A 15-year-old girl is accused of distributing nude photos of herself to other minors, and one state legislator is questioning whether she should be labeled a sex offender.
The Licking Valley High School student was arrested Friday after school officials discovered the materials and brought in the school's resource officer for a police investigation.
After spending the weekend incarcerated, she pleaded deny Monday to both charges: illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, a second-degree felony; and possession of criminal tools, a fifth-degree felony.
The child pornography charge for a convicted adult requires a Tier II sexual offender classification, but for a juvenile of this defendant's age, the judge has flexibility, said Jennifer Brindisi, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation.
"There's a part of juvenile section of Senate Bill 10 (Ohio's version of the federal Adam Walsh Act) that says if the child is a first-time offender and age 14 or 15 that the judge can decide not to make her register," she said.
State Rep. Jay Hottinger, R-Newark, wrote the state's Megan's Law bill, the predecessor of the Adam Walsh Act, and said this case was not something the legislature envisioned.
"Clearly it was in an illegal act," he said Tuesday. "Clearly it was an unacceptable act, and there needs to be consequences from that, but we need to make sure the punishment is a reasonable punishment."
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A 15-year-old girl is accused of distributing nude photos of herself to other minors, and one state legislator is questioning whether she should be labeled a sex offender.
The Return of Weekly World News!
Bat Boy is back! Boca Raton-based tabloid publisher American Media Operations Inc. has sold its late, wacky Weekly World News to Bat Boy LLC, an investment group that promises to restore the fake-news pub to its rightful place in the pop culture pantheon. I'm just glad that Ed Anger got his job back...
American Media last year stopped publishing Weekly World News after the tabloid's circulation dropped below 100,000 copies a week.
"The Weekly World News is a powerful brand in publishing, entertainment and online," said Weekly World News' new chief executive, Neil McGinness, in a statement released late Saturday. "The Weekly World News brand and its characters have inspired musicals, books, feature film projects and television shows over the years. We see tremendous potential for growing the brand and significantly expanding the business."
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and neither American Media nor McGinness could be reached for comment. I'll bet it didn't cost much.
The buyers are named after the half-man, half-bat creature that first appeared on the cover of Weekly World News in 1992. Bat Boy became a popular staple of the tabloid, emerging from time to time to lead police on a high-speed chase, ride the top of a New York subway train, shed his wings and endorse Al Gore for president. As I remember, The Alien backed Bush...
Weekly World News (motto: "The World's Only Reliable News") already has been revived online. Among the headlines on the Web site Monday: "Obatma!" featuring Barack Obama with a bat-eared half brother; "Keating Five Reunite for Basketball Game," which includes a doctored photo of John McCain in a hoops uniform; and "Palin Bags a Bigfoot," which shows the vice presidential candidate and her infant crouching by a downed Sasquatch. Is there anything she can't do!
American Media still publishes National Enquirer and other supermarket tabs.
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The daughter on Different Strokes turned to prostitution and theft for her drugs. Janice Rand of Star Trek turned to prostitution to support her habit. Marcia seemed a bit more together but it's not really a surprise. Actors are not their characters after all.
It's a baby doll that's supposed to just giggle and coo but some are hearing words in the babble - and it's causing quite a controversy. It's called the "Little Mommy Cuddle N' Coo" doll but some parents are outraged, saying it promotes Islam. The doll moves and makes baby sounds but some think the doll is actually saying "Islam is the light."
"I'm not keeping this doll," said Lake Ozark mother Linda Stanton. "I will not have it in my home." Stanton said others who heard the doll at the store where she bought it were angry too. "Some people behind us heard it and picked up on it right away, they were angered," said Stanton. "There was a young family behind us with two or three children that my daughter carried it back for them to listen and they too were very upset about it."
