WHO confirms Zika virus spread in Africa

The Regional Director for Africa, World Health Organisation, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, has confirmed the spread of the Zika virus on the continent.

The WHO in a statement on Sunday said this was the first time, scientists could confirm the circulation of the  Asian strain of the virus in Cape Verde, in the north west coast of Africa.

There have been around 1,300 confirmed cases of microcephaly – babies born with small brains – in Brazil, with thousands more under investigation.Zika virus disease is caused by a virus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. It has been linked to neurological disorders including babies being born with small brains.

CURE FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: Drinking cherry juice is 'as good as medication', study claims.

Drinking cherry juice is as good as taking drugs at reducing blood pressure, researchers have found.

People who drank 60ml of cherry concentrate, diluted with water, saw their blood pressure drop by 7 per cent within three hours.

This was enough to slash the risk of a stroke by 38 per cent or heart disease by 23 per cent.

Patients who take blood pressure medication see a similar impact, scientists at Northumbria University said.

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Scientists believe cherry juice has such a strong impact on blood pressure because it is rich in phenolic acids – a type of naturally-occuring antioxidant

High blood pressure affects some five million people in England and, if left untreated, increases risk of heart attack, heart failure, kidney disease, stroke and dementia.

10 foods YOU should be eating to boost your fertility

We will have been exposed to more hormone disrupting chemicals, more free radicals to damage egg and sperm quality and of course much more stress which can have wide ranging negative effects on our bodies.

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Studies are now beginning to show how the health of both the sperm and the egg before they even meet can affect the outcome of the pregnancy and the health of the baby, child and even through to adulthood. 

How many times a week should you REALLY be having sex?

Daily Mail: How much sex makes people happiest? Is there a magic number of times per week the average couple should aim for to keep both partners happy in bed and out?

Traditionally, therapists say sex counts for about a quarter of the total happiness of a relationship.

But new studies reveal all sorts of interesting – and contradictory - evidence on how much sex contributes to long-term relationship satisfaction. Here's the latest on who's happiest doing what.

COUPLES WHO HAVE SEX EVERY DAY 

If you’re under 25 or in the first throes of your relationship, you’ll put a mental tick beside this one and go back to finding out the latest on Kim and Kanye.

But if you’re a long-term couple or older, the idea of daily sex will probably seem, well, unlikely.

A few years ago, books like 365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy grabbed the headlines, chronicling what happened when a long-term couple agreed to have sex every single day, (pretty much) no excuses allowed.

SAD: See 29-yr-old mother who murdered her daughter after birth.

Ginaite Suminaite smiles and leans back as she poses on a wooden bench

Source: See the picture of the mother who is accused of murdering her newborn baby girl at a West Sussex home.

In the image, Ginaite Suminaite smiles and leans back as she poses on a wooden bench, dressed in a crop top and a bright blue cardigan.

Suminaite, 29, will appear at Crawley Magistrates' Court tomorrow, charged with murdering her baby daughter shortly after her birth.

She was arrested after an ambulance was called to a house on Aldwick Road, Bognor Regis, at 8.37am on Wednesday.

I do NOT need Viagra' to keep ME going in the bedroom

Brian Blessed says he's enjoying life despite suffering a health scare

Plain speaking Yorkshire actor Brian Blessed reckons he doesn’t need Viagra to keep him going in the bedroom despite being 79 and being fitted with a pacemaker.

The Shakespearian performer and one of Britain’s best loved actors said: “All I’ll say about sex is I don’t need that bloody blue pill.”

He has been married to actress Hildegard Neil since 1978 and says kissing her was the nest kiss of his life.

Britain’s worst town for drunken women revealed as police say they're 'as bad as blokes'

A UK police officer said:  “Only a few years ago women in a group might have acted as a ­calming influence on a party out for the night.

“Now in some towns a group of girls on a serious drinking session can be worse than the men. They can get into all sorts of trouble and end up injuring themselves, losing or damaging their own property – or worse.

A women reveller slumps to the pavement

“A lot of the problem is down to cheap drink, with women often getting drunk from alcohol they consume at home
before they even hit the town centre.

“People laugh at the pictures of half-naked women lying across pavements paralytic from booze. But it isn’t funny and can end up having really serious consequences for the person concerned.”

Surprised Indian mother gives birth to FIVE daughters through natural delivery in just over 30 MINUTES after thinking she was pregnant with just one child.

A mother who went into hospital expecting to give birth to one baby was more than a little surprised just over half an hour later when she had five daughters.

When Manita Singh was rushed into hospital at just 26 weeks pregnant after she began to complain of labour pains, she feared the worse.

The 25-year-old had lost her first son shortly after he was born two years earlier, and she now faced the prospect of losing this baby as well.

These five little girls, each weighing 1.5kg, were born within half an hour of each other in eastern India

At 11am, the doctors at the local government hospital in Ambikapur, in Chhattisgarh in eastern India, delivered the first little girl naturally at 11am - swiftly followed by her four sisters.

Manita's delighted husband Manish said: 'I am extremely grateful to God for blessing us with not one but five children.

More Shocking sexual abuses by aid workers in Africa......

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A 21-year-old United States citizen, Matthew Lane Durham, was brought to justice on Monday.

On that day, a court sentenced him to 40 years in prison for sexually assaulting orphaned children while on a missionary trip in Kenya in 2014.

Durham, who is from Oklahoma, was a volunteer with the Upendo Children’s Home in Nairobi between April and June 2014.

