Islamic State tells Mosul shopkeepers to cover up naked mannequins

Mosul shopkeepers under orders from the Islamic State to protect the modesty of plastic mannequins in clothing displays 

Islamic State instructions said clothing outlets must cover the faces of mannequins in line with Muslim tenets of covering up the human former

Islamic extremists have sought to entrench their strict religious regime in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul by banning naked mannequins, just days after imposing orders to convert, pay taxes or die rules on the city's Christians.

Islamic State instructions said clothing outlets must cover the faces of mannequins in line with Muslim tenets of covering up the human former.

The orders which apply to both male and female mannequins are in line with strict interpretations of sharia law that forbid statues or artwork depicting the human form are part of a growing web of rules and commercial regulations emanating from the Islamic militant group. It has also set out an extensive list of levies on all vehicles and trucks bringing goods into Mosul.

  

Chelsea's bid to sign Didier Drogba puts Romelu Lukaku's future in doubt

Didier Drogba's possible return to Chelsea creates more uncertainty over Romelu Lukaku's future and raises questions about ability meet home-grown quotas

                      Uncertain future: Romelu Lukaku has no clue where he will be playing his club football next season

Chelsea's bid to re-sign Didier Drogba underlines doubts over the club’s ability to meet the home-grown player quotas for the Premier League and Europe.

The Premier League have confirmed that Romelu Lukaku qualifies as a home-grown player this season, but the return of 36-year-old Drogba would increase the uncertainty over his position.

Chelsea appear to have put Lukaku’s future on hold until he returns for pre-season training in Holland on July 30, with Everton ready to make a bid to take him to Goodison Park permanently.

Juventus and Wolfsburg are also interested and Chelsea may be open to loaning Lukaku abroad now he has spent long enough in England to count as a home-grown player.

Head doctor fighting Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone contracts the deadly virus

Sheik Umar Khan has been hailed a 'national hero' by government for his work saving victims of the Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 600 people in West Africa

 Sheik Umar Khan, 39, was leading the fight to control an outbreak that has killed 206 people in the West African country

The head doctor fighting the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, the president's office said.

The 39-year-old Sheik Umar Khan, hailed as a "national hero" by the health ministry, was leading the fight to control an outbreak that has killed 206 people in the West African country.

There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola which can kill up to 90 percent of those infected, although the mortality rate of the current outbreak is lower at around 60 percent.

Across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, 632 people have died from the illness, according to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) data, putting great strain on the health systems of some of Africa's poorest countries.

Suicide bombs in Kaduna kill 82, ex-leader Buhari targeted

 At least 82 people were killed on Wednesday in two suicide bombings in the north Nigerian city of Kaduna, one aimed at opposition leader and ex-president Muhammadu Buhari and another at a moderate Muslim cleric about to lead a crowd in prayer.

The attacks bore the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which considers all those who do not share its views to be enemies. But it may also have been linked to politics before the 2015 elections.

In the deadliest attack, a bomber in a car full of explosives hurtled towards Buhari's convoy at the crowded Kawo market, his son told Reuters on the scene and police said later. A Red Cross official said at least 50 people were killed there.

Boko Haram bomb attacks kill at least 80

Two blasts in the city of Kaduna bear hallmarks of Boko Haram, the Islamist group terrorising the country's north 

A screengrab taken from a video released by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, with Abubakar Shekau (C)- if Boko Haram is responsible for Wednesday's attack, it underscores the risks moderate clerics take speaking out against it

Two bomb blasts in the north Nigerian city of Kaduna killed at least 82 people on Wednesday, officials said, in attacks that bore the hallmarks of violent Islamist group Boko Haram.

A suicide bomber targeting a moderate Muslim cleric killed at least 32 of the cleric's congregation on a busy commercial road. Shortly after, a second bomb blast killed 50 people in the crowded Kawo market on Wednesday, a local Red Cross worker on the scene, who declined to be named, told Newsalertexpress.

Thousands were gathered for prayers with Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi in Murtala Muhammed square, and when his convoy pulled up, the bomber lunged at him before being stopped by his private security, witnesses and police said.