I don’t know this woman. But, she has a kind and pretty face that apparently has endured a living Hell.
Daily Mail reports an Arab-Israeli couple has been charged with imprisoning a young Palestinian woman in a series of dark rooms for 10 years.
Hassan Melhem, 49, has been indicted on charges that he regularly beat his daughter Baraa, now 20, after being egged on by her as yet unnamed step-mother.
They are also alleged to have locked her in the bathroom of his West Bank home, with just a blanket to sleep on, and only let her out at night to do housework.
Today's formal indictment by Israeli authorities follows Miss Melhem's rescue by Palestinian security forces in the West Bank town of Qalqiliya last week.
Miss Melhem, who police said was found in a 'deplorable condition', spoke soon after her release about how she survived the ordeal by listening to the radio, dreaming of seeing sunshine again and finding small pleasure in an apple she was fed each day.
A big part of this story is the feeling among the women in Germany that men are not allowed to urinate standing up because they feel its offensive toward women.This caused me to have a huge fight on a message board once because I strongly feel that MEN ARE SUPPOSED TO PISS STANDING UP and not relieve themselves like women.
Spinner reports the Rolling Stones were masters of controversy in their heyday, but now it's their legacy which is causing a stir.
A soon-to-be-opened museum in the German town of Luechow has had female fans in an a tiff over the urinals in the men's room, the L.A. Times reports. The urinals are based on the band's infamous red lips-and-tongue logo, which designer John Pasche created in 1971 and modeled after Mick Jagger's impressive mouth.
"It's discrimination against women," Roda Armbruster, a "local feminist," as the L.A. Times calls her. If the urinals featured a tongue, "it would have been acceptable," because otherwise the connection to Jagger would be made explicit (in the non-offensive way, we assume). Without it she claims, "It's a woman's mouth, not a man's mouth."
I can eat turkey wings every day, if I could get away with it for maybe a week. I can’t fathom doing that for 17 years.
Chicken McNuggets? That’s really a strange choice to eat every day.
Daily Mailreports ever since she was a toddler, Stacey Irvine has eaten little else but chicken nuggets and the occasional portion of chips.
Now, at the age of 17, she has been warned by doctors to change her appalling diet or die.
The factory worker – who says she has never tasted fresh fruit or vegetables – had to be taken to hospital earlier this week when she collapsed after struggling to breathe.
Doctors found that her 15-year ‘chronic chicken nugget addiction’ has left her with anaemia and inflamed veins on her tongue.
So deficient was her body in vitamins and nutrients that she had to be injected with them.
Once again are brave soldiers get the job done better than any fighting force in the world.
The Blazereports U.S. military forces flew into Somalia in a nighttime helicopter raid Wednesday, freed an American and a Danish hostage, and killed nine pirates in a mission President Barack Obama appeared to reference before his State of the Union speech, officials and a pirate source said.
The Danish Refugee Council confirmed that the two aid workers, American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, were freed “during an operation in Somalia.” Buchanan, 32, and Thisted, 60, had been working with a de-mining unit of the Danish Refugee Council when they were kidnapped in October.
Obama seemed to refer to the mission before his State of the Union address in Washington Tuesday night. As he entered the House chamber in the U.S. Capitol, he pointed at Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in the crowd and said, “Good job tonight.”
A Western official told The Associated Press that the raid was carried out by U.S. military forces. A second official said the helicopters and the hostages flew to a U.S. military base called Camp Lemonnier in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the information had not been released publicly.
The timing of the raid may have been made more urgent by a medical condition. The Danish Refugee Council had been trying to work with Somali elders to win the hostages’ freedom but had found little success.
“One of the hostages has a disease that was very serious and that had to be solved,” Danish Foreign Minister Villy Soevndal told Denmark’s TV2 channel. Soevndal did not provide any more details.
The Sun reports golfer Bubba Watson has splashed out £70,000 on the General Lee — the iconic 1969 Dodge Charger made famous in 1980s TV show The Dukes of Hazzard.
