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Scientists have discovered at least three new planets in our galaxy that could have allowed life to evolve. The Earth-sized worlds lie in the "Goldilocks zone" of their sun, where temperatures are not too hot or cold, and are thought to be capable of having oceans of water. They are in a group of at least seven planets orbiting a dwarf star called Trappist-1, in a newly discovered solar system 39 light years from us. A light year is the distance light travels in a year. Researchers believe no other known star system contains such a large number of Earth-sized and probably rocky planets. Trappist-1 lies in the Aquarius constellation and has just under a tenth of the mass of our Sun. The research, led by NASA and its orbiting Spitzer telescope, was supported by, among others, a robotic telescope operated by Liverpool John Moores University (JMU). The telescope, which is located in the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa, helped detect the planets as they p...

This year's Oscar wins are out and Hollywood musical La La Land failed to take the top prize. Check the full list below: BEST PICTURE Moonlight - WINNER Arrival Fences Hacksaw Ridge Hell Or High Water Hidden Figures La La Land Lion Manchester By The Sea BEST DIRECTOR Damien Chazelle - La La Land - WINNER Barry Jenkins - Moonlight Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester By The Sea Denis Villeneuve - Arrival Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge BEST ACTOR Casey Affleck - Manchester By The Sea - WINNER Andrew Garfield - Hacksaw Ridge Ryan Gosling - La La Land Denzel Washington - Fences Viggo Mortensen - Captain Fantastic BEST ACTRESS Emma Stone - La La Land - WINNER Isabelle Huppert - Elle Ruth Negga - Loving Natalie Portman - Jackie Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mahershala Ali - Moonlight - WINNER Jeff Bridges - Hell Or High Water Lucas Hedges - Manchester By The Sea Dev Patel - Lion Michael Shannon - No...

A memorabilia dealer is selling the car which rapper Tupac Shakur was travelling in when he was shot and killed in a drive-by attack nearly 20 years ago. The BMW 750iL, which once belonged to Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight, has been listed with an asking price of $1.5m (£1.2m) in California. Several photographs of the BMW have been uploaded by Moments In Time, but the company has not provided any details of the car's history since Shakur's death in September 1996. However, it appears the car has been well-used, as there are more than 92,000 miles on the odometer. Shakur, whose hits included Dear Mama and California Love, was travelling with Knight in Las Vegas when he was shot several times by a gunman in another car. The rapper was taken to hospital and put on a life support machine, but died six days later at the age of 25. His murder was never resolved. Several of Shakur's belongings have been listed by Moments In Time over recent months. Last...

Retired boxing champion Floyd Mayweather has called out UFC champion Conor McGregor, saying it's high time they fought for the enjoyment of the fans. McGregor and Mayweather have been attacking each other on social media for months now and the retired boxer who turned 40  on Saturday  has now officially called out the UFC star. 'I'm here to say today, on my birthday, they keep throwing the Conor McGregor name out there,' Mayweather told Showtime Boxing. 'Conor McGregor, like I said before, I'm here let's make it happen.' 'Let's make the fight happen. Let's give the fans what they want to see. There's only one fight out there that's important and that's Mayweather and Conor McGregor.' Mayweather has already been made the overwhelming favorite as the fight between him and Conor will be a boxing match with McGregor, a kick boxer/martial artiste never engaged in a professional boxing fight before.. But Mayweather  has i...

The 37th edition of the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards (Brit Awards) held last night February 22, 2017 at The O2 in London. At the ceremony, late David Bowie was honoured with two major awards while Beyonce, Little Mix, Drake and newcomer Rag’n’Bone Man also took home prizes. See the full list of winners after the cut British male solo artist Craig David David Bowie – WINNER Kano Michael Kiwanuka Skepta British female solo artist Anohni Ellie Goulding Emeli Sandé – WINNER  Lianne La Havas Nao British group The 1975 – WINNER  Bastille Biffy Clyro Little Mix Radiohead British breakthrough act Anne-Marie Blossoms Rag’n’Bone Man – WINNER  Skepta Stormzy Brits global success award Adele – WINNER Best single Alan Walker – Faded Calum Scott – Dancing On My Own Calvin Harris ft Rihanna – This Is What You Came For Clean Bandit ft Sean Paul & Anne-Marie – Rockabye Coldplay – Hymn For the Weekend James Arthur – Say ...

