Zambian police disperse opposition protesters

About 100 supporters of Hakainde Hichilema's party outside vote-counting centre driven off with batons and tear-gas.

Police asked opposition supporters in Lusaka to disperse, then drove them off after they did not [AFP]

Zambian police have fired tear-gas to disperse about 100 supporters of the leading opposition candidate in the presidential election.
A number of Hakainde Hichilema's United Party for National Development supporters waiting for results of the closely fought race were arrested and forced into a police van on Wednesday, an AFP news agency reporter said.
The group had kept a vigil outside a conference centre in Lusaka where the first batch of official results from Tuesday's vote were expected to be released.
Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa, reporting the scene of the confrontation

Burkina Faso's quarter-final hopes dented by stalemate

Hosts Equatorial Guinea hold on to a goalless draw in their second match of the Africa Cup of Nations.

Hosts Equatorial Guinea had drawn their opening game as well [AFP]

Burkina Faso's hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the African Nations Cup hung by a thread after they could only draw 0-0 against hosts Equatorial Guinea.

Woman Stripped Naked And Tied To A Tree For Asking To Spend The Night Alone

‘There’s a hole dug for you': What boyfriend told young mother after kidnapping her, stripping her naked and tying her to a tree – all because she asked to spend the night alone

• Sophie Lazell was dragged from her home by her boyfriend Daniel Jones
• Jones drove Miss Lazell across Hampshire to an abandoned quarry 
• He ordered Miss Lazell to strip naked and tied her to a tree and drove off
• Miss Lazell managed to free herself before Jones returned to the scene 
• She hid in a bramble bush until Jones disappeared from the quarry 
• Since the terrifying attack, Miss Lazell has been living in a safe house 
• Jones was jailed for 20 months and ordered to stay away for five years
• However, Miss Lazell said she thinks the jail term was not severe enough
• She said she thought she was going to die and is still constantly afraid 
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A young mother told how her boyfriend kidnapped her, drove her to an abandoned quarry, made her strip naked and tied her to a tree – because she said she wanted to go home to bed.

5-year-old boy finds gun, shoots baby brother in head

The mother called 911 to say her 5-year-old boy shot his baby brother with a paintball gun.

But it wasn’t a paintball gun. It was a .22-caliber Magnum revolver. And the 9-month-old boy didn’t survive.

Authorities are trying to figure out what led to Monday’s shooting in Elmo, in the northwest corner of Missouri.

Prince Andrew sex claims: Fresh documents filed in US court

Prince Andrew has denied all of the allegations made by the US woman

The woman who has accused Prince Andrew of sexual misconduct has repeated the claims in fresh US court documents.

Asari Dokubo vows to retaliate attack on GEJ's convoy in Katsina, dares Shekau

Ex-militant Niger Delta militant Asari-Dokubo has vowed to retaliate the attack carried out by some hoodlums on President Jonathan's convoy during his campaign rally in Katsina state yesterday Jan. 20th. At a press conference in Abuja today Asari-Dokubo said for every action, there will be an opposite and equal reaction. He called on the Igbos in the north to come home, saying failure to do so and they'll themselves to blame. He said Shekau is a man like himself and that he does not have the monopoly to kill or destroy

President Jonathan's Team Campaigns In Dutse

Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan with his campaign team from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) visited Jigawa State capital today, January 21st, ahead of February presidential poll. 
While addressing the crowd of supporters, President Jonathan promised Nigerians that they would continue to enjoy freedom as obtained in the Constitution of Nigeria under his administration, if won.

Jonathan said freedom was a good part of democracy which every Nigerian must enjoy, continuing that “democracy is all about freedom and any democracy without it is not democracy.’’