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A baby being pushed in a pram was among four people killed when a driver deliberately ran over pedestrians in a busy street in central Melbourne.

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Lady Gaga practicing for Super Bowl in her backyard

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Jogger mauled by a male kangaroo.

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Toni Anderson went missing early Sunday morning.
The 20-year-old was getting ready to resume classes at UMKC when she went missing.

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Posters for a missing University of Missouri at Kansas City student have flooded social media in recent days.

Toni Anderson went missing early Sunday morning.

"Please, please, I just ask you, please try to find my baby," said Toni Anderson's mother, Liz.

"It's a situation we never would have imagined finding ourselves in 24 hours ago," said Toni Anderson's father, Brian.

The 20-year-old was getting ready to resume classes at UMKC when she went missing.

"She had her classes lined up, her itinerary all set up. Everything was in her apartment, and she was ready to start school again (Tuesday,)" Brian Anderson said.

Her parents say Toni Anderson was last seen using a QuikTrip ATM near 26th and Burlington around 4:30 a.m. She was driving a black 2014 Ford Focus.

"And no one has seen or heard from her since," Brian Anderson said.

The couple said their worry is growing by the minute.

"We're not holding up," Liz Anderson said.

The Andersons said Toni has never gone more than a day without checking in.

The couple said they learned from a friend that Toni was pulled over and let go in North Kansas City before stopping at the QuikTrip.

The Andersons said their daughter's phone was still connected to the T-Mobile network until around 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

Kansas City police are investigating Toni Anderson's disappearance. Police are expected to subpoena phone records. Her car also was equipped with a GPS tracker. Family members hope that information could help find her.

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Posters for a missing University of Missouri at Kansas City student have flooded social media in recent days. Toni Anderson went missing early Sunday morning. "Please, please, I just ask you, please try to find my baby," said Toni Anderson's mother, Liz.

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A 42-year-old product and graphic designer in Hong Kong spent a year and a half and more than $50,000 to build a female robot that’s meant to resemble a Hollywood actress whom he doesn’t want to name. (It’s Scarlett Johansson.) The crop-topped humanoid responds to a set of verbal commands and makes facial expressions.

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A 42-year-old product and graphic designer in Hong Kong spent a year and a half and more than $50,000 to build a female robot that's meant to resemble a Hollywood actress whom he doesn't want to name. (It's Scarlett Johansson.) The crop-topped humanoid responds to a set of verbal commands and makes facial expressions.

Ricky Ma built the full-size robot, dubbed "Mark 1," from scratch on his balcony, thus fulfilling a childhood dream, according to Reuters. "During this process, a lot of people would say things like, 'Are you stupid? This takes a lot of money. Do you even know how to do it? It's really hard,'" Ma said.

After overcoming challenges like burnt-out electric motors and his inexperience with electromechanics and programming, Ma has created Mark 1, which can move its limbs, turn its head, bow, smirk, and wink. It can also respond to a set of commands with responses or movements.

Mark 1 also has silicone skin covering a 3D-printed skeleton. In fact, about 70 percent of the humanoid's body was made using 3D-printing technology, according to Reuters.

Ma hopes someone will purchase his prototype so he can use the funds to build other robots. He also wants to write a book to benefit others who share his ambitions.

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Hong Kong man spends 1.5 years, $50K to build his own female robot

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A 42-year-old product and graphic designer in Hong Kong spent a year and a half and more than $50,000 to build a female robot that's meant to resemble a Hollywood actress whom he doesn't want to name. (It's Scarlett Johansson.) The crop-topped humanoid responds to a set of verbal commands and makes facial expressions.

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Mom builds house for her family using YouTube tutorials

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But Brookins, who writes young adult novels for a living, didn't have the money to hire builders. So she built one by herself -- using YouTube tutorials.

"Things can get a little expensive when you are escaping an abusive relationship and have four children," Brookins explained.

Brookins' initial intention was to buy a home. But she found they were either too expensive or just too small. Then she realized that YouTube is a great tool for how-to's.

So after careful research, Brookins brought an acre of land in Bryant, Arkansas, a suburb of Little Rock, and began building.

She started in 2008, watching videos in the evening, making a list of the tools she'd need. She tallied the cost of supplies for her dream home: $130,000.

