LOS ANGELES: After making her first public appearance in months at the American Music Awards recently, Selena Gomez returned to Instagram.
Following a three month break from the social media site, the 24-year-old thanked her fans for their support in a moving post.
“I have a lot to be thankful for this year,” Selena wrote, along with a black and white photo which showed her posing in front of a throng of excited fans.
“My year has been the hardest yet most rewarding one yet. I’ve finally fought the fight of not being enough.”
“...Kindness always wins,” she said.
On Sunday, Gomez, who lost artist of the year to Ariana Grande but won favorite female artist at the American Music Awards, gave a heartfelt speech onstage that earned a loud applause from the audience at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
“I think it’s safe to say that most of you know a lot of my life whether I liked it or not, and I had to stop, ‘cause I had everything, and I was absolutely broken inside. And I kept it all together to where I never let you down. But I kept it too much together where I let myself down,” said the 24-year-old singer, who recently took time off to treat depression and anxiety she faced after her split from Justin Bieber.
Gomez breaks silence with touching message
Gomez breaks silence with touching message
Vietnam police find frozen tiger bodies, arrest two men
Vietnamese police have found two dead tigers inside freezers in a man’s basement, arresting him and another for illicit trade in the endangered animal, the force said Saturday.
The Southeast Asian country is a consumption hub and popular trading route for illegal animal products, including tiger bones which are used in traditional medicine.
Police in Thanh Hoa province, south of the capital Hanoi, said they had found the frozen bodies ot two adult tigers, weighing about 400 kilograms (882 pounds) in total, in the basement of 52-year-old man Hoang Dinh Dat.
In a statement posted online, police said the man told officers he had bought the animals for two billion dong ($77,000), identifying the seller as 31-year-old Nguyen Doan Son.
Both had been arrested earlier this week, police said.
According to the statement, the buyer had equipment to produce so-called tiger bone glue, a sticky substance believed to heal skeletal ailments.
Tigers used to roam Vietnam’s forests, but have now disappeared almost entirely.
