Pamela Anderson last person to pose nude for Playboy

Pamela Anderson will be the the last person to pose nude forPlayboy, ending the magazine's more than 60 year publishing tradition, the company revealed on Thursday.

The former "Baywatch" star will be featured on the cover of the January/February 2016 edition of the publication, hitting newsstands next week. 

"I got a call from [Hugh Hefner's] attorney who said, 'We don't want anybody else. There's nobody else, could you do the last cover of Playboy?'" Anderson told Entertainment Tonight.

This is Anderson's 14th Playboy cover and 15th pictorial for the magazine, according to Playboy.

The company, founded by Hugh Hefner in 1953, revealed in October that it would stop publishing nude centerfolds. Circulation of the magazine has dropped significantly from 5.6 million copies in 1975 to around 800,000 in recent

End the Gun Epidemic in America

All decent people feel sorrow and righteous fury about the latest slaughter of innocents, in California. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are searching for motivations, including the vital question of how the murderers might have been connected to international terrorism. That is right and proper.

But motives do not matter to the dead in California, nor did they in Colorado, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Connecticut and far too many other places. The attention and anger of Americans should also be directed at the elected leaders whose job is to keep us safe but who place a higher premium on the money and political power of an industry dedicated to profiting from the unfettered spread of ever more powerful firearms.

It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency. These are weapons of war, barely modified and deliberately marketed as tools of macho vigilantism and even insurrection. America’s elected leaders offer prayers for gun victims and then, callously and without fear of consequence, reject the most basic restrictions on weapons of mass killing, as they did on Thursday. They distract us with arguments about the word terrorism. Let’s be clear: These spree killings are all, in their own ways, acts of terrorism.

Opponents of gun control are saying, as they do after every killing, that no law can unfailingly forestall a specific criminal. That is true. They are talking, many with sincerity, about the constitutional challenges to effective gun regulation. Those challenges exist. They point out that determined killers obtained weapons illegally in places like France, England and Norway that have strict gun laws. Yes, they did.

But at least those countries are trying. The United States is not. Worse, politicians abet would-be killers by creating gun markets for them, and voters allow those politicians to keep their jobs. It is past time to stop talking about halting the spread of firearms, and instead to reduce their number drastically — eliminating some large categories of weapons and ammunition.

It is not necessary to debate the peculiar wording of the Second Amendment. No right is unlimited and immune from reasonable regulation.

Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership. It is possible to define those guns in a clear and effective way and, yes, it would require Americans who own those kinds of weapons to give them up for the good of their fellow citizens.

What better time than during a presidential election to show, at long last, that our nation has retained its sense of decency?

Why the San Bernardino Shooting Is Unprecedented

The mass shooting in San Bernardino that killed 14 people and wounded 21 was unique for its male and female pair of attackers, something experts say has never occurred in the U.S.

Police have named Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, as the two suspects involved in the shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Calif., which provides services to people with developmental disabilities. Both were killed by authorities Wednesday.

“This is the first time I’ve seen anywhere in the world a public mass shooting attack with a man and a woman that was successful,” said Adam Lankford, a University of Alabama criminal justice professor who studies mass shootings.

Dual attackers in a mass shooting are rare because one person can typically pull the more extreme of the two from turning violent, Lankford said. Mass shooters are also almost always men, with estimates showing that 98% of attackers are male. Men tend to be more violent, and studies have shown that a threat to a man’s societal status can trigger violent actions.

Still, there have been a handful of mass shootings involving women, the most deadly occurring in 2006 when Jennifer San Marco killed seven people and committed suicide at a postal facility in Goleta, Calif.

Profiles of past dual attackers can vary widely. In Columbine, experts largely identified Eric Harris as the likely instigator behind the attack who successfully convinced Dylan Klebold to take part. Similarly, John Allen Muhammad, 42, appeared to have acted as a father figure to Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, throughout the D.C. sniper shootings. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was sentenced to death for the Boston Marathon bombing, has been portrayed as a follower of his older brother Tamerlan by his defense attorneys, but reporting by the Boston Globe has portrayed him more as a co-equal. It’s still unclear whether the suspects in the San Bernardino attacks were equally responsible for the attacks or whether one pushed the other into acting.

