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Depressed Woman Jumps Into Crocodile Pit

Dailymail.uk.co
Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:02 UTC

A woman who was suffering from depression is believed to have fed herself to the crocodiles at a popular tourist attraction in Thailand.

The 36-year-old Thai woman told her husband that she was going to see a doctor and would then go to popular Crocodile Farm in Samut Prakarn just outside Bangkok.

She never returned home but she was caught on CCTV cameras entering the tourist attraction 20 miles south of the capital.

© PA
A Thai woman is believed to have fed herself to the crocodiles at a popular tourist attraction in Samut Prakarn just outside Bangkok.

Nearly 17 Million Americans Experience Low Food Security

Charles Abbott
Planetark.com
Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:57 UTC

The number of poor Americans who repeatedly ran short of food shot up by 800,000 in 2011 to nearly 17 million compared with 2010, the U.S. government said on Wednesday.

The Department of Agriculture said in a report that about 5.5 percent of Americans, or nearly 17 million, suffered "very low food security" last year, meaning they had to skip meals or not eat for a day because of a lack of money to buy food. That is a rise of 800,000 over the prior year, it said.

The food-security report was released one day after the government said that a record 46.7 million Americans were enrolled for food stamps in June, up by 173,000 in May.

High unemployment and slow growth since the deep 2008-2009 recession has driven enrollment in food stamps, the major U.S. anti-hunger program, to record levels.

Gaza's Water Could Be Undrinkable by 2016

Palestine Chronicle
Mon, 03 Sep 2012 02:33 UTC

Polluted water in the Gaza Strip is seriously affecting people's health and the situation looks set to get worse, the UN warns in a new report.

Gaza's rapidly growing population of about 1.64 million - expected to increase by 500,000 by 2020 - could soon lose its main source of fresh water, the underground coastal aquifer, which could become unusable by 2016, with the damage irreversible by 2020, it says.

Clean water is limited for most Gazans to an average of 70-90 litres per person per day, compared to the minimum global World Health Organization (WHO) standard of 100 litres a day, according to Mahmud Daher, officer-in-charge of the WHO in Gaza.

"We have respiratory diseases, skin diseases, eye diseases, gastroenteritis, which can all be linked to polluted water," said Mohamed al-Kashef, general director of the international cooperation department in the Gaza health ministry.

According to a UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) 2010 update, diseases associated with water account for about 26 percent of diseases in Gaza. However, Daher is more careful to make the link. "There is no evidence that the current water situation is a major public health problem. But what we know for sure is that viral diseases and parasites are connected to polluted water."

Ex-Police Chief charged in China Political Scandal

Christopher Bodeen
Google
Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00 UTC

© The Associated Press/China Out
In this Oct. 21, 2008 file photo, then Chonqing city police chief Wang Lijun speaks during a press conference in Chongqing, southwestern China.

Beijing - A former police chief whose flight to a U.S. consulate set off China's biggest political scandal in years has been charged with crimes including defection and bribe taking, possibly indicating the turbulent affair is moving closer to a resolution before a key national leadership transition this fall.

Wednesday evening's announcement by state media of the charges against Wang Lijun did not mention Bo Xilai, his one-time boss, who has fallen from power as one of China's top leaders as a result of the scandal.

Wang, the former police chief and vice mayor of the southwestern city of Chongqing, was also charged with "bending the law for selfish ends" and abuse of power, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Wang set off the scandal by fleeing to the U.S. consulate in the nearby city of Chengdu in early February after being demoted by Bo, the city's powerful Communist Party boss. Xinhua said the Chengdu City Intermediate People's Court had accepted the case, although it did not give a trial date.

During his overnight stay at the U.S. consulate, Wang expressed to the Americans his concerns about the death of British businessman Neil Heywood in Chongqing last November. That prompted the British embassy to request a new investigation, which uncovered that he had been murdered. The case resulted in Bo's dismissal in March and the conviction last month of Bo's wife Gu Kailai for poisoning Heywood, a former family associate with whom Gu had reportedly feuded about money.

Feds Seek Prison Time For Obama "Hope" Artist

The Smoking Gun
Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00 UTC

Federal prosecutors want Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the Barack Obama Hope poster, to serve time in prison following his misdemeanor conviction for destroying and fabricating documents in connection with a civil lawsuit over the iconic campaign image. In advance of Friday's scheduled sentencing of Fairey in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the Department of Justice has filed a memorandum arguing that a prison term for the 42-year-old artist would be "appropriate."

However, prosecutors did not specify how long Fairey should be incarcerated (though, statutorily, his punishment would not exceed six months). Additionally, government lawyers have contended that Judge Frank Maas could fine Fairey up to $3.2 million.

"A sentence without any term of imprisonment sends a terrible message to those who might commit the same sort of criminal conduct," wrote prosecutor Daniel Levy in a September 2 memo. "Encouraging parties to game the civil litigation system...creates terrible incentives and subverts the truth-finding function of civil litigation."

Fairey, seen in the above mug shot, has admitted destroying electronic records and creating fake documents in an effort to thwart a copyright lawsuit brought by the Associated Press, which contended that Fairey had based the Hope image on a photo taken by an AP lensman.

Berlin Declares Circumcision Legal, but Only if Performed by a Doctor - Not as a Ritual

The Times of Israel
Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00 UTC

State does not authorize mohels, requires that parents be informed of the procedure's medical risks before consenting.

