Adult film star Mia Khalifa has revealed she left porn because she received death threats from terrorists.

The Lebanese-American influencer and social media star said she received threats from the so-called Islamic State, with some messages even threatening decapitation.

Khalifa now works as a sports show host and she told disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's podcast about the effect the threats had on her.

'It all started to spiral out of control when the death threats from ISIS started coming in. That's when I stepped away,' the 25-year-old said.

Khalifa only worked in the adult film industry for a few months between 2014 and 2015, however, she quickly rose to viral fame. In December of 2014, she was ranked as the No. 1 performer by a popular adult website. 

In one of her more iconic films, the star wears a hijab while having sexual intercourse with a male actor and an older hijab-wearing actress, who plays the part of Khalifa's stepmother. While porn viewers apparently liked the video, many individuals were also outraged by the performance.

Defending the video in 2015, Khalifa said it was meant to be satirical and that Hollywood routinely portrays Muslims in a far more offensive and negative way.

Although Khalifa may have played a Muslim character on screen, she was raised in a Christian family. Born in Lebanon, she moved to the United States in 2000.

Beyond talking about the death threats during the podcast, Khalifa also appeared to express regret about her work in porn.

Khalifa went on to say that she is now working on changing her image. 

She recently worked as a co-host of the sports talk-show Out of Bounds but quit after just two months, the Mirror reported.

Despite her decision to leave porn, Khalifa has maintained a large following online. She has more than 2 million followers on Twitter and about 5.6 million on Instagram.

A picture that has gone viral online shows the groom sitting at the mandap and working on a laptop, oblivious to what is happening around him.  

The photo was shared by an Instagram handle named ‘Calcutta Instagrammers' which shows a Kolkata groom seated in the mandap, along with two priests. As the priests perform the rituals and bless the groom, he can be seen engrossed in his work on the laptop. Though it is not clear what exactly was he working on his laptop, it has been assumed that it was some official work. 

The photo was captioned, “When "work from home" stretches you to the next level. TAG A FRIEND who might be seen doing this during their wedding.''  

While a few laughed this off, a majority of social media users criticized the toxic work environment that does not let a person even enjoy his own wedding. 

One user wrote, “I don't find this funny. No organisation asks an employee to work on their wedding days, this person needs to get a life and learn work-life balance if this is really true and not staged! God bless the woman he's marrying.'' 

A second wrote, “Don't promote toxic work culture, this is nothing to be proud of.'' A third said, “I am not sure if this is staged or real. I know it's funny to some extent but don't promote toxic work culture behaviour.'' 

This is not the first incident where such a situation has occurred. Last year, a picture of a groom working on his wedding night had been turned into a hugely popular meme on social media. 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is flooded with greetings on his 72nd birthday. Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, and many other Bollywood stars sent birthday wishes. But actress Mallika Sherawat sent birthday wishes in a different way, which went viral overnight.

But not on this 72nd birthday. The incident happened in 2013. Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat then. In the hilarious clip, loosely inspired by the late Hollywood actor Marilyn Monroe's birthday song for then US President John F Kennedy, Mallika had sung her version of the song. Before she crooned ‘happy birthday Narendra Modi’ in a breathy way on a TV show, the actor had declared him India's most ‘eligible bachelor’. In 1962, Marilyn had serenaded John F Kennedy with a sultry rendition of ‘happy birthday’ as he turned 45.

Mallika’s 2013 video had invited both comparisons with Marilyn's performance and ridicule after she shared a video of her birthday message for Narendra Modi.

Sinovac Biotech Ltd. said its coronavirus shot is safe and capable of eliciting an immune response from human trials, suggesting the shot's potential in defending against infection of the novel coronavirus.

The Beijing-based company's vaccine, called CoronaVac, hasn't caused severe side effects and more than 90% of people administered with the shot on a 14-day interval have induced neutralising antibodies two weeks after inoculation, Sinovac said in a press release on Sunday.

The preliminary findings come from phase I and II trials in China. A total of 743 healthy people ages 18 to 59 either received shots on two schedules or a placebo. More data will be uncovered from another group in the trial that received shots on a 28-day interval. Sinovac plans to publish its results in academic journals, according to a company spokesman.

Using a killed version of the coronavirus, Sinovac's vaccine is among five Chinese experimental shots that have reached the crucial final stage of human testing before they can be approved for public use. The company announced a partnership this month with Instituto Butantan to conduct its phase III trial in Brazil, where the novel pathogen has caused the second-largest outbreak in a global pandemic that so far infected more than 7.7 million people and killed over 428,000.

Since lockdowns and social-distancing measures have helped to keep infection rates low in many countries, some of the world's leading vaccine efforts are seeking to conduct phase III trial in active outbreaks to evaluate the effectiveness of their shots.

Authorities in Brazil have approved the vaccine co-developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc to carry out late stage trials there, while Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna Inc. is set to go into phase III trials in the US.

In a case seen as a test of the Philippines' media freedom, journalist Maria Ressa has been found guilty of cyber libel.

She denied the charges and claimed they were politically motivated.

A former writer for her news site, Rappler, was also convicted. Both have been released on bail pending appeal but could face six years in prison.

Press freedom advocates say the trial is aimed at silencing critics of President Rodrigo Duterte.

But the president and his supporters have accused her, and her site, of reporting fake news.

In a country where journalists are under threat, Ms Ressa's case became symbolic and closely-followed - both domestically and internationally.

What was she accused of?

The case against her relates to an eight-year-old Rappler story on businessman Wilfredo Keng's alleged ties to a former judge.

The prosecution came under a "cyber-libel" law which came into force in September 2012 - four months after Rappler published the article.

But prosecutors said a correction to the story in 2014 - to fix a "typo" - meant the article was covered by the law.

The judge on Monday said Rappler offered no proof to back up its allegations against Mr Keng.

Judge Rainelda Montea added that her verdict was based on evidence presented to the court - adding that freedom of the press cannot be used as a shield against libel.

Ms Ressa and her colleague were allowed to remain free on bail, pending a possible appeal.

But if the conviction stands, it carries a sentence of up to six years.

"We are going to stand up against any kind of attacks against press freedom," she said after the verdict.

Who is Maria Ressa?

Born in the Philippines, Ms Ressa grew up in the US and only returned to the country in the 1980s after the fall of authoritarian leader Ferdinand Marcos.

A former CNN journalist, she founded Rappler in 2012. It is one of the few local sites to openly criticise the Duterte administration and its brutal war on drugs, which has claimed thousands of lives.

Rappler and Ms Ressa have also been targeted in other court cases, ranging from tax evasion to foreign ownership violations.