federal statute to quickly determine the implications of a decision that gave the nation's legally married gay couples equal federal footing with all other married Americans.

He said he wants to make sure that gay couples who deserve benefits under the ruling get them quickly. 

Obama said he personally believes that gay couples legally married in one state should retain their benefits if they move to another state that doesn't recognize gay marriage.

'I believe at the root of who we are as a people, as Americans, is the basic precept that we are all equal under the law,' he said. 

'We believe in basic fairness. And what I think yesterday's ruling signifies is one more step towards ensuring that those basic principles apply to everybody.'

Obama also offered prayers for former South African President Nelson Mandela, who is gravely ill, ahead of Obama's planned visit to his country this weekend.

Obama said he was inspired to become political active by Mandela's example in the anti-apartheid movement of being willing to sacrifice his life for a belief in equal treatment.

'I think he's a hero for the world,' Obama said. 

'And if and when he passes from this place, one thing I think we'll all know is that his legacy is one that will linger on throughout the ages.'

Hundreds awaited Obama behind barricades later at Goree Island on Africa's westernmost point, where Africans were said to be have been shipped off into slavery across the Atlantic Ocean.

Obama peered out at the crashing waves through the island's 'Door of No Return,' at first by himself and later joined by his wife, Michelle, and two daughters. 

Emerging minutes later, Obama said the site painted a powerful picture of the magnitude of the slave trade as he reflected on the ties many in the U.S. share with the continent.

'For an African-American, an African-American president, to be able to visit this site gives me even greater motivation in terms of human rights around the world,' he said.

Obama's focus in Senegal is on the modern-day achievements of the former French colony after half a century of independence.

UK visa bond: Senate rejects policy, threatens reciprocation

ABUJA – THE Senate has rejected the proposed UK visa policy that seeks to compel visitors from some countries including Nigeria to deposit 3,000 ponds bond before its immigration authority at entry point, saying it would not accept Nigeria in the list.

The upper legislative chamber threatened that it would push for the same treatment on the UK citizens in Nigeria or those seeking entry into the country by the time Nigeria is officially notified of the new development.

Culled from Vanguard.

Former Italian PM Berlusconi sentenced to seven years in jail and banned from politics for life

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was today sentenced to seven years in prison and banned from public office for life after being found guilty of paying a teenager for sex during his infamous 'bunga bunga' parties.

Berlusconi, 76, paid an underage Moroccan teenager for sex and then tried to cover it up with phone calls to police when she was arrested for alleged theft. Berlusconi and the woman had denied having had sex.

Prosecutors were seeking a six-year jail term for underage sex and abuse of power but a Milan court today handed him a longer sentence of seven years. 

Berlusconi was also given a lifetime ban from politics after the former Prime Minister was found guilty today. 

But the verdict can be appealed twice before the sentence becomes final, which could take months, or even years. 

This means the former Premier will not have to spend any time in jail unless he loses his court appeals. 

Berlusconi holds no official post in the current Italian government, but remains influential in the uneasy cross-party coalition that emerged after inconclusive February elections.

The verdict adds to mounting complications facing Prime Minister Enrico Letta, whose fragile left-right coalition government is supported by Berlusconi's centre-right People of Freedom (PDL) party.

Berlusconi's lawyer, Niccolo Ghedini, immediately announced an appeal and said the sentence was as expected as it was unjust. 

'This is beyond reality,' Ghedini told reporters outside the courthouse. 'I'm calm because I've been saying for three years that this trial should never have taken place here,' Ghedini said. 

The charges against the billionaire media mogul stem from his infamous 'bunga bunga' parties in 2010 at his mansion near Milan, where he wined and dined beautiful young women while he was premier. 

He says the dinner parties were elegant soirees; prosecutors say they were sex-fuelled parties that women were paid to attend.

Neither Berlusconi nor the woman at the centre of the case, Karima el-Mahroug, better known by her nickname Ruby the Heart Breaker, have given evidence. 

Ms El-Mahroug was called by the defence but failed to show on a couple of occasions, delaying the trial. Berlusconi's team eventually dropped her from the witness list.

She did appear in the separate trial of three Berlusconi aides charged with procuring prostitutes for the parties. 

She told that court that Berlusconi's disco featured aspiring showgirls dressed as sexy nuns and nurses performing striptease acts, and that one woman even dressed up as president Barack Obama.

Berlusconi was not in court on as the three female judges began deliberating his fate - or today when the final verdict was delivered.

