The Obama family returning home from vacation. Photo: Getty Images
Sasha and Malia Obama might live in a big white house, be trailed by secret service, and have a parent who knows the nuclear codes, but they’re still just normal teenagers. On a recent summer escape from Washington, DC, the First Family vacationed in Martha’s Vineyard, where they went on family bike rides, played golf, and most likely went to the beach. 
On Sunday, the FFOTUS returned to the country’s capital, still sporting their best island clothes. Malia, 17, who interned at HBO this summer and was spotted on the set of Girls, wore a chambray babydoll dress. She paired the easy breezy piece with cognac leather sandals. Her sister, Sasha, on the other hand, rocked a frock in a similar light blue shade with a large white flower pattern. The 14-year-old carried a white leather shopper, a black backpack, and wore leather lace-up sandals. 
Malia, Sasha, and Michelle Obama in Italy. Photo: Getty Images
If the sisters’ enviable outfits don’t serve as enough proof that they’re normal kids (only with odd perks, privileges, and restrictions), perhaps the fact that they share clothes will. The Tory Burch Embroidered Chambray Swim Cover Up Dress (#325) Sasha wore? Her sister Malia did so first. On a six-day cultural trip in June to England and Italy, the rising high school senior was spotted in Venice wearing the exact same thing. Did they fight about it? Probably. Because that’s what all sisters do.

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Girl Meets World is more than just a forerunner of the recent trend of rebooting or sequelizing '90s TV -- it's also, apparently, a training ground for smart young actress Rowan Blanchard, who portrays the titular girl (daughter of Cory Matthews, the original boy who met the world). Asked about the term "white feminism" (typically used to refer to conceptions of "feminism" that ignore or gloss over people of color, and especially women of color) on Instagram, Blanchard wrote basically a whole essay answering the question in a series of posts.




Not only does Blanchard make really smart points about how blinkered people's perspectives can be in discussing complicated systems of oppression, she also raises the specter of misogynoir (misogyny specifically directed against black women), an oft-ignored problem, given how much attention is devoted to both "white feminism" and anti-racism that tends to focus on black men. Her case in point? Amandla Stenberg, of course.


The level of poise and thoughtfulness here is pretty incredible for any 13-year-old -- it's not surprising that several other actresses have already called attention to Blanchard's words. (In addition to the essay itself, BuzzFeed has a few celebrity reactions.) If this is the kind of girl who's going to be meeting the world going forward, maybe we're not in such a bad position after all.

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A party ain't nothing without a party thrower. After we rounded up ten of our favorite legendary club owners and promoters, we realized there were even more impresarios we left off the list and who should be recognized for their inimitable ability to fling proverbial confetti.
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DON HILL
The easygoing entrepreneur (full name Donald Mulvihill) managed Kenny's Castaways and the Bitter End, went on to run the Cat Club, and then scored his biggest coup with Don Hill's, which he opened in 1993 as an atmospheric dive on Greenwich and Spring Streets. The place played host to all sorts of people on the edge, especially at its regular rock-the-house events like Squeezebox and BeavHer. Sitting at his own club, watching the live bands, Don (who, sadly enough, passed in 2011) was the picture of serenity.

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HAYNE SUTHON
The New Orleans-born Hayne was a zany lady who became sort of an Auntie Mame for the disenfranchised. She turned the former Club Baths into Cave Canem, where we re-lived ancient Rome; she transformed an adjacent space into La Nouvelle Justine, the S&M restaurant where the food was surprisingly not punishing; and in 1993, she birthed Lucky Cheng's, where straight people thrilled to dinners with drag queens. Cheng's eventually moved to Times Square, and then Hayne moved to the afterlife, where she's no doubt throwing more parties.

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CHI CHI VALENTI, JOHNNY DYNELL, RICHARD MOVE, KITTY BOOTS, HATTIE HATHAWAY, PAUL ALEXANDER
The techno-erotic downtown arts center known as Jackie 60 started in 1990 and eventually grew to its own club, Mother, which gave a roof to the creatively homeless. The above crew -- a rich batch of eccentrics and intellectuals -- were the ones who made it rip, filling the scene with larky lingo, ripe references, and daring dress codes. They even allowed in the occasional Gwen. By the way, Jackie still lives on with events like the Night of 1000 Stevies.