So she sold a small property she owned.

Her children, Hope, Drew and Jada and Roman -- ages 17 to 2 at the time -- helped along the way.

"My oldest son, Drew, helped me draw the blueprint to get approved by the city," Brookins said.

Brookins and her children worked on the house for nine months. Jada would haul water from the neighbor's pond to make a mix to help lay the foundation. Drew helped move lumber. Hope would cook for everyone.

"The entire process brought our family closer together and we learned that nothing is impossible. We found new hope," said Brookins.

But all the YouTube learning can't fill all the holes in one's knowledge. So Brookins enlisted the help of a friendly firefighter who had past building experience. She would pay him $25 an hour, when she could afford it, to help her with some of the tasks.

Finally, on March 31, 2009, the family moved into its 3,500-square-foot house. Brookins called it Inkwell Manor because, she said, she wanted a place where she could write and one that reflected her passion for books and writing.

The house has five bedrooms and a library.

The experience is now the subject of a book, " Rise: How a House Built a Family," which comes out January 24. Brookins said she hopes the book inspires others to never think small.

"I never intended to write a book. I was ashamed. But I think it is important to shift your perspective on any negative situation and do something big," she said.

"Never think of your situation as a solo journey," she added. "You can heal and grow together with your family."

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But Brookins, who writes young adult novels for a living, didn't have the money to hire builders. So she built one by herself -- using YouTube tutorials. "Things can get a little expensive when you are escaping an abusive relationship and have four children," Brookins explained. Brookins' initial intention was to buy a home.

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Ultra-rare galaxy could be 'one of a kind'

At the heart of the galaxy was a 5.5 billion-year-old round, red core. It was encircled by a 130 million-year-old faint blue ring, with nothing connecting it. Treuthardt's finding matched the description of a Hoag-type galaxy.

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A few years ago, it caught the attention of researcher Patrick Treuthardt as he analyzed a span of galaxies. At first, he thought it was a small, fairly common elliptical galaxy that happened to be more circular than usual. But a closer look revealed that he had stumbled across something incredibly rare.

At the heart of the galaxy was a 5.5 billion-year-old round, red core. It was encircled by a 130 million-year-old faint blue ring, with nothing connecting it. Treuthardt's finding matched the description of a Hoag-type galaxy.

Further analysis revealed something even more surprising: an older, diffuse red inner ring around the core.

"It was like spotting a snow leopard or some other rare and elusive animal," Treuthardt said. "A Hoag-type galaxy, one with a single circular ring surrounding a round core, is already very rare, but finding one with potentially two very regular rings is quite unique.

"One estimate states that Hoag-type galaxies may make up 0.1% of observable galaxies, and it could be much less than that. You would be more likely to be dealt four of a kind in a hand of five-card poker. This galaxy may be one of a kind."

Most galaxies have a bar or visible disk structure that shows how the core and its rings are connected. Usually, the rings aren't symmetrical because they form due to galaxies interacting with other galaxies or their environment. This galaxy's round core and ring defy both of those properties and challenge theories.

He discovered that although PGC 10000714 was included in catalogs of galaxies, there was no description to match it.

Treuthardt, an astrophysicist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, worked with a team of researchers to image and study the galaxy. They used multi-waveband images from a large-diameter telescope to determine the age of its features. Their research was published in a study on Wednesday.

To Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil, a Ph.D. candidate at the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, it resembled Hoag's Object. Named for the astronomer who discovered it in 1950, Hoag's Object is a non-typical ring galaxy with a round core and perfect, detached outer ring with no signs of a hidden substructure.

Hoag-type galaxies strongly resemble this and are extremely rare. Their origin is debated, Mutlu-Pakdil said. Usually, their structure differs and is more disc-like rather than round.

So few of them are known that scientists still don't have definite conclusions about their nature, evolution or systematic properties.

When Mutlu-Pakdil analyzed the galaxy, she was so surprised by the second inner ring that she checked the analysis multiple times. Each time, she received the same result.

"Then I realized one more time that the universe is full of surprises and we still have a lot to learn," she said.

One possibility for why these galaxies are so rare could be traced to the rings themselves. Compared with the rest of the galaxy they are attached to, the rings may not have a long life or may form only under certain conditions, Treuthardt said.

