Frankfurt in flames, as anti-austerity protesters clash with riot police outside new ECB headquarter (Photos)

Anti-austerity protesters have clashed with riot police outside the new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany.

 

 

Just hours before the ceremonial opening of the €1.3 billion building, thousands of people descended on the area in a scrum that saw cars, tyres and rubbish bins set on fire.

 

 

Riot officers pursued what they said was a minority of violence-minded activists, as the bulk of protesters conducted themselves peacefully ahead of a rally in the city's main square, the Roemerberg, which is expected to draw 10,000 people.
 

Doctors have told Kim she is having too much sex with kanye, that she is doing all the wrong things to get pregnant

 

Kim Kardashian's doctor has warned her she is having too much sex.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star and husband Kanye West have been sleeping together up to 15 times a day in a bid for her to get pregnant again

But Kim told E! News that the couple, who are already parents to 20-month-old North, been advised to cut down by specialists 

Kim admitted: 'The doctors said he thinks I'm having sex too much. He said one time is more powerful...so we've tried everything.'  

Rihanna rocks beaded pink PVC coat and lilac mini dress at the screening of her new film, Home

Riri am sure is more than happy to put her music career to the side for now as she promotes her new film, Home across the US. 

She is the voice of the first black lead character in a 3D animated film. 

The 27-year-old, as she joined Jim Parsons, her co-star at the event held in Plano, Texas, wowed in pink ensemble. 

Rihanna donned a beaded PVC coat over a tight lilac dress - both by Holly Fulton - which she teamed with matching suede Holly Fulton x Christian Louboutin heels. 

Women with virginal piercings to be classified as having suffered genital mutilation - UK Department of Health

 

Women with vaginal piercings are to be classed as victims of female genital mutilation (FGM), UK health chiefs have said.

Under new NHS rules to be introduced next month, any woman whose labia or clitoris has been pierced must be recorded as suffering FGM, a procedure which is illegal in the UK. 

The mandatory reporting regulations were sent to medical staff by the Department of Health, which said it is would start classifying the piercings 'within an abusive context'.

Money Laundering Trial: Femi Fani-Kayode's bail might be revoked, as one of his sureties apply to withdraw

 

Wale Ajisebutu, one of the two persons who stood as sureties for Femi Fani-Kayode in the fulfilment of the bail conditions granted him by Justice Ramat Mohammed in January 2009 has written to the Federal High Court in Lagos seeking to withdraw as a surety. 

 

The surety said he was withdrawing because he has an urgent need for the documents of the landed property which he deposited in the court’s custody. 

 

His application, which was listed for hearing before Justice Rita Ofili- Ajumogobi yesterday was however not taken as it was leant that Fani-Kayode had written to the court seeking for an adjournment.

I trust Buhari but doubt his environment - Pastor Tunde Bakare

 

Pastor Tunde Bakare, the  General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, yesterday while addressing christins t the annual Lenten lecture of the Island Club, Lagos said that he trusted the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) but not the credibility of “his environment”.

“Yes I trust Buhari and this is because I have worked closely with him but I doubt his environment. The Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress, which one is really clean? Only God can give us true leaders,” Bakare said.

 “I believe in contact without contamination,” he said.

Two Dutch Peacekeepers killed in Mali Helicopter Crash

 

 

Two Dutch United Nations peacekeepers were killed when their Apache attack helicopter crashed in northern Mali, the Dutch military said, calling it an accident.

 

The helicopter, from the UN’s MINUSMA mission, crashed about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Gao, a source from the city’s airport told AFP, adding that two people were injured and subsequently died.

 

Top Dutch defence commander, General Tom Middendorp, later confirmed the crash at a press conference in The Hague.

 

“This afternoon around 1300 GMT a Dutch Apache attack helicopter crashed in Mali,” Middendorp said.

 

“A 30-year-old captain and 26-year-old first lieutenant died in the accident.”

Benjamin Netanyahu wins Israel election

Official results showed the Likud party led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won a clear victory in Tuseday’s elections, with 99 percent of votes counted early Wednesday morning.

According to the official up-to-the-minute tally, the Likud won 29 seats while the Zionist Union came in second with 24 seats

Previously, Netanyahu has already declared victory but opposition leader Isaac Herzog said he refused to concede.