“The San Bernardino shooting is very unusual,” said Adam Winkler, a UCLA law professor, citing the husband-wife duo and the fact that they also were parents of an infant. “This couple, with a well-paying job and a six-month-old baby, seemingly had a lot to live for, which is not what we usually see in mass shootings.”

Cult Leader Found Guilty Of Raping Followers

Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, was convicted of several sex assaults, cruelty to a child and false imprisonment following a trial at London's Southwark Crown Court.

The court heard how he brainwashed his followers into thinking he had God-likepowers.

He also invented a supernatural force called Jackie who he said could trigger natural disasters if he was disobeyed.

He even fathered a daughter with one of his acolytes, who was then kept prisoner in the home for three decades.

She was beaten, banned from singing nursery rhymes, and was not allowed to go to school or make friends.

She later described herself as a "shadow woman" who was kept like a "caged bird".

Detective Sergeant Paul Wiggett said she was so terrorised by her father that she "genuinely believed the day she left the house she was going to explode - that her life would come to an end".

She said afterwards: "I believe justice has definitely been done. I am very happy with the result and at the end of the day he is still my dad."

As the verdict was read out, Balakrishnan looked straight ahead.

However one of his former followers shouted: "You are sending an innocent man to prison. Shame on you."

Balakrishnan, of Enfield, north London, was found guilty of six counts of indecent assault and four counts of rape.

He was also convicted of two counts of ABH, cruelty to a child under 16, and false imprisonment.

He was cleared of one count of ABH and one count of indecent assault.

Sentencing has been adjourned until 29 January for a psychiatric report to be prepared.

Balakrishnan was remanded in custody.

:: Timeline of events in the case

:: 1963 - Balakrishnan travels to the UK from Singapore and studies at the London School of Economics.

:: 1970s - Balakrishnan sets up a Maoist commune called the Workers Institute, which is based in Brixton, south London.

next 30 years he brainwashes his female followers.

:: 1982 - One of his followers becomes pregnant with his daughter.

:: 1983 - The baby is born into the commune, where she is kept prisoner for the next 30 years.

:: Christmas Eve, 1996 - The child's mother falls from the second floor window of a terraced house where the collective had been living.

She dies several months later.

:: May 2005 - Balakrishnan's daughter runs away from the collective and goes to the police.

Police contact Bala who promises things will improve and she returns home.

:: 23 October 2013 - Balakrishnan's daughter, aged 30, manages to escape the commune and was met by police.

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   She dies several months later.

   :: May 2005 - Balakrishnan's daughter runs away from the collective and goes to the police.

   Police contact Bala who promises things will improve and she returns home.

   :: 23 October 2013 - Balakrishnan's daughter, aged 30, manages to escape the commune and was met by police.

   
   
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'Top Secret' Letter Reveals IS Thailand Plot

Security in the capital was increased following August's bomb attack

The news was revealed by Thai police who spoke after a leaked letter, marked "top secret" and "urgent" and signed by the deputy head of Thailand's special branch, was widely seen by local media.

letter said Moscow's intelligence service had revealed a group of Syrians arrived in Thailand between 15 and 31 October potentially to target Russian interests.

"They (the Syrians) travelled separately. Four went to Pattaya, two to Phuket, two to Bangkok and the other two to (an) unknown location," the letter said.

"Their purpose is to create bad incidents to affect Russians and Russia's alliance with Thailand," the letter said, without naming the suspects.

More than 1.6 million Russian tourists visited Thailand in 2014 - with Christmas and New Year being the most popular time - the largest number from any country in Europe. 

Thailand's police boss Jakthip Chaijinda confirmed the letter "was real" and said more than 200 Syrians had entered Thailand over the autumn.

Pattaya is a popular resort with Russians

The peak holiday period for Thailand is coming up, bringing the hope of huge sums of money from tourism.

However, fears that IS Islamists may be planning an attack is likely to send fears through the tourist industry, particularly in busy resort areas such as Phuket and Pattaya, which are both popular with Russians.

