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                                                                    Two explosions in the main business district of Jos killed at least 10 people on Tuesday, according to a Reuters reporter on the scene. Ten bodies, burned beyond recognition, were strewn across the scene at Terminus, the downtown area of Jos housing shops, some offices and a market. It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts, although Islamist sect Boko Haram, which has set off bombs across the country as it becomes increasingly bloodthirsty, is likely to be a prime suspect. The Islamists grabbed world headlines with the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls a month ago from a remote village in the northeast. Britain, the United States and France have pledged to help rescue them. Jos has been relatively free of attacks by the group, but it claimed responsibility for a bomb in a church in the highland city, as well as two other places, on Christmas Day 2011. The city is in the heart of Nigeria's volatil

                                      Kanye West and Kim Kardashian will not be tying the knot in Florence this weekend as they have not submitted official documents, a spokesperson for the city council told AFP. The celebrity pair have rented out the 16th-century Fort Belvedere for a celebration on Saturday with 200 guests, fuelling speculation that this could be their wedding. "For the Italian state, this is not a wedding," Marco Agnoletti said on Monday. "To get married in Florence they would have to submit a lot of documents. They haven't made an official request so it can't officially be a marriage," said Agnoletti, a spokesperson for the city's interim mayor, Dario Nardella. "If I've understood correctly, this is a wedding present from him to her. It's a private event," Agnoletti said. The spokesperson said the celebration would bring €360 000 into city coffers and more than half of that money would be spent on rest

                                           Iranian actress Leila Hatami on Sunday angered authorities in Tehran by kissing the Cannes film festival's president on the cheek, an act seen as affront to the "chastity" of the Islamic republic's women. A photograph carried by Iranian media shows Hatami kissing Gilles Jacob at the opening of this year's festival. "Those who attend intentional events should take heed of the credibility and chastity of Iranians, so that a bad image of Iranian women will not be demonstrated to the world," Deputy Culture Minister Hossein Noushabadi said, quoted by the website of state broadcaster IRIB. "Iranian woman is the symbol of chastity and innocence," he said. Hatami's "inappropriate presence" at the festival was "not in line with our religious beliefs". Born into a family with a background in cinema, Hatami gained worldwide fame for her role in Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, wh

Rapper Godwon has confirmed that he was once arrested in the US on charges of burglary of a residence in 2009. The rapper’s criminal record and mugshot recently went viral across the internet, Nigeria Entertainment Today reports. The records were found on a website of the Fort Bend county jail in Texas.

Jimmy Fallon and Terry Crews performed a shirtless duet of the Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder song, Ebony and Ivory on Monday's Tonight Show. Jimmy abs-olutely (see what we did there?) loves lip sync challenges, but this time he put a different spin on it. Of course he had to dream up an excuse to have Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Crews be shirtless on the show. The result is beautifully epic!

For those who are having a bad start to their Tuesday, here is a little something to take your blues away. Cristiano Ronaldo covered Vogue Espana completely naked! Now if we can only get his 28-year-old Russian supermodel girlfriend Irina Shayk to move a little bit to the left, it would be absolutely perfect. Listen, we aren't haters. But this cover would have been so much better without the beautiful Shayk in it! Never fear however, as we will be seeing loads more of this perfect specimen in the coming month. The Real Madrid forward will be playing for his home country Portugal in the 2014 Soccer World Cup in Brazil. Another thing we learned from this cover is that Mr Ronaldo likes to do some "manscaping" down there. All Praise king Ronaldo! You’re welcome ladies... and gents.  

                    The Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) inside the terminus market in Plateau State, has been hit with two explosions, Premium Times reports. The explosions which occurred on Tuesday left several people scampering for safety. Cause of the explosion and number of casualties is yet to ascertained as reports said it was caused by a bomb planted in the area.