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Six men have been arrested over another gang rape of a woman who was travelling on a bus in northern India.
The victim had boarded the service to visit her in-laws when she was abducted and driven on a motorbike to a house in Gurdaspur district, bordering the city of Amritsar, in Punjab province, on Friday evening.
Five men, including the driver and conductor, took it in turns to rape the woman before dropping her off near the village where her in-laws lived the following morning.
The alleged attack comes just weeks after the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student on a bus in Delhi which has sparked nationwide protests about violence against women.
"Six men have been arrested on allegations of having raped a 29-year-old woman ... after forcibly taking her to an unknown location on the night of January 11," local police officer Raj Jeet Singh said, adding that a seventh suspect was being hunted.
"The lady, after being kidnapped, was raped brutally throughout the night by the seventh accused," he continued.
"After raping the victim throughout the night, one of the accused dropped her near her in-laws' house the next morning where she narrated the whole incident to her sister-in-laws."
The extent of the victim's injuries are yet to be established, the police officer added.
Just in time, too: As demonstrations have mushroomed at WalMart stores and warehouses nationwide, a disgruntled WalMart employee has led a small uprising in the coastal boomtown of Shenzhen. His agitating and organizing work has been bolstered by a partnership with SACOM, a Hong Kong-based labor rights organization that has previously taken on the notorious Apple manufacturer Foxconn.
The conflict began last summer when Wang Shishu, a 52-year-old WalMart store employee and outspoken labor activist, helped lead a campaign against plans to cut pay and slash benefits. When a small strike involving about forty workers broke out, the management cracked down. According to SACOM's petition:
"He looks like a 16-year-old, but still! He managed to fuel up and pass two borders. It's just incredible," Eleonora Spadati from the police department in Montebelluna, where the boy had been living for the past two years, told AFP news agency.
The teenager is Polish by birth, but was adopted by an Italian family.
Teachers and school staff in Rochester and across Oakland County will receive expert training in the next two months on how to react in an active school shooter situation.
County officials said Friday that the Oakland County Sheriff's Office and the county's Homeland Security Division will conduct five training sessions for school personnel starting in two weeks.
In addition, Sheriff Michael Bouchard will give active shooter presentations on site at various schools in the county.
Bouchard has received numerous requests for the presentations, he said.
Armstrong, 41, will give a limited confession to Winfrey and will not provide details of the doping that antidoping officials have said occurred throughout his cycling career, said the two people, who did not want their names published for fear of jeopardizing their access to him.
He is scheduled to sit down with Winfrey in his home in Austin, Tex., on Monday, for the interview, which will be shown Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Network. USA Today first reported the news late Friday.
Neither Armstrong nor Tim Herman, Armstrong's lawyer in Austin, immediately returned an e-mail request for comment.

A fire at 41 Spring Street took firefighters more than two hours to control. One person was dead and several others were injured.
The man, Wei Chu Wu, started the fire inside a five-story apartment building in NoLIta after getting into a fight with the mother of his child, who lives on the second floor of the building, the police said.
After lighting the fire, according to witnesses and the police, Mr. Wu tried to stop emergency responders from entering the building as flames engulfed it. One police officer broke his hand trying to subdue Mr. Wu, the police said.
The fire, at 41 Spring Street, near Mulberry Street, started around 6:40 p.m. and it took nearly 200 firefighters two and a half hours to bring it under control, fire officials said.

From 1960 to 2009, India’s fertility rate dropped from six live births per woman to 2.5
The world's seemingly relentless march toward overpopulation achieved a notable milestone in 2012: Somewhere on the planet, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the 7 billionth living person came into existence.
Lucky No. 7,000,000,000 probably celebrated his or her birthday sometime in March and added to a population that's already stressing the planet's limited supplies of food, energy, and clean water. Should this trend continue, as the Los Angeles Times noted in a five-part series marking the occasion, by midcentury, "living conditions are likely to be bleak for much of humanity."
A somewhat more arcane milestone, meanwhile, generated no media coverage at all: It took humankind 13 years to add its 7 billionth. That's longer than the 12 years it took to add the 6 billionth - the first time in human history that interval had grown. (The 2 billionth, 3 billionth, 4 billionth, and 5 billionth took 123, 33, 14, and 13 years, respectively.) In other words, the rate of global population growth has slowed. And it's expected to keep slowing. Indeed, according to experts' best estimates, the total population of Earth will stop growing within the lifespan of people alive today.
And then it will fall.
His attorney Michael Wolf confirmed the news to the MIT newspaper The Tech. "The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is, regrettably, true," he wrote in an email.
In what was presented as a unique case, the 45-year-old men from the Antwerp area who shared a bedroom all their lives began to encounter problems with their sight several years ago, Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper said according to French-language reports.
Brussels doctors backed the twins' demand to be allowed to die on December 14 last year, even though neither man was suffering from any terminal illness.
The park workers found the ammunition when they removed a plug in the cannon's barrel, said Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman for the police. Then the workers dialed 911. When the bomb squad arrived, Mr. Browne said, "They tilted the barrel of the cannon and the cannonball rolled out." Inside, too, was one pound and 12 ounces of gunpowder wrapped in wool. "In theory you could have fired that cannon," Mr. Browne said, "because the powder was still working."