The car, the first of 300 wrecked filming the series, was owned by a fan club president who bought it for £650 a decade ago.
It has since been fully restored.
US star Watson, 33, announced he bought it on Twitter
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• Burial coincided with the official opening in theaters of 'Red Tails' a George Lucas-produced movie • The airmen debunked widely-held beliefs that black pilots were incapable of fighting in combat • Service began with flyover of four F-16 jets in the Missing Man formation, a special honor reserved for pilots
A Tuskegee airman who shot down two German fighter planes while escorting a damaged bomber to its base now lies in Arlington National Cemetery after a burial with special honors.
On the same day that retired Air Force Lt. Col. Luke Weathers Jr. took his resting place among other war and military heroes, his real-life story as a World War II aviator played out on movie screens across the country.
Weathers was buried Friday in a service that began with a flyover of four F-16 jets in the Missing Man formation, a special honor reserved for pilots, by the 113th Wing of the D.C. Capital Guardians, the same unit that guards the airspace over the nation's capital.
Weathers died Oct. 15 in Tucson, Ariz., of pneumonia at age 90.
His burial coincided with the official opening in theaters of 'Red Tails,' a George Lucas-produced movie retelling the story of the Tuskegee Airmen who debunked widely held beliefs that black pilots were incapable of fighting in combat.
Shortly after the flyover, in which one of the three jets departed from formation, a caisson pulled by six horses carried Weathers' body to his burial spot amid hundreds of the stark marble tombstones that cover the grounds of the national cemetery.
An Air Force band accompanied the wagon, its drummer thumping a solemn beat as family followed on the chilly, overcast Friday morning.
Family members wore red ties and scarves, as they had at Weathers' Memphis funeral, as a nod to the aviators who painted their aircrafts' tails red to set themselves apart.
Luke Weathers III, 61, said his father and other black Americans who fought in World War II did so to prove they were men, 'and then they wanted their country to love them, but that didn't happen, either.'
Friday's ceremony, however, finally delivered recognition of his father as a national hero, Weathers said.
This kind of attention to the Tuskegee Airmen is what the elder Weathers wanted throughout his life, said his daughter, Trina Weathers Boyce. Weathers was not vain, but he wanted to share the lessons of the airmen's courage in war, their struggles for equality and their victory over a wartime enemy and over racism, she said.
As a cultural critique of today’s whacked out society, this insane couple represents EVERYTHING wrong about Liberalism.
There are innate differences between men and women that have to be nurtured when we’re children. Liberalism argues that they’re shouldn’t be any differences and it’s unfair to girls to treat them differently than boys.
Libs have this mistaken philosophy because they reject all vestiges of traditional values and absolutes truths in favor to what’s popular among their own echo chamber .
Beck Laxton, 46, and partner Kieran Cooper, 44, decided not to reveal Sasha’s gender in the hope it would let his ‘real’ personality shine through.
They referred to him as 'the infant' and allowed him to play only with ‘gender-neutral toys’ in their television-free home.
For the past five years Sasha has alternated between girls’ and boys’ clothes, leaving friends, playmates and relatives guessing. However Beck and Kieran, from Sawston, Cambridgeshire, decided to reveal Sasha's masculinity to the world after it became harder to conceal when he started primary school.
Yesterday Beck, a web editor, said: 'I wanted to avoid all that stereotyping.
'Stereotypes seem fundamentally stupid. Why would you want to slot people into boxes?
'It’s like horoscopes. What could be stupider than thinking there are 12 types of personality that depend on when you were born? It’s so idiotic.
'Gender affects what children wear and what they can play with, and that shapes the kind of person they become.
This is one thing that can’t be blamed on Republicans. The American media is controlled by Liberals. It’s the same group that time after time positions itself the ones who look out for African Americans.
So why don’t they cover the stories of missing Black women in the press?