Because the two rings are different colors and ages, the galaxy could have experienced two periods of formation and growth. Another possibility is that the outer ring was acquired as the galaxy included parts of a neighboring galaxy, according to the study.

But the data for PGC 10000714 are limited. In order to learn how the rings formed, Treuthardt said, researchers will need infrared images and spectroscopic data. He also wants to investigate the inner portions and structure of the galaxy and discover more about its gas environment.

"By really understanding how this galaxy and others like it may have formed and evolved, it helps us better understand galaxy formation and evolution in general," Treuthardt said. "Outliers like PGC 1000714 challenge our theories, which is an important aspect of science."

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A few years ago, it caught the attention of researcher Patrick Treuthardt as he analyzed a span of galaxies. At first, he thought it was a small, fairly common elliptical galaxy that happened to be more circular than usual. But a closer look revealed that he had stumbled across something incredibly rare.

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Washington Man: ‘Satan Was in Control’ When I Killed My Ex-Girlfriend and Two Others at Party

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Police say a teenager and his mother are under arrest in the death of a Missouri State University football player who tried to stop a fight involving his sister in Las Vegas.

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Edward Snowden's leave to remain in Russia has been extended until 2020, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has confirmed to CNN.Snowden, a former US National Security Agency contractor, sought asylum in Russia in June 2013 after leaking volumes of information on American intelligence and surveillance operations to the media.

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Snowden, a former US National Security Agency contractor, sought asylum in Russia in June 2013 after leaking volumes of information on American intelligence and surveillance operations to the media.

On Tuesday, Zakharova announced an extension of a "couple of years" in a Facebook post that criticized former CIA acting director Michael Morell for an opinion piece he wrote suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin should consider returning Snowden to the United States as "the perfect inauguration gift" to President-elect Donald Trump.

Snowden settled in Moscow after initially traveling to Hong Kong following his 2013 public disclosure of classified information. The Russian government granted him asylum soon after.

In August 2014, Snowden received a three-year extension to his leave to remain in Russia. That extension was due to expire this year.

In the final weeks of the Obama administration, more than a million supporters have petitioned the White House to pardon Snowden.

However, the White House said Tuesday that Snowden had not submitted official documents requesting clemency. He is accused of espionage and theft of government property.

Also Tuesday, Snowden thanked President Barack Obama in a tweet for his decision to commute the sentence of former Army soldier Chelsea Manning, who was convicted of stealing and disseminating 750,000 pages of documents and videos to WikiLeaks.

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Snowden, a former US National Security Agency contractor, sought asylum in Russia in June 2013 after leaking volumes of information on American intelligence and surveillance operations to the media.

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Poll: Trump will take office as most unpopular president in at least 4 decades

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Friends and family of a missing Missouri woman launched a desperate search Tuesday after she failed to return home from work over the weekend.

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Temperature data for 2016 shows it is likely to have edged ahead of 2015 as the world's warmest year.

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Temperature data for 2016 shows it is likely to have edged ahead of 2015 as the world's warmest year.

Data from Nasa and the UK Met Office shows temperatures were about 0.07 degrees Celsius above the 2015 mark.

Although the Met Office increase was within the margin of error, Nasa says that 2016 was the third year in a row to break the record.

The El Niño weather phenomenon played a role, say scientists, but the main factor was human emissions of CO2.

The latest conclusions won't come as a much of a shock to observers, as the likely outcome was trailed heavily towards the end of last year.
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So warm was the early part of 2016 - influenced by a powerful El Niño - that some leading climate scientists were predicting as early as May that a new record was probable.

During an El Niño, a band of unusually warm ocean water develops in parts of the Pacific. The phenomenon affects the climate globally, disrupting weather patterns.

According to Nasa figures, 2016 is now the warmest year in a record that dates back to 1880.

"2015 has been the warmest year on record up until now, so 2016 has just beaten that and and it's beaten that by about 0.1-0.12 of a degree Celsius, which doesn't seem like a lot, but in terms of the year-to-year variations it's actually huge," Dr Gavin Schmidt from Nasa told BBC News.

"This is a very clear record that we're seeing. It is driven mainly by changes in the tropical Pacific where we had an El Niño event that produced a lot of warmth. But we've also seen long-term trends in warming mostly due to the increasing greenhouse gases."