Jay Z has made history by becoming the very first rapper ever chosen to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. By breaking this record, Jay Z has given other rappers hope of someday becoming inductees. The Songwriters Hall announced on Wednesday Feb. 22nd that Jay Z will be inducted into the Hall at the organization's 48th Annual Induction and Awards Dinner will take place on June 15 in New York. Other songwriters who will be inducted include; Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds, Max Martin, songwriting-production duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Gordy, and members of the band Chicago Robert Lamm, James Pankow and Peter Cetera. Joining the Hall of Fame is a great honour, one given only to artists who are considered to have "enriched the world's culture", with people like Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan and Marvin Gaye previously making it into the Hall. Only five songwriters, or songwriting groups, are inducted each year, so it is understandable that J...

Singer  Sean Kingston was allegedly beaten up on Tuesday afternoon by  hip hop group,  Migos. According to TMZ, Sean got into an argument with 3 members of Migos over Soulja boy and they badly beat him up. Read TMZ report after the cut... Sean Kingston was beaten up badly Tuesday and people on scene say Migos was the culprit ... but the story is bizarre and the group is not wanted by cops, at least not yet. Law enforcement sources tell us it went down late afternoon at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Vegas. We're told Kingston and the guys from Migos got into it over an argument involving Soulja Boy and the 3 members of Migos beat Sean badly, allegedly kicking him and stomping on his head. Law enforcement tells us someone from Sean's camp pulled out a gun and fired once, but didn't hit anyone. That person was detained by security and turned over to the Vegas PD. By the time cops arrived both Sean and Migos had left. A short time later Sean was pulled over for ...

Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo is reportedly signed up to star with Angelina Jolie in a TV drama about Syrian refugees. The Real Madrid footballer was named as one of the high-profile cast members secured to start filming Hayat Koprusu in April. Director of the upcoming TV series Eyup Dirlik told website Turkish Football: "We will begin filming in the first week of April, the series is about the plight of a refugee family and what they go through. "There will be appearances from actors and actresses from all over the world including Cristiano Ronaldo, Angelina Jolie and (Arabic music star) Nancy Ajram." Hayat Koprusu will focus on a Syrian family fleeing the civil war for Turkey. It will film mainly in Gaziantep, in the Anatolia region of Turkey near the Syrian border. Ronaldo has made no secret of his ambition to break into acting. The 32-year-old said while promoting a menswear line in February 2016: "Why not? It is not my objective at the moment, bu...

In a new interview with Ovo Sound Radio, rapper, Drake, has spilled out on his beef with Meek Mill, his 'reunion' with Nicki Minaj and issues with Kanye West and Jay-Z. In the long interview, Drake said he'll never be friends again with Meek Mill and that he always writes majority of his own songs. He also addressed Kanye West's rants about him ditching Jay-z's Tidal to work with Apple's Itunes. “Meek Mill at the time, due to some issue with Nicki [Minaj] or whatever it was, decided to create a narrative that I don’t write my own music because that was what was convenient for him at the time,” Drake told DJ Semtex on Ovo Radio.. “The reason why I never felt necessarily pressured to sit down and defend myself right away, or go do an interview, [was] because anybody that’s been in any room with me knows first of all knows that I am one of the best writers, period. That is what I do,” Drake explained. “That is what I’m known for. I go and write for other...

Earlier in the month, we told you that Adolf Hitler's telephone, recovered from the Fuhrerbunker and kept in a box at an English country house since 1945, will be sold at auction in the United States. Well, the phone has now been sold. It was sold on Sunday February 19, 2017 for $243,000. The winning bid was made by phone but the name of the bidder has not been released. The phone was presented to Hitler by the Wehrmacht and was used by the Nazi leader to issue most of his commands during the last two years of World War II, according to a description in the catalog for Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland.

Pregnant singer, Beyonce along with JayZ and Blue Ivy stepped out to watch the 2017 NBA All Star Game yesterday. Earlier on, we revealed the cost of Blue Ivy's Gucci dress when converted to Naira. Well, the exchange rate is now $518 to #1 and it turns out Beyonce wore a Gucci embroidered tiger print silk kimono which has a price tag of $21,945. When converted to Naira, that's 11,367,510. 