• 'When we hear the term missing persons, most people conjure up images of Chandra Levy, Caylee Anthony or Natalee Holloway,' says charity • 40 per cent of all missing persons are black A renewed campaign to highlight hundreds of missing African-American women has been launched amid ongoing criticism that less attention is given to their cases by authorities and the media.
According to the National Crime Information Center, nearly 40 per cent of those who have disappeared, often in suspicious circumstances, are black. However critics allege that public attention mainly focuses on white women who have vanished.
According to the Black And Missing Foundation, most women disappear in the states of New York, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland and Florida.
A total of 273,985 minorities were reported missing in the United States (out of 692,944 for all races) as of December 2010. The foundation has teamed up with a TV network to make a series, Find Our Missing, telling the stories behind the women's disappearances.
I think I know the real reason for the coverage disparity, although no one in the Lib media would ever admit it. It’s all about TV ratings and news worthiness. An attractive White girl or woman will always draw more viewers or sell more papers sold to Whites, than any anonymous Black woman. It’s as simple as that. But, the media would never ever admit it.
On a personal note. I've posted stories about Beyonce and Rihanna and hardly get traffic from them. But, when I post stories or photos of White celebs, boom-traffic. I don't know why that is the case, but it is what it is.
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Those nasty smelling good-for-nothing bums are not just a U.S. phenomenon.
It’s good to know the Pope has more balls than New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
Gateway Punditreports international Indignados movement demonstrators chash with Italian police officers as they try to move out of St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, in Rome, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2012. The Indignados staged a sit-in and tried to place tents and climb the Vatican Christmas tree as a protest. (AP/Andrew Medichini)
The flaw in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will come as a huge embarrassment to the Royal Navy which is expected to take delivery of 50 of the planes by 2020 at a cost of about £5 billion.
Leaked documents from the Pentagon have revealed that the arrestor hook of the JSF - which is used to stop the plane during landing - is too close to the wheels.
According to The Sunday Times, the Pentagon report reveals that eight simulated landings have failed and it says a 'significant redesign' of the aircraft is needed.
I’ve heard of some stupid sounding names coming out of da’hood. But, Blue Ivy wins the Blue Ribbon for dumbest of them all. And that’s coming from a huge Beyonce fan.
Daily Mailreports she’s already made Billboard chart history as the youngest person ever to appear on the charts. There’s also a catering agency called Blue Ivy.
But now, little Blue Ivy Carter has something a little less orthodox bearing her name - a strain of marijuana.
I’m so sick of politically correct Libs having a hissy fit because some of our Marines, the best soldiers in the world, allegedly urinated on dead Taliban soldiers.Good for them!
But, I woulda tied pork chop necklaces around the necks and crotch for good measure.It’s called WAR!!!
Gateway Punditreports on her radio show, CNN contributor and Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch cheered on an Internet video reportedly showing U.S. Marines urinating on what appear to be dead Afghans, saying she would “drop trou and do it too.”
I’ve been on these massive cruise ships. They’re like floating cities and taller than the Empire State building. In addition to that, they’re the most advanced ships afloat with state of the art navigation. So I still cannot fathom how something like this could happen without a series power failure that rendered ship’s helm inoperative.
• Passengers tell of 'chaos' as crew members said 'go back to your cabins' • Survivors leapt for their lives into the icy sea as the liner rolled onto its side • Captain of the ship in custody with another crew member • Boat was 'four miles off course' when it hit rocks • Bodies of two French passengers and a Peruvian crewman recovered • One victim, 65, died from heart attack following shock of cold water • Liner had listed so badly 'lifeboats had difficulty being launched'
Up to 70 cruise ship passengers were still missing and three were confirmed dead tonight, following the capsizing of a cruise liner off the coast of Italy.
As divers spent the day searching the seas around the Costa Concodia, which overturned after hitting rocks just two hours after setting sail on a seven-day cruise, the boat's captain Francesco Schettino was being quizzed by police.
