People in Saudi Arabia started a new wave of anti-regime protests, calling for the freedom of the jailed senior Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr.

The protests heightened after the Saudi interior ministry approved Sheikh Nimr's execution.

Protesters in the Awamiya region of the city of Qatif once again started spraying anti-regime graffiti to show condemnation of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz,

"Down with Al Saud" read one of the graffiti signs sprayed in different streets of the Qatif city, including al-Thura street, while the other one called Prince "Salman, the Traitor".

A former St. Louis prosecutor admitted she helped a police detective cover up his videotaped assault on a handcuffed suspect — including shoving a pistol down the man's throat.

Bliss Barber Worrell admitted Monday in federal court that she failed to tell supervisors and a judge what she knew about the assault and then helped file a bogus charge against the suspect, reported the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The 28-year-old Worrell pleaded guilty to a felony count of misprision, which carries a three-year prison term, but prosecutors and defense attorneys have agreed to recommend 18 months in prison.

Worrell, the daughter-in-law of former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Todd Worrell, has agreed to testify against others who may be involved in the cover-up.

Corey Jones' cell phone records indicate that he was calling for roadside help when he was approached by a Florida police officer just before being shot and killed, the Palm Beach Post reported.

The records show that Jones called AT&T's roadside assistance number, #HELP, at 3:10 a.m. on Oct. 18. Jones, a musician, was using a phone provided by his employer, the Delray Beach Housing Authority. He was killed by Palm Beach Gardens officer Nouman Raja about five minutes after calling for help, but the call reportedly lasted 53 minutes.

AT&T has not stated whether Jones' phone call was being recorded. Similarly, the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office has not stated whether it has obtained the records. However, Jones' best friend Clarence Ellington told the Post that the victim's family was meeting with its attorneys after seeing the phone logs.

"The consensus is the same, and that's that we're angry," Ellington said.

I was a naive teenager, desperate for belonging. But my "home" for 30 years turned out to be a house of horrors
I left the Children of God in the early 2000s. It took a long time to come out of the haze of those 30 years, but when I did, I was appalled by my former self. One of the most common questions people ask is: How could you be part of such a thing? And how could you stay? For years — as I came to grips with my own guilt, remorse and shame — I asked myself the same things. In 2003, my eldest son, then an adult, sent me a link to a thorough three-year investigation into the COG as part of a child custody case filed with the High Court in England in the early 1990s, and I learned that, according to these court records, I was not alone in the horrors I'd experienced.

I grew up in suburban Washington, D.C., the youngest of seven children in a comfortably middle-class Catholic home. We must have looked like the perfect family. My parents were leaders of the Charismatic group at their large church. Our house was clean - almost sterile. "Rake the rug after you walk through the living room to clear your footprints. Put a sheet on the sofa before you sit down," my mother would chime. After my older siblings left home, I felt lost and alone. At 16, I fell into anorexia and depression. I spent my summer lifeguarding, swimming and dabbling in drugs.

Perhaps that's why I began my spiritual quest, or perhaps it was just a symptom of the times. I was looking for meaning to life, to belong to something larger than myself. In my junior year of high school, I saw a friend reading a Bible at school. She had recently met the COG, and gave me one of their publications to read. I found it a bit strange, but it touched something in me. I went with her to meet the COG after school that day.

I was trying to find my path in life, and I thought this might be it. Here was a group of dedicated Christian young people determined to return to the pure roots of Christianity by living communally and sharing all things. I felt loved and accepted, and was welcomed into the fold as a new "babe" in Christ. Born again. I didn't see this as a "cult"; I saw it as a chance to live an honorable life of service to God and others. And I was so young. What did I know about how the world worked? It would be another nine years before my frontal lobe was completely developed, the portion of the brain involved in decision-making that allows us to envision long-term consequences. I had no idea I was walking into a nightmare. I couldn't see past the utter joy of the overwhelming love and acceptance I felt.

Cases of malnutrition and other "Victorian" diseases are soaring in England, in what campaigners said was a result of cuts to social services and rising food poverty.

NHS statistics show that 7,366 people were admitted to hospital with a primary or secondary diagnosis of malnutrition between August 2014 and July this year, compared with 4,883 cases in the same period from 2010 to 2011 - a rise of more than 50 per cent in just four years.

Cases of other diseases rife in the Victorian era including scurvy, scarlet fever, cholera and whooping cough have also increased since 2010, although cases of TB, measles, typhoid and rickets have fallen.

Chris Mould, chairman of the Trussell Trust, which runs a nationwide network of foodbanks, said they saw "tens of thousands of people who have been going hungry, missing meals and cutting back on the quality of the food they buy".

