Woman calls police on 9-year old boy for assault.

It just keeps getting worse by the day. Exactly what is it with some conceited and ignorant white people calling the police on black folks for no apparent and stupid reasons? Seriously though, looking at how fatal some of these incidents have ended, it is really high time white people who make these unsubstantiated calls are held accountable and made to face the full rigours of the law.

Optical illusion photo of a woman goes viral after leaving people BAFFLED over which part of her body it is showing.

An optical illusion of a woman has flummoxed the internet with many people being unable to work out what part of her body is photographed. The bizarre image was first posted by @LilMaarty on Twitter, who noticed there was something off about a picture of a woman.

Six astounding girls from Africa who are taking the world by storm

Since 2012, October 11 has been marked as the International Day of the Girl Child. The day is to highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face while promoting girls’ empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights.

This year’s theme: With Her: A Skilled GirlForce, is aimed at diverting the attention of partners and stakeholders to the most pressing needs of girls. In spite of the challenges that many girls face on the continent, these young geniuses have broken the status quo and achieved the unthinkable. Here are six African girls out of the million who are already changing the world. Natalie Wambui

At the age of 10, Natalie Wambui from Kenya is already an author, poet, and inspirational speaker. After starting her journey as a book author while in her hospital bed around the age of five, Wambui has made it to the list of a few Kenyan authors whose books are trading on Amazon. She recently spoke on how her doctor exposed her to authorship.“When in the hospital, my doctor used to encouraged me to keep short journals. Even after leaving the hospital, my writing talent never left me. Something just told me that I should just continue writing.”Wambui has so far authored three books: Natalie’s Poems, Kenya My Country, My Story, and recently Extraordinary Kenyans doing Extraordinary Things and currently working on the fourth one. Wambui, who hopes to grow into a reputable author said her writings are meant to give hope to many who are facing challenges in the pursuit of their dreams. Her poems are mainly about people changing the narrative in Kenya and have been inspired by her frustrations about corruption and other social ills in her country.

DJ Switch

People from Africa and the rest of the world are obsessed with 10-year-old Erica Tandoh otherwise known as DJ Switch, who shot to fame after winning a TV talent contest in Ghana for kids in 2017.The following year, she became the youngest ever winner at Ghana’s annual DJ awards after having started DJing only a year ago. In a recent interview with the BBC, DJ Switch said: “Being a young DJ is not that difficult.“When you are being taught in school you pick everything fast. So when you are being taught to DJ you also pick it up fast.”In school, the young genius plays the trumpet and drums, practices dance and is learning the piano. DJ Switch, who also loves making music said she wants to be a gynaecologist when she grows up because she “wants to help women.”The youngest talented disk jockey recently wowed the audience in New York for the 2018 Goalkeepers event, including the French president, Emmanuel Macron. Photos and videos of the two chatting at the event trended on social media.

Emmanuella Samuel

The young Nigerian comedienne rose to fame some three years ago after her Youtube skits went viral. In February, she landed a role in a Disney Hollywood movie, with the news being received with joy by fans and the media from Nigeria and the West African region. The 7-year-old girl was discovered and managed by her uncle Mark Angel and her popularity has crossed Nigeria’s borders and the continent as she has performed at comedy events in West and East Africa while her Youtube skits and page have gained more than a million views and subscribers respectively.She is reported to be the first African to have one million subscribers on her YouTube comedy channel. Emmanuella has won several awards including the 2016 Best New Comedienne and Princess of Comedy awards at the Afro-Australia Music and Movie Awards in Australia.

Save A Soul

The team of five Nigerian junior secondary school girls in August made their country and Africa proud by winning gold at the junior level of the Technovation World Pitch Summit held at Silicon Valley in California, U.S.A.The girls presented an app they built that identified fake pharmaceutical drugs in Nigeria. Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Nwabuaku Ossai, Adaeze Onuigbo and Vivian Okoye from the Anambra State qualified for the finals with their app, FD-Detector (Fake Drug Detector) which leverages a drug’s barcode to verify its authenticity and expiration date.They successfully implemented their business plan using the app by partnering with NAFDAC (National Agency for Food & Drug Administration and Control), an agency responsible for regulating drugs in Nigeria, to market the app and help save lives. Save A Soul were the only African finalists in the junior category of 6 teams and won a scholarship of $12,000. The win is expected to go a long way to promote the app which will help reduce the infiltration of the pharmaceutical market with fake drugs.

