[NEWS.SKY] A woman in China who allegedly murdered her husband and boiled his corpse in a pressure cooker has reportedly handed herself into police.
The man was allegedly drugged and tortured by his wife for three days in June, according to a report on government-backed news portal Anhui News.
The woman, who he had reportedly abused, then dismembered her husband's body with a saw and boiled the parts in a pressure cooker to cover her tracks, the report claimed.
It did not detail how she supposedly disposed of his cooked flesh.
The woman reportedly turned herself into police due to the psychological stress of the alleged crime, which saw her lose more than 6kg in weight.
A police officer in Anhui province's Lu'an City, where the man died, confirmed the case to the AFP news agency but declined to give further details.
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[LOHUD] Eight Peekskill High School students didn't graduate in June and must return to school this month because they were given credit for a class that doesn't exist.
Other students had to attend summer school to graduate, said interim schools Superintendent Larry Licopoli, but he didn't have a number.
And The Journal News has obtained records that show then-Superintendent James Willis ordered four guidance counselors suspected of handing out credits for phony courses to turn over information "inappropriately deleted" from an online system containing student data.
They're among the latest developments in the transcript scandal that began unfolding in January, when school officials said at least 34 seniors received credits for classes that didn't exist. Many received credit for a "co-op" class, which officials said appeared to be a legitimate work-experience course discontinued years ago. The four guidance counselors were reassigned amid suspicion of misconduct.
The high school's social studies chairwoman, 53-year-old Allison Risoli of Peekskill, is facing criminal charges, accused of altering answers on Regents examinations at least two weeks after the reassignment of the guidance counselors. She is on paid leave.
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They copied the University of North Carolina's black studies program for athletes, which was overseen by the present chancellor of the esteemed University of Kansas.
[MYFOXNY] In a case that ruffled feathers in Egypt, authorities have tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a migratory bird that a citizen suspected of being a spy.
A man in Egypt's Qena governorate, some 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of Cairo, found the suspicious bird among four others near his home and brought them to a cop shoppe Friday, said Mohammed Kamal, the head of the security in the region.
There, officers and the man puzzled over the electronic device attached to the suspected winged infiltrator. On Saturday, a veterinary committee called by concerned government officials determined the device was neither a bomb nor a spying device.
Instead, they discovered it was a wildlife tracker used by French scientists to follow the movement of migrating birds, said Ayman Abdallah, the head of Qena veterinary services. Abdallah said the device stopped working when the bird crossed the French border, absolving it of being an avian Mata Hari.
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The Egyptians have it right and that is not all these nasty 'spy birds" do:
[MAGHAREBIA] The first International Flamenco Festival of Tangier will kick off on September 5th, MAP reported on Saturday (August 31st). The three day "Nights of Andalusia" event will feature Moroccan and Spanish artists.
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So I guess trailing wife, Barbara and maybe thing from snowy mountain are marking their calendars, booking flights to Tangier, nes pas
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Sadly, Shotle Ebbaing3000, I never got farther than an invitation to join a Spanish folk dancing group about to tour the continent, and even then they sadly overestimated my abilities. Also, they were desperate. Flamenco is a very different kettle of pigeons altogether.
[Bangla Daily Star] An upazila chairman was killed and at least 10 others were maimed in a clash between two factions of the ruling Awami League in Mymensingh Sadar upazila on Sunday evening.
Forkanuddin Mridha alias Selim, 40, was the chairman of Dhubaura upazila Gay Pareehad and also the upazila unit secretary of AL, reports our correspondent in Mymensingh.
Selim's supporters got into a clash with men of Azizul Haq Khan, secretary of Gamaritola union AL in Panchanandapur area in the upazila around 2:10pm, said Abdul Haque, officer-in-charge of Dhubaura Police Station.
Local administration intervened to stop the clash and imposed Section 144 in the area, the police official said.
Defying the restriction, the activists again started the clash around 5:00pm which left 10 people including Selim injured, the OC added.
He said among the injured, five were rushed to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where doctors declared Selim dead around 7:30pm.
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[BIRMINGHAMMAIL.CO.UK] A Birmingham Islamic TV channel has been fined £85,000 after a controversial presenter said it was a duty for Mohammedans to murder anyone who insults the Prophet Mohammad.
Broadcasting regulator Ofcom said the statement aired live on Noor TV last May could have radicalised its young viewers and incited them to commit acts of violence.
Satellite channel Noor TV boasts that its multi-lingual broadcasts from a studio in Victoria Road, Aston, specifically target young British Mohammedans.
The station says its mission is to "present a balanced, moderate and true face of Islam to both Mohammedans and non-Mohammedan communities across the globe".