One of Germany's 16 states has declared circumcision legal, but only if performed by doctors - not, as required by Jewish law, by mohels.

Berlin, Germany's capital and itself a state, is the first to declare the practice legal following a Cologne court ruling in June that non-medical circumcisions on children amounted to a criminal offense, according to DPA, a German news wire. National legislation is pending to legalize circumcision.

State Justice Minister Thomas Heilmann made the announcement Wednesday, saying he felt it necessary to allay fears in this "difficult transitional period," the Associated Press reported.

The Berlin state has authorized only doctors, and not mohels, to perform circumcisions. National legislation could authorize mohels. The state also required that parents be informed of the procedure's medical risks before consenting, and that doctors do everything possible during the procedure to reduce pain and limit bleeding.

June's court ruling led many doctors to stop performing circumcisions in order to avoid being prosecuted. So far, complaints based on the ruling have been filed against two rabbis, although one complaint was dropped last week.

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Man Dressed as the Joker Arrested at Florida Movie Theater, Held on Bond

wftv.com
Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:29 UTC

Brevard, Florida - WFTV found out a man who was arrested Wednesday after he walked into a Melbourne movie theater dressed as the infamous Batman villain, the Joker, is being held in the jail's mental health ward.

Police said Christoper Sides, 21, of Cocoa, was arrested on a warrant for a previous felony charge. He's being held on bond at the Brevard County Jail.

WFTV learned Sides has been involuntarily committed for mental health issues three times in the last three years.

Sides was arrested Wednesday morning after theater-goers reported a man wearing Joker-like makeup at the Premiere Theater on West Hibiscus Boulevard. The caller said the man was pacing outside the theater before entering the building.

Police said they confronted Sides as he was leaving through the front doors of the theater. According to police, Sides had purchased a ticket to see The Expendables 2.

Police said they learned Sides, who had bright pink hair and white and black face paint, had a warrant for his arrest for failure to appear on a previous misdemeanor charge. He was taken into custody for the warrant and transported to the Brevard County Jail.

Torso Found in Suitcase off Toronto's Bluffer's Park

The Globe and Mail
Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:42 UTC

A human torso placed in a suitcase and found drifting on Lake Ontario is the latest in a string of body parts discovered in and around Toronto over the past month.

The grisly discovery was made on Wednesday morning by a man and a woman on personal watercrafts, according to area residents. They found the suitcase some two and a half kilometres off Bluffer's Park in Scarborough, pulled it back to land and called police.

The coroner confirmed the remains were human but, so far, police don't know to whom the torso belongs, or whether it is of a man or a woman - questions they hope a postmortem examination on Thursday morning will answer. They are investigating whether the remains are linked to the case of Liu Guahuang, a Scarborough woman whose head and limbs were found in the Credit River in Mississauga and a creek near her home last month.

"We've been in touch with Peel Region police and, until we get the results of the postmortem examination, we can't determine if it's one in the same," Detective Leslie Dunkley said.

St. Louis Man Stabbed to Death Over Bag of Chips

Valerie Schremp
St.Louis Today
Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:10 UTC

David L. Scott

St. Louis - A man was charged late Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of another man in a fight over a bag of Cheetos on Tuesday night in downtown St. Louis, police say.

David L. Scott, 49, was charged today with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. Authorities say he argued with 42-year-old Roger Wilkes over the Cheetos and stabbed him once in the chest with a knife about 8:50 p.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of Washington Avenue.

Wilkes died later at a hospital.

Police had said they believed both men were homeless, but gave an address for Wilkes in the 4000 block of Delmar Boulevard and an address for Scott in the 200 block of North Ninth Street.

'Bomb' strapped to bank manager in Los Angeles robbery

The Guardian
Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00 UTC

Woman was abducted from home, fitted with device and sent into Bank of America branch to get cash, say police.

© The Associated Press/Damian Dovarganes
A Los Angeles bomb squad officer and robot with the device that was attached to a Bank of America manager, who was then made to rob the store.

A Los Angeles bank manager was strapped to what appeared to be a bomb and sent into her branch to take out money for two thieves who escaped with the cash, authorities said.

The two suspects confronted the manager at her home on Tuesday night and forced her to participate in the robbery, said the Los Angeles county sheriff's office. "The two men took her to her bank on Wednesday morning, telling her that she had to wear this explosive device," said spokesman Steve Whitmore. "They strapped on what appeared to be pipe bomb."

Following the robbery a sheriff's arson and explosives team removed the device from the woman and rendered it safe, Whitmore said. Officials did not identify the bank manager.

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Society's Child

Depressed Woman Jumps Into Crocodile Pit

Nearly 17 Million Americans Experience Low Food Security

Gaza's Water Could Be Undrinkable by 2016

Ex-Police Chief charged in China Political Scandal

Feds Seek Prison Time For Obama "Hope" Artist

Berlin Declares Circumcision Legal, but Only if Performed by a Doctor - Not as a Ritual

Man Dressed as the Joker Arrested at Florida Movie Theater, Held on Bond

Torso Found in Suitcase off Toronto's Bluffer's Park

St. Louis Man Stabbed to Death Over Bag of Chips

'Bomb' strapped to bank manager in Los Angeles robbery

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