Tanya Muzinda

Most people at the young age of six were eager to learn how to ride that new bike their parents bought for them.But Tanya Muzinda was already handling a motorbike on her own and had begun tackling a male-dominated sport: motocross. At just 13, she is already an accomplished motocross rider and the first ever female motocross champion in Zimbabwe. She started learning how to ride a go-kart. With the go-kart, she usually visited a motorsport park in Harare where she found her love for motocross. When she was five, she participated in her first motocross competition, in which she came second and at the age of nine, she got a motorbike for her sport, the Austrian KTM after getting appointed as a European Union’s ambassador for food security in rural areas.She later met motocross legend, Stefy Bau in 2013, who began training and managing her. Through Bau, Muzinda toured Europe in 2016 where she met world champion, Tony Cairoli. She participated in the Italian Motocross Championship, where she competed against top junior and senior female riders from Europe. She had before in 2015 been awarded Junior Sportswoman and Junior Sportsperson of the Year at Zimbabwe’s National Sports Awards. In that same year, Muzinda was made Sportswoman of the Year by Zimbabwe International Women’s Awards in Birmingham, England.

Tomisin Ogunnubi

The Nigerian girl was only 12 when she saw a problem she needed to solve. In her community, children were increasingly getting lost. With this growing desire to help these children find their way home, Tomisin started working on an app under the guidance of an Information and Communications Technology partnership, between her school, Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls, and New Horizons Computer Learning Center. Tomisin acquired the necessary skills to develop the app, known as My Locator. The Android mobile tracking app has “a current location” setting which helps the child know where they are and the neighbouring streets around themThe app also allows children to save a location, for instance, their house or school and will direct them to the saved location from wherever they are. It also features an ‘alert’ button, which when pressed will alert the Lagos State Emergency Services. The app will call the services as well as show the child’s location so that they can get the help they need. Scores of parents have already downloaded the app on their Android phones and have since recommended it to others.

Kimberly Anyadike became the youngest female pilot to fly solo across U.S at 15.

The new generation of black people all over the world is pushing the limits, going against the odds and most importantly proving that age is just a number. Through their actions and successes, they are sending a message to the world that the colour of their skin does bound them even through all the racism and issues that the Black community is facing and Kimberly Anyadike is a proof of such a testimony.

Mum punched and disabled child verbally abused in McDonald's by two men.

Two men have been arrested after a mother was punched and her disabled child verbally abused in a city centre. The men, aged 27 and 28, are from Stockport and have been arrested on suspicion of assault and committing a hate-motivated public order offence, Greater Manchester Police said.

Teacher, 22, who arranged marriage with 13-year-old girl banned from the classroom for life .

A physics teacher has been banned from the classroom for life after flying to Bangladesh to marry a 13-year-old girl when he was 22 and sleeping with her. Joshim Nur, now 34, met her for the first time three days before their 2006 arranged marriage during his summer holidays after watching a video of her made by her father. The victim, named only as Child A, said she had sex with her husband shortly after their wedding night and after settling in the UK she was taken to a family planning clinic and put on the contraceptive pill.

A woman with the strength of the sea Kerry Gaeltacht says goodbye to Emma Mhic Mhathúna.

THE WEST KERRY Gaeltacht is an area so delicately beautiful that driving through it in a D-reg car seems like an invasion.

Schoolboy and family granted permission to stay in Ireland.

A 14-year old schoolboy has been granted leave to remain in Ireland with his mother and older brother. Nonso Muojeke attends Tullamore College, and teachers and students from the school had campaigned for him to remain here after he received a deportation order. The Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of the Department of Justice and Equality has today confirmed that the family have been granted permission to remain in the State.

Morrisons launches hottest curry made from the hottest chillies on earth.

Supermarket chain Morrisons has launched its hottest curry ever with an unprecedented eight chilli rating two more than its Volcanic Vindaloo. Created after complaints that the vindaloo was not hot enough, the Flaming Fiery Phaal is made with two of the hottest chillis on earth, the Scorpion and Naga.

Price of Peppa Pig products slashed to little as £8 in Very's toy sale.

As much as we love our dearest offspring, buying them toys when they keep asking us for the most coveted brands can get seriously pricey. So it's good news for parents looking to catch a discount, Very have decided to massively slash the price of some of their biggest brand names from the toy world.