Complaints from Stanton and others have caused the Osage Beach Wal-Mart and Target to pull the dolls from the shelves. But there were plenty for sale at Target and Wal-Mart in Jefferson City. In fact, KRCG bought one so we could take a closer listen. While many say the doll is saying, "Islam is the light," Mattel says the doll's only scripted word is "Mama." They blame the doll's cheap speakers for distorting the soundtrack. And they also blame the power of suggestion - in that people are being told what to listen for. KRCG tested that theory by stopping a half-dozen people in the store's parking lot. No one came up with the phrase, "Islam is the light," on their own. "I got it that time," said Lake Ozark resident Jerry Baumgartner. "With a little coaching from you."
There have been reports from other parts of the country where the same doll has been pulled from shelves for saying, "Satan is king." Fisher Price's parent company, Mattel, does not plan on recalling the doll.
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How does "mama" (2 syllables) become "Islam is the light" (5 syllables)? Sounds like someone was having some "fun" at the factory programming the recording for the doll.
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From some of the other articles that I picked through, I gather that, besides "Mama", the doll also made several "goo goo ga ga" type phrases. One of the articles claimed that Mattel was going to eliminate the bit that sounded like the dreaded phrase. LOL
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Where was the doll made? If it was made in China there is no way this can be true. The doll might be made with lead or even radioactive but it would not say anything about Islam. Now, if it was made in Pakistan...
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The bad news is, that when they grew, they encapsulated some polar bears.....
now they look like white Yogi Bear snow globes, cast upon the open sea to melt and sink beneath the wintry waves.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Monday declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles and nearby Ventura County, where massive wind-whipped wildfires burned out of control, destroying more than 10,000 acres and leaving at least two people dead.
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RIYADH: Who should sell women's lingerie in the Kingdom? The question resurfaced after a Saudi woman initiated a boycott campaign against lingerie stores aiming to put pressure on shop owners to replace salesmen with women. "We urge every man and woman to help our privacy from being violated by men to whom we are obliged to buy our intimate clothing items," said the campaign's leader, Reem As'ad. "It's the most irritating experience so far to women."
The petition targets lingerie store owners in Saudi Arabia in order to convince them to comply with a labor law that states that women should be replacing men in marketing and sales of women's lingerie. Little momentum has been made to implement this initiative. With very few exceptions, lingerie store salesmen are just that: men.
"We only want to activate a law that was passed two years ago," said As'ad, an economics professor at Dar Al-Hekma College in Jeddah. She added the boycott would be the second step in the campaign. "First, we will communicate directly with CEOs and owners of stores, asking them to comply with the law," she said. "If they do not comply then the boycott begins."
"It's really strange that Saudi Arabia is the only country where you see men selling women's lingerie," she said. "Women walk around covered from head to toe, and yet they have to discuss the size and material of their undergarments with strange men. Isn't this odd?"
Two senior Saudi clerics have issued fatwas calling for the owners of Arab television channels that broadcast shows promoting magic, debauchery and vice to be tried in court and face the death penalty.
The sheikhs, both members of the Higher Council of Clerics, said Sunday they stopped short of directly condemning to death purveyors of these shows but denounced them as unsuitable for the holy month of Ramadan.
The head of the Saudi Supreme Judiciary Council Sheikh Saleh al-Lihedan said in an interview with Saudi TV Sunday that he objected to the content of many satellite channels but that he did not intend to incite people to kill channel owners, claiming that his original religious ruling broadcast on Saudi radio last week had been taken out of context.
Another senior cleric, Sheikh Saleh al-Fozan, weighed in on Sunday in response to the furor ignited by his colleague and condemned horoscope and advice shows as equivalent to sorcery and therefore apostasy worthy of the death penalty.
"Sorcerers who appear on satellite channels who are proven to be sorcerers have committed a great crime ... and the Muslim consensus is that the apostate's punishment is death by the sword," Fozan told the daily al-Madina newspaper
"Those who call in to these shows should not be accorded Muslim rites when they die," the prominent cleric added.
