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Pennsylvania boys, 14, fatally shoot woman, pose with guns on Facebook afterward

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Beaver Falls - Police are searching for two 14-year-old boys, and reported a 13-year-old who are charged as adults with fatally shooting a Beaver Falls woman.

Beaver Falls police have charged Todavia Cleckley and Marcus Velasquez with criminal homicide and other charges in Saturday's shooting of 22-year-old Kayla Peterson. She was shot at a house about 3:30 p.m. that day and died at Allegheny General Hospital two hours later.

Cleckley's Facebook page shows a young man posing with a revolver in one hand and a pistol in the other. The photo was posted less than 12 hours after Peterson's shooting.

Online court records show police were still searching for the suspects. According the the Beaver County Times a third boy, a 13-year-old has also been charged in the shooting.

Beaver County District Attorney Anthony Berosh says he intends to prosecute both as adults.

Source: KDKA and The Associated Press

Heart - Black

Man, woman found bound, gagged on San Francisco street; 1 dead

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© CBS NewsA man died after he and a woman were found bound and gagged in the street.
A man is dead after he and a woman were found bound and gagged in the middle of a street in San Francisco's Bayview District Sunday night, police said. The two victims were found about 8:30 p.m. Sunday in the 900 block of Brussels Street, Officer Albie Esparza said.

Both were alive at the time they were found, but the man, possibly in his 20s, whose name was not released, was unconscious, Esparza said.

They were both transported to San Francisco General Hospital where the man succumbed to his injuries about midnight, police said.

The woman's condition was unknown but was considered life-threatening, Esparza said.

The motive for the crime was unknown and remained under investigation, police said. There are no suspect descriptions available yet.

Pistol

Two boys, aged 7 and 11, 'hold woman at gunpoint demanding car and cell phone'

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© Katu.comNerve-wracked victim: Amy Garrett says she's lucky to be alive after two boys, aged 7 and 11, used a loaded gun to try and carjack and rob her on Saturday afternoon
A seven and 11-year-old boy pulled a loaded gun on an Oregon woman during an attempted carjacking and robbery outside a church parking lot, police said on Sunday.

Armed with a .22 caliber handgun, cocked and loaded, police in Portland say the described 11-year-old delinquent, seen back on the streets today, and his 7-year-old accomplice were caught while trying to flee on Saturday afternoon.

'They told me they were going to blow my brains out if I didn't give them something,' 22-year-old victim Amy Garrett recalled to KATU on Sunday while still visibly shaken.

Miss Garrett was parked outside the Freedom Foursquare Church waiting for her parents when the two boys, later recognized as occasionally attending the church while living nearby, approached her window.

The youngest of the two allegedly nudged to the other, 'show her your piece,' prompting the oldest to pull up his shirt where the weapon was revealed.

Palette

Fury over artist who claims he used ash from Nazi concentration camp crematorium in his painting

  • Carl Michael von Hausswolff
    Outrage: Carl Michael von Hausswolff has painted a picture using ashes which he claims to have taken from the crematorium of a Nazi concentration camp in Poland
    Swedish artist used ashes from Majdanek concentration camp for painting
  • The exhibition also includes a photograph taken at the location of the ruins of Hermann Göring's hunting cabin.
  • He has now been reported to the police for desecrating remains and breaking burial law
A Swedish artist has caused outrage after exhibiting artwork which he claims to have painted using ashes gathered in the crematorium of a Nazi concentration camp.

Carl Michael von Hausswolff stole the ashes from Majdanek concentration camp in Poland during a 1989 trip and over two decades later, mixed it with water and used it as paint.

He has now been reported to the police for desecrating the remains of Majdanek's Holocaust victims, under Swedish burial protection laws.

Mr von Hausswolff visited Poland in 1989 to exhibit his art at a gallery not far from Lublin, a town near Majdanek. He says he was 'gathering material for the exhibition' when he visited the concentration camp.

'I gathered some ashes from one of the cremation ovens, but did not use it for the exhibition - the material was too charged with the cruelties which had taken place.'

Bacon

Pigs in Manitoba breeding facility get shocking treatment


We're a little hypocritical about animal cruelty in this country. We can get very wound up when we read about someone abusing their pet dog or cat, right up to threatening that person with death.

But most of us don't summon the same level of outrage when appalling examples of livestock being mistreated on factory farms comes to light.

The cattle, the pigs, the chickens, they're not our home companions. They're meat on our table, and the cheaper the better. We don't much concern ourselves about their lives before they get there. That's the government's job, right?

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This latest story, revealed by CTV's investigative public affairs program W5, shows a Manitoba pig-breeding operation where sows spend their lives in tiny crates, are repeatedly impregnated to produce litters until they can't anymore, then unceremoniously killed. Employees cull defective piglets by smashing their heads against something hard.

Cruel, yes. But apparently not against the law. Saturday's W5 segment uses video footage shot secretly by an animal-welfare investigator to expose conditions in the Puratone facility just north of Winnipeg.

In a story on W5's web site, reporter Tom Kennedy writes that after viewing the video, Barbara Cartwright, chief executive officer of Canada's Federation of Humane Societies, predicted Canadians were in for a shock.

