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Muslim girl stoned to death after attending beauty contest

May 31, 2011

A teenage Muslim girl was stoned to death under 'Sharia law' after she participated in a beauty contest in Ukraine, Daily Mail reported.Katya Koren was found dead in a village in the Crimea region near her home.The 19-year-old loved wearing fashionable clothes and had come seventh in the beauty contest, her friends said.Her body was buried in a forest and was found a week after she disappeared.Pol
Tech mogul offers scholarship not to go to college

May 30, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Instead of paying attention in high school, Nick Cammarata preferred to read books on whatever interested him. He also has a gift for coding that got him into Carnegie Mellon University’s esteemed computer science program despite his grades.But the 18-year-old programmer won’t be going to college this fall. Or maybe ever.Cammarata is one of two dozen winners of a scholarship j
Rare photos of young Marilyn Monroe surfaced

May 30, 2011

CNN on Monday published new photos of Marilyn Monroe on its website, offering a rare glimpse into her life before she became a star. Photographer Anton Fury came across the apparently unpublished photos at a garage sale. Fury paid $2 for a folder, which contained two envelopes of black-and-white negatives, in Parsippany, New Jersey, in 1980. Fury later took it home and discovered that the photos c
E. coli cucumbers may be in Austria, Hungary

May 30, 2011

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Spanish vegetables suspected of contamination with a potentially deadly bacteria are being recalled from stores in Austria and the Czech Republic to prevent the spread of a deadly outbreak, officials said.The death toll from the bacteria rose to at least 10 people, and hundreds across Europe have been sickened.Czech authorities said Sunday that 120 organic Spanish cu
More feared dead in Germany from contaminated cucumbers

May 30, 2011

Cucumbers from Spain, tomatoes and other vegetables are on display on a market in Hamburg northern Germany in this picture taken May 26, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)BERLIN, May 28, 2011 (AFP) - German health chiefs on Saturday announced four more deaths feared to have been caused by E. coli-contaminated cucumbers, bringing to ten the number of suspected deaths in the country. Two of the ten deaths have
Mladic arrest may boost Serb government

May 29, 2011
Mubarak fined for communications cut

May 29, 2011
Taliban attack NATO, Afghan leaders

May 29, 2011

KABUL (AP) ― A Taliban suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew himself up inside a heavily guarded compound Saturday as top Afghan and international officials left a meeting, killing two senior Afghan police commanders and wounding the German general who commands coalition troops in northern Afghanistan.Two German soldiers and two other Afghans were also killed in the blast, the latest in an
Egypt reopens its border with Gaza

May 29, 2011

Travel restrictions eased for 1.5 million residents of the Palestinian territoryRAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ― Egypt lifted a 4-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, greatly easing travel restrictions on the 1.5 million residents of the Palestinian territory in a move that bolstered the Hamas government while dealing a setback to Israel’s attempts to isolate the militant group.The sense of re
China seals off Inner Mongolia towns amid protest over herder

May 29, 2011

BEIJING (AP) ― Police sealed off parts of two county seats in China’s Inner Mongolia for a second day Saturday in what residents described as a kind of martial law after protests triggered by the death of a Mongolian herder run over by a Chinese truck driver.The demonstrations this past week in two counties and a nearby city are rare for Inner Mongolia, unlike China’s other troubled border regions
Dutch Cabinet commits to anti-marijuana plan

May 29, 2011

The Dutch government on Friday said it would start banning tourists from buying cannabis from "coffee shops" and impose restrictions on Dutch customers by the end of the year.The Netherlands is well known for having one of Europe's most liberal soft drug policies that has made its cannabis shops a popular tourist attraction, particularly in Amsterdam.Backed by the far-right party of anti-immigrant
House of death now on sale

May 29, 2011

(MCT)A house with three rooms and a huge garden in Maryland is now on sale for $515,000. However, there is one thing the agent selling the house would probably prefer you not find out: It’s the site of three murders.According to state law, the agent does not necessarily need to tell buyers about crimes that have taken place in the house.The most recent owner, Brian Betts, who was a principal at Ga
Serbia arrests Mladic on war crimes charges

May 27, 2011

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP)- After 16 years on the run, a frail and haggard Ratko Mladic was hauled before a judge Thursday _ the first step in facing charges for international war crimes, including the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.No longer the fearsome, bull-necked military commander, Mladic was arrested by intelligence agents in a raid before dawn a
Carla Bruni, visibly pregnant, welcomes G8 wives

May 27, 2011

Carla Bruni (AP)DEAUVILLE, France, (AFP) - France's first lady Carla Bruni, visibly pregnant, welcomed wives of G8 leaders to a working lunch on the sidelines of the group's summit on Thursday.Wearing an unbelted white dress and a black coat, she posed briefly for pictures with four of the spouses who came to Deauville with the G8 leaders.Neither 43-year-old Bruni nor her husband President Nicolas
Obama: West leadership role still strong

May 26, 2011

President argues only Western allies have fortitude to promote democracyLONDON (AP) ― President Barack Obama stood in the historic grandeur of Westminster Hall and served notice to England and the world that the growing influence of countries like China, India and Brazil does not mean a diminished global role for America and its European allies.“The time for our leadership is now,” Obama declared