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FRANK ROCCIO
An earthy good-time guy, Frank was a co-owner of the Peppermint Lounge and then Irving Plaza before opening the World, the East Village playpen filled with sexuality, music, and an air of possibility. Home of Dean Johnson's Rock and Roll Fag Bar and many other memorable events, the World feels in retrospect like some miraculous mirage.

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ARTHUR WEINSTEIN
The likable Arthur owned Hurrah, an innovative dance club which catered to New Wave music and its prancey-posey practitioners, from 1976 to 1980. In the '80s, he was even more major, with involvement in the World and after-hours haunts like the Jefferson and the Continental. Back when clubbies were out all night, indulging in a lifestyle of pure fun and expression, Arthur was their merry ringleader.

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CARMEN D'ALESSIO
The Peruvian promoter would wear a red gown and a black sparkly top hat and jewels and hold court at the ultimate '70s disco, Studio 54. She says she created it. Well, she definitely helped.

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STEVE MASS
A defiant answer to the glitz of Studio 54, the Mudd Club was a wonderfully atmospheric hovel on White Street, full of rockers, artists, indie filmmakers, celebrities, and wannabes, with a sprinkling of bridge and tunnel folk who read about it in People. Steve -- who started the club on a budget of $15,000 -- was the dry, quietly outspoken guy who lurked in the shadows and made it all happen.

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BROOKE WEBSTER
Brooke owned Meow Mix, the long running East Village lesbian bar (which closed in 2005) and she threw Fragglerock, a frisky monthly party at Acme Underground. She went on to open another lady place called Cattyshack in Park Slope. She's a lesbo-legend.

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ERICH CONRAD, EDWIGE, BILLY BEYOND
Beige -- the gay Tuesday night indoor/outdoor get together at B Bar -- ran from 1994 to 2011, filling the place with cruising, debauchery, and chit chat almost as long as an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. In the early days, the above three were the impresarios, comprising a sort of downtown Mod Quad. Erich is the elevated presence who told me his main goal growing up in Cleveland was "to get out"; Edwige is a sultry chanteuse with le gift of gab; and DJ Billy also opened a Beige in L.A., where they didn't necessarily get it. Conrad -- who currently co-promotes prettyugly with PAPER's Drew Elliott and Zigzag -- told me, "The actual inspiration for Beige was when I was in Africa for a month being chased by baboons on a mountain and all I had was a Claudine Longet tape." I knew that!

CHIP DUCKETT
In the late '80s and '90s, Chip amused us at clubs like Mars (where he did the gay-licious Mars Needs Men) and Quick! He masterminded my zebra-striped birthday party at El Morocco, featuring scandal star of the moment Sukhreet Gabel; handled the long running 1984 at the Pyramid; did my Joan Rivers/Michael Urie-hosted bash at 230-Fifth; and continues with Spin Cycle PR, which boasts the Laurie Beechman Theatre among its clients. As others come and go, Chip keeps on rocking.
The camp of the Super Eagles has been presented with soothing news as one of the foreign based players for next month’s AFCON qualifier in Tanzania will be making a return after a short spell on the sidelines.
According to a report on The Nation, Emmanuel Emenike will be back to action for Al Ain against Al Jazirah in a UAE league match today, August 28.
This is good news for Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh as he gave Emenike, an invite for the Super Eagles showdown against Tanzania in Dar es Salaam.
Emenike in training
 
Al Ain coach Zlako Dalic said Emenike, who had a muscle pain which kept him out of the club’s league opener, will see action on Friday.
Dalic said: “We will play Emenike in Friday’s game for 45 minutes because he did not participate in the team’s training for some days thus he has not attained the required level of readiness that will enable him play a full game, and after the game, he will be released to join his national team.”
Sunday Oliseh invited
The issue of wedding gowns is one of ultimate importance to every woman getting married. You want to look you best and outshine every other woman at your wedding.
Below are tips to choosing the perfect dress:
Do your research. Before you begin to look around, research gowns. You should always have a bit of knowledge about dresses before you even set foot into a bridal shop.
Start your search as early as possible. The more time you have to look for your dress, the less stressed for time that you will be and you will be able to try as many as possible.
Decide on a silhouette. Wedding dresses are made in several different silhouettes. Before considering anything else, know which type of gown will flatter your figure the best. Look at photos of each type.
Do not buy a dress in the hope that you will lose weight or add weight. That will only stress you and ruin the fun of preparing for your wedding day. Buy a perfect dress that suits your body shape.
Decide on a budget. When deciding on your budget, you don’t need to set a very specific price. Just make it a general range, such as N100, 000 – 200,000. You can always break this rule later if you’re able to and really want to, but it helps to have a general range.