But on its Paigham-e-Mustafa -- it means Message from Mustafa -- programme, presenter Allama Muhammad Farooq Nizami told its Mohammedan viewers that it was their duty to murder anyone who insulted Islam's prophet Mohammed.
The shocking advice was prompted by a caller who asked in Urdu what punishment was due for anyone showing disrespect to Islam.
Sitting alone in the studio, Nizami looked straight into the camera and replied: "One has to choose one's own method. Our way is the peaceful way but when someone crosses the limits, faith-based emotions are instigated.
"The mission of our life is to protect the sanctity of our beloved Lord.
"May Allah accept us wherever there is a need to kill a blasphemer.
"We are ready, and should be ready at all times, to kill a blasphemer."
Several viewers immediately contacted Ofcom to complain.
In addition to imposing a fine, Ofcom said the comments were 'likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime or to lead to disorder.'
It added it was concerned that young people watching the show could become 'radicalised' or take 'violent and criminal action as a result of watching videos of Mohammedans with extreme views.'
The remarks were deemed to be so inflammatory that they could have inspired a repeat of the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gough, who was killed after Islamic holy mans condemned his film criticising the treatment of Mohammedan women.
Ofcom also ordered the TV station not to repeat the segment and to broadcast a statement of its findings.
Al Ehya Digital, which owns Noor TV, fired Nizami in May this year for promoting personal political opinions and supporting a violent act.
In its statement Ofcom said Al Ehya Digital has not yet broadcast an apology or condemnation of Nizami's remarks and appears not to have recognised the gravity of the comments made by Nizami.
Despite this, the regulator fined Al Ehya Digital only a fraction of the £250,000 it could have imposed -- because it wanted to protect the station's right to 'freedom of expression'.
The fine comes three years after Al Ehya was fined £75,000 for appealing for viewers to donate money in return for 'prayers or the receipt of a "special gift" of earth from the tomb of Prophet Mohammed.'
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>station's right to 'freedom of expression'
Er Incitement to murder is not freedom of speech, it's criminal conspiracy.
Just a reminder that there are other conflicts in the world, currently at a low simmer, that could blow up at any time. Particularly if the world is engaged in dealing with other issues, like Syria/Lebanon/Iran/Egypt/Libya/Gazoo/Israel.
Armenian Armed Forces opened fire at positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the village of Gaymagli of Gazakh region, from the positions in the village of Barekamavan of Noyemberyan region of Armenia yesterday and tonight, press service of the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijani told Trend on Sunday.
The positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces were also subjected to fire of the Armenian forces from positions near the villages of Alkhanli, Ashagi Abdulrahmanli of Fizuli region, as well as from the positions on the nameless heights of Khojavend region.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the U.S. are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
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Kinda like watching five football games at the same time, it is hard to keep the good guys identified.
If South Carolina would just elect a few Dems, they could take care of that problem.
[POSTANDCOURIER] South Carolina ended the fiscal year with a higher-than-expected surplus, handing politicians an additional $68 million to distribute next year.
The fiscal-year closing report issued Wednesday by the state's chief accountant shows South Carolina collected more than enough taxes to fund every item on the Legislature's priority list for surplus revenue, as well as the full $50 million for bridge repair.
"The results of what we closed out support that economic conditions look strong for the state," Comptroller Richard Eckstrom told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Friday. "Operating conditions look pretty sound."
He noted the $6.2 billion "spent" in the year that ended June 30 included $282 million set aside in a rainy-day fund, which represents 5 percent of the prior year's general fund revenues. That's more than politicians were required to have in the reserve account. A constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2010 allowed politicians to incrementally increase the reserves, but politicians hit the 5 percent mark two years ahead of schedule.
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This article completely fails to mention the governor of the state. I guess it was just 'good luck.'
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded here and there, now and then are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] All cars could be fitted with devices that stop them going over 70mph, under new EU road safety measures which aim to cut deaths from road accidents by a third.
Betcha they cause more accidents than they prevent, especially until the stupid things are debugged, which it will turn out they desperately need to be.
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Will never happen. Communities make a lot of money with collecting fines
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That brought on a Keystone Cops image, Barbara - cops zooming along at 70 mph while the bad guys race away at 70 mph. Perpetual motion!
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My '99 Audi had a cutout at 130mph when I bought it (in'99). Is was based on the tire H rating (130 mph max) that came with the vehicle. I 'chipped' it and the max speed was replaced with a soft rev limiter. The car could then actually go the max speed it was designed for which is 148 mph. The speed limitation was all about liability and tire speed rating. It always comes down to the insurance peeps.
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Don't believe any crap about "aim to cut deaths". The aim of this, as has been admitted for 10 years or so, is to get all ars on the system so that taxes can be charged on road usage.
The control over people is just a side benefit. They're really after the money.
