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More than $17,000 has been raised in just three hours to support a Syrian refugee pictured selling pens in Beirut , Lebanon, while carrying his sleeping daughter. In the heartbreaking images, the man offers out a handful of pens, clutching a plastic bag of more pens while his little daughter sleeps wrapped over his shoulder. The photos of the father and child went viral after they were posted two days ago on Twitter by activist, Gissur Simonarson . He was then inundated with requests to help the man and so Gissur , based in Norway , announced he was going to try to find him. He launched a Twitter account named #BuyPens and within 30 minutes, someone on Twitter contacted Gissur saying he saw the man every day around his house. Incredibly, twenty-four hours later the man and his daughter were identified as single dad-of-two, Abdul and his daughter, Reem , 4 and a half. Gissur launched a crowdfunding page to raise money to help Abdul start a new life for his fami

Skype co-founder , Janus Friis , claims he got the picture when he found out his fiancee allegedly cheated on him, and now he's suing to get his expensive engagement ring back. According to TMZ , Janus Friis claims in a new lawsuit, he got engaged to  Maria Louise Joenson, a Danish recording artist who goes by Aura Dione , back in 2013. As a symbol of his love, he gave her a $471,000 engagement ring , an apartment and cash, but claims there were strings attached to the gifts, they had to seal the deal. Friis claims he learned she had "multiple affairs and sexual encounters with other men" and broke off the engagement. So now he wants his ring back, and Friis wants a minimum of $1 million.

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole has more strong words for former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe after the latter described him as a ‘garage boy’.Oshiomhole described Orubebe as an elevated thug and a political jobber, who is out to make noise as a means of getting his next meal ticket This was contained in a statement released on Thursday, August 27, 2015, by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Peter Okhiria. It reads: “Reading Godsday Orubebe’s infantile outburst saying that the governor of Edo State is a “garage boy,”  easily exposes the boondocks orientation and lowly mind of someone, who almost plunged the country into political anarchy in the last general election.” “It easily underscores one of the reasons why the Goodluck Jonathan administration failed abysmally to understand the nexus between promise and performance, between problems and solutions, and above all between prosperity and poverty.” “Orubebe is no more than a common