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US: Woman Bites Flesh from Man's Face in 'Vampire' Attack

Cary Williams
ABC Action News
Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:33 UTC
A St. Petersburg man who had dozed off in his motorized wheelchair woke up to find himself being attacked by a woman, according to police.


Morton Ellis, 69, said he fell asleep after parking his wheelchair on the porch of a vacant Hooters to escape the rain.

He said the woman, 22-year-old Josephine Rebecca Smith, told him she was a vampire as she bit off chunks of his face and part of his lip.
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Heart - Black

UK: Man Jailed for Dead Girl Facebook 'Trolling' Insults


BBC News
Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:25 UTC
Natasha MacBryde
Natasha MacBryde threw herself under a train after being bullied
A Berkshire man has been jailed for posting abusive messages online about a schoolgirl after she committed suicide.

Sean Duffy, 25, of Reading, was handed an 18-week sentence for posts on social networking sites about Worcestershire teenager Natasha MacBryde.

He previously pleaded guilty at Reading Magistrates' Court to sending indecent or offensive communications.

Police said Duffy also posted abuse about dead teenagers in Northumberland, Gloucestershire and Staffordshire.

Duffy, of Grovelands Road, admitted two offences of "trolling" a term used to describe the trend of anonymously seeking to provoke outrage by posting insults and abuse online.
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Evil Rays

'Wi-fi Refugees' Shelter in West Virginia, US Mountains

Jane O'Brien & Matt Danzico
BBC News
Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:54 UTC
Dozens of Americans who claim to have been made ill by wi-fi
© BBCDozens of Americans who claim to have been made ill by wi-fi and mobile phones have flocked to the town of Green Bank, West Virginia
There are five billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide and advances in wireless technology make it increasingly difficult to escape the influence of mobile devices. But while most Americans seem to embrace continuous connectivity, some believe it's making them physically ill.

Diane Schou is unable to hold back the tears as she describes how she once lived in a shielded cage to protect her from the electromagnetic radiation caused by waves from wireless communication.

"It's a horrible thing to have to be a prisoner," she says. "You become a technological leper because you can't be around people.

"It's not that you would be contagious to them - it's what they're carrying that is harmful to you."

Ms Schou is one of an estimated 5% of Americans who believe they suffer from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), which they say is caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields typically created by mobile phones, wi-fi and other electronic equipment.
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Cult

Pope Accused of Crimes Against Humanity


The Telegraph, UK
Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:33 UTC
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© Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesPope Benedict XVI
The Pope and top Vatican cardinals have been accused of possible crimes against humanity for sheltering guilty Catholic priests, in formal complaints to the International Criminal Court.

The Centre for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based non-profit legal group, requested an ICC inquiry on behalf of the Survivors Network, arguing that the global church has maintained a "long-standing and pervasive system of sexual violence" despite promises to swiftly oust predators.

The Vatican said it had no immediate comment on the complaint.

The complaint names Pope Benedict XVI, partly in his former role as leader of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which in 2001 explicitly gained responsibility for overseeing abuse cases; Cardinal William Levada, who now leads that office; Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican secretary of state under Pope John Paul II; and Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who now holds that post.
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Pistol

Another mysterious foreigner death in Fiji

Michael Field
Stuff.co.nz
Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:04 UTC
A Japanese woman has become the fourth foreigner to die in unexplained circumstances since July in Fiji's tourist belt.

Two of the deaths have been of New Zealanders.

News of the death of Mami Nakamura, 27, has been kept out of the censored Fiji media since her body was found a week ago, but has now been disclosed as anti-military government blog sites revealed it.

Deaths of foreigners are subject to tight censorship as the Voreqe Bainimarama regime fears it will damage their multi-million tourist industry.

Former Greymouth hotelier Tony Groom was badly beaten in Nadi on July 8 and died eight days later. News of his death was suppressed until revealed in New Zealand, but Fiji police concluded he died of natural causes.
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Newspaper

US: Small Cities Struggle to Pay for 9/11 Memorials

Meghan Barr
The Associated Press
Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:08 UTC
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© AP Photo/Wilfredo LeePeople gather to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and to unveil a 9-11 memorial, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011 in Pembroke Pines, Fla.
The memorial started with a steel beam salvaged from the World Trade Center - a small piece of the terrorist attacks that the city of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was determined to honor in its own way.

