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Bowe Bergdahl, the American sgt. soldier held captive for nearly five years by militants during the Afghanistan war, has been released in exchange for five Guantanamo detainees, authorities said Saturday. Bergdahl, the only remaining U.S. soldier captured during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, was recovered by U.S. special operations forces without incident about 10:30 a.m. ET at a "pick-up" point in eastern Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan, a senior Department of Defense official told CNN. There were 18 armed Taliban members present. Once he was on an American helicopter, Bergdahl, 28, used a paper plate to communicate because of the noise. He wrote, "SF?" meaning, "special forces?" One of the operators sitting with Bergdahl responded loudly: "Yes, we've been looking for you for a long time," according to the official. Bergdahl broke down crying. Parents 'cannot wait to wrap our arms around our only ...

Its over two years now Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have being engage , Angelina Jolie says she has no immediate plans to marry fiance and actor Brad Pitt. The reason, she says, is that she has no dress for the D-day. Here’s what the 38-year-old  said, ”Nothing is ready. I don’t have a dress, noting that the big day matters to us in a very private way, but we also understand that we’re public people,”. The actress and Pitt, 50, are parents to Maddox, 12, Pax, ten, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, seven, and twins Knox and Vivienne, five. Jolie said that she and Pitt are discussing their marriage with their children to understand how they imagine the wedding day to be.

Qatar 2022 and Bin Hammam have always strenuously denied the former Fifa vice president actively lobbied on their behalf in the run up to the vote in December 2010. But, according to emails obtained by the Sunday Times and seen by the BBC, it is now clear that Bin Hammam, 65, was lobbying on his country's behalf at least a year before the decision. The documents also show how Bin Hammam was making payments direct to football officials in Africa to allegedly buy their support for Qatar in the contest. Qatar strongly deny any wrongdoing and insist that Bin Hammam never had any official role supporting the bid and always acted independently from the Qatar 2022 campaign. When approached by the Sunday Times to respond to their claims, Bin Hammam's son Hamad Al Abdulla declined to comment on his behalf. Although the vast majority of the officials did not have a vote, the Sunday Times alleges Bin Hammam's strategy was to win a groundswell of support for the Qa...

Beyonce may have been furious at the news that Jay-Z was cheating on her, but it looks like she may have had some hidden secrets of her own. According to several new rumors, Beyonce might actually be having an affair with her bodyguard, Julius De Boer. We all remember Julius, don’t we? The bodyguard who prevented Solange from smacking Jay-Z into oblivion, featured heavily in the leaked video from the incident? Yeah, that’s the guy that Beyonce is supposedly having an affair with. My question is – how does Jay-Z not know about this? Sure, a source ‘tells’ Star Magazine , “Jay definitely thinks that there was and may still be something romantic going on between Bey and Julius. He wanted to fire Julius last February, but Beyonce said, ‘Julius isn’t going anywhere.’” Damn, that’s hypocritical of Jay-Z, no? If he’s really been cheating on Beyonce all this time, then how is he in any position to tell Beyonce what to do, much less fire her bodyguard without any proof? Of course, sup...

Nigerian economist Okonjo-Iweala didn’t let her failed 2012 bid to become president of the World Bank slow her down. In 2011, she received her second appointment as finance minister of Nigeria. Since then, the country’s GDP has displayed robust growth — 6.87% growth between 2012 and 2013 — especially given the relatively sluggish global recovery. Okonjo-Iweala was key to developing the reform programs that helped stabilize Nigeria’s economy and improve governmental transparency. She has now turned her attention to Nigeria’s 14% unemployment rate. The Harvard- and M.I.T.-trained Okonjo-Iweala spent 21 years as a development economist at the World Bank. Folorunsho Alakakija winding path to becoming one of the richest woman in Africa began in London, where she pursued secretarial studies and fashion design as a young woman. After returning to Nigeria to work as an executive secretary, she founded her own tailoring company, Supreme Stitches. With clients such as former first lady Ma...

A study by German researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development found that men who watch a lot of porn generally have a smaller striatum. The striatum is the part of the brain which processes 'rewards and motivation' - leading scientists to believe that pornography damages this function. They can also have less grey matter, making their brains generally smaller than those of men who rarely watch it. The female leading author of the study Simone Kühn, did point out however, that it isn't clear whether X rated material is making brains smaller, or whether men with a decreased striatum tend to watch it more often. She added that the striatum is less active with men who consume a lot of sexual images. Dr Kühn said: "Moreover we found that another brain region, that is also part of the striatum that is active when people see sexual stimuli, shows less activation the more pornography participants consumed." The study questioned 64 men a...