Pattaya police, who say they have increased security in the area, have urged tourists not to be concerned by the reports.

Thailand's capital, Bangkok, was the target of a bombing in August in which 20 people were killed.

However, that was reportedly unconnected with IS supporters.

Russia decided to support Syria's government in September, launching air strikes against IS targets in Syria.

A month later, a Russian passenger plane carrying 224 people travelling back from the resort of Sharm el Sheikh was brought down by a bomb over the Sinai desert in Egypt.

All on board were killed.

Nigeria react angrily over social media bill

Tweeters have been using #NoToSocialMediaBill to campaign against the proposal.

It proposes up to a seven-year sentence or $25,000 (£16,000) fine for anyone found to be sending "abusive messages".

Human Rights Watch condemns the move as an attempt to muzzle free speech.

Millions of social media users in Nigeria, as well as those sending text messages, could be affected, it says in a statement.

What the bill proposes:

• Up to seven years in prison or $25,000 (£16,000) fine for "anyone who intentionally propagates false information that could threaten the security of the country or that is capable of inciting the general public against the government through electronic message."
• Up to years in prison or $10,000 (£6,000) fine or both for anyone disseminating via text message, Twitter, WhatsApp, or any other form of social media an "abusive statement" 
• This also involves messages intending to "set the public against any person and group of persons, an institution of government or such other bodies established by law."
• The bill does not define "abusive statement or messages."
  There will be a public hearing on the bill before it can be passed.
  Activists see the bill as an attempt to target critics of lawmakers and politicians.
  Nigerian MPs often come under the media spotlight because of the huge money they earn.
  However, Senator Bala Ibn Na'allah of the governing All Progressive Congress, who sponsored the bill, said the publication of false stories was becoming rampant in the country.
  "You can't write false stories just because it is social media," he told the BBC Hausa service.
  The offences the proposed bill seeks to criminalise already exist under Nigerian laws including those on treason, defamation, and libel, our reporter says.
  Nigeria has a vibrant civil society, with many activists who use social media for their campaigns. It has the largest number of mobile phone users in Africa.
  
  

Call To Beef Up 'Inadequate' Coastal Security

The Felixstowe Coast Patrol and Rescue Service in action

The country is on high alert after gunmen ran amok in Paris killing 130 people and injuring around 400 more.

But while the UK might have the natural defence of being surrounded by water, only five Border Force boats patrol the entire coastline.

This number has been described as "woefully inadequate" by a former Special Branch officer, Chris Hobbs.

"At the moment we are trying to do things on a wing and a prayer," he said. "I think we are trying to make do at all levels of security, despite what the Government says, with the absolute minimum.

"If you are able to get your hands on a small boat or a yacht to come across and you want something smuggled... be it a person, be it a weapon, be it component parts of weapons... then that is an option.

"What these people will do, be they people smugglers, drugs smugglers, weapons smugglers, is look for the easiest route, they will look for the softest option where they are least likely to be detected."

Despite what is at stake many of those monitoring Britain's waters are volunteers like members of the Felixstowe Coast Patrol and Rescue Service.

Chairman John Cresswell, a former coastguard, says Suffolk alone has 300 miles of coastline which includes miles of deserted creeks and estuaries "that are open to mischief".

"At the end of the day... we are only 90km (55 miles) from mainland Europe, that's less than two hours on a fast boat," he said.

"At one time when a yacht left Europe to come over the England it had to book in with customs and have a small check.

"Now there is none of that. You can leave the coast of Europe and come straight across here to the UK and there are no checks done at all."

Former security minister and head of the navy, Admiral Lord West, says more resources are needed.

"I'm concerned the Border Force don't have the assets to do the sorts of things they need to do and also the other forces involved don't have the assets either," he said.

Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said: "Security at the border is our priority and Border Force has a fleet of five cutters that maintain a presence in UK waters.

"As announced in the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), Border Force will be undertaking more joint working with law enforcement agencies and the Royal Navy to increase patrolling in our territorial waters.

"These measures will lead to faster, more co-ordinated responses to inbound threats and a more intelligence about illegal goods destined for our shores."