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0d3d28cab07a08b2e7cf8915405a0b7945f26456 | A drunken driver who struck and killed two teenage cousins on a southern New Jersey roadway two years ago has pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter charges. Cape May County prosecutors say 33-year-old Joshua Malmgren of Middle Township is expected to receive two nine-year state prison terms when he’s sentenced Dece... | Joshua Malmgren, 33, pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter charges .
In 2012, he hit and killed cousins Nioami Lazicki, 15, and Ashley Dauber, 13, as they walked home from a New Jersey playground .
He had a blood alcohol reading of .183, twice the legal limit, and admitted to taking prescription pills .
He was text... |
0d3e35bd32d98187ac7af76fee8429ea5f5feab3 | By . Kerry Mcdermott . PUBLISHED: . 12:20 EST, 13 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:28 EST, 13 March 2013 . Jailed: Odosa Usiobaifo, 35, from Enfield, was found guilty of conspiring to traffick young girls for the purposes of sexual exploitation . A man has been jailed for 14 years for his role in the 'horrific' ordeal of... | Odosa Usiobaifo, 35, admitted conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration .
Had collected two Nigerian girls to be placed on a flight from UK to Spain .
The girls, 14 and 15, had been in local authority care in London . |
0d3e7adfc63e36836dd9fc3eae1fce02e875a5b3 | These are the eerie images of an abandoned train yard in Hungary where visitors can see rotting carriages once used by the Nazis to transport hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths at Auschwitz concentration camp. The pictures, taken at the Istvantelek train workshop near Budapest, are a snapshot of a bygone era... | Pictures taken at Istvantelek train workshop near Budapest show abandoned train engines and carriages .
Some of the trains were once used by Nazis to transport hundreds of thousands of Jews to Auschwitz .
Other carriages contain rail tickets from 1967 when Hungary was a communist state loyal to the Soviet Union . |
0d3f1314c639915b1d278e76284fde870e8f5b76 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 05:59 EST, 8 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:10 EST, 8 March 2013 . Earth is warmer today than it has been for most of the last 11,300 years, new research has shown. Scientists studied fossils recovered from 73 sites around the world to track global climate to the end of the last ... | Scientists studied fossils recovered from 73 sites around the world to track global climate to the end of the last Ice Age .
Climate models predict that by 2100 the .
global temperature could rise by another 1C - 6C depending on the level .
of greenhouse gas emissions . |
0d402c33ca494f53438014d2b5793dc10b818bf7 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 07:24 EST, 19 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:24 EST, 19 August 2013 . We may think of vanity as a quintessentially human trait - but these photographs show that the animal world can be just as self-obsessed. When this penguin in the Antarctic caught sight of its reflection in a ... | Amazing pictures captured by Anthony Pierce at Neko Harbour in Antarctica . |
0d40f0a010432e049e02ce1197784c065d39f053 | A match between Memphis Tigers and BYU Cougars ended with a mass brawl as the two sets of players decided to take aim at each other, ending in a bloody fight. The Tigers, who were participating in the inaugural Miami Beach Bowl, should have been celebrating their win over the notoriously straight-laced BYU Cougars, but... | Memphis Tigers beat BYU Cougars 55-48 in the Miami Beach Bowl .
Nearly all players were involved in fight after the season finale .
Players decided to use their helmets as weapons after the tense match .
Blood was shed and one player, Kai Nacua, faces expulsion . |
0d411b8513446df935eaa85181f1955682e69591 | By . Australian Associated Press . and Sarah Dean . Career criminal Christopher Dean 'Badness' Binse is back behind bars after stealing $235,000 from a Melbourne hotel and shooting at police in a 44-hour siege. The hardened thug threatened two armed guards with a sawn-off shotgun during the armed robbery in March 2012 ... | Hardened criminal stole thousands from a Melbourne hotel in March 2012 .
45-year-old then barricaded himself inside his home and shot at police .
Threatened two armed guards with a sawn-off shotgun .
Has already spent more than half of his life in jail . |
0d4140b9aea7062ca7c59138f6293089688fef8b | By . Stuart Roberts . PUBLISHED: . 11:21 EST, 7 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:35 EST, 7 November 2013 . A British farmer has cultivated a 'tree of fire' that has yielded over 1,000 of the world's hottest chillies. Joy Michaud, 55, has a glut of the . Dorset Naga chillies on her hands and just one of the pungent red... | Super hot chillies are 120 times spicier than a jalapeno .
Farmer started growing the chillies in 2005 .
Scorching summer leads to this years' huge harvest .
The potent Dorset Naga pepper is being sent to Guinness Book of Records .
Each one measures 1.2 million on the Scoville scale .
Growers forced to wear goggles and... |
0d41c4a8c18bd4e871dd01edf7805fd229bd20ce | A counselor in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community was found guilty Monday of sexually abusing a girl over a period of three years in a case that one victim's advocate described as marking "a new era." Nechemya Weberman, 54, was found guilty on all 59 counts he was facing, including sexual conduct against a child. He ... | The abuse began when the girl was 12 .
Weberman was found guilty on all 59 counts .
He faces a possible sentence of 117 years in prison .
District attorney expresses hope that others will come forward . |
0d4254ab5376e449171215e7b51a6a6a9a4b2e64 | Ryse has divided opinion. In one corner, gamers were astounded by its undeniable beauty. In the other, the short, button-mashing playable demo at this year's E3 left many thinking Ryse was a case of all style but no substance. You play Marius Titus, a young Roman soldier whose family is murdered by barbarian bandits. F... | Powered by CryEngine 3 - behind Crysis 3 .
Stunning looks, especially in the character models .
Xbox One Kinect and SmartGlass integration .
Concerns over 'simplistic' E3 demo . |
0d42600041b88a754e5479f707ab4ef0a5e9d254 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . UPDATED: . 06:22 EST, 13 January 2012 . Nearly half of Mormons say church members face significant discrimination in the United States, and a third believe voters are not ready to elect Mitt Romney, or any other member of their church, president. A survey of members of The Church of Jesus Chr... | Forty-six per cent of Mormons believe they are discriminated against .
Sixty-two per cent believe Americans know little to nothing about their religion .
Thirty-two per cent don't believe the U.S. is ready for a Mormon president . |
0d429475f20b4ef8c01dd7242f1db63bea4e5f28 | Washington (CNN) -- They have become staples of many cable and broadcast television stations: high-speed, often dangerous police pursuits of fleeing motorists, videotaped and packaged into such shows as "World's Wildest Police Chases." In an appeal that came to the Supreme Court, the issue was: When do such incidents c... | "Risk of violence is inherent to vehicle flight," Justice Anthony Kennedy says .
