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A kitten owner had to do a double take when she realised her newborn feline had two faces.
Duecy was rejected by its mother so Stephanie Durkee is feeding her by hand. She is giving her kitten formula with a syringe and keeping her warm with a heating pad.
Ms Durkee said: "The kids actually found them and came in and said, 'Mom there's a kitty with two heads', and I said I think you guys are just tired, you're crazy, that doesn't happen."
Duecy, who was born in Oregon on Tuesday, has been examined by a vet and everything appears to be in good working order. She is a rare two-faced kitten, also known as a "Janus" kitten.
Staff continued to defy the government's closure of ERT's television and radio stations. This is a screen shot from one of the livestreams last night.
The move, which has left 2,700 people without jobs and a country without its public broadcasting station, ERT, is being criticized as the "most dramatic in a series of attacks on free speech and public space by the Greek government."
Over 3,000 people including the now former ERT employees gathered outside the broadcaster's headquarters north of Athens on Tuesday night following the announcement, vowing to stage a sit-in until the government rescinded the order.
And that is just what they did.
A 78-year-old Canadian woman dubbed the "Black Widow" was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for drugging her newlywed husband.
Melissa Ann Shepard was charged last year after Fred Weeks fell ill during the couple's honeymoon.
The court heard that Shepard slipped tranquillisers into her 76-year-old husband's coffee. He was taken to hospital but survived. Shepard had been convicted of manslaughter in 1992 after the death of her second husband, Gordon Stewart, whom she drugged and ran over twice with a car.
In 2005, Shepard - who has gone by several other surnames - was sentenced to five years in prison on seven counts for theft from a man in Florida who she had met online.
Alex Strategos, now 81, said she stole $20,000 (£12,600) from him over the month that they lived together.
In his ruling on Tuesday, Judge Joseph Kennedy agreed with the prosecution's argument for a 3.5-year prison term, less time served, saying Shepard's criminal past was relevant
Her lawyer argued for a two-year jail term, saying Shepard feels remorseful.
She declined to address the court.
Shepard married Weeks in a civil ceremony on 25 September, a few weeks after they met.
But their marriage was later declared invalid by the local authorities after they said that false information had been supplied on the marriage certificate.
Source: Associated Press
Melissa Ann Shepard was charged last year after Fred Weeks fell ill during the couple's honeymoon.
The court heard that Shepard slipped tranquillisers into her 76-year-old husband's coffee. He was taken to hospital but survived. Shepard had been convicted of manslaughter in 1992 after the death of her second husband, Gordon Stewart, whom she drugged and ran over twice with a car.
In 2005, Shepard - who has gone by several other surnames - was sentenced to five years in prison on seven counts for theft from a man in Florida who she had met online.
Alex Strategos, now 81, said she stole $20,000 (£12,600) from him over the month that they lived together.
In his ruling on Tuesday, Judge Joseph Kennedy agreed with the prosecution's argument for a 3.5-year prison term, less time served, saying Shepard's criminal past was relevant
Her lawyer argued for a two-year jail term, saying Shepard feels remorseful.
She declined to address the court.
Shepard married Weeks in a civil ceremony on 25 September, a few weeks after they met.
But their marriage was later declared invalid by the local authorities after they said that false information had been supplied on the marriage certificate.
Source: Associated Press
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"I can't walk out the door without someone calling me a whore or slut," the girl said. "I used to have a lot of friends, or people I thought were my friends, but as soon as this happened I just isolated myself."
The repeated vandalism incidents at the family's home - including the words "whore" and "slut" scrawled on the garage doors - were reported to police. But Green said no charges were filed because there were no witnesses to the acts.
Her daughter also has been the target of mean-spirited rumors and speculation that her pregnancy is the result of promiscuous behavior.
A policeman in the pay of the Sun newspaper said he would arrange for his colleagues to visit Kate Middleton's house to check a tip-off that Prince William was about to propose to her, it has emerged.
Paul Flattley, who was paid £7,600 by the Sun for 39 stories over the course of three years, also told a journalist he would check the rumour with his former sergeant, who was Miss Middleton's protection officer.
He also tipped off the newspaper about a theft from Zara Phillips's car and about the death of a 15-year-old girl.
He was jailed for two years in March after admitting conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office, but the details can only now be made public after reporting restrictions on the case were lifted.