Survivors of the disaster tonight told of a 'chaotic evacuation' after the ship started to list, with some crew members even telling holidaymakers to return to their cabins.
A gaping 160ft gash was torn in the hull, which quickly filled a large section of the ship with water, causing it to list to one side and creating panic within.
Passenger Antonietta Simboli, from Latina near Rome, said: 'Were sitting at our dinner table when there was a loud bang and things just flew off the table.
'The lights went off and then came back on again and then everyone just started scrambling over each other to try and get a life vest or to the life boats. People were trampling over each other and children in the chaos.'
Another passenger who would only give her name as Silvano, said: 'There was just complete and utter chaos and panic. No from the crew seemed to know what they were doing. It was just like something from the Titanic.
'Some of the crew were telling us to go back to our cabins while others were saying go to the life boats - it was obvious we were in serious trouble because we heard a terrible scraping noise.'
Italian officials tonight said 69 passengers had not yet been accounted for, following the evacuation of 4,200.
The first thing you do before setting sail is report with your life-vests to your assigned muster stations. I’ve been on 5 cruises and I’ll still don’t know what to do if something like this were to happen. So, I can totally understand the chaos of what happened on the Costa Concodia. It’s totally mindboggling that something like this can happen on a 21st century cruise ship.
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Captain Schettino today told maritime investigators that charts showed he was in waters deep enough to navigate, but reports emerged that the boat was four miles off course when it ran aground.
Young people committing suicide is as common as teacher’s having sex with their students, and babies, mothers or whoever suddenly turn missing. We read about in the papers and see it on the news, yet nobody ever asks why is this happening? We never look at the big picture and instead focusing on “bullying”.
If we had parents who knew how to raise their children right there wouldn’t be any bullying--period. It’s as simple as that!
But, to ever reach such a conclusion takes a level of self responsibility and that’s a dirty word for the victimization crowd that believes it’s always somebody else’s fault and we need another government program or law to fix. it. So we pass hate crimes legislation or anti bullying laws to make ourselves feel good, and yet we “out source” our little ones in daycare for long hours during their formative years away from nurturing parents and wonder with a straight face why are children are developing behavioral problems. Bullies are not born, their made by bad parents. And until the day comes when we acknowledge without the stupid fear of offending somebody, no law or program is gonna correct it!
Abusive message have been posted on her memorial Facebook page even as her family and friends attended her funeral yesterday in Staten Island, New York. The page contains obscene and mocking images, videos and comments with some of them making fun of her for fatally jumping in front of a bus.
Amanda, 15, died earlier this week - six days after she was hit by the bus as she clutched a suicide note. Family members say it was years of bullying at school that led to her death.
Good parents A: “Jimmy, you better behave in school, play nice and share with others. We didn’t raise you to act the fool. You represent our family name and you have a lot to live up to!”
Good parent B: “Jimmy, you’ll meet other kids in school that just won’t like you for no reason. Feel sorry for them, even pray for them. But, never let them get to you no matter what they say. Ignore them, walk away if you have to. But, if you have to fight the way I taught you. You’re the one in control, not these idiots out there. Words are only words. They can’t hurt you because you’re a child of God and my son. Don’t ever forget that.
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I’m really looking forward to seeing this film. UK Telegraph reports the Oscar-winning actress plays the former British Prime Minister in controversial biopic The Iron Lady which premiered at the BFI in London.
Streep said: "I consider all the roles I play a privilege but this one was special because there are such vehement opinions about her.
"People seemed to look at her as an icon or a monster and I just wanted to locate the human being inside those caricatures that we've seen over so many years. And to investigate myself what it must have been like for her."
Many fans braved the wind and rain to greet Streep and fellow stars of the film Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Richard E. Grant and Anthony Head on the red carpet.
Mamma Mia's Phyllida Lloyd has directed the moving story written by The Hour's Abi Morgan, which sees the former leader, lonely and senile, looking back on her life and imagining her late husband Denis Thatcher, played by Broadbent, is still with her.
