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(FRANKS..) Nigeria has protested to South Africa about a "merciless attack" by police on one of its nationals in Cape Town, its foreign ministry has said. An amateur video on social media sites purportedly shows the man being stripped, assaulted and handcuffed by policemen and security guards. Nigeria had sent a "strongly worded" note to Pretoria, demanding justice for the man, the ministry said. Two South African police officers have been arrested. Rights groups have often accused South African police officers of brutality, incompetence and corruption. "The Nigerian High Commission will continue to monitor the case with keen interest until justice is achieved," the ministry said in a statement. South Africa's police watchdog, the Independent Police Directorate, has said the officers would be charged with assault. About 17,000 registered Nigerians live in South Africa, but corres...

(FRANKS..) Devotees of a dead guru in India have told the BBC they put his body in a freezer to preserve him as they believe he will return to life to lead them. Ashutosh Maharaj was declared dead by authorities in Punjab on 29 January after a suspected heart attack. But, confident that he was merely in a state of deep meditation, his followers froze his corpse. He led the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan (Divine Light Awakening Mission) which claims more than 30 million followers. "He is not dead. Medical science does not understand things like yogic science. We will wait and watch. We are confident that he will come back," his spokesman Swami Vishalanand told the BBC. He said that although doctors had declared Maharaj "clinically dead", he was actually alive and in a state of samadhi, which is the highest plane of meditation. The guru is thought to have been in his seventies. 'Spiritual experience...

(FRANKS..) A German court has sentenced Uli Hoeness, president of European football champions Bayern Munich, to three years and six months in jail for tax evasion. He admitted defrauding German tax authorities of millions of euros. The former World Cup-winning Germany striker, 62, had kept the funds in a secret Swiss bank account. His lawyer had argued he should escape punishment because he gave himself up. But judges ruled his confession fell short of full disclosure. The court in the southern city of Munich found Hoeness guilty of "seven serious counts of tax evasion". He was initially charged with evading 3.5m euros (£2.9m; $4.9m) in taxes but he then admitted in court to dodging another 15m euros. It finally emerged in court that he owed a total of 27.2m euros. Hoeness, who helped Germany win the 1972 European Championship and then the World Cup two years later, came clean about his secret bank account last y...

We seized Enugu Govt House for 4 hours, says Onwuka, BZM leader ENUGU — Leader of the pro-Biafra group, Biafra Zionist Movement, BZM, Barrister Benjamin Onwuka, has claimed responsibility for last Saturday’s invasion of Enugu State Government House. According to him,  members of the group took control of Enugu State seat of power for about four hours after they successfully hoisted the flag of the Republic of Biafra and some banners at the main gate. He briefed some newsmen at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Press Centre, Enugu,   yesterday, where he claimed responsibility for the invasion, which he said was primarily to reclaim the old headquarters of the former Biafra Republic. Onwuka dismissed speculations that the group was sponsored by politicians in Enugu State, explaining that the major target of the BZM members was to hoist the Biafran flag as a symbol of rebirth of the defunct Biafra Republic. He said members of the group, who w...

(FRANKS..) The world's oldest female bodybuilder wakes up every day at 02:30 to fit in a 10 mile (16km) run before hitting the gym. But 75-year-old Ernestine Shepherd insists that "age is nothing but a number". "Miss Ernie", as she is known in the world of competitive bodybuilding, began training at the tender age of 71. She says her true calling in life, however, is helping others to follow a more healthy lifestyle. The BBC caught up with her at an exercise class at her church in the US city of Baltimore, Maryland, to find out why she started bodybuilding.

(FRANKS..) Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) is causing increasing concern and a rising number of cases. Some 1,241 patients were affected within the Central Manchester University Hospitals trust area from 2009 to 2013, the figures show. Despite infection control, the numbers have increased year on year. The figures, revealed in a Freedom of Information request by the BBC, found 62 patients so far have suffered blood poisoning - with 14 confirmed deaths within 30 days of infection - at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Two further deaths have occurred in the current year, the hospital trust confirmed. KPC, which causes urinary tract infections and pneumonia in sick patients, is resistant to carbapenems, the last major group of antibiotics to work against multidrug-resistant bacteria. The trust said the chemical, an enzyme, that KPC uses to render antibiotics ineffective had now ent...

(FRANKS..)   22 March 2012 Last updated at 13:53 GMT Help Hayley Okines is 14-years-old, but a rare genetic condition called progeria means she ages eight times faster than the average person. In medical terms her body is that of a 100-year-old woman. But BBC Breakfast heard that Hayley faces her condition with immense courage, and that she, along with her mum, has documented her unusual life in a book.