The court rejects the argument that a car chase shouldn't lead to a stricter sentence .
Justice Scalia dissents, saying the law should be declared "void for vagueness'
Justices Kagan and Ginsburg, in a separate dissent, argue there was no ... |
0d43b97000ff852282c89d8d105e41495c0ee9bd | Pill-popper: German dictator Adolf Hitler allegedly was a manic depressive with Parkinson¿s, had deformed genitals, had no libido and devoured a cocktail of drugs . Adolf Hitler was a drug-abusing hypochondriac with deformed genitals who regularly consumed a cocktail of amphetamines, bull semen, rat poison and morphine... | Hitler was a manic depressive hypochrondriac with deformed genitals, according to a National Geographic documentary .
Medical documents show Hitler's top physician fed him 80 drugs a day, including rat poison, amphetamines, bull semen and morphine .
He also allegedly snorted powdered cocaine to 'clear his sinuses .
and... |
0d4404c55bb46c414e939e3f0134dc07fbaf22cd | By . Mark Duell . Last updated at 4:23 PM on 3rd January 2012 . He was the last member of the Republican party to hold office in the White House - but it seems none of the new candidates want to talk about him. George W. Bush, the two-term U.S. President who finished just three years ago, has hardly been mentioned on t... | George W. Bush only left White House three years ago .
But no GOP candidates have blamed him for troubles .
Bush had approval rating of 34% when leaving office . |
0d449a73dad18ca72307e60852b6aadda766633d | Maria C. Waltherr-Willard (pictured) tried to sue her school district for discrimination after claiming she had a phobia of young children . An Ohio school teacher who tried to sue her school district for discrimination after claiming she had a phobia of young children has had her case thrown out by court. Maria C. Wal... | Maria C. Waltherr-Willard tried to sue her school district for discrimination .
Claimed she had a phobia of young children but has had case thrown out .
Alleged the school knew but still assigned her to teach younger pupils .
But not needed as French teacher as school moved to online courses .
School also did not need ... |
0d449d42494c4a284de9680463ef4f6b51939f73 | (Mashable) -- Facebook released a new version of its Questions feature on Thursday, the result of nearly a year of beta testing. The new version of Questions takes the focus off public inquiries (a service already dominated by Q&A sites like Quora) and instead focuses on soliciting recommendations from friends. "There... | Facebook's new version is the result of nearly a year of beta testing .
Version focuses on soliciting recommendations from friends .
Updated version will be rolled out to current testers first . |
0d46ec53b6151a669ba75150d14fa6f8b6557414 | Jerusalem (CNN) -- The Israeli government asked the country's high court Friday for a delay in the scheduled demolition of an unauthorized West Bank settlement outpost. Many of the homes built by Jewish settlers in a neighborhood of the Beit El outpost are located on private Palestinian land. Last year the Israeli gove... | Many homes of Israeli settlers in a West Bank outpost are on private Palestinian land .
The Israeli government said last year the homes would be demolished by May 1 .
Government now requests a three-month delay in the demolition .
Critic calls the request "an announcement of war ... against the rule of law" |
0d47a55f0b9c8cd122c7d530935f0a94fc021d05 | By . Leon Watson . PUBLISHED: . 12:13 EST, 15 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 13:49 EST, 15 January 2014 . The German sense of humour has a reputation for backfiring. And it nearly did in this case - in spectacular fashion. Pranksters in Germany came within inches of getting badly burnt after a massive firework blew up i... | Pranksters in Germany came within inches of getting badly burnt .
But they escaped unscathed when their prank went badly wrong . |
0d47c7c8af5749114d8b1e5d09e34228b9a457f4 | Councillors have slammed a £1.8million planned gypsy site as a 'glorified mod-con holiday camp' - and even a gypsy leader thinks it's too expensive. The revamp of a 13-pitch site near Bath will include driveways, street lights, soundproofing, landscaping and a permanent building next to each caravan with a kitchen, sho... | Cost of revamping 13-pitch traveller site near Bath could rise to £2.5million .
Each £140,000 pitch will also have a kitchen, shower, toilet and living room .
Travellers will then be charged a rent of around £5,800 per pitch per year .
Councillor: 'I agree we need to make a site for them but this is over the top'
Gypsy... |
0d48490518050fa77a804043e5b84d7c382d0b81 | (CNN) -- We've had octopuses, camels and turtles providing World Cup predictions, but now a computer software program has got in on the act of forecasting football matches. And, according to Microsoft, their recently released software program Cortana had a 100% success rate in predicting the winners in Brazil 2014's ro... | Software program says it has successfully predicted outcome of round of 16 World Cup games .
Program named after the AI character in Microsoft's Halo video games .
But who will reach World Cup semifinals? |
0d48d554414fd0f0a19596ddc22e3ad4e7e196a4 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 22:21 EST, 5 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 04:42 EST, 6 August 2012 . Half a million Sikhs in the U.S. have worried about their safety ever since the September 11 attacks, when some began targeting adherents of a peaceful religion that stresses the equality of people. Those fears ... | Many Sikhs have felt victimised since September 11 attacks .
Shooting in Milwaukee suburbs was latest in line of incidents targeting faith . |
0d49e3bab38ea64603fe66545c448a7970a5c570 | London (CNN) -- Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is "not a fit person" to run a major international company, British lawmakers investigating phone hacking at his tabloid News of the World reported Tuesday. The ruling could prompt British regulators to force him to sell his controlling stake in British Sky Broadcastin... | NEW: "We deeply regret what took place," Rupert Murdoch says .
British media regulators are studying the findings "with interest"
Lawmakers: Murdoch not fit "to exercise the stewardship of a major international company"
News International "wished to buy silence" over phone hacking, the report says . |
0d4a95469a6cbf8e69b92ae822c8f70dc0dc8dd6 | By . Matt Chorley and Jack Doyle . PUBLISHED: . 20:57 EST, 9 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 12:17 EST, 10 December 2012 . Home Office minister Jeremy Browne said he was willing to travel to Portugal to see first hand how the 'depenalisation' of drugs has worked in practice . Ministers are to examine Portugese laws to ‘... | Home Affairs select committee says government strategy is not working .
Lib Dem minister Jeremy Browne to visit Portugal to see no-penalty policy .