Sheikh Saleh al-Lihedan
Many of the hundreds of Arab satellite channels have sprung up in recent years specialize in horoscope programs and advice shows, seen as "sorcery" by some. Turkish soap operas have also become extremely popular this year in Saudi Arabia and the Arab world. They provoked a storm of anger this year among conservatives who fear the spread of secular culture and immoral values.
Lihedan, who holds the highest judicial authority in Saudi Arabia, said in response to a caller's question during a radio show last week that channel owners should be tried in court where a verdict suitable to the offence, including capital punishment, would be handed down.
"I want to advise the owners of these channels that broadcast programs with indecency and vulgarity and warn them of the consequences ... They can be put to death through the judicial process," he told Saudi radio.
He was referring to comedy shows and soap operas airing in Ramadan, a month of fasting when Muslims are supposed to focus on God. Critics say Ramadan has become an orgy of food and television consumption once the fast ends at sunset.
"I told them I don't mind if they make sure this [immorality] doesn't happen, but obviously this is hard for them because it's against their policies," the 79-year-old cleric told Saudi TV Sunday. He said he had rejected offers to host a religious show before or after the programs because he did not want his show sandwiched between such "indecent" programs.
Lihedan added that when he talked about the topic, he started by addressing channel owners and asking them to fear God and stop airing TV shows that confuse people's beliefs and spread ideas that unsuitable for Ramadan.
Sheikh Saleh al-Fozan
Fozan said entertainment channel owners should be "banished" but stopped short of advocating the death penalty for them.
"The position of Muslims and their rulers about these channels is that they should be talked to and if they continue airing depravity and shamelessness they should be banished from this place and others brought in their place."
The government's official advisor on religious affairs, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdelaziz Al al-Sheikh, said in July it was not Islamically permissible to watch the Turkish serials.
In their capacity as judges, clerics of Saudi Arabia's conservative form of Islam often sentence "sorcerers" to death.
The owners of Arab entertainment channels, including MBC (AlArabiya.net's parent company), ART, Orbit, Rotana and LBC, are mostly Saudi royals and businessmen closely allied to them.
Concerned about the country's international image, some key members of the Saudi royal family have promoted liberal reforms. The clerics fear plans to limit their extensive influence in what is the world's largest oil exporter.
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A drunk man who claimed to have a bomb and tried to hijack a packed jet has been quickly overpowered by fellow passengers. The drama took place over Belarus and the plane has now landed in St Petersburg.
Some of the 162 passengers on board the Turkish Airlines jet tackled the man after he passed a note to a stewardess claiming he had a bomb strapped to his body. The hijacker had attempted to take control of the aircraft as it flew en route from the southern Turkish resort of Anatalya to St Petersburg in Russia. No explosives were discovered on the passenger. This seems to be habitual in that part of the world.
Last August, two Muslim men attempted to hijack a Turkish-bound jet as it flew from northern Cyprus and demanded that it be diverted to Iran. After a stand-off with police at Anatalya airport in southern Turkey the pair surrendered and later apologised for their actions.
In 2006 a man attempted to hijack a Turkish Airlines jet as it flew to Istanbul. Greek and Italian jets were scrambled and the jet was forced to land in Italy where the hijacker eventually surrendered.
About 100,000 tourists have visited historic sites in the North Korean city of Kaesong since a new tour program to the communist country opened in December last year, a South Korean tour operator said Wednesday. The number of tourists to Kaesong, just north of the heavily fortified Korean border, exceeded the 100,000-mark Wednesday, Hyundai Asan Corp., the Seoul-based tour operator, said in a statement. Company officials said most of the tourists have been South Koreans but about 2,600 Americans, Japanese and other foreigners also have taken part in the program. The Kaesong tours include visits to a famous waterfall, a temple and a museum
Hyundai Asan also has run a high-profile tour program to the North's scenic Diamond Mountain since 1998. But that was suspended in July after a North Korean soldier fatally shot a South Korean woman who allegedly wandered into a restricted military area at the resort. Before the shooting incident, about 10,000 people traveled to Kaesong every month, but the number of monthly visitors declined to about 7,450 in August and 5,770 in September, according to Hyundai Asan. The Diamond Mountain resort had drawn nearly 2 million people before the tours were suspended, according to Hyundai Asan.
