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American professional cyclist Tejay van Garderen did not mince words about people who boldly take selfies on the road. He wrote on his July 7 tweet, "A dangerous mix of vanity and stupidity."

According to a Boko Haram vigilante, Abbas Gava, the women escaped from their captors on Friday after the militants had left their camp to attack a police station and military barracks in the town of Damboa. A high-level source in Maiduguri, the state capital of Borno, said around half of the women who escaped had already returned to their homes, no doubt to the delight of their families. The other half supposedly remained in custody by soldiers in the town of Gulak.

According to Voice of American, the White House has stated that it will be working with Germany to resolve concerns on whether one of its intelligence employees indeed had spied for Washington. Falling short of confirming whether the allegations were true, White House spokesman Josh Earnest insisted that the government values its relationship with Berlin.