Asked if Berlusconi was optimistic, defence lawyer Piero Longo previously said outside the court that he was a 'realist'. 

Berlusconi frequently has railed against Milan prosecutors and judges, accusing them of mounting politically motivated cases against him.

Ms El-Mahroug, now 20, said in the earlier trial that she attended about a half-dozen parties at Berlusconi's villa, and that after each, Berlusconi handed her an envelope with up to 3,000 euros (£2,560).

She said she later received 30,000 euros cash from the then-premier paid through an intermediary - money that she told Berlusconi she wanted to use to open a beauty salon, despite having no formal training.

She was 17 at the time of the alleged encounters but passed herself off as being 24. She also claimed she was related to then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. 

Berlusconi's lawyers argued that he - thinking she was Mubarak's niece - called police after she was detained in a bid to avoid a diplomatic incident.

Ms El-Mahroug denied that Berlusconi had ever given her 5 million euros. 

She said she told acquaintances and even her father that she was going to receive such a large sum 'as a boast,' but that it was a lie to make her seem more important.

The verdict comes on the heels of Berlusconi's tax-fraud conviction, which along with a four-year prison sentence and five-year ban on public office, have been upheld on a first appeal.

The tax-fraud case is heading to Italy's highest court for a final appeal after Berlusconi's defence failed to derail it last week at the constitutional court.

Berlusconi, who has been tried numerous times relating to his business dealings, has been convicted in other cases at the trial level. 

But those convictions have always either been overturned on appeal or the statute of limitations ran out before Italy's high court could have its say.

The sex-for-hire case is the first involving his personal conduct.

Kanye West 'asks Kim Kardashian to marry him

Kanye West proposed to Kim Kardashian after she gave birth to their daughter North, it has been claimed. 

The 36-year-old rapper asked the reality star to marry him just days after the couple welcomed their first child, The Sun reports. 

The pair are said to be planning a September wedding in Paris.

While Kanye is said to have asked Kim to marry him without an engagement ring he is said to have spent £500,000 on a rare black diamond ring, as a gift to mark the birth of their child. 

A spokesperson for Kim was unavailable for comment on Sunday. 

Kim gave birth to her first child Saturday 15 June - a month ahead of her due date.

Mail Online exclusively revealed that the reality star had been admitted to hospital in Beverly Hills the night before.

Kim had taken out a birthing suite at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - a hospital of choice among many celebrities including Britney Spears, Victoria Beckham and Jessica Simpson.

The reality star is said to have splashed out more than $100,000 on her four day stay at the hospital.

A source told The Sun; 'Kanye wasted no money in making sure Kim had the best of everything while she’s in hospital.'

'He has spent half a million on a ring as a push present and had it designed months ago in preparation.'

'He’s even more in love with her now than ever and they can’t wait to get married.'

Kim only finialised her divorce from her second husband Kris Humphries earlier this month after a long and bitter legal battle. 

Their marriage lasted just 72 before Kim filed for divorce in October 2011. 

Kim was also married to music producer Damon Thomas from 2000 until 2004. 

Kim and Kanye's decision to name their child North West has raised eyebrows among fans. 

The pair are said to want to call their daughter 'Nori' for short and the child doesn't have a middle name. 

Kim left hospital on Thursday and is currently getting used to being a new mother. 

Since the birth Kim, who is a social media enthusiast, has failed to post anything to her Twitter page.

Man who had 132 lbs scrotum removed is 'unhappy' after life-saving surgery leaves him with a one inch penis

 A man who underwent surgery to remove his 132lbs scrotum has said it has made his life a misery after the operation left him with a one-inch penis.

Wesley Warren Jr. was so desperate to rid himself of the ten stone testicles that he considered selling them on eBay to pay for the operation.

Fortunately for the 48-year-old a team of surgeons in California agreed to carry out the 13-hour operation for free - but Mr Warren is not happy about the results.

Before the operation Mr Warren, from Las Vegas, struggled with the simplest of tasks and was forced to wear a hooded top as trousers to fit his giant scrotum.

Now however, he says he will never be able to have a relationship with a woman again after the surgery reduced his penis to an inch long. 

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'I know the majority of people are probably expecting me to express extreme happiness and glee that my life has been transformed since the sac has been removed - but it’s not as simple as that,' he told The Sun.

'I’m grateful to have been pulled out of the fire, I was getting burned, but now I’m dealing with the first degree burns. I’m still disfigured.'