Another factor that has affected temperatures in 2016 is the unusual warmth in the Arctic.

The sea-ice covering the Arctic reached its second lowest level (in terms of extent) in September 2016. The sea-ice grows in autumn and winter and shrinks each spring and summer.

While the sea-ice extent last year didn't break the record, the mercury stayed high and the smaller amount of ice now present in the region is at unprecedented levels for the time of year.

A number of meteorological agencies from around the world all released their figures on Wednesday. They all suggest that warming in 2016 was a record that had an important contribution from El Niño.

The Met Office says it contributed about 0.2C to the annual average for 2016. However, researchers believe that while this is substantial, it is not the whole story.

"We understand the contribution El Niño makes fairly well and we've seen it many times," said Prof Ellie Highwood from the University of Reading.

"But even if you take that contribution away, we would expect 2015 and 2016 to still be the warmest years we've seen, so a majority of it is coming from global warming and the greenhouse effect."

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which pulls together temperature data from a number of sources, agrees that 2016 broke the record by 0.07C.

Not all of the reports on temperature data in 2016 are clear that the warmest-year record has been broken.

Century dominated by records

The Met Office says that 2016 was 0.77 above the long-term rate, but with a plus or minus error margin of 0.1C, meaning that last year was at the very least, one of the two warmest years on record.

"The final figures confirm that 2016 was yet another extremely warm year," said Peter Stott from the Met Office.

"The temperature for last year was very close to the year before, temperatures for 2016 exceeding those for 2015 by a small margin."

Regardless of the small margins, when the new data on 2016 is included, 15 of the warmest 16 years on record have now occurred since 2001.

According to Noaa (the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the only year from the 20th Century to break into the top 16 is 1998, and which ranks seventh warmest.

This prolonged period of warming was having significant impacts around the world.

"We have also broken sea-ice minimum records in the Arctic and Antarctic," said Petteri Taalas from the WMO.

"The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average. The persistent loss of sea-ice is driving weather, climate and ocean circulation patterns in other parts of the world. We also have to pay attention to the potential release of methane from melting permafrost," he said.

Of great concern to scientists and politicians is the fact that the newly published temperature data shows the Earth is once again more than one degree warmer than pre-industrial times, and edging closer to the threshold of 1.5C set under the Paris climate pact.

With the Trump administration about to take office in the US, there are concerns that political support for climate action might fade. This would be a big mistake according to scientists.

"Climate change is one of the great challenges of the 21st Century and shows no signs of slowing down," said Prof Mark Maslin, from University College London.

"The decarbonisation of the global economy is the ultimate goal to prevent the worst effects of climate change. The hottest year on record is such a clear warning siren that even President-elect Trump cannot ignore it."

Researchers say that 2017 is unlikely to break the warming record but will be in the top five hottest years.

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Temperature data for 2016 shows it is likely to have edged ahead of 2015 as the world's warmest year. Data from Nasa and the UK Met Office shows temperatures were about 0.07 degrees Celsius above the 2015 mark.

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Syria conflict: Russia and Turkey 'in first joint air strikes on IS'

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Russian and Turkish jets have carried out their first joint strikes on so-called Islamic State (IS) inside Syria, the Russian defence ministry says.

IS was targeted in the suburbs of the town of al-Bab, Aleppo province, where Turkey suffered heavy casualties last month battling the group on the ground.

Turkey's military was quoted by Reuters as saying Russia had carried out air strikes "in co-ordination with Turkey".

Russia and Turkey back opposing sides in Syria's five-year civil war.

Moscow intervened militarily in support of President Bashar al-Assad in 2015, while Ankara has funded and armed his opponents.

Turkey and Russia: Uneasy allies

Returning home to ruins of East Aleppo

Why is there a war in Syria?

Al-Bab, about 20km (12 miles) from the Turkish border, has been the focus of a five-month Turkish-backed Syrian rebel campaign aimed at pushing back both IS and Kurdish forces.

US aircraft carried out strikes on the area earlier this week, also in co-operation with Turkey, but a joint combat operation between a Nato state like Turkey and Russia marks a highly unusual development.

Didn't Russia and Turkey fight each other in the air just over a year ago?

