President Barack Obama’s polygamist half brother in Kenya has married a woman who is more than 30 years younger than him.
The 19-year-old’s mother said yesterday she was furious that her daughter quit school and married the 52-year-old.
Mary Aoko Ouma said her daughter tried to marry Malik Obama two years ago, but she wouldn’t give permission. Malik Obama, who is Muslim, has two other wives.
Polygamy is legal in Kenya if it falls under religious or cultural traditions.
In an interview broadcast by Kenya’s NTV that was filmed without his knowledge, Malik Obama says he married the 19-year-old but didn’t say when. (PA)
Drunkard showers in wrong house
An Australian woman woke up terrified after a drunken neighbour walked into her house and took a shower, mistakenly thinking he was home, a report said yesterday.
Police told the NT News that the man blundered into the wrong house in Katherine, in Australia’s far north, and jumped into the shower to sober up before he realised his error.
“He was very apologetic,” Superintendent Daniel Shean said. The 42-year-old man was dressed and sitting on the woman’s verandah when police arrived, the NT News said. (AFP)
Fiji ‘loses’ historic document
Fiji has lost its copy of the historic document that confirmed the Pacific nation’s independence from Britain in 1970, the state broadcaster has reported.
The head of government archives, Salesia Ikaniwai, revealed the Independence Order, which sets out the basis of Fiji’s constitution, went missing more than five years ago.
She said officials had scoured the records and contacted government departments without success trying to locate the document, which was originally handed over by Prince Charles in 1970.
Ms Ikaniwai said the government had finally contacted British authorities to get a photocopy of the Independence Order. (AFP)
Woman, 82, drives at 110mph
An 82-year-old woman was stopped by a US police officer for driving at 110 mph - twice the speed limit of 55 mph.
The Oregon State Police trooper spotted Marcia Brandon on Highway 26 west of Gresham.
Once he had caught up with her, she said she was on her way to an appointment and wasn’t aware she was going that fast. She was given a ticket for $1,103. (PA)
Policeman takes video up girl’s skirt
Japanese police said yesterday they had arrested one of their officers, who was sent from rural Japan to boost security ahead of an Asia-Pacific summit next month, for filming up a teenage girl’s skirt.
Police said they arrested 34-year-old Hironori Saeki late Thursday on suspicion he took video footage of the underwear of a 16-year-old high school girl in Yokohama, the summit host city southwest of Tokyo.
Mr Saeki reportedly used a digital camera hidden in a bag placed under the victim’s skirt as she stood on a train station escalator. (AFP)
Silent night
This Christmas it really could be a silent night if online campaigners get their way.
Facebook users are attempting to make four-and-a-half minutes’ silence the prestigious Christmas number one in the charts.
Nearly 30,000 people have signed up to the campaign which aims to get experimental composer John Cage’s silent piece 4’33” in the festive top spot.
Mr Cage composed his work in 1952. The score instructs musicians not to play their instruments for the duration of the piece. (PA)
Treasure trove
A first-time metal-detecting enthusiast who discovered a hoard of Iron Age gold in a field could be in for a £460,000 windfall.
Safari park keeper David Booth, 35, had owned his metal detector for five days when he discovered four 2,000-year-old gold neckbands in a Stirlingshire field last year.
Dating from between the 1st and 3rd century BC, the bands represent the most important hoard of Iron Age gold in Scotland to date.
They were buried just six inches beneath the surface. The Queen’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer announced that she was “minded” to allocate “Scotland’s most outstanding treasure trove find” to National Museums Scotland, provided they meet the ex-gratia award of £462,000 which would be payable to Mr Booth. (PA)