The chairman of the city's road in Dubai and Transport Authority , Mattar Al Tayer has revealed that Dubai will have autonomous taxi drones zipping around its skyline this summer. Speaking at the recent World Government Summit, a gathering of tech and government leaders at Dubai, he said: 'I am glad to inform you that hopefully, we will be able to have these drones available, starting July 2017.' The country which plans that a quarter of all journeys in the city will be autonomous by 2030, will have people sit inside the drones without fearing for their lives. According to Huffington Post, the flying taxis manufactured by Chinese drone-making firm EHang can carry a person weighing up to 100 kilograms (about 220 pounds) along with a small suitcase.

Rapper, Drake, on Monday night wished his old flame, Rihanna, a happy birthday as he performed at his sold out concert in Dublin. Drake, in a video from Monday night's performance recorded by a fan, said,  "It's somebody's birthday today—somebody I have a lot of love for and a lot of respect for," he told the crowd as they started screaming with excitement. "So, instead of singing 'Happy birthday,' though, we just going to do this in Dublin. Instead of singing 'Happy Birthday,' we're going to set it off just like this..." His collaboration "Work," with Rihanna, began playing. Rihanna turned 29 on Monday. 

According to a new report by RadarOnline, rapper, Kanye West has pleaded with his wife and reality TV star Kim Kardashian West to stop undergoing plastic surgery procedures as the death of his mum, Donda West, while undergoing cosmetic procedures still lingers fresh in his memory. The report comes after Kim snap chatted this week about her visit to her plastic surgeon to remove her stretch marks gotten from pregnancy and child labour. Read the full report after below: Kim Kardashian, is still in pursuit of plastic perfection ! After the 36-year-old beauty was spotted leaving Epione Beverly Hills, her go-to aesthetic specialist, a source close to the beauty told RadarOnline.com exclusively that her rapper hubby, Kanye West, has begged her to stop before it is too late.  “Kim has undergone cool sculpting because she said that she needs to look super-hot for New Year’s,” the RadarOnline source said.  “Kim would totally get liposuction, but Kanye would lose it because ...

Money transfer startup TransferWise has launched a new chatbot that enables Facebook users to move funds abroad using the social platform's Messenger service. The bot can be used to move money between the U.S., Canada, Australia and the European Union and It will also notify users via an alert when their regularly used currencies hit favorable rates. Already more than 1 million customers transfer nearly $1 billion each month with London-based TransferWise ; a startup that is valued at an estimated $1.1 billion. Facebook first launched chatbots for its Messenger app in April 2016. The bots allow users to communicate with companies in the same way they speak to their friends. They can provide everything from weather updates to personalized news updates and other services. The bots respond conversationally, and brands are increasingly using them to replace customer service agents.

Karrueche Tran has reportedly filed a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown, after she claimed he threatened to kill her. Read the report from TMZ below... Chris Brown has been ordered to stay clear of ex-GF Karrueche Tran, after she filed legal docs saying he vowed to kill her and he's beaten her up before ... TMZ has learned. Karrueche claims in a sworn statement to the judge, earlier this month Chris "told a few people that he was going to kill me." She then says Chris told the friends if he can't have her then no one else can, threatening he was going to "take me out" and "threatened to shoot me." Karrueche also says several years ago Chris "punched me in my stomach twice," and "pushed me down the stairs." This would have been during the time Chris was on  probation for the Rihanna beating . The legal docs also claim Chris has threatened to harm her friends and even recently threw a drink at one of them....

On Saturday, February 18, 2017, Bill Gates spoke at the Munich Security Conference in Germany where he said,  "It's time to redirect some of the money the world spends on weapons to prepare for a looming threat: terrorists with pathogens. He's warning that the threat of bio-terrorism is "right up there with nuclear war and climate change."  He says it's now necessary for the world to prepare for what he considers to be one of its largest existential threats: the next pandemic.  "Whether it occurs by a quirk of nature or at the hand of a terrorist, epidemiologists say a fast-moving airborne pathogen could kill more than 30 million people in less than a year. And they say there is a reasonable probability the world will experience such an outbreak in the next 10 to 15 years" he said. The most recent pandemic was even more deadly than that, Gates pointed out. A flu outbreak that occurred naturally killed between 50 million and 100 mill...