About 200 migrants mainly Africans bound for Italy are feared dead, after their boat sank off the Libyan coast on Thursday, August 27.
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The Libyan coast guard is not fully equipped and so could not handle the situation to the best . Photo: AFP
Security officials in the western town of Zuwara, where the overcrowded boat had set off, said at least 400 people were on board. It is suspected that many were trapped in the hold when it capsized.
According to officials, the Libyan coast guard rescued around 201, by late evening of which 147 were brought to a detention facility for illegal migrants in Sabratha, west of Tripoli.
 
The Guardian UK reports that the migrants on board had been from sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan, Syria, Morocco and Bangladesh.
The boat accident could not be immediately confirmed by the Italian coast guard, which has been coordinating rescue operations with the European Union off the Libyan coast.
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Properties belonging to migrants floating on the ocean, as rescue operations continue. Photo: AFP
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Few bodies were washed ashore, while many others were seen floating on the water.
GRAPHIC CONTENT Rescue workers pull the bodies of illegal immigrants onto shore of al-Qarbole, some 60 kilometres east of Tripoli on August 25, 2014 after a boat carrying 200 illegal immigrants from sub-Sahara Africa sunk off the Libyan capital two days earlier. Libya, which is mired in unrest and political chaos, has been a launchpad for illegal migrants seeking a better life in Europe but who turn to people smugglers to get them across the Mediterranean. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD TURKIA
Rescue workers pull the bodies of illegal immigrants to shore. after a boat carrying 200 illegal immigrants from sub-Sahara Africa sunk off the coast of Libya. Photo: AFP
More lives might have been saved but Libya’s coast guard has very limited capabilities, relying on small inflatables, tug boats and fishing vessels.
The Libyan western town of Zuwara is located near the Tunisian border. For some time now the town has acted as a major launchpad for smugglers shipping migrants to Italy.
 
Most migrants fleeing conflict and poverty to make it to Europe see Libya as a transit route. Exploiting the country’s lawlessness and state of pandemonium, smugglers network bring Syrians into Libya via Egypt or nationals of sub-Saharan countries via Niger, Sudan and Chad.
The International Organisation for Migration has said that above 2,300 people have died this year, all in attempts to reach Europe by boat. This figure is alarming when compared to the 3,279 migrant deaths recorded all through last year.
On Thursday, August 27, German Chancellor, Angela Merkel said 50 refugees were found dead in a parked lorry in Austria near the Hungarian border, the discovery has shaken European leaders discussing the migrant crisis at a Balkans summit.
, putting them in overcrowded makeshift detention facilities such as schools or military barracks where they live in poor conditions lacking medical care.
There used to be deportation of migrants caught in the North African country, but the unrest between armed groups have interrupted that exercise, because most of the lands that border across to Niger, Algeria, and Chad have been cut off.

Top international lead singer of legendary Irish band U2 and founder of One Campaign, Bono is currently in Nigeria.

The music star who is spear-heading One Campaign’s philanthropic movement to alleviate poverty in Africa met some of Nigerian celebrities including Cobhams Asuquo, Waje, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and Banky W, among others.

