Popular transgender Amiyah Scott, who was rumoured to be joining the cast of The Real Housewives of Atlanta after she did tape scenes with Kandi Burruss for the show's event on Sunday, was born a man and started his transition in his teen years. He was a handsome male...so naturally transitioned into a really handsome woman. See more photos of Amiyah after the cut...


White House, as in - US govt official house - and transgender as in a man that transitioned into a woman. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan (pictured above) has become the first openly transgender woman hired by the White House. Her recruitment was announced yesterday. She will serve as a recruitment director in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. She also made history as the first  transgender woman to work in the Massachusetts State House.

A boutique refused to give a woman a cash refund for her wedding dress after her husband to be died unexpectedly. Val Conway's fiancee Graham Thomas tragically passed away after a sudden illness eight weeks before their big day - which was to be next Saturday.

Val says she bought her dress from the boutique and while she says the shop staff were "extremely sympathetic" it was made clear that it wasn't their policy to refund money.

A western Ohio man has been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for strangling his 3-year-old stepsister. Brian Scales, who turned 22 on Sunday, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder, aggravated murder and child endangering in the death of Tristan Carlton in February.

The toddler's mother told police she found Carlton unresponsive after coming home from shopping. Medics attempted to revive the girl but were unsuccessful.

Insas Scales told her son at sentencing that she still loved him but "it was the devil that took ahold of you" the day Carlton died.

Brian Scales said it was a mistake what happened, but his mother told him "you don't mistakenly murder somebody."

The oldest known living veteran in the US, Emma 'Big Mama' Didlake, passed away on Sunday Aug 16th at the age of 110, just a few weeks after meeting President Obama at the White House.
"It was a month ago today that we went to the White House. I think she felt she had accomplished everything and could take her rest.” Didlake's granddaughter Marilyn Horne said.

More than 11 million people have viewed this picture on social media, but it has certainly divided opinion.
This striking photograph of a mother and baby taken just three days after being born by caesarean section has taken social media by storm.
Helen Aller, 29, took the black and white image of the woman and her newborn lying next to her wound.

The new mother, who does not wish to be identified, was terrified of having a C-section but wanted the picture to be taken as the operation had saved her and her baby.

The image touched a nerve around the world after Helen shared it online, and it has been seen 11.5 million times and liked by nearly 200,000 people.

This is a story about courage and loving yourself no matter what. We should all be thankful for who we are at all times. A teenage girl who has been verbally abused for years by other children has revealed how she has come to love the hundreds of birthmarks covering her face and body.
Ciera Swaringen, 19, of Rockwell, North Carolina, was diagnosed with Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevus after being born with the oversized mole-like marks.
They cover more than two-thirds of her body, with the largest one stretching from her navel to her lower thighs. 
Since she was a small child, she has had to endure cruel taunts from other children - and adults - but she has developed a positive attitude towards her rare skin condition, which affects around one in every 500,000 people.


A woman in the U.K. sent a text to her friend to make a custom birthday cake for her daughter's 21st birthday, but unfortunately, didn't catch an autocorrect fail that ultimately altered the cake in a huge but kinda hilarious way.
The text read: "Sorry Moira was out and my phone was out of charge so just saw this,"
"Forgot about it so stressed!! Plain white with white balls dotted with a grey ribbon and bow (I can buy them if you want save time). Would you be able to put a wee blind girl on top if not its fine x."

Paparazzi zoomed into her hands as she steped out with her boyfriend over the weekend and they said they spotted needle marks - usually seen in the hands of heroine addicts. Doesn't mean hers is same reason though. See another pic after the cut...

30 year old Richard Effiok, confessed to stabbing his girlfriend after three rounds of sex  on Monday.
Effiok, who identified his deceased girlfriend as  23 year old Bassey Udoh, said the incident happened on May 22, 2015, at Nelson Mandela Street in Calabar, Cross River State.
The suspect made the confession at the headquarters of the state police command on Diamond Hill Road, when he was paraded along with other suspected criminals by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Henry Fadairo.
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Effiok, who hails from the Akpabuyo Local Government Area of the state, said, 
 “The problem started when I had three rounds of sex with the lady and gave her N1,000 as transport fare back home, but she demanded N5,000.Bassey is my lover.
We have been dating for two years. On the day of her death, we had three rounds of sex. I can’t really say if I was tempted by the devil to kill her.When she refused to collect the N1,000 that I gave her, we started quarrelling and it led to a fight. I brought out a sharp kitchen knife and stabbed her.After stabbing her, she screamed and neighbours broke into my room. They saw her on the ground in a pool of blood. She later died,” he said.
He said his neighbours were the ones who called the police to arrest him.
“I regret my actions, I wish I did not kill her,” he said.

True to its threat few weeks ago, the West African Examination Council has withheld the 2015 WAEC Senior School Certificate Examination results of students of public schools in 13 states following their state government's failure to pay the fees meant for their registration.

WAEC had on July 27 threatened to withhold the results of public students from 19 states following the failure of their state governments to pay their WAEC registration fee.

The residents of Kinjia village in the Jharkhand state had blamed 5 women for failing crops, bringing illness to the village and even for the recent death of a child through their witchcraft.

At around midnight on Friday August 7th, the women, aged between 45 and 50 were dragged from their homes and attacked with sticks and iron rods.

During his performance at Star Music Trek in Sapele, Delta state over the weekend, an unidentified lady grabbed 2face from behind, pulled him close, stripped off her top and attempted to take his clothes off. Annie Idibia who was present to cheer her husband's performance saw it all. It took a while before the security could pull her away from 2face. See photos from the encounter after the cut

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