Mariah Carey glitters in gold swimsuit for hot tub dip

The 45-year-old decided to heat things up a little bit as she took a dip in a hot tub in the middle of snowy Aspen.

It may have been freezing outside but the mum-of-two didn’t seem fussed as she stripped off.

Mariah has spent the Christmas holidays in Aspen with her ex husband Nick Cannon and their children Moroccan and Monroe.

The ex couple are known for maintaining a great relationship for the sake of their twins, despite the fact that the singer has now moved on and is dating James Packer. 

Safety procedures violated- Nnewi gas plant inferno

 

The disaster took place in an industrial gas plant in  Nnewi (Anambra state), a predominantly Christian community in southeast Nigeria.

Now what are the root cause factors that led to this incident? Lets read a witness account of the incident.

A witness, Emeka Peters, said the fire broke out at about 11 a.m. when a tanker truck that had finished discharging fresh gas at the Chikason Group Gas plant left without waiting to observe the prescribed cooling time. 

Simple, that explains it all. Remember that cooking gas (propane & butane) are very flammable therefore slight increase in temperature or heat close to their ignition point could result in disaster. Cooling time is required in order to eliminate the possibility of overheating. Hence, the prescribed cooling time which was not observed leading to loss of lives and properties.

Violating simple safety measures or procedures have grave consequences.....

Merry Xmas!!!! but what does the 'X' mean?

A lot people across the globe are wishing friends and families "Merry Xmas". Really few care to reason what the X' stands for or why was it changed from Christmas to Xmas.

According to a report, common belief is that Xmas “takes the Christ out of Christmas” – that this is part of the so-called “war on Christmas” intended to suppress traditional Christian symbols.  But this is a misapprehension, the result of not knowing the origin of the abbreviation. The X in Xmas stands for

Chicago rapper 'King Louie' shot in the head

 

King Louie was shot in the head in the Ashburns neighborhood on the Southwest Side Wednesday afternoon, his management team confirmed. The rapper — whose real name is Louis Johnson — was shot while in a vehicle in the 3900 block of West 83rd Street about 3:30 p.m., according to his management and Chicago Police. Police said he was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition had stabilized. Louie is said to be “up and talking.”

17 bodies found in a ravine in Mexico

 Authorities have pulled 17 bodies from a ravine in southern Mexico after they were reportedly discovered by a man who traveled from the United States in search of a missing relative.

"There were nine complete bodies and eight half-burned" in the 500-meter-deep (1,650-foot) canyon in the violent state of Guerrero, an official from the attorney general's office told AFP on condition of anonymity on Tuesday.

Thailand's King makes rare appearance

Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej has made a rare public appearance, amid concerns for his ailing health.

In television footage released on Monday by the palace he is seen swearing in judges at a Bangkok hospital where he has been staying.

He has received treatment for a number of ailments including a lung infection.

The health of the 88-year-old monarch is of public concern as he is widely revered and seen as an arbiter in the country's divided political arena.

The king, who is the world's longest serving monarch, was last seen in September in a video released by the palace. 

The king's successor is Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn 

Cop raped woman handcuffed to bed

One of the women assaulted by former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw said she feared for her life when he pulled her over last year and forced her to perform a sex act on him.

"In my mind, all I could think of was he was going to shoot me, he was going to kill me," Jannie Ligons told reporters at a news conference Friday. "I kept begging, 'Sir, don't make me do this, don't make me do this, sir. Please. You're going to shoot me.'

"All I could see was my life flashing before my eyes and the holster on his right side," said Ligons, a grandmother whose daughters stood beside her.

Holtzclaw told her he wasn't going to shoot her, but he made her perform oral sodomy in June 2014, Ligons said.

"All I can say is I was a victim, I was traumatized, I went to therapy, I had a stroke behind this," she said. 

Ligons later went to police and media outlets with the first complaint against Holtzclaw, she said. Investigators later found a total of 13 alleged victims, all African-American women

Nicki Minaj bails accused brother with $100k

This is a sheer demonstration of the saying that 'blood is thicker than water'.

Nicki Minaj is standing by her big brother — posting his bail after he has been charged with raping a 12-year-old, The Post has learned.

Court papers reveal the superstar singer put up the $100,000 bond that sprang Jelani Maraj, 37, from custody in Nassau County on Friday after he was accused of first-degree rape and first-degree sexual conduct against the preteen.

The bond is backed by a two homes in Baldwin that are owned by Minaj — one of which is used by her brother and the other by her mother, Carol.

Low tuition fees drive more students to Netherlands

Tuition fees really going up in the UK and the effects are more students from the UK now moving to other European universities.

But what it also has is hundreds of students from the UK - and the number is rising.

This is the university application season for UK students - and open day visits now include trips to Dutch universities, which are pitching themselves as if they were offshore Russell Group institutions.

Since tuition fees rose to £9,000 in England there have been repeated forecasts that students would head for cheaper European universities.

Pistorius finally convicted of murder by SA appeal court

An athlete running away or towards jail?

Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of murder after a South African appeals court overturned an earlier manslaughter verdict.

Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013 after shooting four times through a locked toilet door.

He is currently under house arrest after spending one year of his original five-year sentence in jail.

Pistorius will have to return to court to be re-sentenced, for murder.

Pistorius, a six-time Paralympic gold medallist whose legs were amputated below the knee as a baby, made history by becoming the first amputee sprinter to compete at the Olympics, in 2012, running on prosthetic "blades".