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Groom takes the plunge.

There are adventurous couples out there who prefer to have their wedding on their terms, without the pressures of a normal traditional wedding.

Over the years, we have witnessed dozens of ever-evolving wedding styles that match the personalities of our couples.

Only reaffirming our belief that these days you can really do whatever you want, anywhere you want.

The officials heads out for the ceremony 32ft below the surface.

https://www.boredpanda.com/underwater-weddings-photography-artandstorystudio/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

This is the heartwarming moment an orangutan tries to assist a man stuck in a river by offering its outstretched arm.

The great ape, who lives in a protected conservation forest area in Borneo, was seen leaning forward and lending a helping hand to the man who had been in the muddy river.

The striking images were taken by amateur photographer Anil Prabhakar, from Indonesia, who had been on a safari with his friends when he spotted the touching scene.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7975207/Orangutan-reaches-help-man-protects-ape-snakes-Borneo.html

The Thai soldier has been shot dead after killing at least 21 people in a gun rampage inside a shopping mall after becoming angry at a financial dispute.

Pictured is an explosion at the shopping mall in Thailand today where a gunman went on a shooting spree leaving at least 12 dead.


Police swoop on a shopping mall in Thailand as a gunman kills at least 12 and holds 16 hostages.



Thai soldiers are pictured as they enter the shopping centre, where the gunman is still at large today in Korat

Thomma posted pictures of himself armed and guns in full tactical gear during the rampage in Thailand today.

Hundreds of people are evacuated from the shopping mall by members of security forces after a shooting rampage in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand today.


Thailand security forces take cover behind an ambulance as they chase a shooter hidden in a shopping mall after a mass shooting in front of the Terminal 21, in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand today.

Emergency service.

A Thai soldier has gone on a gun rampage inside a shopping mall, killing at least 20 people and taking a dozen hostages while live-streaming the mass murder on Facebook and posing for selfies.

Sergeant Major Jakrapanth Thomma, 32, began his murderous rampage this afternoon at his barracks, where he executed his commanding officer along with two other soldiers, before commandeering a humvee and tearing away from the scene.


Chilling CCTV show a gunman walking through a mall after killing many people and taking more hostages in Thailand tonight.

A picture shows Jakrapanth Thomma, who is the alleged attacker, in front of an explosion at the mall today.



Mall staff hide in the shop as gunman Jakapanth Thomma goes on a shooting spree in Thailand today.



The people trapped within the incident are rescued by Thai forces.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7981285/Soldier-armed-rifle-kills-12-Thailand.html?ito=social-facebook

He kidnapped and tortured a future Colombian president and vice-presidents, he killed an Attorney General, and helped plot the murder of Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, the only murder out of thousands for which he was actually convicted.

By the time he was arrested in 1992, he had killed over 250 people with his own hands including his own girlfriend detonated over 250 car bombs.


He was linked to the 1989 bombing of an Avianca jet, which killed 107 people, just to assassinate one traveller, another presidential candidate.

He said: 'I'm also a victim of Don Pablo. I was not responsible for the assassinations.

I was a professional killer and nowadays I have reconsidered it. I am a repented and reformed man.'

As Escobar's head hitman, 'Popeye' executed either personally or on his orders thousands of people deemed to be a threat to his cocaine trafficking empire, including policemen, journalists, politicians and judges, while innocent civilians were also inevitably caught up in the carnage.



Velasquez, aka 'Popeye', visits the tomb of his former boss Pablo Escobar at the Montesacro Cemetery in Medellin in 2015.

Escobar was shot dead by police in Medellin in 1993.

Heartless: Escobar's right-hand man, Vasquez (as a young man) says he feels no guilt for the hundreds he murdered because they were all casualties of 'the war'

The heartless assassin - who once described killing as 'like a day at the office' was jailed in 1993 the year Escobar was gunned down by police in his home town of Medellin but was released in 2014.

Velasquez then went into hiding for several years fearing reprisals from his victim's families and members of the Medellin Cartel he helped to convict in return for a lighter sentence.

He was arrested again in May 2018 on suspicion of extortion and conspiracy and had been back behind bars since then.

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's former chief hitman Jhon Jairo 'Popeye' Velasquez has died of cancer today at the age of 57.

Velasquez served a life sentence after admitting to killing 300 people and ordering the deaths of 3,000 more as he violently enforced Escobar's legendary reign of terror.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7974383/amp/Drug-lord-Pablo-Escobars-feared-chief-hitman-Jhon-Jairo-Popeye-Velasquez-dies-cancer-aged-57.html

Earlier thread.

Finland to introduce a four-day working week and SIX-HOUR per day.

https://www.nairaland.com/5616688/finland-introduce-4-days-per

Pekonen, the health minister, said a more equal distribution of domestic roles has been shown to reduce the risk of divorce.

'Over a longer term, it also improves equality in working life and in wages by directing fathers to use a larger proportion of parental leaves than before,' she said.



Prime minister Sanna Marin (second right), 34, poses with the Minister of Education Li Andersson (left), 32, Minister of Finance Katri Kulmuni (second left), 32, and Minister of Interior Maria Ohisalo (right), 34, after Finland's new government was formed in December

Finland's woman-led government has today announced plans to give fathers the same amount of paid parental leave as mothers.

Paternity leave for new fathers is set to be extended to nearly seven months, the same as maternity leave.

