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The brain behind Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg shares a picture above that he and his wife were expecting a baby. He also shared stories about previous miscarriages as a way of encouraging people to share their emotional theories. Zuckerberg and Prscillia married in 2012. The Facebook CEO shared the happy story to his 33.2 million followers today. In his words: "Priscilla and I have some exciting news: we're expecting a baby girl! We've been trying to have a child for a couple of years and have had three miscarriages along the way. "You feel so hopeful when you learn you're going to have a child. You start imagining who they'll become and dreaming of hopes for their future. You start making plans, and then they're gone. It's a lonely experience. Most people don't discuss miscarriages because you worry your problems will distance you or reflect upon you—as if you're defective or did something to cause this. So you struggle on your own....

Four dies as a Phenom 300 jet crashes into a British Car Auction site, in an attempt to land at Blackbushe Airport in Yateley. An eyewitness recounted that the jet exploded at the impact with the Car Auction site which based on the airfield. Three passengers and the pilot died in the crash while nobody on ground was injured. Andrew Thomas, an eyewitness said: "I saw it when it had just happened, and could see the plane and cars in flames; the plane nosedived into the cars and exploded on impact." 

Often you heard it said: Once in a blue moon. The world will view the rare occasion blue moon today Friday the 31st. NASA advised that the name should not fool you. Blue moon simply means two full moons occurrence in one calendar month. Ordinarily, a typical year has just 12 full moons but this year will have 13 full moons. Blue moons could be gray or white just like every other moons at night. There are however rare occasions when moon could actually be blue; especially when their was a volcanic eruptions. Todays moon could be red. "Often, when the Moon is hanging low, it looks red for the same reason that sunsets are red, NASA explains. "The atmosphere is full of aerosols much smaller than the ones injected by volcanoes. These aerosols scatter blue light, while leaving the red behind." I bet you would like to do what you do once in a blue moon tonight; you have an excuse. 

 Xiao Liu,23, a Chinese women got electric shock of her life when a 200 volt electrical current was sent into her body while she attempted entering her secret PIN in an ATM in a Chinese Bank. The impact of the shock sent her reeling on the floor and she later discovered her fingers sored and broken. Her ATM card was swallowed in the process. There were also similar cases in Nigeria where customers complained of electric shocks at ATM terminals. Some people were found using insulated fingers at the ATM as a safety measure to incidence of electric shocks. The affected Chinese woman went to a local hospital for treatment while the Chinese bank involved has apologized for the accident.

India legalizes an abortion pill known as drug RU-486. The pill's approval was left pending since 2012. A source said that the drug would most likely be available in commercial quantity by 2016 and to be sold under the brand name: Mifegymiso. This development was hailed by pro-choce campaigners but detractors refered to the drug as a human pesticide. The drug has been in Use in France since 1988 and in USA since 2000. It has the ability to abort pregnancy upto 70 days old pregnancy.

Boko Haram slaughtered fishermen, 10 in number at the shore of Lake Chad when they stormed the area. The story was confirmed by a local fisherman, Buhari Dan-Malam, who lives in Doron Baga. “The Boko Haram gunmen came around 4:00 pm and they attacked three villages that are five kilometres/three miles from Doron Baga. They slit the throats of 10 people,” he said. This area was once desarted in January following incessant Boko Haram attacks in that area. Recently, the fishermen have begun returning to their settlements for their fishing business as the military has retaken the villages lost to Boko Haram in Baga area. Then, comes this deadly attack where the victims were butchered like cow.

A man kills himself when he caught his wife in bed with her lover. The 38 year old man identified as Amatari Christmas, was married to Tombara, an indigene of Ayama in the same local government area. They have two children. He became suspicious as the wife could not return until it was dusk from market. He then went to the mother-inlaw's house which was in the same local government and they intimated him that his wife had gone to her father's house at Ayama. When the deceased got there, a concerned fellow took him to the house of his wife's lover where he caught them in the bed. He returned home and committed suicide with an insecticide known as Snipper. When contacted on the development, the spokesman of the state Police Command, Asinim Butswatt, said he was yet to be briefed on the incident. 

Such is life. Your low status today will not affect your high status tomorrow. The Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose revealed that he was once a Danfo driver in Ibadan where he used the trade to sponsor himself in school. He made the revelation while swearing in of the executives of the union of bus drivers in Ekiti. He told them never to allow themselves be used by kidnappers in the perpetration of their evil acts. According to him: “I was once a driver like you. I used the money I got from driving to sponsor myself for HND at Ibadan Polytechnic, but I did not get desperate.  All I’m saying is that being a driver you can make it in life. You will become what you want to become in life with hard work. Don’t join evil gang for you to get rich overnight, try and rise through the ladder like we did.”