[An Nahar] German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... will come face-to-face in a television clash Sunday with her center-left election rival, confronting Peer Steinbrueck whom she has studiously ignored on the campaign trail.
In what has been billed as the primetime TV event of the year, Steinbrueck will have a last-ditch chance to close a yawning poll gap against the popular Merkel.
With three weeks to go to election day, the brash, straight-talking but gaffe-prone Social Democrat, who once served as Merkel's finance minister in a 'grand coalition' cabinet, faces an uphill struggle to unseat the unflappable leader of Europe's biggest economy.
A poll Sunday gave Merkel's conservatives 39 percent of the vote -- a significant lead over the combined totals of 23 percent for the Social Democrats (SPD) and 11 percent for the SPD's preferred allies the Greens.
Merkel's current coalition partner, the Free Democrats, scored six percent, according to the Emnid Institute survey for Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
About half of voting-age Germans said they planned to tune into the TV debate, two separate weekend polls said. And almost one in three expected that the verbal clash could influence their voting behavior, an INSA institute survey found.
With few truly divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... campaign issues to polarize the electorate -- both main parties largely cooperated in dealing with the eurozone crisis -- the campaign has been the most personality-based of recent times.
"We all know that Angela Merkel is a rather quiet personality who does not like to quarrel on the open stage," said RTL television's Peter Kloeppel, one of four moderators for the 90-minute debate starting at 1830 GMT on Sunday.
"Peer Steinbrueck is somewhat more aggressive, and that's what should make this duel more attractive. It will be interesting to watch how they use their temperaments. They can use it for their purposes, or it could count against them."
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[An Nahar] India's opposition said Sunday it would seek tougher punishments for juveniles after the first verdict in the New Delhi gang-rape case saw a teenager sentenced to three years' detention, sparking widespread anger.
The rape and murder of a 23-year-old student by six attackers on a moving bus last December sparked nationwide protests and led to reforms that mandated longer sentences for adult sex offenders.
Sushma Swaraj, opposition leader in the lower house of parliament, said she would introduce a bill this week to amend the law for juveniles.
"This meager punishment of just three years does not do justice," Swaraj wrote on Twitter.
"The sentence must commensurate with the gravity of the offense irrespective of the age of the offender," she added.
On Saturday a juvenile court in New Delhi sentenced the only under-age suspect in the gang -- who was 17 at the time of the crime -- to three years in a correctional facility.
This was the maximum sentence under India's law, which treats all under-18s as children and seeks to reform rather than punish them.
"TRAVESTY: December 16 teen rapist 'gets away' with murder," a headline in the tabloid Mail Today read, summing up the mood.
The convicted teen will spend about 28 months in a juvenile detention center, having already spent about eight months in jug awaiting the verdict.
"He can watch TV, play games while doing time," the Hindustan Times reported, while pointing out that police sources had earlier described the teenager as "the most brutal" of the six attackers.
The Times of India said the gang-rape victim had "been denied justice" by the juvenile court.
Subramanian Swamy, a politician from the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, told Agence La Belle France Presse the teenager "should have been executed" and he intended to file an appeal against Saturday's court order.
Swamy has already lodged a petition in the Supreme Court challenging India's juvenile law for not taking the gravity of a crime into account during sentencing.
"It's ridiculous to think you can reform a person who has committed a heinous crime, who has raped and murdered a young woman in such a brutal fashion," he added.
According to the teenager's defense lawyer, his conduct will be observed and the sentence could be reduced for good behavior.
The juvenile was employed to clean the bus where the attack took place and often slept rough or inside the vehicle, reports say.
A child rights activist who knows him said he grew up poor in a village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and moved to Delhi on his own at the age of 11 when he began a string of menial jobs.
"He changed jobs all the time, desperate to earn more and send money to his family," the activist told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The attack on the young woman brought simmering anger about endemic sex crime in India to the boil, and turned her attackers into public hate figures.
But despite soul-searching and a new law toughening sentences for rapists, sex crimes have continued unabated, with almost every day bringing news of a new grave offense.
News emerged Saturday evening of another attack in the Noida suburb of the capital, where a woman was allegedly gang-raped by five attackers including two police constables.
The Press Trust of India said the 25-year-old victim was attacked while visiting a male friend, who was also assaulted by the gang of five.
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[Dawn] Awami National Party leader Asfandyar Wali Khan on Saturday dissolved all party organizations, including central, provincial and district cabinets, in the country over the May 11 election defeat.
That seems a bit drastic...
"All future party organizations from lower to higher levels will be elected through a democratic process," he told a news conference at Wali Bagh here.
Mr Asfandyar said the decision top dissolve all party organizations had been made in light of the recommendations of a committee, which was formed to look into the party's defeat in the May 11 general elections.