But campaigners warn over link between cannabis and mental illness .
And Tory vice-chairman suggests legal ban should be replaced by education . |
0d4ad98336deb1389f9a05ff774a06a67339dfd8 | Brendan Rodgers has rubbished claims by West Ham United boss Sam Allardyce that Liverpool succumbed to defeat to Aston Villa due to complacency by insisting the Reds are 'allergic' to such a thing. The Anfielders surprisingly fell to a 1-0 home loss against Villa last weekend and Hammers manager Allardyce suggested Liv... | Brendan Rodgers hits back at Sam Allardyce's claims of complacency .
West Ham United boss said Liverpool had taken Aston Villa lightly .
Liverpool lost 1-0 against Villa at Anfield in Premier League last weekend .
Rodgers says his Liverpool side are 'allergic to complacency'
West Ham host Liverpool at Upton Park in Pre... |
0d4aee13279b588594b55e84dd68e40e742754b4 | Coronado, California (CNN)Rick Perry used his final public address as Texas governor on Friday to sharply criticize President Barack Obama's stewardship of the country and called on fellow Republicans to articulate a plan to voters explaining how the GOP will turn the country around. "What is needed at this time in hi... | Outgoing Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to the Republican National Committee .
He delivers plenty of red meat to his audience, but gives no clues about his 2016 plans . |
0d4b32d6b9dc6f44639c754954dfeb7800e42d50 | (CNN) -- Veteran Jim Furyk produced the round of the day at the Tour Championship in Atlanta after carding a score of 64 at East Lake. The American birdied six of the first nine holes to record an outward 29 as he raced through the field. Furyk won the FedEX Cup $10 million prize two years ago and looked to have an inc... | Jim Furyk leads the way after stunning start to second round .
Rory McIlroy in control of the race for the $10 million FedEx Cup bonus after a 68 .
Tiger Woods falls down the leaderboard as he shoots one-over 73 .
Justin Rose to play alongside Furyk in third round . |
0d4bb54062405596bdf35684ffbcbd7513d21e96 | By . Luke Salkeld . A deputy headmaster was yesterday jailed for five years for secretly filming pupils using the school toilets and showers. Gareth Williams, 47, installed tiny hidden spy cameras in clocks, fans and toilet cisterns in order to obtain pictures and videos of boys without their knowledge. The married fat... | Teacher bought spy cameras over the internet and installed them in the toilet .
Cardiff Crown Court heard that Gareth Williams downloaded the images at home .
The 47-year-old deputy headmaster admitted possessing 16,000 indecent images .
The 'depraved' images dated back to 2009 - a year after Williams was appointed .
W... |
0d4c35951a3ba3638ac303b460b1c7ea3962ea74 | By . Barry Norman . PUBLISHED: . 19:55 EST, 26 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:57 EST, 26 March 2013 . The first sex scene I ever saw in the movies that left me vaguely gobsmacked was the moment in Darling when Dirk Bogarde performed a sex act on Julie Christie. We didn’t see the act itself, merely the strongest possibl... | Raunchy movies like Basic Instinct are no longer popular among fans .
Hollywood executives want to appeal more to female audience . |
0d4c5b74d31ddabde0fc73756ae0cffd2ec74fb0 | (CNN) -- The U.N. Security Council approved sanctions Thursday against Nigeria's Boko Haram. It added the terrorist group to the United Nation's 1267 sanctions list, a list of al Qaeda-linked organizations subject to arms embargoes, travel bans and asset freezes. "Today, the Security Council took an important step in s... | The move helps hold the group's "murderous leadership accountable," says official .
Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from a school in northern Nigeria .
Attacks in Africa's most populous nation appear to be escalating . |
0d4c6e633af1f5db179a226474f5707d11c30e87 | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- America's first female four-star general has been nominated, the Pentagon announced Monday. Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody was nominated to be America's first four-star female general. President Bush nominated Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody to serve as head of the Army's supply arm. By law women are excluded fr... | Bush nominated Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody to be head of Army's supply arm .
By law women are excluded from combat jobs, the typical path to four-star rank .
Dunwoody has served 33 years, and became Army's top-ranking woman in 2005 .
There are 57 active-duty women serving as generals or admirals . |
0d4c926435cada1a8d792541076bf4a36464897a | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 12:16 EST, 16 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 15:08 EST, 16 November 2012 . At noon on Wednesday, Keith Kirk, a homeless man, took an expensive bicycle from outside a One Stop Food Mart in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Yet the bike’s owner, Calvin McDougal of Lauderhill, was watching ... | Keith Kirk, 30, took a $600 bicycle from outside a convenience store .
The rightful owner catches up with him and makes sure he doesn’t get away . |
0d4d13d7e1523231c451710acf595b817ddc4bec | (CNN) -- Watch out for the latest scam targeting veterans and their credit card numbers, the Department of Veterans Affairs warns. Scam artists are calling veterans and posing as VA workers who need credit card information. Scam artists are calling veterans and posing as VA workers who need credit card information to u... | Scam artists are calling veterans and posing as VA workers .
They say they need credit card information to update prescription information .
Official: VA does not call vets and ask them to disclose financial information .
Scam "dishonors their service and misrepresents the department," official says . |
0d4d7e2219a0106f578d4ed9229364ba57a56735 | West Ham midfielder Diego Poyet is on a mission to make a name for himself in the Premier League - so people no longer refer to him by his father's name, Gus. The 19-year-old has just recently returned to Upton Park after a month's loan at Championship side Huddersfield. And Poyet could feature for the first time in th... | West Ham face a trip to Sunderland on Saturday afternoon .
Diego Poyet comes face-to-face with his father Gus at the Stadium of Light .
The West Ham midfielder is frequently referred to by his father's name .
Poyet Jnr wants to forge his own reputation in the Premier League .
The 19-year-old has just returned from a mo... |
0d4dd10153a95e25cb3e231354c69d0bb4cfa8f7 | By . Lucy Crossley . A fascinating collection featuring almost every British Army recruitment poster for the First World War has emerged after 30 years hidden in an attic. The extremely rare archive boasts almost 200 posters issued between 1914 and 1916, which hoped to persuade British men to do their bit to protect Ki... | Arthur Maxted, 72, from Kent, inherited the collection from his grandfather who printed the posters during the war .
He stored them in his attic for 30 years and forgot all about them until he started researching the 1914-18 conflict .