Yes, a Turkish F-16 fighter shot down a Su-24 bomber on 24 November 2015, while the Russian plane was on a mission in the Syrian border area. One of the crew was killed while the other was rescued.

This clash between Russia and a Nato state caused a crisis in relations between the two countries, with Moscow imposing sanctions which hurt the Turkish economy.

It only ended after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly expressed regret.

Since then, the two countries have not only mended economic ties but worked together last month to secure a nationwide truce in Syria that is still in place despite violations.

Along with Iran, they are organising peace talks due to begin in the Kazakh capital, Astana, on Monday.

What we know about the plane downing

Turkish policy sets new path for Syria

As complex as ever: Analysis by Jonathan Marcus, BBC diplomatic correspondent

It is unusual, to say the least, for the Russian air force to conduct joint air strikes alongside a Nato member like Turkey.

While Russian sources have listed the aircraft involved, it is still not clear this was a joint operation. For example, did each country's warplanes strike a discrete set of targets?

What we do know is that Turkish ground forces are making heavy weather of their assault on the IS positions in and around al-Bab. Ties between Moscow and Ankara have been warming of late as Turkey adjusts to the Russian-backed recapture of Aleppo by Syrian government forces.

But to complicate the picture further, US warplanes have recently resumed support for Turkish operations in the al-Bab area as well.

Turkey's main strategic goal is to contain the advance of Kurdish fighters who themselves are allies of the Americans. It is seeking to secure a wedge of territory between two Kurdish-controlled enclaves. Syria's battle lines are as complex as ever.

How big is Wednesday's operation?

A Russian spokesman, Lt-Gen Sergei Rudskoi, said nine Russian aircraft and eight Turkish planes had been involved in Wednesday's strikes.

He listed them as four Su-24s, four Su-25s and one Su-34 on the Russian side, and four F-16s and four F-4s on the Turkish side.

They had hit 36 targets, he added, without giving details.

But he added: "The estimate of the first strikes against IS terrorists has shown that the joint actions of the Russian and Turkish aviation groups were highly effective."

Last month, Turkish military officials said Russian aircraft had carried out three strikes against IS around al-Bab.

Those strikes appeared to be the first Russian support for the Turkish ground campaign.

Is it a surprise to see a Nato state apparently joining forces with Russia?

Relations between Moscow and Nato have certainly been strained in recent years, particularly after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

Only last week, the US sent 3,000 soldiers backed with tanks and armoured vehicles to Poland, as a deterrent to Moscow.

But Turkish relations with the US and other Western powers have deteriorated since the failed coup on 15 July, when the West was accused of showing insufficient support for Mr Erdogan.

American support for Kurdish forces inside Syria has further strained the relationship.

A Nato official referred questions about the al-Bab raids to the authorities in Ankara and Moscow.

"Nato has suspended co-operation with Russia in the framework of the Nato-Russia Council," the official said. "This decision does not affect bilateral or multilateral co-operation that our allies may be engaged in."

How heavy is the fighting around al-Bab?

On 21 December, 14 Turkish soldiers were killed and 33 wounded in a single day of fighting for the town.

It was the Turkish military's biggest loss in a single day since the start of the rebel offensive aimed at seizing one of the last remaining stretches of the border not controlled by the Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) militia.

The Turkish government considers the YPG an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and therefore a terrorist organisation.

It has also vowed to prevent the creation of a contiguous Kurdish autonomous region in Syria.

So far, the offensive has stopped YPG fighters advancing west of the River Euphrates and driven IS militants out of more than 1,870 sq km (720 sq miles) of territory, according to the Turkish military.

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Russian and Turkish jets have carried out their first joint strikes on so-called Islamic State (IS) inside Syria, the Russian defence ministry says. IS was targeted in the suburbs of the town of al-Bab, Aleppo province, where Turkey suffered heavy casualties last month battling the group on the ground.

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KC teacher taking her son to Womens march in Washington D.C.

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A Roeland Park mother is heading to Washington, D.C., this week with her 8-year-old son to take part in the women's march.

"'I feel so frustrated and so powerless.' Like, it's not OK that these messages are being communicated to my kids, but also the kiddos I teach," fourth-grade teacher Kristi Meyer said.