He said the committee analysed the reasons and factors behind the party's election and found that there were two aspects of the defeat.
"One aspect was the conspiracies hatched against ANP by elements afraid of its political stand in wake of the emerging regional political scenario, while the other aspect related to the party and its government's internal weaknesses, including weakness of policy, weakness of governance and weakness of organization," he said.
The ANP chief said the fact-finding committee also criticised the mode of recruiting members into the party saying it lacked transparency and that the entire process of organization building based on it was flawed and unrepresentative.
He said ANP would soon begin fresh membership campaign, which would last two months.
He said a central election commission and five provincial election commissions would conduct the intra-party polls and Senator Haji Adeel had been made the chairman of the central election commission.
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[Dawn] Police arrested on Friday a former federal minister belonging to the PML-Q, Liaquat Abbas Bhatti, shortly after recovering from his Johar Town residence a 14-year-old housemaid allegedly tortured and chained along with her younger sister and brother.
Police raided the place after receiving a tip about the illegal confinement of Shahida, her sister Zubaida and seven-year-old brother Irfan.
Shahida was immediately sent to the Jinnah Hospital for medical examination as she had swollen legs and arms and torture marks suffered during 'months-long' detention in chains.
A doctor said she was suffering multiple health conditions, including anaemia, because of remaining in such a condition. Zubaida had a severe wrist fracture.
The doctors suggested hat the three siblings be admitted to the hospital.
Shahida told Dawn in the hospital that she had been confined by Mr Bhatti because of a Rs400,000 loan her father had taken from him.
She alleged that Mr Bhatti had reduced her salary, as well as those of there siblings after their father obtained the loan.
Liaquat's driver Wajid and two other employees tortured me when I refused to work at the new salary.
However, the children's father Ashiq Ali, of Kot Noor Shah, Sheikhupura, said he had not barrowed money from the landlord, alleging that his children had been illegally confined by Mr Bhatti for bonded labour.
He came to Lahore when Johar Town police informed him about the recovery of his children. Police denied media access to the arrested former MNA due to legal complications.
Saddar Division SP (Operations) Jehanzeb quoted Liaquat Bhatti as claiming that he had not detained the children for forced labour.
"Actually my driver is responsible for the illegal confinement of the children. He kept them in the servant quarter over some issues," he was reported to have said.
The official said police had not recorded any allegation about the loan during investigation.
He said Shahida was in chains when the children were recovered and they had torture marks on their bodies.
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[Dawn] A Crimes Investigation Agency police constable was killed while a head-constable suffered injuries when suspected robbers shot up them outside Sessions Courts in Islampura police limits.
Police said a team of Iqbal Town CIA police was present outside the Sessions Court in plainclothes to monitor the movement of an alleged criminal, Ismail alias Shani, who was to appear in a court in connection with a robbery case.
When Ismail came out of the court along with a friend he saw the plainclothesmen there. On seeing the police, the accused pulled out a weapon from the rickshaw and opened fire on the police.
The firing left constable Sajid Ali and head-constable Anwar injured. Sajid was pronounced dead at the Mayo Hospital while Anwar was being treated for his injuries.
Policemen, overpowered Ismail while his accomplice managed to escape.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[LOHUD] Eight Peekskill High School students didn't graduate in June and must return to school this month because they were given credit for a class that doesn't exist.
[MYFOXNY] In a case that ruffled feathers in Egypt, authorities have 
[MAGHAREBIA] The first International Flamenco Festival of Tangier will kick off on September 5th, MAP reported on Saturday (August 31st). The three day "Nights of Andalusia" event will feature Moroccan and Spanish artists.
[BIRMINGHAMMAIL.CO.UK] A Birmingham Islamic TV channel has been fined £85,000 after a controversial presenter said it was a duty for 
Armenian Armed Forces opened fire at positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the village of Gaymagli of Gazakh region, from the positions in the village of Barekamavan of Noyemberyan region of Armenia yesterday and tonight, press service of the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijani told Trend on Sunday.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] All cars could be fitted with devices that stop them going over 70mph, under new EU road safety measures which aim to cut deaths from road accidents by a third.
[An Nahar] German Chancellor 
[Dawn] Awami National Party leader Asfandyar Wali Khan on Saturday dissolved all party organizations, including central, provincial and district cabinets, in the country over the May 11 election defeat.
[Dawn] Police arrested on Friday a former federal minister belonging to the PML-Q, Liaquat Abbas Bhatti, shortly after recovering from his Johar Town residence a 14-year-old housemaid allegedly tortured and chained along with her younger sister and brother.
[Dawn] A Crimes Investigation Agency police constable was killed while a head-constable suffered injuries when suspected robbers 