The centre-left government led by Sanna Marin, the world's youngest prime minister at 34, says the 'radical reform' is intended to promote equality and boost birth rates.

'This enables better equality between parents and diversity among families,' said health minister Aino-Kaisa Pekonen.




https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7970077/amp/Finland-offer-fathers-paid-leave-new-mothers.html?__twitter_impression=true

JAtoms:
Op shebi u say na 13ft e be?
Wetin make the person wey measure the crocodile no remove the tyre?

Some guys are specialists in what they do.

They will give your correct height/weight/age, manually, just sighting you.

There have been previous attempts to get the tire off the crocodile.

In January 2018, a conservationist and "animal whisperer" was unsuccessful in removing the tire using different methods.

Indonesian officials have now offered a reward to free the unnamed crocodile from its plight, according to Antara.

"A reward will be given to anyone who can release the hapless reptile," Central Sulawesi Natural Resources Conservation Office chief Hasmuni Hasmar said. Details of the reward were not given.

A 13-foot crocodile has been swimming around Indonesia with a tire around its neck for 4 years and now officials are offering a reward to anyone who can safely get it off.

According to Indonesia's state-run Antara news agency, the crocodile has had the tire around its neck since at least 2016, though it's unknown how it got there.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insider.com/crocodile-indonesia-tire-stuck-reward-2020-1%3famp

DelTel:
Chinese are Masters in construction, not the first and won't be the last by them.

But, abeg help us ask them what is delaying naija railways, roads etc they are constructing. Make them deliver in 6months now abeg.

Nothing but corruption bro.

269,000-square-foot building is one of two new emergency hospitals in China created for disease patients.

China's army has reportedly been given control of the hospital.

Some 1,400 military medics have been brought in from the People's Liberation Army to the new hospital, dubbed 'Fire God Mountain', according to state media.

An emergency hospital that was constructed in eight days for the treatment of coronavirus patients in China has been completed.

Engineers from across the country were reportedly brought in to help speed up construction.

About 4,000 people reportedly worked day and night to build the hospital in seven days.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7957931/Inside-Chinas-coronavirus-hospital-1-000-bed-Wuhan-unit-open-patients-tomorrow.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

Smallwood (pictured) was last seen outside a New Jersey dry cleaners on January 27, 2014.



Smallwood was said to have been in a Chrysler Town &Country minivan, outside the dry cleaners while her husband was inside the store.

When her husband came back outside, both the car and Smallwood had disappeared.

New Jersey woman's skeletal remains were found in a crushed car pulled out of a river Thursday, six years after she was reported missing.


Authorities identified the remains as belonging to Vanessa Smallwood, 46, of Burlington Township, New Jersey, who was reported missing in February 2014.


Diving contractors who were working in the river, looking for underwater obstructions that could interfere with shipping, found the crushed car with the remains inside it in New Jersey's Salem River.


The flattened car was pulled out of the water on Thursday at about noon by New Jersey State Police, according to ABC 6.

The remains were then autopsied, matched and confirmed as belonging to missing Smallwood on Friday.

Authorities did not reveal a cause of death, but said that there was no indication that there had been any foul play involved in her death, NJ.com reported.

Smallwood, a mother of three adult sons, had been reported missing on February 4, 2014, eight days after she was last seen in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

oz4real83:
life is all about improvement. Do u know how many years it has been since vietnam? Do u know how many discoveries in science and technology since then? Personnel and equipments keep changing. Some Weapons used in vietnam may even be obsolete now.

Do you think Vietnam or other nations have been snoring or folding their arms since the war ended decades ago?

Many nations are upgrading their arsenal, developing war/military technology discreetly.

tofolo:
brother Sept 2019? Guess this is an error?

Thanks.

Lauren Bruner, who died in September, 2019 at the age of 98, was one of the last few survivors of the Japanese attack on the USS Arizona in 1941.

A few years before his death, he made arrangements with the US Navy and the National Park Service to have his remains ashes taken down to then sunken ship's hull.

He was the second-to-last sailor to escape the burning ship during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 78 years ago.

Bruner will be the last sailor to be interred/buried inside the USS Arizona, joining the remains of 44 shipmates who survived the attack but wished to be laid to rest at the site.

Divers brought his ashes down to the ship's hull

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The attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii, was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the US.


Aerial image of Pearl Harbor taken from a Japanese plane during the attack.

Miller was collecting laundry when the attack alarm sounded.

His normal battle station was destroyed by a torpedo so he went on deck and carried wounded soldiers to safety before manning a machine gun

Sailors among the wreckage of the 1941 attack. More than 2,300 US troops died that day, with eight US Navy battleships being damaged.


The attack, which the Japanese referred to as the Hawaii Operation, led to the US formally entering into World War II on December 8 1941.

More than 2,300 US troops died that day, with 19 Navy ships destroyed or damaged, including eight battleships.

1,177 of the casualties were Marines and sailors serving on the USS Arizona, a battleship moored in the harbor.

USS Arizona sank within nine minutes of being hit.

USS West Virginia was damaged and sunk by six Japanese torpedoes and two bombs, killing 106 crew members.

Naming the newest addition after a sailor is uncommon, with the more recent carriers typically honoring former US presidents, such as aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy.

The USS Doris Miller will be the fourth of the Gerald Ford-class supercarriers.

The $13billion aircraft carrier will be the fourth of the new Gerald R. Ford-class supercarriers.

The carriers are the largest world, and will eventually replace the existing Nimitz-class.