Rare archive boasts almost 200 posters issued between 1914 and 1916 which hoped to p... |
0d4ea93ddcfcdabad2a812c519a8babc697f240d | (CNN) -- As a group of tourists was passing through the villages of Lesna and Zabrody in the north east of Poland last month, they caught glimpse of something that immediately sent them reaching for their cameras. Strolling through the meadows near the densely forested Bialowieza National Park were three magnificent Eu... | European bison have been successfully reintroduced to Poland .
Animal was declared extinct in the country in the 1920s .
Around 1,200 animals are closely monitored by conservation groups .
Controlling population is now an issue with hunting a controversial proposal . |
0d4fd929b099a7e1a3876d3cf4cf636cbdf8fb5d | By . Leon Watson . UPDATED: . 11:55 EST, 22 February 2012 . A lorry driver had a miraculous escape when his 30-tonne HGV smashed into a bridge - leaving this devastating wreckage. Incredibly, the driver escaped serious injury following the crash on the A64 near Malton, north Yorkshire, yesterday afternoon. The vehicle,... | Crash happened on the A64 in north Yorkshire yesterday .
Driver escaped serious injury and is setting up in bed talking . |
0d5102f74ce55b82b77e55092a06c37e65092667 | (CNN)It swept across 214 countries worldwide and killed more than 18,000 people. The 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak, dubbed "swine flu," put the entire world on alert. The outbreak was declared to be a global pandemic until August 2010. But threat of deadly disease outbreaks didn't stop -- or start -- there. In 2003, SAR... | Ebola, SARS and swine flu are just a few of the deadly diseases outbreaks in recent years .
Global networks provide early warning of potential outbreaks .
Airborne diseases pose the biggest threat to global health, say experts . |
0d516d897d56bd9bdc345a6eb0d269ff57da3dbd | (CNN) -- Twice each day, 12-year-old Charlie Bothuell V says in court documents, he was forced to do 100 push-ups, 200 sit-ups and 100 jumping jacks. He told child welfare investigators in Michigan that he'd have to curl a 25-pound weight on each arm and do 5,000 revolutions on an exercise machine, and if he didn't fin... | Authorities searched for 12-year-old Charlie Bothuell V for 11 days .
His father had reported him missing .
He was found barricaded in his father's basement .
In court papers, the boy tells of forced twice-a-day exercise that included 100 push-ups . |
0d52953222cdb8ec32b47d48877419fac693904d | Tensions between Russia and Japan have intensified after two Russian warplanes were allegedly spotted flying over Japanese territory. Japan scrambled its own fighter jets in response, claiming the Russian Su-37 planes had entered its air space off the northern tip of Hokkaido island in the South China Sea. Russia denie... | Japan scrambles warplanes after 'Russian intrusion over its territory'
Comes as rallies in Japan call for return of disputed islands from Russia .
Tokyo says it will deal with alleged incursion by Russia 'strictly' |
0d529d1af5525c8c07f9935545efdde046fb7b5a | By . Lizzie Parry . A young boy has died after becoming entangled in a garden swing. Billy Hughes, 10, was killed when he got caught in a rope swing at his Glasgow home on Monday night. The youngster was playing in the garden at his home when the incident happened shortly before 9.30pm. Billy Hughes, 10, was killed whe... | 10-year-old was playing in the garden when tragedy struck on Monday .
Billy Hughes was killed after becoming caught in a rope swing .
Police spokesman said his death is being treated as 'unexplained'
A post-mortem is due to take place to help establish what happened . |
0d5361027cc4e8412f889eb86bafc80acb6ae719 | By . Sara Malm . PUBLISHED: . 05:36 EST, 25 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 08:46 EST, 25 February 2014 . One man died and four people were injured after a hydraulic crane fell over at a wedding in India. The crane was lowering a ‘crystal platform’ carrying the bride and her sister into the wedding venue in Adalaj villa... | One died and four were injured at a wedding in Gujarat state, West India .
Hydraulic crane toppled over after being parked in mud on site .
It was lowering platform carrying bride, which crashed to the ground . |
0d541b0955275349772735796ea8129ee9d2ff19 | By . Andy Dolan and Martin Robinson . PUBLISHED: . 04:40 EST, 9 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 03:34 EST, 10 September 2012 . Victim: The body of Colin Dodds was found early this morning in a pool of water . A couple were in mourning yesterday after their teenage son was found dead in a river – the third of their five... | Colin Dodds was unable to reach river bank after getting into difficulties .
Operation involved helicopters from RAF, police and ambulance service .
Family 'distraught'; police say death was 'tragic accident'
Youngster is the third of parents' five children to die, it emerges .
Colin's best friend Ryan Howard has descr... |
0d559f6ea47994a8173048746e9715dd79bd35d6 | (CNN) -- Last September, William Jeffrey Dumas was convicted of three counts of rape. According to the charges, he had raped a woman three times over a night and the following morning, and the jury agreed with the prosecution that he was guilty. But just last week, a judge overturned the jury's conviction and ordered a... | Judge reversed rape verdict, saying woman didn't act like a victim, man didn't act like rapist .
David Perry: The victim "Jane" has Down syndrome, but that is not reason for outrage .
Perry: See "Jane" not as person with Down syndrome, but as a woman who wasn't believed .
Perry says judges blame victims, dismiss cases ... |
0d568315586ee914f5a871347c47bc7efc437fb7 | (CNN) -- As a kid growing up in the mid-1960s, Scott Brusaw would spend hours setting up miniature speedways on the living room carpet so that he could race his favorite slot cars up and down the electric tracks. "I thought that if they made real roads electric, then us kids could drive," recalls Brusaw, who grew to be... | The Solar Roadways founders are raising funds to gear up production .
The aim is to replace Asphalt roads with solar panels that can support cars .
Their idea calls for a solar powered roadway made of durable textured glass .
The system also involves built-in LED lights and heating elements . |
0d57152704e6c219b806188221de965817ea420f | By . Snejana Farberov . Kansas City, Missouri, may not have access to the ocean, but for local resident Georgianna Reid, every day is a beach day. After three decades spent mowing and watering the lawn around her house on East Meyer Drive, the elderly resident decided to draw a line in the sand, literally, by replacing... | Georgiana Reid spent $4,000 transforming her front yard in Kansas City, Missouri, into a mini-beach filled with 80 tons of sand .