"They are not used to seeing this," she said. "They still believe animals are being raised in the old farm style."

The reality couldn't be more different, Kennedy writes.

"The video shows what amounts to a living production line with thousands of pregnant sows, each held in a tiny metal stall where they will spend the nearly four months of their gestation," he reports.

"When they are ready, they are transferred to a slightly larger stall called a farrowing crate where they will give birth. After three weeks, the piglets are then sent away for fattening and eventual slaughter while the sows are returned to the gestation crates, re-impregnated to start the cycle again."

Airplane

Man who fell from sky near London Heathrow not identified

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© (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police)This E-FIT image (Electronic Facial Identification Technique) provided by the Metropolitan Police on Dec. 7, 2012 show a computer-based face of a man whom British police are trying to identify after his body was found near London's Heathrow Airport in September. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police)
London -- Police believe he was from Africa, probably from Angola, but they don't know his identity.

The mystery began in September when residents of a suburban street in the Mortlake neighborhood of West London woke up on a quiet Sunday morning to find the crumpled body of a black man on the sidewalk of Portman Avenue, near a convenience store, an upscale lingerie shop and a storefront offering Chinese medical cures.

Detectives believed at first the man was a murder victim and cordoned off the area. Within a day, however, police concluded the man - probably already dead - had fallen to the ground when a jet passing overhead lowered its landing gear as it neared the runway at nearby Heathrow Airport.

The apparent stowaway had no identification papers - just some currency from Angola, leading police to surmise that he was from that African nation, especially as inquiries showed that a plane from Angola was beginning its descent into Heathrow at about that time.

The macabre explanation made perfect sense to residents, who are familiar not only with the roar of the jets descending, but are also able to see the planes lower their landing gears as they pass overhead, said Catherine Lambert, who lives a few doors down from the spot where the man landed.

Handcuffs

Terry Waite returns to Lebanon 25 years after kidnapping

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Terry Waite: went to Lebanon in 1987 to try to secure release of hostage John McCarthy but was accused of being a CIA agent and kidnapped
Terry Waite, who was kidnapped and tortured 25 years ago by associates of the militant group Hezbollah, has returned to Lebanon to meet representatives of the organisation responsible for his capture.

The 73-year-old went back to Beirut last week to reconcile with his captors and lay to rest the ghosts of the past.

He told Ammar Moussawi, a senior figure within Hezbollah:
"My first reason for the visit is to say the past is the past. Let us leave it."
Waite also highlighted the plight of Syrians fleeing civil war in their homeland and asked for Hezbollah's help in the runup to Christmas, he told the Sunday Telegraph.

Light Sabers

Vietnam breaks up anti-China protests over rival claims to the oil and gas-rich South China Sea

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© ReutersPolice move anti-China protesters to a bus during a protest in Hanoi.
Police disperse demonstrators as tensions rise over communist neighbours' claims to South China Sea

Vietnamese police broke up anti-China protests in two cities on Sunday and detained 20 people in the first such demonstrations since tensions between the communist neighbours flared anew over rival claims to the oil and gas-rich South China Sea.

Any sign of popular anger in tightly controlled Vietnam causes unease among the leadership, but anti-Chinese sentiment is especially sensitive. The country has long-standing ideological and economic ties with its giant neighbour, but many of those criticising China are also the ones calling for political, religious and social freedoms at home.

Police initially allowed about 200 protesters to march from the Opera House in Hanoi through the streets, but after 30 minutes ordered them to disperse. When some continued, police arrested about 20 demonstrators and put them into a large bus that then drove quickly from the scene. It was unclear where they were taken, but in the past people detained at anti-China protests have been held briefly then released.

Hotdog

U.S. calls on Russia to lift restrictions and accept its toxic meat

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© RIA Novosti. Alexandr KryazhevUS Calls on Russia to Lift Meat Restrictions
The United States called on Russia on Sunday to lift restrictions on American meat imports, saying the new requirement on American beef and pork supplies contradicted Russia's obligations as a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Russia, which joined the world trade club as its 156th member in August 2012 after 18 years of negotiations, announced on Friday beef and pork imports from US producers using ractopamine must be tested and certified free of the feed additive.

The move came a day after the US Senate repealed the Cold War-era Jackson-Vanik restrictions on trade with Russia and simultaneously passed the Magnitsky Act, which targets Russian officials deemed by Washington to have violated human rights.

Chess

Chavez names successor ahead of new surgery

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© AFP/ PRESIDENCIAVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on national television late on Saturday he was flying to Cuba for a new cancer surgery and named Vice-President and Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro as his possible successor.

"If something were to happen that would incapacitate me in some way, in that situation, Nicolas Maduro should not just complete, as the constitution requires, the term, but my firm opinion, full like a full moon, absolute and total, is that in that situation that would require new presidential elections to convene, as the constitution requires, you should elect Nicolas Maduro as president," he said.

Chavez, 58, who has ruled Venezuela for 13 years, underwent three operations for cancer in the pelvic area and four courses of chemotherapy in Cuba and Venezuela within a year.