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Image copyright GETTY IMAGES Police in New York are investigating claims a senior officer told members of his team to "shoot" the rapper 50 Cent. It's alleged Deputy Inspector Emanuel Gonzalez made the remark in June last year at a police roll-call for a boxing match which the star was due to attend. 50 Cent said on Sunday he was taking the threat "very seriously" and was consulting with his lawyers. The New York Police Department told Radio 1 Newsbeat the matter "is under internal review". Image Copyright @50cent @50CENT Report The New York Daily News reported that Deputy Inspector Gonzalez told his officers to shoot the rapper "on sight" but later tried to pass it off as a joke. It's claimed at least one other person at the event reported the comment to the NYPD internal affairs department. One month before, Dect Insp Gonzalez reportedly filed an aggravated harassment complaint against 50 Cent. He said the rapper h...

© Dan MacMedan/Getty Images Wait, are Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott going to make it official!? On Sunday morning, the  Keeping Up with the Kardashians  star had her legion of fans all aflutter when she shared the briefest of clips of herself driving, a habit she’s been condemned for in the past but hasn’t stopped. In the image, users can clearly see a massive ring on her left ring finger. “Two cover shoots on this fine Sunday,” she captioned the image.  While this image is exciting, it’s hardly the first time that the makeup mogul has gotten her followers buzzing simply by wearing a ring on the finger that everyone’s monitoring.  © Courtesy of Instagram Courtesy of Instagram On Super Bowl Sunday, Scott shared images of his girlfriend backstage in his Instagram Story in which she’s once again rocking what appears to be the same tear-drop cut rock on her finger. The speculation grew so rampant that, when her sister Kim Kardashian paid a visit to...

© Provided by CBS Interactive Inc. The Chibok Girls: Survivors of kidnapping by Boko Haram share their stories © Credit: CBSNews fullstory.jpg Imagine your teenage daughter was kidnapped while studying for her exams at school. And not just your daughter, but hundreds of girls in your town taken in the night. The families of Chibok, Nigeria lived through that nightmare almost five years ago when the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram - whose name roughly translates to "western education is forbidden" - attacked a local school and ran off with 276 girls. Some escaped, but it took the Nigerian government three years to negotiate the release of fewer than half of them. Since their release, the Chibok girls, as they're known, have been largely hidden from the public. But we were able to meet with them at a kind of prep school to hear their remarkable story of survival. This is a hostage video released by Boko Haram from their hide-out in the Sambisa Forest, one month aft...

© Shutterstock © Provided by Independent Digital News & Media Limited With  Game of Thrones  a matter of months away, a brand new theory doing the rounds suggests that Cersei Lannister is the key to saving Westeros from the White Walkers. Cast your mind back to season seven. One episode saw Cersei – played by Lena Headey – hint to her brother Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) that she was pregnant with his baby. At the time, fans of the HBO drama suspected that Cersei might be lying in order to keep Jaime at King’s Landing. Now, Reddit user lounaaaaaaaa is wondering whether Cersei’s pregnancy will be the thing that keeps the Night King from killing everyone in Westeros.  We know that the White Walkers accept young babies as sacrifices, having seen wildling Craster (Robert Pugh) hand his sons over to them in season two. Will Cersei sacrifice her child to the Night King in the hope that he’ll return to his domain? It’s very possible – and would be a huge twist tha...

© Thomson Reuters Electoral materials are seen at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) offices following the postponement of the presidential election in Daura, Nigeria February 16, 2019. REUTERS/Luc Gnago Nigerians who were surprised when the country's presidential election was postponed Saturday might suffer a second shock when they learn the cost, some economists and business leaders say. "The cost to the economy of the postponement of the election is horrendous," said Muda Yusuf, general director of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry who advanced an estimate of $1.5 billion. "The economy was on partial shutdown the day before, and total shut down on Saturday for the elections" that did not take place, he explained. The streets of Lagos were still empty early Sunday as the sprawling economic capital of 20 million people recovered from the disappointment and anger provoked by a last minute, one-week delay blamed on logistical iss...

Stargazers will enjoy a stunning sight this week as a rare 'super snow moon' is set to appear in the night sky.  The supermoon will emerge on February 19 and will be the largest and brightest full moon of 2019.  It's the second of three supermoons to light up the skies this year, following the Super Blood Wolf Moon that took place on January 21 and preceding yet another on March 21. The spectacular lunar display is known as the 'snow moon' because it often appears along with heavy snowfall around this time of year, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.   The full moon names date back to Native Americans living in northern and eastern parts of the U.S.  'The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occured,' according to the almanac.   But what exactly is a supermoon?   A supermoon is a phenomena that occurs when the moon'...