Neighbors are concerned Reid's sandbox will lower their property values . |
0d57be97c1e0664da28beeaf55d2d4fe705ac8af | By . Erin Van Der Meer . Former Australia cricketer Shane Warne has finally confirmed he is in a relationship with Playboy model Emily Scott after the pair were pictured kissing in Sydney last month. Warne revealed the news on Twitter on Wednesday night as he headed to Wimbledon to watch fellow Aussie Nick Kyrgios play... | Warne took to Twitter to reveal he is dating Scott .
The pair have been spotted out together in recent weeks .
Scott is an Australian model who also works as a DJ .
Warne split up with actress Liz Hurley last year . |
0d57ec3d6cc9f7055ec4e6bffcafce3f4437cf6e | By . Peter Rugg and Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 23:28 EST, 30 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 18:36 EST, 31 October 2012 . The scale of the mammoth challenge facing authorities in the US following Superstorm Sandy was clear to see today in the flood-hit state of New Jersey. National Guard troops arrived in the devastated c... | Trucks delivering ready-to-eat meals and evacuating New Jersey city, located across Hudson River from New York .
More than half of its 50,000 residents are affected by flooding and the water is infested with sewage and live wires .
Mayor Dawn .
Zimmer had pleaded for Guard's help on Monday, saying thousands .
of reside... |
0d57f73fd9755dcc1ff76598d832973e7b948ad5 | Washington (CNN) -- The "nuclear option" would be the changing of Senate rules to enable judicial and executive nominees to be confirmed with just 51 votes instead of 60. Apparently you need 60 votes to do just about anything in the Senate but change the rules. That only takes 51 votes. Nuclear? That sounds harsh for s... | Senate rules require 60 votes to move toward confirming a nominee or passing legislation .
Up until 1975, it took 67 votes to overcome a filibuster .
Sen. Ted Cruz's floor speech before the government shutdown wasn't a filibuster .
Current fight is over D.C. court, but impact extends well beyond that . |
0d5816835241165a0be31f512814f700b0d498de | By . Richard Spillett . The heartbroken family of a toddler found dead at his home have paid tribute to the 'happy-go-lucky' boy with a 'cheeky smile'. Liam Fee was discovered after emergency services were called to a flat he shared with his mother and her partner in Thornton, Fife on Saturday evening. As pictures of t... | Liam Fee was discovered at his home in Thornton, Fife on Saturday evening .
Police are investigating the death, which they are treating as 'unexplained'
Family say he was a 'happy-go-lucky' boy and had 'whole life ahead of him'
Toddler shared home with mother, her lesbian partner and two brothers . |
0d583a429bcfa61eac49f2f3a14f6d265f77dc6e | Idiotic TV shows and all the latest apps bumming you out on the 21st century? Ready for some "me time" on the world's remotest islands? Forget golden sands and swaying palms -- the reality of solitude is different as these terrifyingly distant landfalls demonstrate. Tristan da Cunha1,750 miles from South Africa . The B... | Forget swaying palms; these islands offer real solitude .
The islands of Tristan da Cunha sit 1,750 miles off South Africa .
Bear Island is the southernmost island in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard . |
0d59fa110d13eec3d09519731879332fc036f8ce | Nogales, Mexico (CNN) -- In the push to free an American woman from a Mexican prison, a video shown in court Thursday could be key. The security camera footage shows Yanira Maldonado and her husband boarding a bus in Mexico last week. They are carrying a purse, two blankets and two bottles of water. It's an everyday sc... | NEW: Yanira Maldonado's husband says the video evidence is "clear as day"
Her lawyer says security camera footage is crucial evidence .
Maldonado is accused of smuggling drugs on a bus .
A judge has until Friday to decide whether to press formal charges . |
0d5a098e11ae514e5824f3ea00486313474cdec7 | (CNN) -- Ayan Mohamed wears a niqab that covers her face, not for religious reasons but to hide what lies beneath. "She wears it to cover the deformity. She covers it because people would stare, children would cry," says Edna Adan Ismail, Somaliland's former foreign minister and first lady. "It's not easy to look at." ... | Ayan Mohamed to undergo surgery in Brisbane to rebuild her face .
She was disfigured at the age of two during the Somali Civil War .
Ayan is now 25 and has endured years of stares, pain and shame .
Surgery in Brisbane is the result of an 11-year plea for help from Edna Adan Ismail . |
0d5b1eb766356d5f70a8f0b22f9b882f1d013be0 | Jermain Defoe will make his home debut when Sunderland take on Fulham in the FA Cup Fourth Round on Saturday. The 32-year-old – signed from Toronto earlier this month – made his Black Cats bow during last weekend’s 2-1 defeat at former club Tottenham. But Defoe will now run out at the Stadium of Light for the first tim... | Jermain Defoe joined Sunderland from Toronto earlier this month .
He made his debut against former club Tottenham at White Hart Lane .
Defoe will now make his home debut in the FA Cup against Fulham .
Lee Cattermole, Adam Johnson and Wes Brown are all set to be out . |
0d5d907c890a33d3ae6c52784e6c92f6f18e356a | When Cara Delevingne, Suki Waterhouse and Jourdan Dunn stomped down the Burberry catwalk in THOSE blanket coats - a new AW14 style staple was born. The wool blanket ponchos, knitted in muted yellows, reds and blues, patterned with Apache-style zig zags were monogrammed with the initials of the model who wore it. Since ... | Burberry set the trend with monogrammed blanket scarves for AW14 .
Matalan has unveiled £10 version with lots of celebrity fans .
All profits go to children's charity . |
0d5dd1ffd19659fd884496ce8567ab1a184030bd | By . Emily Allen . PUBLISHED: . 07:27 EST, 18 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:58 EST, 18 October 2012 . A billionaire Arab prince has been charged with being drunk on an aircraft after being thrown off a passenger jet by police officers armed with 50,000 volt Taser guns. Bahraini national Mubarak Hamad, 29, will appea... | Bahraini national Mubarak Hamad, 29, will appear before magistrates in London later this month .
He had .
boarded a Boeing 777 when it is alleged .
that he began shouting and complaining about the poor service on the .
BA125 flight .
Hamad lives in Eaton Square, .
Belgravia, one of central London’s most sought after ad... |
0d5ea4954895c2fc8024f41b8e324220553a39c1 | (CNN) -- Authorities have arrested the leader of Mexico's largest union, accusing her of embezzling millions of dollars and using some of the money to pay for plastic surgery, shop at luxury stores and buy real estate. Elba Esther Gordillo, who has led Mexico's high-profile national teachers union for more than two dec... | Elba Esther Gordillo is accused of using union funds for plastic surgery, shopping .