When you’re 7 feet tall, you already stick out in society. But, I guess this person wants to stick out even more.
Daily Mailreports a 7ft tall butch basketball star is undergoing a sex change - and will become the world's tallest transsexual.
Lofty American Greg Walker, now 25, grew up sports-mad with beautiful cheerleaders on his arm, but said he 'always felt different'.
Strapping teenager Greg - who has size 16 feet and weighs around 20 stone - regularly lifted weights and would ride motorbikes to mask his true feelings.
He had dozens of girls chasing him but shunned their advances, preferring to become friends instead and discuss fashion and 'girly' things.
In his early 20s, Greg - now Lindsey - was unable to continue the 'charade' and began wearing women's clothes.
He then sought medical advice and began taking oestrogen to become more feminine and now boasts a curvy woman's body - and a 38B bra size.
I don’t know a thing about Jamaican politics other than gunfire is part of the democratic process.
Daily Mailreports supporters of Jamaica's first woman prime minister are celebrating after she staged a dramatic comeback with a landslide victory in the general election yesterday.
Portia Simpson Miller, leader of the centre-left People's National Party, tapped in on voter-disillusionment, especially among Jamaica's poorest people, during an energetic election campaign.
PNP party members and their supporters shimmied and shouted in the capital, Kingston, as they heard that the government of Prime Minister Andrew Holness had been defeated national elections.
Simpson Miller is beloved by her supporters for her folksy, plainspoken style and is referred to affectionately as 'Sista P' and 'Comrade Leader.'
She became Jamaica's first female prime minister in March 2006 after she was picked by party delegates when P.J. Patterson retired as leader. But she was tossed out of office a year later in a narrow election defeat.
Yesterday she pledged to lift debt-wracked Jamaica out of poverty, secure foreign investment, and create jobs
Daily Mailreports a teenager killed while crossing train tracks can be sued for injuries caused to a woman on the platform, when one of his severed body parts hit her, a court has ruled.
Hiroyuki Joho, 18, died when he ran in front of a 70mph Amtrak train at Edgebrook Metra station in Chicago in 2008. It was pouring with rain and the teen had an umbrella over his head.
Gayane Zokhrabov, 58, was knocked to the ground, her leg and wrist broken and her shoulder injured, the Chicago Tribune reported.
A Cook County court judge initially dismissed Zokhrabov's lawsuit against the boy's estate, ruling that Joho could not possibly have anticipated Zokhrabov's injuries.
But ruling in what it called a 'tragically bizarre' case, a state appeals court disagreed.
It found that 'it was reasonably foreseeable' that the high-speed train would kill the college hopeful and fling his body toward a platform where people were waiting.
You’re about to witness a master criminal at work.
Daily Mailreports it was a lovely day for a Guinness for this beer burglar, but the way she went about stealing it is as impressive as it is illegal.
A video posted to YouTube shows how the woman, shopping with a man and young child, eying a 24-pack of Guinness along a wall in the store.
She casually walks over and, in a quick motion, scoops up the beer, lifts her dress and positions the case between her legs. Nonchalantly, the woman is then seen walking back to the man and child before eventually walking out of the camera’s view.
If you didn’t already know she had just stolen the beer, you wouldn’t have been able to tell by the way she walked, her gait virtually unchanged despite the case between her thighs.
Daily Mailreports a woman who was facing federal charges of sending a fake Weapons of Mass Destruction to a New York politician was killed by police officer after attacking him at her apartment in Marietta, Georgia. In April, Jameela Barnette, 53, mailed a vial of perfume, a hateful letter and a stuffed monkey with a star of David on it to New York state Sen Greg Ball, because she believed he was biased against her Islamic faith.
She also sent a bloody pig's foot and an anti-Semitic letter to Rep Peter King because he was hosting Congressional hearings about 'radicalization' in the American Muslim community.