Nobody from this Fort Lauderdale suburb died on Sept. 11. But plans for its memorial grew ever more elaborate - at one point projected to cost more than $1 million - as the years passed.

"It was a glass-enclosed, air-conditioned house," recalled the city's mayor, Frank Ortis. "With a reflection pool and water running down, hurricane-resistant glass. Obviously we couldn't do that."

Hundreds of small memorials to Sept. 11 have bloomed across the country in the 10 years since the attacks. But in many towns, what began as a simple tribute to the dead turned into an expensive headache as the cost of building such memorials ballooned and the economy deteriorated.
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Heart - Black

US: Chicago Teen charged with beating his parents to death


MSNBC / Associated Press
Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:45 UTC
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© Cook County Sheriff's Dept via APJohn Granat, 17, of Palos Park, Ill., was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents.
A high school student in suburban Chicago has been charged with killing his parents, who were found beaten in their home on Sunday morning.

John Granat, 17, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the beating deaths of his parents, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said Tuesday.

The Cook County medical examiner on Monday ruled that 42-year-old Maria Granat and 44-year-old John Granat died after suffering multiple blunt force injuries. Maria Granat was also stabbed. They were pronounced dead early Sunday in their southwest suburban Chicago home.

Early Sunday morning, Granat called 911, bringing police to the family home, the Chicago Tribune reported. He's scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning.
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Arrow Down

Bus-Train Crash Kills 7, Injures 162 in Argentina

Michael Warren
The Associated Press
Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:38 UTC
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© AP Photo/Rodolfo PezzoniA wounded passenger is carried out a train after it crashed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011.
A train slammed into a bus trying to beat it across the railroad tracks during rush hour Tuesday, ramming the vehicle into a platform and then striking another locomotive head-on. At least seven people were killed and more than 160 injured, authorities said.

The bus driver was among those killed, Argentine Transportation Secretary J.P. Schiavi said.

The force of the arriving train reduced the bus to a fraction of its width as it became wedged against the station platform. The front of the train then slammed into another train that was preparing to leave the Flores station in the opposite direction on the Sarmiento line, which connects the suburb of Moreno to the Once station downtown.

Schiavi said children also were among those injured in the accident, which happened at 6:15 a.m., just when many parents use public transportation to take their children to school.
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Life Preserver

Russia Supports Palestinian Bid to Win UN Statehood: Envoy


Agence France-Presse
Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:16 UTC
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© European Press Association
Russia supports the Palestinian bid to win UN statehood despite resistance from Israel and the United States, Moscow's ambassador to the United Nations said on Monday.

"We will, of course, be voting for any of the Palestinians' proposals," Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. "We are saying that whatever you decide to do, we will support you."

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Nuke

Iranian Nuclear Plant Steps Up Operations

Ali Akbar Dareini
The Associated Press
Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:48 UTC
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© Unknown
Tehran - Iran's first nuclear power plant stepped up operations Monday after more than a decade of delays, pumping out electricity at up to 40 percent capacity and marking a major step forward in the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.

The Bushehr nuclear plant - which officials say could begin full-power operations in December - is also a cornerstone of Iran's drive to become a technological leader among Muslim nations with efforts such as a space program and long-range missile development.

The U.S. and its allies accuse Iran of using its civilian nuclear program as a cover to develop nuclear weapons. Iran denies the claim and says it only seeks reactors for energy and scientific research.

Senior Iranian and Russian officials attended celebrations for the official launch of the 1000-megawatt Bushehr plant on the Gulf. It began to generate between 350 to 400 megawatts of electricity, equal to 35 to 40 percent of the reactor's full capacity.

The Russian-built plant was connected to the national power grid for a test run Sept. 4, generating 60 megawatts.
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