Top News Stories –
US Cop gets 14 million hits singing to Taylor Swift in car –
A policeman with Dover Force in Delaware has received over 17 million views of a YouTube video showing him singing along to the Taylor Swift song “Shake It Off”. The video (see below) has gained mix reactions but Taylor Swift gave it her seal of approval through her Twitter account to her 51 million followers:
Actress Anne Kirkbride dies –
She played Deidre Barlow in the British soap Coronation Street since November 20th 1972 and died at the age of 60.
Takes a hack to spot a hack –
Two newspapers, The New York Times and Germany’s De Spiegel report that the US knew North Korea was behind the Sony Pictures hack because it had secretly infiltrated the country’s computer networks in 2010. The NY Times believe that software planted by the US intelligence in North Korea’s computers alerted them to hacking activity on Sony.
Sun drops Page 3 topless images –
For 44 years the UK tabloid newspaper The Sun has by synonymous with a large topless picture of a model but that has come to an end today when a picture of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley wearing lingerie appeared. The paper is reported to be planning to reinstate the topless feature if sales drop. Among those who found fame were Linda Lusardi, Jilly Johnson and Samantha Fox.
Samantha Fox
Video of the Day –
Dover Police DashCam Confessional (Shake it Off)
List of the day –
10 most popular Sun Page 3 girls (from Richest.com)
10. Jo Guest: DOB 22 February 1972
via www.whoateallthepies.tv
9. Lucy Pinder: DOB 20 December 1983
via www.celebpicturesnow.com
8. Kathy Lloyd: DOB 13 November 1967
via www.cpfc.org
7. Maria Whittaker: DOB 7 October 1969
via 80s90sredux.tumblr.com
6. Keeley Hazell: DOB 18 September 1986
via Zoo magazine
5. Melinda Messenger: DOB 23 February 1971
via paper-room-actor.blogspot.com
4. Helen Flanagan: DOB 7 August 1990
via www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
3. Jordan: 22 May DOB 1978
via mancave.cbslocal.com
2. Samantha Fox: DOB 15 April 1966
via imagozone.com
1. Linda Lusardi: DOB 18 September 1958
via the-wanderer.co.uk
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Other News Stories –
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Shia insurgency in Yemen
- Clashes in the Yemeni capital Sana’a leave at least nine dead and 67 injured. (AP)
- Houthi rebels seize the official Saba News Agency and surround the residence of the Prime Minister. (RT)
- Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo‘s capital Kinshasa fire on protesters opposing efforts by President Joseph Kabila to delay presidential and parliamentary elections due in 2016 leaving at least four people dead and ten injured.(Al-Jazeera)
- Disasters and accidents
- The Anne Arundel County, Maryland Fire Department states that six people remain unaccounted for after a fire destroys a mansion in Annapolis, Maryland. The home is the residence of Don Pyle, the CEO of Reston, Virginia-basedScienceLogic. (AP via MSN)
- Law and crime
- Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who had accused President Cristina Kirchner of covering up Iranian links to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in order to open up trade with Iran, dies of a gunshot wound to the head with the type of death still undetermined. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
- London’s Southwark Crown Court hears evidence in the first trial on female genital mutilation in the United Kingdom, where this practice is illegal. (BBC)(Sky News)
- Gyumri massacre:
- A six-month-old boy dies in hospital of his wounds, becoming the seventh member of an Armenian family dead after a killing spree by a Russian soldier. (Fox News)
- Seminole County, Florida (Orlando-area) prosecutors charge five underage Winter Springs High School students with the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in November 2014. Prosecutors charge two suspects as adults and three as juveniles. The remaining suspect is as yet uncharged. (The Orlando Sentinel via MSN)
- Politics and elections
- The city of Grozny in the Russian republic of Chechnya holds a protest with 60% of the population in attendance in opposition to the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. (Reuters)
- Science and technology
- NASA releases new pictures from the Dawn spacecraft as it approaches from a distance of 238,000 miles of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will go into orbit around the dwarf planet on March 6.(BBC),(NASA)
- Sports
- In alpine skiing, American Lindsey Vonn wins the World Cup super-G at Cortina for her 63rd career World Cup race win, giving her sole possession of the all-time World Cup wins record. (AP via ESPN)
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