He had been jointly charged with Virginia Wheeler, the Sun's defence editor, who was accused of making several of the payments, but the Crown Prosecution Service announced today that it would not proceed with the case against her because she is unfit to stand trial.
Flattley, 30, began tipping off the newspaper within a year of joining the Metropolitan Police, the Old Bailey heard during his sentencing hearing.
In May 2008 he emailed the Sun to say that the former England footballer Paul Gascoigne had been sectioned by police under the Mental Health Act.
© PAFormer policeman Paul Flattley.
He also tipped off the newspaper about a theft from Zara Phillips's car and about the death of a 15-year-old girl.
He was jailed for two years in March after admitting conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office, but the details can only now be made public after reporting restrictions on the case were lifted.
He had been jointly charged with Virginia Wheeler, the Sun's defence editor, who was accused of making several of the payments, but the Crown Prosecution Service announced today that it would not proceed with the case against her because she is unfit to stand trial.
Flattley, 30, began tipping off the newspaper within a year of joining the Metropolitan Police, the Old Bailey heard during his sentencing hearing.
In May 2008 he emailed the Sun to say that the former England footballer Paul Gascoigne had been sectioned by police under the Mental Health Act.
© CorbisGarage with partially open door.
The confusion started last week when Fort Gordon unexpectedly upgraded its land-mobile radios to a 390 megahertz bandwidth, the same frequency used in automatic garage door remotes.
As a result, nearly 500 residents have called or visited the Overhead Door Co. of Augusta to complain about garage doors that fail to open and close on command.
"It's about to kill us," Billy Sheppard, the service manager at the company, said of the business's increase in calls.
Though Sheppard said most complaints have been reported along Gordon Highway, faulty remotes have been encountered as far as 15 miles away from Fort Gordon.
Jason Milford lives on William Few Parkway in Evans and enters his home through the garage, where his wife parks her car. He thought boxes blocking ground sensors were the root of the problem, but he was wrong. The problem persisted after clearing the area around the alarms.
"On Sunday, I came home, sat in front of the garage in my car and pressed the remote seven or eight times before the door finally opened," Milford said. "I was not even 10 feet away."
© CC/Борис УDonetsk, Ukraine graffiti reads "Big Brother is watching you," a reference to government surveillance in George Orwell's dystopian classic "1984."
A woman has been accused of torturing her two maids and causing one of them to die of pneumonia, while she kept them unfed and locked in her Al Rashidiya home for more than a month.
The surviving maid, a Filipina, alleged that the 45-year-old Emirati woman, R.M., beat them with sticks while naked, banged their heads against the wall until they bled and forced her to drink cleaning products. She told the court her Ethiopian colleague was so hungry she searched for food in the garbage.
Prosecution records said the severity of the torture and conditions of their confinement led to the Ethiopian's death and caused the 29-year-old Filipina, E.K. to suffer severe injuries.
Dubai Police's forensic expert, who examined the injuries of the Ethiopian, K.J., confirmed that she had been tortured consistently for more than a month.
The surviving maid, a Filipina, alleged that the 45-year-old Emirati woman, R.M., beat them with sticks while naked, banged their heads against the wall until they bled and forced her to drink cleaning products. She told the court her Ethiopian colleague was so hungry she searched for food in the garbage.
Prosecution records said the severity of the torture and conditions of their confinement led to the Ethiopian's death and caused the 29-year-old Filipina, E.K. to suffer severe injuries.
Dubai Police's forensic expert, who examined the injuries of the Ethiopian, K.J., confirmed that she had been tortured consistently for more than a month.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his 29-year marriage to his his wife, Lyudmila, was over - after removing his wedding band as they watched the ballet together.
The 60-year-old and his 55-year-old wife broke the news of the end of the 29-year marriage in an obviously staged TV interview after a night at the ballet.
Before the ballet at the Kremlin Palace, Putin was pictured wearing his wedding ring, but he must have removed it during the performance because he was not wearing it by the time he left and was interviewed.
The military said in a statement Thursday that 103 detainees are on hunger strike and that 41 of them are being force-fed. The military also said four detainees who are being force-fed are being observed at the hospital.
None of the hunger strikers has a life-threatening condition, said Lt. Col. Samuel House, a spokesman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo.
Comment: Remember that these men have never been found guilty of any crime whatsoever, yet they have been imprisoned and tortured for years, against all international and human rights laws. This force feeding sounds like one more torture technique they suffer for no reason at all.