Talking about his life before the operation he describes himself as a prisoner to his testicles and that the growth ruled his life.

'I could only walk in baby steps – I had to stop every 30 seconds,' he told the paper.

'It was just horrible. I couldn’t get in and out of a vehicle and even then I fell down on to the pavement and it took four grown men to try and lift me up.

He was so desperate to have the life-changing surgery that he considered auctioning off the sac online after it had been removed.

He explained to his surgegion, Dr Joel Gelman that he wanted to retain the giant scrotum to pay for his hospital bill, but fortunately Dr Gelman agreed to carry out the operation for free, which has been documented in a Bodyshock Special on Channel 4, to be shown on Monday.

'There are a lot of shows about makeovers, but this is a real makeover,' Dr. Gelman, who heads the Center for Reconstructive Urology at the University of California, Irvine, said of the procedure.

'He's basically a new man.'

On April 8, Dr Gelman and three other physicians cut away simultaneously on the grossly enlarged protective sac of skin and muscles that contained Warren's testicles and penis, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.

The mass caused by the condition, known as scrotal lymphedema, had grown to 132 pounds in less than two years.

Mr Warren, who has blood pressure problems and asthma, had previously spoken of his fear of dying during surgery.

The watermelon-size scrotum Mr Warren carried between his legs landed him on the Howard Stern Show and Comedy Central and made him a local celebrity in his hometown.

When Warren spoke with a reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal in October 2011, he became emotional as he described the pain and humiliation of carrying the deformed genitals. He said he suffered from deep bouts of depression and health complications.

His penis was buried so deeply in the abnormal growth that he was forced to urinate on himself and said only wanted to urinate like a normal man and have a romantic relationship with a woman.

'I don't like being a freak, who would?' he told the Review-Journal.

The massive swelling was caused by fluid building up in his scrotum. Doctors had to remove the excess tissue and then completely rebuild his scrotum. 

There was also a chance that complications could force the surgeons to cut off his genitals if his scrotum didn't stop bleeding. 

'I still haven't lost a patient or a testicle (in patients with problems similar to Warren's),' Dr Gelman told the Review Journal.

The extremely rare condition is much more common in Africa and Southeast Asia, where it is caused by parasites, than it is in the western world. 

Mr Warren says he contracted it somehow when he hit his testicle with his own leg while turning in bed one morning but Dr Gelman said he 'had no idea' how the man contracted it. 

Wesley Warren's story will be shown in The Man With The 10-stone Testicles: A Bodyshock Special on Channel 4 on Monday, June 24 at 9pm. 

Wits sorry for Mandela obituary

Wits University apologised on Thursday after an obituary it had prepared for former president Nelson Mandela became becoming publicly available on Google’s search engine. Wits extended its sincerest apologies to Mandela’s family, friends, fellow South Africans and global citizens for the error, university spokeswoman Shirona Patel said in a statement.

 “The university had prepared a statement which was hidden on its systems. However, a technical error made this available via the search function on Google. At no stage did the university issue this statement or publish it on its website.” Wits regretted the mishap, would take the necessary steps to correct the error and ensure those responsible were held accountable. 

Man has jaws so strong he can pull a bus with his TEETH

Circus performer Igor Zaripov has jaws so strong he can pull a bus using only his teeth.

The 30-year-old, dubbed 'Mouth of Steel', holds three world records including pulling the heaviest road vehicle by the teeth - a 12,360kg double-decker bus.

He also holds the record for the fastest time to pull a car 100ft with teeth, in 15.7 seconds. While his third record is for suspending himself by the teeth for two minutes and 32 seconds.

The Russian, who now lives in Las Vegas, prepares by speaking only his mother tongue on the day he performs, because he believes it makes his jaws more powerful.

He said: 'When I do my stunts, I only speak Russian. I think it makes me stronger. I feel powerful, like I can take on the world.'

Mr Zaripov works for Cirque Du Soleil and is from a long line of circus performers, who can trace their performing roots back to 1893, when his great-great grandparents mesmerised the last Tsar with death-defying acrobatics.

He has even developed his own fitness program, Czar Fitness, to help others boost their bodies and minds using his unique brand of coaching.

He said: 'We're all here together, trying to do the same thing - trying to stay positive, trying to eat healthy, and trying to get the exercise in.

'It's not always easy but a wise person has said that 'nothing that is important is ever easy'.

'I feel this is one of my many purposes - to help others through what I have learnt and what I am continuing to learn daily.'