Archive for May, 2009

British Tourists as Nuns

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Seventeen British tourists, all men and ranging in ages, had been arrested on the southern Greek island of Crete for insulting the Catholic church after they dressed themselves in nun costumes and lingerie.

They were led into the courtroom still dressed in their nun costumes to face charges of causing a scandal by provocative acts and misrepresenting a uniform.

They had been in police custody since their arrest in the early hours of Sunday morning, a resort popular with young tourists and notorious for rowdy and drunken behavior during the summer.

Finally British tourists have escaped punishment but it seams that they could not escape a shame.

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South Korea Former President Suicide

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

South Korea Former President Roh Moo-hyun has died after falling into a ravine, he was 63. Roh hurled himself off a 100 foot (30 meter) high cliff early Saturday while hiking, trailed by a security guard, near his home in Bongha, police in the nearby southern port city of Busan said. Life had become unbearable and “too many people are suffering because of me,” Roh wrote in a note found on his computer, police said.

“What’s left for me for the rest of my life is just to be a burden to others,” his note said. “Don’t be too sad. Aren’t life and death both part of nature? Don’t feel sorry. Don’t blame anybody. It’s destiny.” He asked to be cremated, a small gravestone erected near his home.

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Rabby Elior Chen will be Extradited to Israel

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

According to Jerusalem Post Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the extradition of Rabbi Elior Chen to Israel where he will stand trial on charges of child abuse, the Justice Ministry said on Friday. Rabby fled Israel to Brazil last year after being accused of instructing one of his followers to beat her child to the point of permanent brain damage.

Elior Chen, the suspected ringleader and spiritual mentor in one of the worst child abuse cases in Israeli history, was arrested in Sao Paolo on June 3, 2008 after his local lawyer called Brazilian police with information about his whereabouts. He has been fighting his extradition from Brazil ever since.

Chen and his followers are suspected of savagely and systematically beating two brothers, aged three and four, with hammers, knives and other instruments for months, until the younger boy lost consciousness in March.

They are also suspected of the severe abuse of other children in the family.

The three-year-old suffered permanent brain damage as a result of the abuse, and is expected to remain in a vegetative state for the rest of his life.

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One More Actress Suicide

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Suicide is never the answer. Lucy Gordon, a British actress whose film credits included Spider-Man 3 where she played a reporter, was found dead in her Paris apartment Wednesday. The actress was just two days shy of her 29th birthday. Actress had just finished filming a biopic on French singer Serge Gainsbourg, starred in the film as Gainsbourg’s wife Jane Birkin.

According to reports in London’s Daily Telegraph, Gordon’s death is thought to be a suicide, and reports say that French police believe the actress may have hanged herself while her boyfriend slept in the apartment.

“There were no suspicious circumstances,” a detective told the paper. “It appears that the young woman took her own life.”

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Henry Moore’s Reclining Figure Was Melted

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

The Henry Moore’s massive bronze sculpture, known as Reclining Figure, was taken from the 28-hectare estate that is home to Moore’s former studios, barns and gallery in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire — about 50 kilometres north of London — on Dec. 15, 2005 UK police reported.

At the time, police had surmised that the theft of the 3.4-metre-long sculpture, created 1969 to 1970, was ordered by a private art collector but actually it was melted down and sold for no more than £1,500 ($2,678 Cdn) as scrap metal.

“We have evidence and information suggesting it was cut up on the night, then taken to a location where it was irreparably damaged before it was shipped abroad,” Det. Chief Insp. Jon Humphries, of Hertfordshire police, told The Observer newspaper.

“In my mind we’ve managed to kill off the mystery as much as is possible.”

“Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization”.
So, dont you think that something happened with “the climate of their civilization”?

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Madeleine McCann

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

One of two new posters being released by the Find Madeleine Campaign which show Madeleine McCann as she was aged three, and how she might look now, aged six.

Madeleine McCann disappeared on the evening of Thursday, 3 May 2007 while on holiday with her parents and twin siblings in the Algarve region of Portugal. The fool story of this drama you can easily find by yourself, there are lots of information about the case.

There were five separate sightings of a potential suspect connected to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, according to British detectives hired by the family to find their missing daughter. The other two were of a man observed carrying a sleeping girl, who was not wearing shoes, away from the holiday complex.

More than £100,000 has been spent by the Find Madeleine Fund on translating the documents released by the official Portuguese police inquiry. Former detective inspector Dave Edgar, who served with the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Cheshire force, and former detective sergeant Arthur Cowley, from Merseyside police, are reinvestigating the crime.

In the programme, Madeleine’s mother, Kate, is seen talking to the two detectives, saying: “So it looks like we have got five sightings really. Two [of] a man with a child and three just a suspicious individual.”

Edgar replies: “There’s three of exactly the same location. I don’t know what the Portuguese authorities have done to eliminate these people from the inquiry. So we have to presume they haven’t done it and go with that.”

As a former policeman, Edgar’s view is that: “Abduction is the most likely motive, most likely done by an individual who has close links with Praia da Luz.”

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