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                  Yesterday according to sources,45 year old Mariah Carey got engaged to her billionaire Australian partner 48 years old James Parker she met last year not long after she seperated from her husband Nick Cannon.I was discovered by sources that last night,James Parker presented Mariah Carey with a ''Heartbreaking 35 carat ring''.before popping the question and guess what?,Mariah Carey said yes.The ring is worth $7.5 million and checkout the rock below.More photos below.                           

                      Yesterday friday Celine Dion led hundreds of mourners in an emotional final farewell to her late husband Rene Angelil.As seen in the picture above,she is dressed in a black full-sleeves dress and a long black veil,in which she managed to maintain her composure for the touching ceremony remembering the showbiz manager/husband at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Old Montreal.She was joined by her three children,older son 14 years old Rene Charles,escorted his elderly grandmother 88 years old Theresa,into the service,while Celine walked in gripping the hands of her twin five year old sons Nelson and Eddy.A huge number of well wishers also gathered for the national funeral service filling the aisles of the church and the area outside.Also in attendance was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's wife,Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau,and federal Heritage Minister Melaniel Jol.Her husband's funeral is a national funeral,and is the closest a non-politician can get to a state funeral in

                     Today saturday,the Nigerian Army said that it had put in place machinery to establish the true identity of a suspected leader of the Boko Haram sect,Jarasu Shira,who was apprehended last week in Borno and his believed to be the brain behind the abduction of the Chibok school girls.Major General Lucky Irabor,the Deputy Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole,disclosed this in an interview with NAN in Maiduguri.Irabor said that knowing the true identity of the suspect was to avoid past mistakes where individuals were arrested based on mistaken identities.''We have in our custody a good number of suspected terrorists that were apprehended as a result of our routine operations.One of those suspects is believed to be on the list of our 100 most wanted terrorists leaders''.However the army must ascertain the true identity of the suspect before final confirmation to the media.''There are other things we need to do to ensure that is he who we sai

                     Yesterday friday,the Lagos State Government confirmed two more cases of Lassa fever in the state with one of the victims already dead.The development brought the number of Lassa fever cases in the state to three,including the index case at Ahmaddiya Hospital in Ojokoro part of the state.The Commissioner for Health,Dr Jide Idris,yesterday friday said the index case was responding to treatment at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital {LUTH}.The second victim he said is a 36 year old lady,an indigene of Kogi State who was first discovered at Naval Reference Hospital,Ojo on January 18 before she was referred to Mainland Hospital the same day and has since been receiving antiviral medication.Idris said yesterday that her condition was stable and ambulating.The third case he said died because he presented late.He is said to be a 51 year old resident of Ilasan Lekki and indigene of Edo state where he attended a wedding ceremony on December 28,last year.He was initially a

                               According to my research,Robert Pershing Wadlow also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of IIIinois,was the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence.He was born and raised in Alton,IIIinois.Wadlow reached 8 ft 11,1 in {2.72 m} in height and weighed 439 lb {199 kg} at his death at the age of 22.His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were due to ''hyperplasia of his pituitaary gland'',which results in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone.He showed no indication of an end to his growth even at the time of his death.Wadlow was born to Addie Johnson and Harold Wadlow in Alton,IIIinois on February 22,1918 and was the oldest of five children.He was taller than his father at the age of 8,and in elementary school they had to make a special desk for him due to his size.By the time he graduated from Alton High School in 1936,he was 8 f 4 in {2.54 m}.After graduating he enrolled in Shurtle