Meyer's son, Miles, said that he is curious about the march and about Washington, D.C.

"I'm just glad it doesn't take as long as a car trip would take," Miles Meyer said.

"It's a really unique time in history to be able to be a part of that, and feeling like when you're with a group that big it's even stronger," Kristi Meyer said.

She said she hopes the trip provides a learning experience for her son and her students.

"We're kind of connecting MLK with the march on Washington with the march this weekend, so that I can share my experience when I come back," Kristi Meyer said.

Some metro families can't afford to make it to the women's march in the nation's capital. One is planned at 1 p.m. Saturday at Washington Square Park in Kansas City.

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A Roeland Park mother is heading to Washington, D.C., this week with her 8-year-old son to take part in the women's march. "'I feel so frustrated and so powerless.' Like, it's not OK that these messages are being communicated to my kids, but also the kiddos I teach," fourth-grade teacher Kristi Meyer said.

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A giant Turkish plane crashes into a village in kyrgyzstan coming from hong kong

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A Turkish freighter flying from Hong Kong crashed into a village in Kyrgyzstan, killing dozens.

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A man suffered burns after trying to set himself on fire outside of Trump Hotel. The man told a reporter that he tried to set himself ablaze “as an act of protest.”

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In his final White House press conference, President Obama said he has emphasized to President-elect Trump the importance of surrounding himself with a strong team of advisers.

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"This is a job of such magnitude that you can't do it by yourself," Obama said. "You are enormously reliant on a team - your Cabinet, your senior White House staff, all the way to fairly junior folks in their 20s and 30s but executing on significant responsibilities. And so how you put a team together to make sure that they are getting you the best information and they are teeing up the options is probably the most useful constructive advice I've been able to give him."

While he has offered his advice and counsel, Obama said it's fitting that Trump will pursue a different agenda from his own.

"It is appropriate for him to go forward with his vision and his values, and I don't expect that there's going to be, you know, enormous overlap," Obama said. "It may be that on certain issues, once he comes into office and he looks at the complexities of how to, in fact, provide health care for everybody, something he says he wants to do, or wants to make sure that he is encouraging job creation and wage growth in this country, that may lead him to some of the same conclusions that I arrived at once I got here. But I don't think we'll know until he has an actual chance to get sworn in and sit behind that desk."

Obama would not elaborate on his conversations with Trump but said their talks have been "cordial" and "substantive."

Obama applauded the work of the White House press corps in holding him accountable and encouraged the press to continue in that role.

"You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics," he told reporters in the briefing room.

"My hope is that you will continue with the same tenacity that you showed us, to do the hard work of getting to the bottom of stories and getting them right and to push those of us in power to be the best version of ourselves and to push this country to be the best version of itself," Obama said. "I have no doubt that you will do so. I'm looking forward to being an active consumer of your work rather than always the subject of it. I want to thank you all for your extraordinary service to our democracy."

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Alexis Manigo was abducted as a baby she now found out that she was raised by another mom than her own she stated that she would always be a great mother.

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Eighteen years ago, Alexis Manigo was snatched from a Florida hospital as a newborn and spent her entire life being raised by a woman, Gloria Williams, who wasn't her mom.

Recently, after DNA testing, Manigo, who was given the name Kamiyah Mobley at birth, discovered her true identity.

But instead of harboring ill will towards the suspect, Manigo, who is still reeling from the discovery, called her "a great mother."

"That's all I want people to know," she told " Good Morning America" in an exclusive interview. "She was a great mother."

"I will never have malice for her," she added. "I will always love her."

Williams, 51, allegedly snatched Manigo from a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida just hours after she was born, and has been arrested and charged with the kidnapping.

Williams, who has not yet entered a plea, appeared before a judge for her first court hearing in Jacksonville today. The judge set no bond for Williams on the kidnapping charge but set her bail at $503,000 on the interference with custody charge. Williams' next court appearance is slated for Feb. 8.

Earlier this month, authorities revealed that they used DNA testing to determine that Manigo was not Williams' biological daughter, and that the teenager was the victim of a decades-old kidnapping case.

"I understand what she did was wrong, but just don't lock her up and throw away the key," Manigo pleaded.

"She loved me for 18 years, she cared about me for 18 years," Manigo said. "I just want people to realize that."