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South Korea is about the size of Portugal and has 49 million people, so it is no surprise that 100,000 people are willing to tour such a nearby attraction.
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i have always liked my resorts too have very restrictive military bases nearby. Makes it a little interesting when you get drunk and can't find your way back
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Don't go past the ropes. That would be...unwise.
Turkey has suspended 19 officers working in a prison over the death in custody of a leftist activist who had allegedly been tortured. The 29-year-old activist, Engin Ceber, died Saturday in a hospital from brain hemorrhage after he was allegedly beaten by prison officers.
Turkish Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin said on Tuesday the 19 officers had been suspended over the case and apologized for ill-treatment of prisoners at Istanbul's Metris Detention Center. He told reporters a probe into Ceber's death had determined he had been mistreated by the prison staff. "I apologize to the relatives of (Ceber) on behalf of my government and the state," Sahin said, adding that those responsible would be punished. He declared that more officers might be suspended over the case. The Turkish government had earlier announced a policy of zero tolerance for torture in the country.
Ceber was detained last month during a protest against the authorities' inaction to bring to justice the police officers who allegedly shot and paralyzed a youth selling left-wing publications last year. The case has been used by the nationalist opposition to ask for the resignation of the Interior Minister.
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Want justice? Put them in the General Population in prison.
Wow call the people that elect you racists.
PITTSBURGH - U.S. Rep. John Murtha says his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama's victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points.
The 17-term Democratic congressman tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story posted Wednesday on its Web site that, as he put it: "There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area."
He says it's taken time for many Pennsylvania voters to come around to liking Obama, but he should still win the state, though not in a runaway.
In a separate interview posted Wednesday on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's Web site, Murtha says Obama has a problem with the race issue in western Pennsylvania that could shave 4 points off his lead in the state.
What would it cost to get that into TV ads to cover Pennsylvania? Start with a voiceover and the words, "Do you enjoy being called a racist? ..."
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Murtha has gone from insulting his electorate's intelligence to insulting their character. Interesting strategy.
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Please tell us more Rep. Murtha. The entire nation needs to hear your wisdom. Other democratic senators and representatives should follow Murtha's lead and identify "racist" areas within their states. This information should come forward immediately.
Why not? He's got seniority that he abuses uses on behalf of his constituents who are more interested in pork than the integrity of their representative. He'll die eventually and the district will zero out without anyone shedding a tear.
Prosecutors in Ramsey County have announced the first felony conviction stemming from protest activities during the Republican National Convention.
Twenty-six-year-old Joseph Matthew Robinson of Washington state pleaded guilty on Tuesday to first-degree criminal damage to property. The Ramsey County attorney's office says Robinson admitted to slashing the tires of a charter bus for convention delegates that was parked in downtown St. Paul on Sept. 1.
Robinson will be sentenced Dec. 12.
More than 800 people were arrested during the convention, which was held last month in St. Paul.
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I don't recall much in the way of convictions or consequences for the various misbehaviours of Democratic Party enthusiasts around the 2004 elections. I'm glad so many are being arrested, tried and convicted this time round.
A study finds that 13% of the visa petitions for U.S. employers to bring in skilled foreign workers are fraudulent
The study, released to members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, marks the first time the agency, part of the Homeland Security Dept., has documented systematic problems with the controversial program. Technology companies, in particular, have come to rely on the H-1B visa program to bring in skilled foreign workers to fill jobs that employers claim can't be filled with U.S. candidates. Tech companies like Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Google (GOOG) have pushed to get more visas, claiming that a shortage of skilled workers is hampering U.S. competitiveness. Microsoft Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates has twice testified in front of Congress on the issue.
