The actress has spoken to The Mirror after being released from a psychiatric hospital last month
She insists she's fine
Troubled Amanda Bynes has spoken for the first time since leaving a psychiatric hospital, saying: “I'm fine, I'm happy and I don't know why people are worrying.
Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Uyi Igbe, has pleaded for the recall of the sacked Permanent Secretary in the Edo State Hospitals Management Board, Ofure Eboreime, and Chief Medical Director of the Central Hospital, Benin City, Edith Kayode-Iyasere.
The duo were relieved of their appointments last week by Governor Adams Oshiomhole for their alleged role in engaging casual workers in the Central Hospital.
Igbe, who led the Majority Leader of the Assembly, Philip Shaibu, Elizabeth Ativie and Folly Ogedengbe to the Governor’s office to plead for the sacked doctors, begged Oshiomhole to temper justice with mercy.
The 27-year-old made the shock revelation ahead of her appearance at the MTV EMAs
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Emeli Sande has confirmed she divorced her husband after just a year of marriage.
The 27-year-old singer has revealed she came close to suffering a "breakdown" after splitting from her childhood sweetheart Adam Gouraguine - who she dated for 10 years - last year and admitted she is still coming to terms with losing her "best friend".
Emeli - who married Adam in his home nation Montenegro in September 2012 - told The Times newspaper: "Everyone thought I'd gone mad. 'What do you mean a divorce? We were all at your wedding a few months ago!' But there was just something inside me that said, 'This isn't the life. You're pretending to be someone else.'
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Emeli Sande makes surprise revelation"And that's so hard to explain to someone. I can't even explain it now.
"I just felt I had to wake up. I'd been sleeping and things were happening. I could get up on stage and sing but, I don't know, it was just a real ... I don't want to call it a breakdown, but it felt like that.
"Every day you get a bit stronger. Every day you stop blaming yourself for things.
"I think I spent the couple of months after not in denial, but not really dealing with what had happened.
Emeli unveiled a new look
"Adam and I had been together since I was 17. He was my only boyfriend. That's the only person I've been with for the past 10 years.
"So [losing] our relationship more than the marriage was the big part for me to deal with.
"Having a friend who'd been my best friend for so long ... losing that support and structure in my life was the biggest thing."
Emeli - who debuted a new straight fringe look at the MTV European Music Awards in Glasgow, Scotland last night (09.11.14) - regrets ever getting married to Adam because their lives were "so separate" but insists she doesn't have a bad word to say about him and is going to keep her tattoo on her left breastbone, which reads "I love you Adam" in Serbian.
The 'Heaven' hitmaker, who is now single for the first time since she was 17, added: "I was on tour all the time and I think it was quite unfair of me to want his world to fit into my life so much.
"He'd come on tour then he'd go away for three months on a marine biology expedition somewhere.
"When we caught up it was great and we could tell each other stories, but it was almost like we were living our lives away from each other and growing into different people.
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Emelia has been hugely successful
"And as soon as I got some rest and the madness stopped and I had a bit of a holiday, I was like, 'OK, let's see, what's been going on.' There were just lots of things. And stuff that just wasn't ... we were mates, but maybe we shouldn't have been married.
"I just didn't know who I was. And I felt I was being taken further and further away from who I really was and from my family.
"He was the person that had been there from the very beginning. And maybe I was just looking for."
Candy Wagner was what one would call “a searcher”. For nearly 20 years, the 62-year-old retired physical therapist looked for a baby she gave up for adoption in 1967.
At 14 years old, with a newly absent father and a devastated mother, Wagner began dating a high school senior.
“[He was] my first for everything,” Wagner told ABC News’ “20/20.” “He was my rock, and there was no question that I was in very deep young love.”
Like most mothers, Kelly Ripa sometimes has disagreements with her daughter.
The "Live with Kelly and Michael" co-host said that these days, Lola, 13, isn't her biggest fan.
"I don't think she likes me, but I don't care. I'm like, 'I'm not your friend, I'm your mom,'" Ripa toldWendy Williams. "I just feel an obligation as her mom to keep her living in the real world. I don't care who you are or what you do, if you're a mom, you're a mom."
Ripa, 44, explained that not only is she a source of embarrassment for her teen, but recently, she and her husband, Mark Consuelos, were forced to punish their daughter. Ripa said she revoked their daughter's phone and Internet privileges because she was using her phone when she was supposed to be studying Spanish.
Charles Darwin at his home at Down House, Kent, 1880.
Scientists following two different lines of evidence have just published research that may help resolve "Darwin's dilemma," a mystery that plagued the father of evolution until his death more than a century ago.
Biologists and geologists have been puzzled for decades over why life began so early on this planet, and then took so long to get interesting.
Some estimates indicate the earth was only a few tens of millions of years old when the first simple organisms appeared. There was a little evolution over the first billion years when single-celled organisms morphed into bacteria, slimy algae and other simple kinfolk, but it was still pretty dull.
A photo of a propeller that crashed through a window on an Air Canada flight, Nov. 6, 2014, has surfaced on social media.
A passenger who was injured when a propeller crashed through the window of a commuter airliner is lucky to have made it through the ordeal relatively unscathed.
A propeller can be seeing jutting out of the body of an Air Canada Bombardier Q-400 that made an emergency landing Thursday night when a tire blew during take-off, a passenger told CTV.
Paul Brown, Arby's CEO for less than two years, has overseen the company during its biggest viral hits, including the Grammy's via Pharrell's hat, and he attributes the online attention mainly to one decision.
