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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Boy accidentally shoots self in head with Forgotten Gun

MIAMI, Florida -- A Florida boy remains in stable condition just days after he found his parents' long-forgotten handgun in a closet and accidentally shot himself in the head. Sheriff's detectives in Pinellas County, Florida, near St. Petersburg, say the boy found the .25-caliber European semi-automatic handgun in a box in a closet in their home.
Police say the shooting took place between 7:40 a.m., when his mother, Tracy Newman, leaves for work, and about 11 a.m., when his stepfather, Joseph Newton, returns home. The boy normally goes to school about 8:30 a.m.
"A few years ago, they moved, and [the gun] was stored in the closet. The mother never checked it, never fired it," Barreda said.

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Monday, April 20, 2009

Titanic Survivor 'Sale' Fails To Help Her

London :- Millvina Dean the last living survivor of the Titanic earned only a small fraction of what auctioneers hoped to raise when she sold her final remaining mementos of the doomed ship to pay nursing home bills. The 17 items belonging to 97-year-old Millvina Dean sold for about $8,000 on Saturday, which is not enough to pay her two months nursing home bill.

"A young man bought the canvas bag for £1,500 ($2,200) and donated it back to Millvina," Aldridge said. He did not reveal the buyer's identity.

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Canadian hostage crisis ends in Jamaica

OTTAWA — Troops in Jamaica captured an armed man Monday who had barged onto a Canadian airliner, robbed passengers and held six crew members hostage, Jamaica Information Minister Daryl Vaz said. The gunman, described as a “mentally challenged youngster” of about 20 years old, had demanded to be taken to Cuba, the scheduled next stop of the flight, Daryl Vaz, the Jamaican information minister said.

The CanJet flight from Halifax, Canada, had made a scheduled landing at Sangster International Airport in the Jamaican resort city of Montego Bay and was scheduled to continue to Santa Clara, Cuba.

The suspect gained access to the plane Sunday night through the terminal in "a breach of security" that "will be investigated," Deputy Police Commissioner Owen Ellington said.
The gunman fired a shot in the boarding bridge as he entered, said CanJet Airlines Vice President Kent Woodside. No one was hit.
CanJet Flight 918 was carrying 174 passengers and eight crew members, Woodside said. All the passengers were Canadian, he said.

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Sunday, April 19, 2009

British Hostages "To Be Freed Soon"

A Nigerian militant group promised on Sunday to release a sick British hostage held for more than six months. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said in an e-mail that Robin Barry Hughes will be freed very soon but nothing mentioned of a second British hostage, Matthew Maguire. The statement added that Hughes would be returned to his employer Hydrodive "after putting measures in place to ensure his safety to the drop-off zone for onward journey to reunite with his family."

Hughes and Matthew John Maguire were among a group of oil workers abducted when gunmen took control of their vessel. The statement said nothing about Maguire.

Father kills Family In Maryland

Maryland - A Maryland man have shot and stabbed his wife and three young children to death before killing himself with a shotgun, the man was having money problems and left a note saying he suffered from "psychological issues," authorities said. Christopher Wood, who as 34 year old he was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted shotgun wound at the foot of the bed where the bodies of his wife and 2-year-old daughter lay, the sheriff said. The man may have slashed at least some of his family members in the killings and used a small-caliber handgun on others, Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins said. Wood's sons were 5 and 4 years old. His wife, Francie Billotti Wood, was 33. The boys were found in their beds in a single bedroom, Police said.

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Iran Sentences U.S. Journalist to 8 Years in Prison

TEHRAN (Iran) - Roxana Saberi, An American journalist jailed in Iran has been convicted of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison, her lawyer said Saturday, dashing any hopes for her quick release.

Roxana Saberi is a 31-year-old dual American-Iranian citizen, she was arrested in January and accused of working without press credentials. But an Iranian judge later leveled a far more serious allegation, charging her with spying for the United States.

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Friday, April 17, 2009

Woman Arrested at Britney Spears' Home

LOS ANGELES, California -- Security personnel found Miranda Tozier-Robbins looking through the windows of the singer's Britney Spears home in Calabasas, California, the department said in a written statement.

Miranda Tozier-Robbins, 26, who was wearing camouflage and toting a camera at the time of her arrest, was cited for trespassing and disorderly conduct and then released.

A sheriff’s spokesman said it was unclear what the woman was up to. Jail records did not indicate whether Tozier-Robbins has an attorney.

11-year-old Girl Dies After Being Punished By Teacher

Delhi (India) -- Shanno, a class II student of MCD primary school in Bawana, was allegedly punished for not answering some questions by her teacher , she was "made to stand" in the sun with bricks on her shoulders. She died in a city hospital on Friday after battling for her life for two days.

"She died in the hospital. We are investigating the case. A case under section 304 of the Indian Penal Code for culpable homicide not amounting to murder has been registered. We are awaiting the medical report of the girl," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer Delhi) Atul Katiyar said.