Waje and Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, featured on One Campaign’s theme song for female empowerment called ‘Strong Girl’ and produced by award winning music producer, Cobhams.
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This time around a remix of the song is being made and will feature Banky W, D’banj and Tanzanian pop star Diamond Platnumz.
Yemi Alade is also part of the train of the One Campaign team.
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Thousands try to escape troubled regions in Africa and Middle East and in hope of finding better lives in Europe but many of them find their death instead.
The refugees live in horrendous conditions in Europe.
World migrant crisis claims many lives each day. Thousands refugees try to get to Europe from their troubled homelands in search of better lives – but many of them find their graves instead. Hundreds of people are feared to have drowned after two boats carrying at least 500 migrants capsized off Libya shores early on Thursday.
Overloaded boats often capsize. Lucky are those few who survive.
The victims included refugees from Syria, Bangladesh and several sub-Saharan African countries.
These refugees were lucky enough to reach the European shore.
So far rescuers recovered more than 80 bodies from the water.
But many find their death in Mediterranean. Rescuers work in the biological protection suits because they are afraid of Ebola outbreaks and other dangerous diseases.
200 more people were lucky enough to survive and were saved. Still, more than two hundred are still missing.
50 decomposing refugees’ bodies have been found in abandoned lorry in Austria.
Meanwhile 50 migrants’ bodies – men, women and children, were found today in an abandoned lorry in Austria. The authorities investigating this horrendous case came to a conclusion that by the time when vehicle crossed he Austrian border the victims were probably already dead. The cause of their death is yet to be established.
Thousands try to break at the Macedonian borders with Greece confronted by riot police.
At the same time, on Thursday Macedonia declared a state of emergency after hundreds of migrants have rushed at Macedonian border forces in an attempt to leave Greece.
Riot police holds back crowds of refugees.
Riot police beat back the migrants, men, women and children mercilessly with batons and shields. Many people were injured, some of them critically.
Child frightened by tough policemen
“Macedonian authorities are responding as if they were dealing with rioters rather than refugees who have fled conflict and persecution,” told the press Amnesty International deputy Europe director Gauri van Gulik, speaking on that outrageous issue.
Razor wire has been rolled across the Macedonian frontier to prevent people from entering.
More than 44,000 refugees have travelled through Macedonia in the past two months. To prevent migrants from entering razor wire has been rolled but it didn’t help much.
Razor wire can’t stop the migrants.
Thousands refugees have been stuck at the border.
Thousands refugees have been stuck at the border.
However, Macedonia had to re-open its border with Greece after migrant crisis at the border worsened to an extreme level.
Migrant crisis worsened every day and Macedonia had to open its borders again.
The death toll for migrants from Nigeria and other African countries drowned in Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of 2015 is already worse than the death toll for Titanic catastrophe.

It is about ten days to the 100-day deadline Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign set for itself to accomplish a raft of promises made before the March polls.
There are noteworthy indications of progress, but the new government must try to achieve more for the millions of Nigerians who put their hopes on the new leader.
Buharimeter, the initiative that is monitoring how the president is implementing his promises,
The ruling party has set up a mechanism to monitor and evaluate and other vows made by Buhari during the presidential campaign.
 
Before the election on what Nigerians should expect from his first 100 days in office.
However, Nigerians took to Twitter using the hastag #100wasteddays to express their dissatisfaction over Buhari’s slowness in implementing his promises.


Meet a man who lost his arms in an accident as a child but didn’t stop caring for his sick mother and their farm in Tongxin Village of Fengdu County, China.
Scroll down to see all the inspiring photos!
Chen Xingyin, 48, was electrocuted when he was just seven years old. Since then the boy has learnt how to cook, do household chores, look after livestock and cultivate two hectares of farmland using only his feet.
And even when his ageing mother, who is now 91 years, became paralysed and confined to bed Chen refused to give up.
 
Now he is the only one who runs his smallholding of farmland and raises a flock of 24 sheep, two buffalos and four hens.
Surprisingly, the disabled man does not complain complain of his destiny, trying to do as many things himself as possible.
Sometimes he even finds the strength and time to help his neighbours.

