Life Style

The Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses has announced that members can now decide whether to accept or donate the four main components of blood based on their personal conscience.The organisation made this known in a statement issued by its World Headquarters in Warwick, New York and made available on its website on Friday.According to the statement, “the decision to accept red cells, white cells, plasma or platelets from another person’s blood is a matter of personal conscience.”It added that “each Witness must decide whether or not to donate blood for the clearly expressed purpose of providing components or fractions for use by another person.”However, the organisation said its position on whole-blood transfusion had not changed.The long-standing refusal of whol...

A Minnesota woman has gone viral after her shoplifting arrest mugshot was noticed for its uncanny resemblance to singer/actress Jennifer Lopez. Cyrena Anne Quast, 35, was arrested on Aug. 30 after she was accused of stealing two double packs of power tool batteries worth around $580 from a store in Monticello, according to a criminal complaint obtained by The Watch MN.  A store employee reportedly recognized the Saint Cloud native from an alleged theft two days earlier and called the cops. Quast reportedly admitted to stealing the battery packs and was booked on a gross misdemeanor theft charge, online arrest listings show.   As Quast’s mugshot made its way online, her striking resemblance to Jennifer Lopez drew massive attention online. “For a moment I thought it was jlo lma...

American filmmaker, actor and producer Tyler Perry has revealed that he has no plans to get married, citing the financial consequences he has seen people face after divorce.Speaking on The Jennifer Hudson Show, Perry said marriage itself does not bother him, but the possibility of divorce does.“It’s not the marriage that bothers me. It’s the divorce. Everybody that I know that did well and went broke, it was because of a divorce, so I’m good just being free,” he said.https://youtu.be/QmACxtD_MIU?si=hkdsWGE8TaM11mSD

Popular Egyptian TV presenter and influencer Sarah Khalifa has been sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted for her alleged role in a major drug trafficking operation.Khalifa, 39, reportedly broke down in court as the Cairo Criminal Court handed her the death sentence alongside 11 other defendants.The former host of Egyptian crime programme Mission Impossible, who has more than two million social media followers, strongly denied the allegations.“Please listen to me, sir. My parents raised me well; they are people who pray, and I don’t need drug money,” she reportedly pleaded in court.Khalifa also told investigators that she had “never smoked a cigarette” in her life.According to Egyptian state media, Khalifa and the other defendants were convicted of operati...

Regina Daniels was captured in her stepson's live video and she hurriedly asked him to end the video after noticing that it was capturing her. Amir Nwoko was on TikTok live when the camera showed Regina Daniels and her kids in a house said to be Ned Nwoko's Immediately Regina noticed that she was online, she screamed and playfully hit her son in-law. She then scrolled through her phone, apparently reading comments about herself online before complaining about "what they are saying" about her online. She then screamed "Jesus, Jesus" and asked Amir to end the video. "Amir, can you cut it. Jesus. Off it, off it," she said and stood up to end the video herself.  This comes amid reports that Regina is back with her husband Ned Nwoko months after...

New York will ban students’ use of artificial intelligence in public schools through eight grade, typically age 13 or 14, the city’s mayor announced in a move designed to protect  children’s education and mental health. The prohibition, announced on Wednesday, September 2, will go into effect next week. The change is part of a sweeping overhaul of the use of technology in the US’s largest school district, which enrolls roughly 900,000 students a year. In another policy shift, classrooms will keep students off laptops or tablets through the third grade, age nine or 10. The city’s public school technology policies are closely watched by the rest of the United States. Teachers and parents have warned against the use of AI instructional softwar...

Miss World Nigeria 2026, Tamunosoye Karibi-George, has won the Top Model for Africa title at the ongoing Miss World competition in Vietnam. The victory has automatically secured her a place in the Top 40 quarterfinals of the 2026 Miss World competition, according to the organisers. Karibi-George joins the other continental Top Model winners, including the representatives of the Dominican Republic who won Top Model for the Americas and Caribbean, Miss World France who won Top Model for Europe, and Miss World Vietnam who won Top Model for Asia and Oceania.   NigerianNews UpdatesThe continental winners earned coveted places in the Top 40 after standing out at the Top Model competition during Vietnam Beauty Fashion Fest XVII, themed "Soul of Heritage." The 75th Anniversary Miss Wo...

Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi says she was shocked when she encountered a cockroach at home, then found herself unexpectedly “lonely” when it was gone. The 65-year-old world leader narrated her encounter with the pest in the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo while answering “some of the questions I often get” in an anecdotal X post shared Saturday, Aug. 22, originally written in Japanese. One of the questions Takaichi, who is known for her active presence on social media, answered is, “Have you already met the ghosts that are said to appear in the official residence?” The question is rooted in legends that the Tokyo mansion is haunted by those who di£d during two coup attempts in the ‘30s, shortly after the home was built. Takaich...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s wife, Georgina Rodríguez, is adopting his three older children. The couple got married a little over a week ago. Now, according to reports from the Portuguese press, Rodríguez is now adopting Ronaldo’s three kids and is being formally recognized as their mother. The reports described the proceedings as “secret adoptions,” as the couple is completing the necessary paperwork out of the public eye. Rodríguez has been with Ronaldo since 2016, and she has been active in his children’s lives, as he’s said she treats his children as if they were her own, which formed a close bond amongst the family. Before the couple got together, Ronaldo’s oldest son, Cristiano Ronaldo Jr. was born in 2010. His two twin daughters, Eva Maria and Mateo, w...

Nigerian blogger and influencer, Diana Eneje has announced her engagement to her boyfriend, Lagos-based businessman, Pascal Godwin.The model shared photos of her romantic proposal in Cape Town on her Instagram page on Friday, captioning them, “My forever.”The proposal featured colourful smoke cannons as Godwin popped the question with a marquise-cut diamond ring.The announcement has sparked congratulatory messages from fans and well-wishers, who have taken to social media to celebrate the lovers.The engagement comes shortly after Eneje celebrated her 24th birthday.https://youtu.be/jBy9V3Xdg6E?si=w2KeH-GqejeNw_K8