"She made one mistake, but I was loved," Manigo said. "From that one mistake I was given the best life."

"I had everything I ever needed, wanted, I had love especially. There is no price you can put on the love that was given to me," Manigo said.

Manigo added that the attention that she has been getting has been "overwhelming." Last week, she was joyfully reunited with her birth mother and father, saying "when you find a new family, it's just more love."

She added that the reunion was bittersweet because it also meant that the woman who raised her was taken away from her.

"For some it's a victory," Manigo said. "But at the same time you do take a loss when someone so dear to you is just snatched like that."

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Manigo said she is still processing everything that has happened, and though she identified herself as "Alexis Manigo," she said she is fine with people calling her by her birth name.

"It's all a bit much for me, but if you know me by 'Alexis' continue to call me 'Alexis', if you know me as 'Kamiyah,' then you can call me that to. I'm not really specific right now. I haven't even thought about that, I'm just taking it one step at a time," Manigo said. "I don't want any malice with anybody."

"Regardless of what you refer to me to, I know who I am, I've never questioned myself," Manigo said. "I know who I am as a person."

Williams was extradited from South Carolina to Florida on Tuesday but Manigo said, "I still think of her as mom, she will always be 'Mom.'"

Manigo said it has been hard for her to deal with the comments and judgment that has been directed on Williams and her online.

"They want me to hate her, and it's not in me to," Manigo said.

Manigo's attorney, Justin Bamberg, told "GMA" that people online have made hurtful comments directed towards Manigo and Williams.

"Until you are in that situation, I don't think you should be so quick to judge," Bamberg said. "I want you to ask yourself, 'What would I say if I woke up tomorrow and I found out that my mother was not my mother?'"

"Anybody can be bold behind the keyboard, that's the new thing," Bamberg added. "Be upset, but also be mindful that there is an innocent 18-year-old who is left to deal with this."

ABC News' Eva Pilgrim and Scott Withers contributed to this report.

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Ford just revealed updates for one of America's most famous cars. The 2018 Mustang is going to get a more powerful engine and a 10-speed transmission.

But the most noticeable change for the Mustang will be its new face. Designers sloped the car's nose down lower over the grill, a change that makes the front end appear longer. Also, new headlights are smaller and more intricately shaped. Overall, the reworked front end gives the Mustang more of a sleek "sports car" image and less of a blocky "muscle car" look.

On the back end, new taillight lenses have a more complex angled shape than the simple vertical blocks on the current model.

Inside, the new Mustang's gauge cluster will be all digital. Essentially, it will be a wide computer screen displaying customizable gauges that vary with each driving mode; Normal, Sport and Track.

The 10-speed transmission will, of course, be an automatic. (Drivers won't have to shift through all those gears as they merge onto the highway.) It's a transmission Ford developed in cooperation with General Motors . With increasing fuel economy demands, we can expect to see it used in more cars in the future.

Generally speaking, more gears means more efficiency. On the other hand, more efficient use of engine power car can also mean better performance.

The new transmission will be flexible enough to serve both needs, said Carl Wildmann, Ford's chief program engineer for the Mustang. For instance, the transmission won't always shift gears sequentially but will be able to quickly go from, say 10th gear right down to 6th gear if the driver punches the gas pedal for a burst of speed. With that many gears to choose from it should always be able to find the perfect one for any given driving situation, Wildmann said.

The base transmission will still be a six speed manual but that also has been improved, according to Ford.

The new Mustang will be available with either a 5.0-liter V8 or a 2.3-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine. The V8 engine will produce more horsepower than the same-sized engine in today's Mustang, Wildmann said. He isn't saying, yet, just how much more power.

The four-cylinder will provide more torque -- a measure of raw pulling power -- than the one offered in today's Mustang. Its total horsepower output, a measure of power and speed combined, is expected to remain about the same at 310.

The 300 horsepower V6 engine offered as the low-priced option in today's Mustang will no longer be available. Given that, it seems likely that the starting price for the new Mustang will be a little higher -- the four-cylinder costs about $1,000 more than the V6 -- but Ford hasn't announced final pricing for the car yet. It's expected to go on sale some time this year.

CNNMoney (Detroit) First published January 17, 2017: 11:07 AM ET

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