She is in custody in Mexico after being arrested at the airport, the attorney general says .
Word of the union leader's arrest sends shock waves through Mexico's political spheres .
Gordillo has led Latin America's largest union since ... |
0d602ba86e504f2a0f5e5328798e0cc5b0ef029c | By . Becky Evans . PUBLISHED: . 07:17 EST, 16 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:15 EST, 16 January 2013 . Carlos Tevez was fined more than £1,500 after he did not respond to police letters when his car was clocked speeding . Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has been disqualified from driving at court today after he ... | Manchester City striker did not respond to Cheshire Constabulary letters .
His solicitor told Manchester Magistrates' Court he knew the word 'police'
But he said the Argentinian did not understand the word constabulary .
The footballer has been ordered to pay £1,500 in fines and costs .
He was banned from driving for s... |
0d60a628092367aa9b2364323e3b60b82060eff2 | By . Graham Smith . PUBLISHED: . 05:26 EST, 15 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 06:32 EST, 15 August 2012 . A man accidentally shot himself in the buttocks last night at a Nevada cinema during a screening of The Bourne Legacy. The 56-year-old victim's injuries are not life-threatening and no others were hurt in the inciden... | No others were hurt in the incident, which took place in the city of Sparks, Nevada, last night .
The 56-year-old victim's injuries aren't life-threatening .
He apologised to people in cinema and made his own way to hospital .
Police said man had permit to carry concealed firearm . |
0d60ec3c0c7167ea920a1330a9bb5455a7a6ef33 | By . Ashley Collman . PUBLISHED: . 21:49 EST, 2 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 04:09 EST, 3 January 2014 . A restaurant owner and ex-cop was caught off guard when a brazen burglar entered his steakhouse and walked out with a 250-pound safe. Kevin Hynes owns Stockholders Steakhouse in South Weymouth, Massachusetts where ... | A burglar walked into Stockholders steakhouse in Weymouth Massachusetts last Sunday and stole the restaurant's 250-pound safe .
The restaurants owners believe it was an inside job since the man was talking on his cellphone the entire time .
Police are still investigating the burglary and the restaurant is offering a se... |
0d61f5e56db5a35b952bded46844b5a5b010cff1 | (CNN) -- Headlines and pundits once again declare that we have a crisis on our hands in the wake of discovering that North Korea is building a new nuclear reactor and a uranium enrichment plant. More ominously, Tuesday brought news of direct artillery barrages between North and South Korea, heightening tensions and cos... | North Korea's artillery barrage was serious, but this is not a crisis, say co-authors .
They say the action fits pattern of North Korea's behavior and doesn't preclude progress .
Revelation of a uranium enrichment plant doesn't signal escalation in its weapons capability, they say .
U.S. needs to try economic and diplo... |
0d62bbc4a8c057486994c0c6d50a6c3ed7ed757d | By . Steve Nolan . PUBLISHED: . 10:11 EST, 22 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:02 EST, 22 October 2013 . Driver: Businessman Darren Jarvis, pictured arriving at Cardiff Crown Court, is charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a road traffic accident which left Jacek Stawski & Lee Williams dead . A business... | Darren Jarvis lost control of his Nissan Skyline in South Wales last August .
His passenger father-of-two Lee Williams, 40, died 'almost instantly'
Jacek Stawski, driving a Citreon Xsara, was killed when his car was hit .
Mr Stawski's son Thomas, four, survived in the back seat of the car .
Jarvis denies two counts of ... |
0d6327a2a5cd601f4f5135c0ad2972115082fda9 | General Sir David Richards, Chief of . the Defence Staff, also pays token rent on apartment at Kensington Palace - at yearly cost of around £256,000 to taxpayer . By . Mark Nicol and Nick Craven . PUBLISHED: . 19:17 EST, 15 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:01 EST, 20 June 2013 . Head of the Army, General Sir Peter Wall, i... | Neil Davies, ex-Chief Economic Adviser, says up to £1bn can be saved .
Head of Army, General Sir Peter Wall is paid £180,000 and has flat in central London as official residence .
General Sir David Richards, Chief of .
the Defence Staff, also pays token rent on apartment at Kensington Palace - at yearly cost of around ... |
0d633fecef0e5a988ab7e440b86a03d8e24219c5 | Edinburgh city has ruled out a proposed 'bed tax' on tourists for the second time after a cool response from the Scottish Government and local hotels. Local authorities contacted Scottish ministers to discuss a voluntary 'transient visitor levy' which would impose an additional fee for every night's stay in Edinburgh. ... | Edinburgh 'bed tax' has been shelved after talks with Scottish government .
A voluntary 'transient visitor levy' was proposed but deemed unfair .
Ministers and the Edinburgh Hotels Association reject the proposal .
It follows the axing of plans for a compulsory tourist levy in 2011 that was to be brought in to raise mo... |
0d638a3aeb0cec4c02005be9a15d9fb84a35b13c | Washington (CNN) -- The danger of Islamic radicalization inside U.S. prisons "remains real and present," said Rep. Peter King of New York, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. But during a Wednesday hearing on the subject, others said there are only a few cases in which prison radicalizatio... | Rep. Peter King cites "real and present" danger of radicalization of prisoners .
But some Democrats on House committee dispute claims .
Los Angeles police official says "we are on the front end" of growing problem . |
0d63cc5fe993185dcd0c8e7cb0f3784400434ea9 | New York (CNN) -- New Jersey resident Becky Fisher said Tuesday that she's counting the favors she'll now owe her neighbors after a powerful snowstorm left her family and more than a million others without power across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. Fisher, along with her husband and their 6-month-old daughter,... | NEW: About 195,000 New Jersey residents remain without power .
About 612,000 Connecticut residents still have no electricity .
Trick-or-treat postponements spread through the Northeast .
The death toll from the storm is now at 15 . |
0d648cc10c1986b018d5ca8ba41fdcf7f8baf73a | By . Harriet Hernando . For most people, having a shower and sponging off is an easy task - but it sends Jackie Wrights's heart racing. The mother-of-four suffers from Trypophobia, a fear of holes which means even the thought of holding a sponge sends shivers down her spine - and she is forced to flee the shower if she... | Jackie Wright, from Wallsend, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, suffers from Trypophobia, a fear of holes .
Her terror is so real she had to quit her job in a kitchen because she was scared of the holes in crumpets and mushrooms .
The part-time check-out assistant is receiving treatment to cope with anxiety .