"We want justice and no one should suffer something like this," the child's father Ayub Khan said. The MCD had on Thursday suspended principal Dhanpati and accused teacher Manju.

Pirate Bay Founders Get Jail

Stockholm (Sweden) -- Stockholm district court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, for helping consumers illegally download online music and films. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.

The court ordered the defendants to pay compensation and damages of 30 million kronor ($3.6 million), the defendants said they plan to appeal. At an online press conference Sunde said "It's serious to actually be found guilty and get jail time. It's really serious. And that's a bit weird,".

"We can't pay and we wouldn't pay. Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn't even give them the ashes."

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Toshiba and Sony Ericsson Announced Thousands Of Job Cuts

Two major electronic giants Sony Ericsson and Toshiba announce major job cuts to save the firms in face of global economic crisis. Toshiba said 3,900 contract workers would be cut by March 2010 as the company has to deal with growing losses. Sony Ericsson says it would slash at least 2,000 jobs to secure 400 million euros ($523 million) of savings.

The decision came after the company faced a loss of 293 million euros ($384 million) in the first three months of this year because of the recession that is effecting mobile phone demand.

Toshiba said it might have lost ¥350 billion ($3.5 billion) instead of the 280 billion yen originally expected, beacuse of worsening recession.

Sony Ericsson President Dick Komiyama said "We are aligning our business to the new market reality, with the aim of bringing the company back to profitability as quickly as possible,"

Germany Train Collision, 24 Injured

Berlin, Germany :- Twenty-four people were injured when a regional express train collide into a freight train outside Berlin, German rail authority said on Friday. The driver suffered the most serious injuries and was transported to a nearby hospital, along with 11 other passengers. All other injured were treated by medics at the scene.

The accident happened at 10:18 p.m. (4:18 p.m. ET) Thursday in the Karow area outside the German capital, the spokesman for Deutsche Bahn said.

Mexico Drug War Shootout, 15 Gunmen and 1 Soldier Died

MEXICO CITY :- A shootout between Mexican troops and a convoy of gunmen left 15 assailants and one soldier dead hours before President Barack Obama arrived in the country.

The shootout happened in a remote, mountainous region in Guerrero state, where the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco is located, Mexico's Defense Department said in a statement Thursday. Soldiers came under fire from a convoy of gunmen on Wednesday while patrolling the drug trafficking hotbed. One was killed and another wounded in the firefight near the town of San Nicolas del Oro. Troops later seized two .50 caliber Barrett rifles, 17 other rifles, eight grenades, two handguns, ammunition and eight vehicles.

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Thai Politician Shot With Machine Gun

Thailand -- A Thai political leader Sondhi Limthongkul who helped topple that country's former prime minister was shot early Friday on the way to host his radio talk show, according to a spokesman for his political party.

He was shot with a machine gun after a truck approached his car at about 5:30 a.m. and someone started firing from inside, said People's Alliance for Democracy spokesman Parnthep Puapongpan.

A doctor at Vajira Hospital in Bangkok told reporters that doctors were operating on Sondhi Limthongkul, who had a bullet in his head. Thailand's capital is still under emergency rule and the cabinet was due to hold a special meeting on Friday to discuss the past week's political violence, as well as the budget and stimulus package for a country heading into recession.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/16/thailand.shooting/index.html

Last Titanic Survivor Selling Her Mementos To Pay Bills

LONDON :- Millvina Dean 97-year-old, the last living survivor of the Titanic is auctioning off her remaining mementos of the doomed ship to pay nursing home bills. The auction, which is expected to raise up to $50,000 for her, is set to take place Saturday near her home in England.

Among the items going under the hammer at Henry Aldridge & Son is a canvas bag that might have been used to lift the infant Dean from a lifeboat to a rescue ship, said Alan Aldridge of the auction house.

"I am not able to live in my home anymore. I am selling it all now because I have to pay these nursing home fees and am selling anything that I think might fetch some money," she tells the paper. "The fees are quite expensive. The more money I can get from the auction the better."

Millvina Dean was just 2 months old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat from the deck of the sinking RMS Titanic. The passenger ship sank in 1912.

Pythons Escape on Australian Passenger Flight

MELBOURNE, Australia :- Four baby pythons escaped from a container aboard a passenger plane in Australia, leading to a search that forced the cancellation of two flights, the airline said Thursday.

Qantas was forced to ground one of its fleet this week while wildlife experts tried to hunt down the snakes.Boeing 737 had returned to service but admitted that four missing pythons were still at large. A spokesman conceded that the serpents could still be on the plane but insisted they were unlikely to emerge from behind anyone’s seat-back tray table on subsequent flights because the airliner had been fumigated.

Twelve baby Stimpson’s pythons were put on board a flight from Alice Springs to Melbourne but when the boxes were unloaded at the other end only eight snakes were found inside.

When the snakes were not found, the airplane was fumigated and it returned to service on Wednesday.

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