Critics say H-1Bs help U.S. companies replace American workers with less costly foreign workers. "The report makes it clear that the H-1B program is rife with abuse and misuse," says Ron Hira, assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. "It shows the desperate need for an auditing system." However, both Presidential candidates, Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), have said they support expanding the program.
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Technology companies, in particular, have come to rely on the H-1B visa program to bring in skilled foreign workers to fill jobs that employers claim can't be filled with U.S. candidates.
When they don't want US workers. Those who they can pull their visas are far more docile than workers that can tell the employer what violates Fair Labor and Standards Act. There is no incentive for Americans to commit to years of college or technical training only to be displaced by a foreign tech. American business should have been forced to grow their own if they needed them so much. Instead we've had two decades of corporate welfare with the H1Bs in the tech fields. Your own military trains people to do technical jobs. It requires a contract for years of service to receive the training. Corporations do not want to lock themselves into such contracts. They treat labor as a liability not an asset, to be dropped when it is convenient rather than preserved for its value. H1Bs are a disincentive program for Americans when it has run longer than the time it would take to train someone here at home to do the job.
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Not going to be able to write our own code in a decade since the H1Bs are raping the CompSci market and keeping wages and job security no better than a middle manager. So why bother?
I discouraged my son from going into software - its simply not worth it to compete with some guy in India who will take less than half of what you make when he's in the US, and McDonald's pay when he is working remotely from India.
Who will write the software in our military hardware in the future?
The managements of almost all elite private schools of the city have refused to allow polio vaccination teams to vaccinate children on the first day of the polio immunization campaign.
"Without the permission of their parents, we will not allow students to be vaccinated," Regional Manager of City School Parveen Shah told Daily Times. "I personally believe in vaccinating the children even if they have been vaccinated by their families, but we cannot force families to do so," she maintained. The three-day polio vaccination campaign from October 14 to 17 was launched on Tuesday. The health department of City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is supervising the campaign in the city, which is considered to be one of the 56 high-risk districts.
An official of the health department of the CDGK said that they have been facing problems in achieving their target because the administrations of private schools have refused to get their students vaccinated against the deadly polio virus. An official working for the Expanded Program on Immunization in Sindh revealed that after the detection of two P1 Type and one P3 Type cases in the city this year, one in New Karachi and one in Baldia Town, it was necessary that each and every child of Karachi gets polio drops.
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A pity therre is not a vaccine against dangerous religious memes.
(APP)- At least five people were killed and eight others sustained critical injuries when two rival clans exchanged fire here at Mola; a remote village of the district Tuesday morning, officials said. Both the clans are sub-branches of Jattak tribe who entrenched against each other over a dispute of pasture ownership. Those who lost lives in the clash were identified as Qadir, Hakim, Jabbar, Muhammad Panah and a woman whose identity could not be ascertained. The mysterious woman known only as "Mom."
Firing still continued by the time of filling this report and the district administration rushed to the area to control the situation.
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The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps naval forces have intercepted a vessel carrying 90 tons of smuggled gasoline in the Persian Gulf. The IRGC said on Tuesday that the vessel was bound for one of the Persian Gulf littoral states and was seized 20 miles southwestern of the Siri Island - situated 31 miles from Iran's Abu Musa Island.
The incident comes shortly after Iran, on September 16, assigned the IRGC to replace the Iranian coastguard in protecting the Persian Gulf. The measure was taken to prepare Iranian naval forces for a potential military conflict in the region.
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Everyone knows that the ultimate target is Larry Langford, the controversial but as yet unindicted mayor of Birmingham. Langford, who served as president of the Jefferson County Commission when most of the riskiest refinancing was completed, has been accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of accepting more than $156,000 in cash and benefits from brokers who had business with the county.
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Islamo-Fascism will once again be the hot topic on campus tonight as author Robert Spencer comes to Memorial Union at 6:45 p.m. Spencers lecture is titled Jihad: What They Say and Why it Matters. The event is sponsored by University of Wisconsin College Republicans.