US missionary jailed 40 years for raping Kenyan kids

A former missionary convicted of sexually abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya was sentenced on Monday to 40 years in a US prison.

Matthew Lane Durham, with some of the kids he probably sexually assaulted

Matthew Lane Durham, 21, had faced up to 30 years on each of four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places. He was ordered to pay restitution of $15 863.

Durham asked the court for mercy. “All I wanted was to follow God’s plan for me,” he told the judge.

Mother of two delivered of quintuplets in Ibadan

A 28-year old woman, Sakirat Rasaq, was delivered of five babies (three boys and two girls) at the University College Hospital, Ibadan on Monday.

The quintuplets were born at hospital’s special-care baby unit.

Father of the babies, Alfa Yusuf Ewenje, 32, said he was a full-time Islamic cleric, adding that his wife was referred to the UCH from Adeoyo State Hospital, Ibadan.

He said, “We realised that Allah was going to bless us with something special when my wife had a scan after three months of the pregnancy.

Zika virus fears grow as 5,000 pregnant women confirmed as having contracted condition

More than 5,000 pregnant women have been infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Colombia, it has been revealed.

The mass confirmation has sent shock waves through Colombia as mothers-to-be fear the worst for their unborn babies.

Health officials in the Latin American country say there were 31,555 cases of the mosquito-borne virus, including 5,013 pregnant women - a massive 57 per cent jump in just two weeks.

Man with the World's Longest Penis weighs it on scales to prove it's real(Photos)

The man who claims he has the world's largest penis has weighed his manhood to prove it's real.

Super-endowed Roberto Esquivel Cabrera claims he has an 18.9-inch penis - and has even used a pair of weighing scales to prove it.In footage obtained by TMZ, the 52-year-old placed his privates into a sock to check just how hefty it is - and it weighed in at a staggering 2.2 pounds.

Kris Jenner lips swollen, she cancels TV appearance.

Kris Jenner's lips were swollen,causing her to cancel an appearance on planned segment on Bachelors In Paradise .The swelling happened shortly after she returned from the Caribbean isle of St Barts.Sh called in to the show and said

'I don't know what happened. I feel like I got a bite on my face and like half of my face blew up,'Kris said she tried everything to get her face back to normal.'They [her doctor] gave me everything they could possibly give me in 12 hours,' 'It went down a little bit, but not quite enough. I'm a little too vain, I think, to go on live TV with a huge lip.'

Police arrest 34 villagers caught exhuming contraband frozen chicken worth over NGN35million

34 persons from neighbouring villages within the Kaduna metropolis were at the weekend arrested by the police for exhuming over 6000 cartons of contraband frozen chicken and other related poultry products worth over N35 million. 

According to the police, the arrested persons who came from Mando and Buruku villages exhumed the chicken barely 48 hours after Nigeria Customs, Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone B had destroyed, burnt and buried the contraband poultry products.

Charly Boy visits Majek Fashek at his rehab center

Charly Boy visited Majek Fashek at the Abuja rehab center where the reggae icon is being treated for drug and alcohol addiction. More photos after the cut...

Meet Britain's most prolific sperm donor, the man who's fathered TEN children for strangers in FOUR months.

Kenzie Kilpatrick's eighth child was born last week. He is thrilled, showing a picture on his phone of the girl - as yet unnamed - who arrived on Tuesday, July 21, at 10.44am, weighing 6lb 15oz.

He reads out a message from the mother, which says: 'I'm so happy to tell you that our little miracle baby girl is here. All thanks to you. She is beautiful.'

The 26-year-old looks as proud as any new dad, but Kenzie will play no further part in this child's life.

Kenzie Kilpatrick, 26, holds one of his children, named Tylan. He was born last month to lesbian couple Charlene Allen, 32, and her partner Gemma Berry, 25, who describes Kenzie as 'sensible, caring, responsible'

Contraceptive implants and injections for girls under 16 has nearly TRIPLED in the past decade

In the UK the use of contraceptive implants and injections among under-age girls has nearly tripled in the past decade, official figures show.

Some 8,400 teenagers aged 15 or under received the long-acting treatments on the NHS last year - up from just 3,100 in 2004/05.

In total, 58,700 under-16s were given either an implant or contraceptive jab in English sexual health clinics over the last ten years, at rates that have steadily risen throughout the period.

Sex is illegal until the age of 16 - but contraceptive treatment is not, and it can be given without parental consent.

Woman wakes up at foreign dentist to discover her teeth have been REMOVED while she was unconscious

The retired Army Private had an issue with one of her teeth that needed fixing when she was stationed in Germany, and so she did what everyone else would do and visited the dentist but it went a bit wrong

Alison Divers suffered a trip to the dentist that is truly the thing of nightmares.

The retired Army Private had to have an emergency dental operation abroad while she was stationed in Germany, and so she did what everyone else would do and visited the dentist.

After she had come to from the treatment the then 25-year-old discovered all her top teeth had been removed, and left hanging in a bag above her head.

Meet the who fathered 10 children for strangers, by gay Facebook sperm donor

Mr. Kilpatrick is the biological father of three-week-old Tylan, it’s unlikely he will be holding him this close again.

For Mr Kilpatrick, who is gay, donated his sperm to a lesbian couple so they could have this baby. The 26-year-old has fathered ten children by nine women in the past 13 months, giving his sperm free of charge to women he met through Facebook.

Mr Kilpatrick said he began donating sperm, mostly to lesbian couples, because he wanted to do something to help others.