"We meet families from across the UK struggling to put enough food on the table and, at the extreme end, you get people who are malnourished," he said. "We often see parents who are going without food so that they can feed their children, and these parents often struggle to afford enough nutritious food for their children, too. We don't think anyone should have to go hungry in the UK, which is why we're working to engage the public, other charities and politicians across parties to find solutions to the underlying causes of food poverty."

Dianne Jeffrey, who chairs the Malnutrition Task Force, an independent expert group, and charity Age UK, said the rise in hospital admissions for malnutrition was "deeply distressing".

Despite a $500,000 bounty having been placed by ISIS on his head, Abu Shuja continues to risk his life saving Iraqi Yazidi women and children from Islamic State captivity. "Victims of ISIS" is the story of Shuja and those he freed as told to RT documentary.

The Yazidis, a religious minority in modern-day Iraq, fell victim to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) as militants moved deeper and deeper into the country, seizing increasing amounts of territory. IS overwhelmed Mount Sinjar, the homeland of thousands of Yazidis, in August 2014, turning life there into a nightmare.

Along with their territories, the Islamists captured thousands of Yazidi people - some men, but mostly women and children. According to different estimates, roughly 5,000 Yazidis were kidnapped. Women and children have ended up on the slave market, while little boys are subjected to militant training.

A 16-year-old student has died after being stabbed at an Aberdeen school in Scotland.Scottish police are investigating the murder at Cults Academy. Officers say they have arrested another 16-year-old student in this connection.

"It is with shock and sadness that we can confirm that a pupil of Cults Academy has died following an incident at the school earlier today...Our heartfelt sympathies are extended to the friends and family," A spokesperson of Aberdeen City Council said

The school, which has 1,050 pupils, is one of Scotland's best-performing secondary schools, serving pupils from age 11 to 18. Cults is regarded as one of Aberdeen's more affluent suburbs.

Walmart, one of the world's largest retailers, has sparked outrage by selling an "Israeli Soldier Costume for Kids."

The Halloween outfit is particularly distasteful at a time when human rights groups are strongly condemning Israel's policy of extrajudicially executing Palestinians forced to live under its decades-long military occupation.

The costume, seen above, includes a dark green uniform and red beret. The jacket includes the Hebrew abbreviation for "Israel Defense Forces." An Internet search shows that it is sold by other online retailers as well.

"When I first saw the Israeli soldier costume for kids I thought it was a joke," Gaza writer and editor Refaat Alareer told The Electronic Intifada. "The model boy used to promote this costume is probably the age of my niece, whose father Israeli soldiers murdered in Gaza in 2014 when they destroyed our family home."

In the summer of 2014 the Israeli army killed 551 Palestinian children during its assault on Gaza. Many child survivors of Israel's attack now have lifelong injuries.

Richland County, South Carolina has fired Ben Fields, the sheriff's deputy recorded using force on an African-American student during a school discipline incident. Footage of Fields throwing the student across the classroom has caused outrage.


"From the very beginning that's what's caused me to be upset, and continued to upset me is that he picked the student up and threw the student across the room," Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said at a press conference Wednesday, announcing that Fields was being let go.

The department interviewed witnesses and reviewed several cell-phone videos taken in the classroom, and concluded the moves Fields used in the confrontation were "not acceptable."

By now, many doctors and scientists can agree that weed won't harm you — and in many cases, it can be medically therapeutic. But this certainly isn't the case when it comes to other types of drugs, especially cheap ones that are created with an array of toxic chemicals and sold on the street.

This new video explains what the top 10 most deadly street drugs are and how they tear apart your body over time. The list includes the likes of bath salts, Whoonga, AH-7921, crystal meth, and purple drank.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Krokodil takes the award for the No. 1 most dangerous street drug. Known as the "flesh-eating drug," Krokodil is widespread in poor regions of Russia, where addicts inject the deadly dose of opioids, codeine, and gasoline into their bodies. It's a third of the price of heroin, which makes it appealing to addicts with low funds. The drug is named "Krokodil" due to its tendency to rot the skin from the inside out, making it scaly like a crocodile's.

Whoonga, which has risen in use in South Africa in the past several years, is listed as the second most dangerous street drug — and bath salts are third. According to a 2013 report, bath salts led to over 22,000 emergency room visits in the U.S. in 2011. They've been shown to cause a variety of health problems like high blood pressure, suicidal thoughts, and psychosis.

Other drugs on the list include heroin and Flakka, a new type of drug that is made from the same chemicals as bath salts, which can also cause numerous life-threatening syndromes. Flakka involves excited delirium, psychosis, and hyperthermia — raising a person's core body temperature to a very dangerous level. Flakka was placed higher on the list than crystal meth, as research recently found that it's even more addictive.

The full list is below:

1. Krokodil

2. Whoonga

3. Bath salts

4. Crack cocaine

5. Heroin

6. Flakka

7. AH-7921

8. Crystal meth

9. Purple Drank

10. Scopolamine