CR Chair Sara Mikolajczak said she has seen Spencer four times before, and he has always been fair when presenting his arguments. He presents facts and numbers and things that hes found through research of the Koran and what other people have said, Mikolajczak said. Then he expects people to come away with their own representation of it.
The event is similar to a lecture held last year by author David Horowitz as a part of his Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week last October. At that event, several liberal and minority students became unruly during the question and answer session in response to inflammatory comments by Horowitz. During that speech, former UW lecturer Kevin Barrett stood up and tried to get him to talk about possible government involvement in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Barrett was met with the asshole chant and booed out of the room.
Mikolajczak said UW Police will be present at the event to try and deter any outbursts and protect Spencer if needed. She added she doesnt think this event will be as disorderly as the one featuring Horowitz, since it is in a smaller room and the name Horowitz incites people in and of itself. A lot of people dont really know who Robert Spencer is, Mikolajczak said. I think people are going to come for the intelligent debate, not the yelling and screaming and throwing things like little children.
Since publicity of the event began, Mikolajczak has received multiple hate e-mails from people around campus. Ive been getting e-mails comparing me to Hitler, e-mails commenting on the CRs in general, e-mails saying the entire Republican Party is racist, sexist, homophobic, Mikolajczak said. You know, the usual stuff I get from people on campus.
Tarek Elgindi, chair of the Muslim Student Association, said he doesnt believe Spencer will add much of value to campus, at great cost to the university due to the increased police presence.
Elgindi is familiar with Spencers lectures and said he has a weird way of talking about Islam. He will say on one hand that the majority of Muslims in the world are peaceful, good people, Elgindi said. On the other hand, he will somehow convince the audience that the Koran is preaching violence, which is kind of contradictory. He added there are other, less biased Muslim scholars who could speak on the issues.
CR is not participating in Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week this year to focus on Novembers presidential and congressional elections, Mikolajczak said. I wish they had completely gotten rid of the idea, Elgindi said. It didnt do much good to this campus. Theres very little that somebody could have taken from the lecture by David Horowitz.
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I got invited to this lecture, and though I could not make it, I will look for some local news reports on it tomorrow for the benefit of all and sundry. It looked really interesting.
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.
It's a baby doll that's supposed to just giggle and coo but some are hearing words in the babble - and it's causing quite a controversy. It's called the "Little Mommy Cuddle N' Coo" doll but some parents are outraged, saying it promotes Islam. The doll moves and makes baby sounds but some think the doll is actually saying "Islam is the light."
Two senior Saudi clerics have issued fatwas calling for the owners of Arab television channels that broadcast shows promoting magic, debauchery and vice to be tried in court and face the death penalty. 
An extortionist was killed in a 'shootout' with police at Gobindapur near Dhopaghata Bridge under Jhenidah Sadar upazila yesterday.
About 100,000 tourists have visited historic sites in the North Korean city of Kaesong since a new tour program to the communist country opened in December last year, a South Korean tour operator said Wednesday. The number of tourists to Kaesong, just north of the heavily fortified Korean border, exceeded the 100,000-mark Wednesday, Hyundai Asan Corp., the Seoul-based tour operator, said in a statement. Company officials said most of the tourists have been South Koreans but about 2,600 Americans, Japanese and other foreigners also have taken part in the program. The Kaesong tours include visits to a famous waterfall, a temple and a museum
The managements of almost all elite private schools of the city have refused to allow polio vaccination teams to vaccinate children on the first day of the polio immunization campaign. 
(APP)- At least five people were killed and eight others sustained critical injuries when two rival clans exchanged fire here at Mola; a remote village of the district Tuesday morning, officials said. Both the clans are sub-branches of Jattak tribe who entrenched against each other over a dispute of pasture ownership. Those who lost lives in the clash were identified as Qadir, Hakim, Jabbar, Muhammad Panah and a woman whose identity could not be ascertained.