An extremist cleric who helped plot the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City has died in jail. Blind sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman was jailed for life over the attack, which killed six people and injured more than 1,000 others. He was also convicted of planning more attacks on New York City landmarks, including the United Nations and several bridges and tunnels, as part of a "war of urban terrorism". Authorities said the 78-year-old died in a North Carolina prison after a long battle with diabetes and coronary artery disease. Before emigrating to the US in 1990, Abdel-Rahman led the militant Al-Gamaa al-Islamiya group in Egypt. He was accused of issuing a fatwa which led to the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1986, but was eventually acquitted. A year after arriving in New York City, Abdel-Rahman was given permanent US resident status and began preaching in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

Former Manchester United footballer Dwight Yorke has been denied entry to the US because he visited Iran briefly in 2015 to play in a charity match. The striker says he was not even allowed to board his flight to Trinidad and Tobago, via Miami, by officials on Friday. The 45-year-old has been a pundit for various sports broadcasters since retiring from a playing career at a string of Premier League clubs. He was in the Qatari capital Doha at the time as he had been working for Al Jazeera-linked beIN Sports. He said what happened when be attempted to travel to his home country in the Caribbean made him "feel like a criminal". "I couldn't quite believe what was happening," Yorke told the Sun. "I have lost count of the number of times I have been to America, I love the country, yet I was being made to feel like a criminal. "I had bought my ticket and checked in and was about to get on the flight when I was stopped by two officials. ...

Despite the request to release the body of Kim Jong-Nam, the assassinated half-brother of North Korea's leader, the Malaysian government has revealed that they will not grant the request until his family have provided DNA samples. So far no family member or next of kin has come to identify or claim the body. We need a DNA sample of a family member to match the profile of the dead person. North Korea has submitted a request to claim the body, but before we release the body we have to identify who the body belongs to, Selangor state police chief Abdul Samah Mat told AFP. Late Kim Jong-Nam was killed on Monday morning in Malaysia after two women squirted some kind of liquid in his face, as he waited to board a flight in Kuala Lumpur to Macau, where he was living in exile. Two female assassins in connection to his death have so far been arrested. They were said to have been sent by the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un to carry out the attack on Kim Jong-Nam, who have always stood a...

The Federal Network Agency, an official watchdog that oversees telecommunication in Germany has urged parents to destroy and boycott a talking doll called 'Cayla' over hacking fear. The warning by Germany's Federal Network Agency came after Stefan Hessel, a student from the University of Saarland, raised legal concerns about the doll 'My Friend Cayla.' Researchers say hackers can use an insecure Bluetooth device embedded in the toy to listen and say offensive things to the child playing with it. According to a BBC report, Vivid Toy group, which distributes 'My Friend Cayla', had previously said that examples of hacking were isolated and carried out by specialists. However, it said the company would take the information on board as it was able to upgrade the app used with the doll. But experts have revealed that the problem has not been fixed. Mr. Hessel, an expert quoted by the German website Netzpolitik.org, said a Bluetooth-enabled device could connect to ...

You can't keep a good phone down: The iconic Nokia 3310 is coming back. Reliable phone leaker Evan Blass, writing in VentureBeat, reports that  a relaunch of the brick-like phone is planned for the end of the month. The Nokia 3310, first launched 17 years ago, has achieved cult status - it was extremely hardy, with a great battery and a now-iconic design. But it was phased out long ago; it's so old it doesn't even have a colour screen, and Nokia lost its market-leading position with the dawn of the iPhone and the smartphone era. HMD Global, the Finnish company that now makes Nokia phones, is reportedly preparing to launch a "modern version" of the 3310 ahead of Mobile World Congress, a mobile industry conference to be held in Barcelona, Spain, on February 26. It sounds as if the new 3310 will riff on the original, rather than being a perfect reproduction -  Blass describes it as an "homage"  - but beyond that we have gotten no details as to ...

Floyd Mayweather has denied  reports he has already agreed a bout  with Conor McGregor, but called on the UFC champion to "get the fight done". In a Twitter post,  Mayweather wrote:  "There haven't been any deals between myself and any other fighters. "If any changes are to come, I will be the first to let the world know." In reply, McGregor posted a photo of himself sitting on a throne with the caption: "I am in Las Vegas. Floyd has retired on my arrival." And later Mayweather added: "Listen Conor McGregor, if you really want to get this fight done... take care of your business with the UFC and have your people get in touch with my people." Mayweather, 39, retired from boxing for a second time in September 2015 after defending his WBC and WBA welterweight titles  with a 49th win from his 49th fight , a victory that equalled  Rocky Marciano's  career record of 49-0. The American, widely considered to be the best fighte...