Serena Williams faced older sister Venus at the Australian Open and won
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Serena Williams faced older sister Venus at the Australian Open and won.
That was 19 years after they first played a tour match. Serena and Venus have now played 28 times, with Serena winning 17.
Venus and Serena first met in a major 19 years ago - at the Australian Open in 1998.
With the win, Serena now has 23rd Grand Slam titles to her name while Venus has 7 grand slam Titles.
Question
As a parent if your Children are competing against each other , where would your support lie, with the younger or the older child?
If you were the father/mother of Serena and Venus, how would you have supported both girls in the last Australian final?
How would you have balanced the support so that each child wouldn't feel you tilted to the other sibling(during the game of course)?
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Rare turtle dies after being turned into a living wishing well
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Rare turtle dies after being turned into a living wishing well
Omsin, a 25-year-old female green sea turtle passed away in Thailand on Tuesday, paying the price after years of eating coins thrown at her by humans seeking good luck.
Omsin was found seriously ill at a conservation center in Thailand's Chonburi province, with a stomach full of coins. She was sent to Chulalongkorn University for emergency surgery, after her shell had broken because of the sheer amount of coins inside her. After a seven-hour operation, her rescuers were left stunned when they found there were 915 coins inside her, weighing five kilograms.
Ironically, Omsin means “Piggy Bank” in Thai. Green sea turtles are an endangered species, with 100,000 killed for meat every year in the Indo-Australian archipelago, according to WWF.
From March 13 she was taken to Veterinary Medical Aquatic Animal Research Center in Bangkok and placed in intensive care. However, she finally succumbed to years of human neglect, dying of blood poisoning eight days later.
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Romance never gets old: Students snap senior couples in 'wedding' shoot
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Romance never gets old: Students snap senior couples in 'wedding' shoot
They never expected such a romantic moment. After decades spent together, this couple thought there was nothing left in life that could surprise them. But they were happily proved wrong.
Last Friday, a group of college students in northwest China's Shaanxi Province offered to shoot wedding photos for this senior couple, and the scenes they captured soon created a buzz online.
Chang Benfu and his wife Zhao Xuefang are in their 80s. They have lived their lives in peace and quiet, surrounded by a big, happy family. Their only regret goes back to the beginning of their happiness, when, as Chang complained while at his grandson's wedding ceremony, “we had nothing at all and we just got married.”
Upon hearing that, student Li Huan and a group of his classmates came up with the idea of taking wedding photos for the couple, naming the project “Wedding photos for Grandpa and Grandma”.
Upon hearing that, student Li Huan and a group of his classmates came up with the idea of taking wedding photos for the couple, naming the project “Wedding photos for Grandpa and Grandma”.
The gentle morning sunlight saw the group of youngsters shoot a series of warm and moving pictures of the senior couple last Friday. The images took inspiration from the couple’s daily habits, only that they were dressed up in their wedding gladrags. “Grandpa was shy. We suggested that he kiss grandma on her forehead, but he wouldn’t do that.”
When they were young, weddings were simple affairs, with a certificate given to the couple the only evidence of their marriage. But their happiness has been solid and profound. They have built such a big home that 53 names appear under theirs on a very large family tree.
The wedding photography industry is big business in China today, and worth some 205 billion yuan (30 billion US dollars.) The entire wedding industry itself is worth 800 billion yuan (130 billion US dollars).
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Inspector General of Police Deploys Special Tactics Force to ZAKI-BIAM , BENUE STATE
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Worried by the killings of innocent people by invading unknown gunmen at Zaki Biam in Benue State on 20th March 2017 and destruction of properties worth Millions of Naira, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni, has deployed Police Special Tactical Force, comprising Police Mobile Force (PMF specially trained Anti Riot Policemen), Counter Terrorism Units, Conventional Policemen, Special Anti Robbery Squad, SIB, detachment of EOD, Police K9 (Sniffer Dogs Section), Police Air wing (Aerial Surveillance Helicopters) and other undercover operatives with their Headquarters in Zaki Biam, Ukum LGA, Benue State. The Police Special Tactical Force is led by the Commissioner of Police in charge of PMF, Force Headquarters, Abuja under the supervision of Deputy Inspector General of Police, Department of Operations.
2. To achieve success of the operations, the Police Special Tactical Force will be proactive, work on actionable intelligence already at the disposal of the Nigeria Police Force, and carry out massive deployment, and twenty four (24) hours surveillance and patrol, continuous raids of identified and other suspected hideouts of the assailants, with a view to arrest promptly the attackers and their sponsors to prevent further loss of lives and nip in the bud the senseless killings and other criminalities in the general area. The deployment of the Police Special Tactical Force personnel will cover all the communities, towns, villages, vulnerable points, Government and private infrastructures and facilities in the area. Police helicopters will embark on guided missions and aerial surveillance of the entire area, most especially difficult terrains and will operate in synergy with other Police formations on the ground.
3. The Joint Investigation Team attached to the Police Special Tactical Force is made up Personnel of Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, FSARS, SIP, Intelligence Response Team, Technical Intelligence Unit and Special Tactical Squad headed by an experienced Commissioner of Police under the supervision of Deputy Inspector General of Police (FCIID) are already in Zaki Biam and are making progress in the investigation into the killings of innocent people that occurred on Monday 20th March, 2017.
4. The Inspector General of Police hereby urges traditional rulers, religious leaders, public office holders, politicians, opinion leaders, parents and guardians to prevail on their subjects and the youths to exercise restraint and support the personnel of the Police Special Tactical Force in the discharge of their responsibilities to bring the perpetrators of this gruesome killings to justice.
5. The Nigeria Police Force is assuring the good people of Benue State of the renewed commitment of the Force to guarantee and sustain the protection of their lives and properties and hereby enjoin them to allow justice and peace to prevail and also cooperate with the personnel of the Police Special Tactical Force deployed in their localities.
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Sierra Leonean pastor finds 706-carat diamond worth over £50m, gives it to the government
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Sierra Leonean pastor finds 706-carat diamond worth over £50m, gives it to the government.
A Pastor found one of the world’s largest uncut diamonds, weighing 706 carats, which could be the 10th largest ever found. It was found in Sierra Leone’s eastern Kono region. The stone, is being stored in the country’s central bank, government sources said. A local chief from Kono handed the stone to President Ernest Koroma on behalf of Emmanuel Momoh who made the discovery.
The government plans to auction it. The stone is yet to be valued but could be worth millions of dollars. Rebels forced civilians in the east to mine the stones and bought weapons with the proceeds, leading to the term “blood diamonds”. “He (Koroma) underscored the importance of selling such a diamond here as it will clearly give the owners what is due them and benefit the country as a whole,” the statement said.
QUESTION : If the pastor who returned the diamond worth over £50m he found to the government, were your uncle how would you have reacted?
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