Jackie, 45, who has fo... |
0d64d00a9118fb35178f1978a9737b1f77686877 | The facial mask, which contains 24 carat gold dust, is on sale on the High Street for £9.99 . It is a craze which has seen celebrities and the super-rich splashing out thousands of pounds to have their faces caked in 24 carat luxury. Undergoing gold facials in a bid to banish wrinkles, however, is an expensive trend ou... | Do-it-yourself gold face mask goes on sale on the High Street for just £9.99 .
Craze has previously seen celebrities pay thousands for 24-carat luxury .
But the new, cheaper facial claims to offer all the same anti-aging benefits .
Gold particles reduce appearance of wrinkles by helping replenish collagen . |
0d65be0de0e9b4da16c79d8102e345304bf0abd5 | (CNN) -- International Correspondent Fred Pleitgen reports from the site of E1, a controversial settlement that the Israeli government plans to build. What is E1? I was standing on the barren hilltops East of Jerusalem and it is hard to believe the area could be at the center of an international controversy. E1 stands ... | Israel plans to begin construction of settlements in the East 1, or E1, zone in the West Bank .
Comes after the U.N. voted to grant Palestine non-member observer status .
Palestinians believe construction here would essentially cut the West Bank in half .
Group: Currently 137 Israeli settlements in the West Bank, with ... |
0d65da6aba9669924d29b911f0ac25153c844ace | JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An archaeological dig in Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is the largest and oldest of its kind found in the region, experts say. The wall is built of enormous boulders, confounding archaeologists as to how ancient peoples built it. Standing 8 meters (26 feet) high, the wall of huge... | Made of boulders weighing 4 to 5 tons, the 3,700-year-old wall is 26 feet high .
Archaeologist: "I don't know how to do it today without mechanical equipment"
The wall appears to have been used to defend path that led to spring .
Wall is believed to have been built by Canaanites . |
0d67e84418f07499a2a56ad7c1ad83c38ab15c76 | A couple who held hands as they jumped off George Washington Bridge together may have killed the woman's uncle before their joint suicide plunge. Gary Crockett, 41, and Nickie Circelli, 40, both of Suffern, New York, died after jumping into the Hudson River about 11:20 a.m. on Monday. And now their deaths have been lin... | Gary Crockett, 41, and Nickie Circelli, 40, both died on Monday morning .
Circelli's uncle was found dead on Monday at his apartment .
Pair allegedly stole from him and then left a note apologising for his death . |
0d6937b789b603d702181fa67551c713d2fd6bd5 | The mission to produce the world’s first 1,000mph (1,600km/h) car has been given a boost - or more accurately thrust - with the installation of a state-of-the-art jet engine. A team of five engineers spent eight hours fitting the EJ200 engine to the upper and lower chassis of the supersonic Bloodhound car. Driver Andy ... | EJ200 engine weighs a tonne and traditionally powers a Eurofighter Typhoon .
It produces 20,000lbs (90kN), or nine tonnes, of thrust .
The Bloodhound SSC is designed to go over 1,000mph (1,60km/h)
Engineers spent eight hours fitting the engine to the upper and lower chassis of the car .
Car will be 44ft (13.4m) long, 6... |
0d698a501e6f6f6a901406773c79b3504b8d2ab5 | A new Christmas survey has shown that New South Wales (NSW) and Western Australia are forecast to spend the most per person on Christmas gifts, while cheap jewellery or something from a service station may be the ideal gift if you come from Victoria. According to the Commonwealth Bank’s survey of 1,000 Australians, the... | CommBank forecasts that festive spending will peak at $17.8 billion .
Statistics prove that Victoria is the state that spends the least in Australia .
Vast majority of shoppers will purchase gifts at bricks and mortar stores .
Canstar survey shows 30 per cent of people will spend between $51-$100 . |
0d6a2926292ee186ab8f55b36c2a80f302ef262e | Look! Out by the bridge! It's ... it's ... Ant-Man? Yes, Ant-Man, also known as Scott Lang, a superhero who can change his size, thanks to the scientific prowess of Dr. Hank Pym. Paul Rudd is playing Lang, who has a two-bit criminal background, in the movie -- due out next year -- and Marvel just released a photograph ... | Marvel releases pic from "Ant-Man"
Paul Rudd plays the superhero, a former thief who can change size .
The film is due out in 2015 . |
0d6a95a3bd0f0ea87b2427a9042a271f73d32585 | BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Having completed his Olympics gold rush, U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps is now poised to make another haul -- this time of the endorsement variety. Phelps already is collecting about $5 million a year in endorsement checks from companies like Visa -- payments that came after he won six gold medals ... | Phelps already is collecting about $5 million a year in endorsement checks .
Before the Beijing Olympics, Phelps collected a million-dollar bonus from Speedo .
Phelps could join soccer star David Beckham and golfer Tiger Woods in big money . |
0d6bbe231f40d0598677bb314e41df1514a81329 | Two referees working at the World Cup have been identified as strong suspects in the fixing of international games, the Mail on Sunday can reveal. Sources say FIFA were informed during the current tournament that there is evidence of alleged past malpractice by at least two officials on duty. FIFA gather intelligence f... | Suspicions relate to past games involving officials that had unusual in-game incidents and high betting .
Information came to light after officials had taken charge of games in Brazil .
World Cup already rocked by allegations of corruption in Cameroon's 4-0 win over Croatia .
FIFA insist integrity of World Cup has not ... |
0d6bc1eb8f927bd20e7e94262409127d6dc5a467 | A three-year-old is giving the performers at Disney a run for their money thanks to an impressive wardrobe of homemade costumes designed for her by her mother using 'upcycled' old clothes and material. Lane Rouch and her parents Jennifer and Chad, who are self-confessed 'Disnerds', visit one of the Orlando-based Disney... | Lane Rouch's mother Jennifer makes the costumes using recycled clothing and material bought at thrift stores .
The Disney-obsessed family have an unlimited annual pass to the park . |
0d6be608af78f3e70b80d5501dee458a72b78dbc | ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- It probably would have been just another ho-hum city council budget meeting. Except that the leader of Atlanta's police union, and second-highest ranking member of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, said he wanted to beat Atlanta's mayor with a bat. "I want to beat her [Mayor Sh... | Atlanta police union head says he got frustrated at city meeting .
Other cops quick to defend him, saying mayor is ignoring larger issue .
Police: Company refusing to help cops injured in the line of duty .