Xingyin, who feeds his mother with his mouth and his nimble toes, said, “I can’t leave my mother at home alone, especially not in her old age. I may not have hands, but I have a pair of good feet.”
 After a series of photographs depicting Chen spoon-feeding his mother emerged, he has become an example to follow and a hero of Chinese and international media.
Fifty seven illegal degree-awarding institutions operating in Nigeria have been blacklisted by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
According to Professor Julius Okojie, the executive secretary of the NUC, certificates obtained from the institutions listed would not be accorded recognition for the purpose of election and participation in the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC).
The Punch reports that investigation has also commenced into the activities of eight other illegal institutions which the universities commission said would be prosecuted soon.
In an in-house bulletin issued on Thursday in Abuja, the commission made its position known, explaining that the illegal fees charged students by operators of the illegal institutions would also be recovered.
NUC spokesperson Ibrahim Yakassai, told The Punch that the commission had always released names of institutions operating illegally for the attention of the public.
About a week ago, with the Nigerian regulatory body also informing that online degrees obtained from foreign institutions would not be accepted as a means of seeking employment or any doing other legitimate business in Nigeria.
Some of the blacklisted 57 illegal universities include: University of Accountancy and Management Studies; Christians of Charity American University of Science and Technology, Nkpor, Anambra State; University of Industry, Yaba, Lagos; University of Applied Sciences and Management, Port Novo, Republic of Benin; and Blacksmith University, Awka.
Others are, Volta University College, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana campuses in Nigeria; Royal University, Izhia, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State; and Atlanta University, Anyigba, Kogi State, Sunday Adokpela University, Otada Adoka, Otukpo, Benue State; United Christian University, Macotis Campus, Imo State; United Nigeria University College, Okija, Anambra State; and Samuel Ahmadu University, Makurdi, Benue State.
On the list also were: UNESCO University, Ndoni, Rivers State; Saint Augustine’s University of Technology, Jos Plateau State; The International University, Missouri, USA, Kano and Lagos Study Centres; Columbus University, UK operating anywhere in Nigeria; and Tiu International University, U.K., operating anywhere in Nigeria.
Pebbles University, U.K., operating anywhere in Nigeria; London External Studies U.K., operating anywhere in Nigeria; Pilgrims University, Lobi Business School, Makurdi, Benue State; West African Christian University; Bolta University College, Aba; completed the list of illegal institutions in the country.
Findings have revealed that Doreen Amata, Nigeria’s hopeful for a first medal at the ongoing IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China, is without a coach.
Reports say the coach of the Nigerian high jumper, who qualified Nigeria for the final of the women’s high jump event at the world meet, is presently in Port Harcourt, Nigeria on another official assignment as Nigeria prepares for the All Africa Games.
Also, Amata’s American trainer, Nat Page, is in Beijing, albeit on the United States’ entourage to the championships, and she has been denied access to him.
Doreen Amata, a Nigerian high jump specialist was left stranded in Beijing
 
Kola Adebayo, the Nigerian coach who was supposed to be with the Nigerian medal hopeful, has been with her since 2013 but was deployed to camp with Team Nigeria for the 2015 All Africa Games in Congo Brazzaville.
The Nigerian coach, while explaining his absence from the competition, sad: “Only the AFN can explain that. I’m just a coach and I adhere to directives given to me.
“It’s a technical event and she needs someone who understands the technical aspects of the sport with her. But if the federation says they want it that way, who am I to kick against it?”

Adebayo however, says in spite of his physical presence in China, he has been giving Amata guidelines on what to do, and is hopeful the 27-year-old will put up a fine outing in the final of the women’s long jump event on Saturday.
“We talk regularly and also chat on the social media. I keep reminding her on what to do and what to avoid. She’s a cool-headed person and I know she won’t do what I tell her not to do, even though I’m not there.
“This is what I can do from home to help her and I’m hoping she will make Nigerians proud in the final on Saturday,” Adebayo offered.
In early morning of August 28, Friday, the fire has hit the residence of the Senate president Abubakar Bukola Saraki.
The fire happened at the Abuja home of Saraki in the Maitama area of Abuja.
Senate president is still living in his personal house. The incident was confirmed by Saraki on his Twitter handle.
 
Some residents of the sprawling edifice raised the alarm when they noticed a heavy smoke inside the gymnasium of the senate president.
Confirming the incident the special adviser to the Senate president on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said the incident was caused by an electric spark from one of the air conditioners in the gymnasium of his principal.
He clarified that Saraki had been duly informed of the incident, adding that nobody was injured in the process.
 
Bukola Saraki of the All Progressives Congress (APC) emerged as the new Senate president after the country’s main political parties struck a power-sharing deal in the upper chamber.
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