"Our social media team has the ability to speak on behalf of the company," Brown told ABC News. It's a policy change that took place around December 2013, a month before the Grammy's, when musician Pharrell showed up in a big, brown hat by Vivienne Westwood. (Arby's logo is a brown hat.)
Most Americans are horrified at the thought of their parents setting them up, but in Beijing there’s a whole market for it, literally.
Parents gathered by the hundreds this weekend at the Temple of Heaven Park to advertise their single children with the hope of marrying them off.
Forget online dating profiles, these eager parents come armed with paper profiles listing their children’s key attributes, likes, dislikes and what they hope to find in a future mate.
5 Things to Watch for During President Obama's Asia Trip (ABC News)
Fresh off the bruising midterm loss, President Obama is shifting his focus to a host of foreign policy challenges during a dizzying week-long Asia trip.
In eight days, Obama will visit three countries (China, Myanmar and Australia), attend three different summits with world leaders and cross 16 time zones. Here’s a preview of what’s to come:
1. The Pivot That Wasn’t
It’s been three years since the Obama administration announced it would “pivot to Asia” as American troops pulled out of Iraq andAfghanistan. Now, after a host of other crises pulled the administration’s attention away from the region, this trip presents the best, final chance for the president to cement his foreign policy legacy in Asia. During stops in Beijing, Myanmar and Australia, Obama is expected to try to kick-start his “rebalance” and reiterate his commitment to the region. In addition, the president will have to dispel the notion that his political power is waning in the wake of the Democrats’ midterm loss, especially to the increasingly assertive Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is on a charm offensive of his own as he hosts regional powers in Beijing this week.
Prominent Evangelical Pastor, Wife Among 9 Dead in Bahamas Jet Crash (ABC News)
A full investigation is slated to begin today, one day after a private Lear jet crashed on approach near Grand Bahama International Airport, killing everyone on board, including a prominent pastor and his wife.
All passengers on the flight died, with nine people reportedly on board, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said.
Nigeria has outstripped South Africa as sub-Saharan Africa’s largest cement producer, as industry capacity passed the 30 million metric tons mark and has the potential of reaching 58.5 million metric tons.
But cement companies have been suffering from an energy crisis as supply from gas plant has been intermittent thus culminating in spiralling production costs that slowed bottom line performance.
Also bleeding profit is huge tax liability suffered by some of the firms as tax holiday enjoyed on some of their plants have lapsed.
Cumulative net income of the four dominant cement makers - Dangote, Lafarge, Ashaka and Cement Company of Northern Nigeria - fell by 15.03 percent to N178.04bn from N209.96bn the preceding year.
Lafarge was the most hit at the bottom-line level as net income declined by 38 percent.
Jennifer Aniston, who stars in this year's drama 'Cake,' has generally stayed away from peek-a-boo red-carpet dresses, but this strategically revealing gown may signal she's ready to jump on the trend. She looked terrific in the hip-hugging, mid-length black dress with intricate lace detailing and a low-cut beaded bustier. Her hair was swept back in an elegant updo, and she accentuated with black heels and a black clutch. She told Yahoo Movies that it was her first time at the Governors Awards. "This is my virgin voyage," she said. "I'm blushing and thrilled. It's very exciting."
In case there was any doubt, Britney Spears and Charlie Ebersol are indeed dating. And they're really happy about it.
News of the new romance broke last week, but the pop queen, 32, made things official on Saturday when she posted the above photo – huge, toothy grins and all – on Instagram with a simple, yet telling caption: a bright red heart emoticon. Ebersol also shared the snap along with the note, "#happiness."
As parents, it’s nice to think that our behaviors — reading to our kids, holding sit-down family dinners, engaging in conversation at the end of every day — has a direct impact on our children’s lives. But according toa new study from Florida State University, there’s one area where parental socialization has no long-term effect: IQ.
GOP divisions over repealing Obamacare loom as a flashpoint
WASHINGTON — When Ted Cruz mounted his filibuster of Obamacare in September 2013, he was joined on the Senate floor by a host of other Republican senators eager to align themselves with a tea party favorite reaching a new level of populist power.
One of those senators was Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican. At the time, Paul was seen as a likely 2016 presidential primary contender, but the idea of a Cruz presidential bid still seemed a bit far-fetched and premature. After all, the first-term Texas Republican had been sworn in to serve in his first-ever elected office only eight months earlier.
Georgia Democratic candidate for the senate, Michele Nunn (right), and her family during early voting in America's midterm election
Adeola Akinremi, who was in the United States to observe the midterm elections, writes on why Nigeria must continue to see her democratisation process by emulating America's non-violent politics, especially as Nigeria returns to the polls next year
The battle for the control of the United States Senate, which climaxed with the election of more Republicans into the Senate last Tuesday, was hard fought. Not surprisingly though, one phrase seemed to characterise the months-long of frenetic campaign – vote not violence. Perhaps, one of the most difficult challenges that most democrats faced going into the poll last week against their main challenger, the opposition Republican Party, otherwise known as the Grand Old Party (GOP) was what pollsters called the ‘Obama factor.’
Plateau Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Habu Zarma, on Monday ruled out the possibility of extending the distribution of the Permanent Voters’ Cards in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the three-day exercise ended on Sunday with many voters yet to have access to the cards.
The exercise was characterised by lots of confusion as many polling units were not even open for the activity.
Plateau House of Assembly Chief Whip, Mr. Timothy Golu, on Sunday called for the extension of the exercise and premised his stance on the confusion that had trailed it.