Mayor Franklin's spokesperson says mayor will work to address complaints . |
0d6d0f1210b35514cf13c7a137ab9d015a9485ec | A 'devoted' son who cared for his elderly mother is believed to have murdered her before killing himself amid fears his own health problems meant he would not have been able to continue looking after her. The bodies of Stephen Dohoney and his mother Ethel, also known as Olwen, were discovered by neighbours at their hom... | Bodies of Stephen Dohoney and his mother Ethel discovered at their home .
Mr Dohoney found hanged in the attic while his mother discovered in bed .
Detectives are treating the incident in Manchester as murder-suicide . |
0d6d24c6c69cb1a78631528a84b72a9354a36957 | By . David Wilkes . PUBLISHED: . 07:48 EST, 24 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:43 EST, 24 October 2013 . As a prisoner of war, Gerald Imeson had plenty of time on his hands. But at least as he waited to take part in the Great Escape, the RAF bomber pilot had an elegant timepiece with which to watch the hours tick down... | Timepiece worn by Flight Lieutenant Gerald Imeson at Stalag Luft III camp .
F/Lt Imeson wore watch as he helped dig tunnels for 1944 escape attempt .
He queued to join fleeing PoWs before German guards discovered escape .
Attempt immortalised in 1963 Steve McQueen film The Great Escape .
Watch expected to sell for £30,... |
0d6f3a527c0ba08c7e540fb29a10e3d71217fcb2 | (EW.com) -- Remaking a landmark film ought to be a perfectly respectable proposition. After all, we see new versions of Shakespeare or Tennessee Williams all the time (whether on stage or screen). What's wrong with doing an updated version of a beloved Hollywood movie? In theory, nothing, yet in practice, it seldom wor... | The remake stars Chloë Grace Moretz .
The film has some modern updates .
EW gives it a grade of B- . |
0d6fea476fd53cb67b84525407f639541560f81c | (CNN) -- In the aftermath of the decision in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, there is one thing (and perhaps only one thing) that most everyone agrees upon: It is a game changer. The Background: A game changer . By Jonathan Turley . After decades of conflicting and increasingly convoluted decisions ... | Jonathan Turley and his law students debate the ruling in the Michigan affirmative action case .
Yvette Butler argues the amendment takes the issue out of the hands of the people .
Vincent C. Cirilli counters that the will of the voters should not be ignored .
But all agree: The ruling is a game changer . |
0d70169cf22fed9317a83c8b590bd6f9db6a18a8 | (CNN) -- Tiger Woods has been clubbed into the long grass by EA Sports after the games manufacturer ended its association with the world's most famous golfer. Woods, 37, won the last of his 14 major titles back in 2008, but this year returned to world No.1 after replacing Rory McIlroy at the top of the rankings. There ... | EA Sports will drop the Tiger Woods name from its next-gen golf games .
There have been 14 editions of the Tiger Woods game .
PR expert believes Woods in unique category when it comes to sponsorship .
EA Sports sold $771 million worth of games with Woods' name on it . |
0d70377a4d3c6d03874b113c87d1642b4b827f92 | Manchester United centre back Marcos Rojo got into the festive spirits with his family as he posted a picture of him, his partner and daughter in front of their Christmas tree. Louis van Gaal got an early present when the the 24-year-old recently returned to full fitness for United. Rojo dislocated his shoulder against... | Marcos Rojo recently returned to fitness after dislocating his shoulder .
Rojo's sustained the injury against Manchester City in early November .
Rojo started for Manchester United in their 2-1 win over Southampton . |
0d7092d1ef2b2347759041a597a49e175b54545c | By . Daily Mail Reporter . UPDATED: . 10:40 EST, 5 December 2011 . His daughter’s serious health condition makes her life 'measured in days and weeks' - so it’s fair to question why he wants to run for president. But Republican candidate Rick Santorum, 53, says his daughter Bella’s genetic disorder Trisomy 18 is actual... | Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is a father-of-seven .
Santorum's daughter Bella suffers from genetic disorder Trisomy 18 .
It's 'spurring him on' as he wants U.S. to respect lives of children like her . |
0d7132aa9a30671b65ebb66f637f980989517b3a | (CNN) -- In an industry known for elevating a certain look, prizing a certain age and sticking to the script, Jane Lynch is exceptional. At 52, the 6-foot-tall comedienne and actress has experienced more success in the last five years of her career than most actors could dream of for their entire life. Her role as Sue ... | Lynch is providing the voice for new holiday book "Elfbot"
Her daughter Haden also appears on the audiobook .
Lynch said she loves the new talent on "Glee" |
0d7148ee6d808943ee9d46a0ac72d2280cb6e5e6 | Fancy a vape, bae? Or perhaps you're a slacktivist who'd prefer to discuss the indyref? The word vape has been named the Oxford English Dictionaries word of the year, beating bae, a term of endearment for a romantic partner, and indyref - used to describe the poll on Scottish independence. Researchers found that use of... | Oxford Dictionaries has announced vape as international word of the year .
It reflects the rise of popularity - and scrutiny - of electronic cigarettes .
Bae, a term of endearment for a romantic partner, was shortlisted .
Indyref - used to describe the Scottish independence poll - also considered . |
0d7292d09dd44c7707af154291ed04131c24a109 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 01:15 EST, 12 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:41 EST, 12 August 2013 . The Mercedes Benz belonging to notorious Nazi leader Herman Goering sat for over half a century in a North Carolina garage and is now finally being restored. The car was seized by Allied authorities on the fin... | Hermann Goering had Mercedes Benz 540K Cabriolet B custom built in 1940 .
The car was seized by American authorities on the final day of World War II .
The car sat in North Carolina until it was rediscovered by a Florida classic car restoration group . |
0d7325bc627029e6d792a3e6208dc0b0d44bc6b0 | A seaside town got a trendy new look when some mystery knitters covered public spaces in brightly coloured crochets. Residents in Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset awoke to find walls, seats, decking and statues in the seafront gardens covered in knitwear. It is said to be the work of the anonymous 'ninja knitters' who use wo... | Residents awoke to find the seafront gardens covered in knit-wear .
Everything from flowers to hanging baskets got coated in colourful crochets .
Included tribute to First World War soldiers with knitted poppies . |
0d736c2d736bfa58254dcbc46e514a294432d367 | Juan Mata’s relationship with Jose Mourinho had sunk so low that he had no option but to leave Chelsea after the pair stopped speaking. The Spain midfielder cost Manchester United £37.1million in January and has revealed there was ‘no dialogue’ with his manager at Stamford Bridge. It marked a sorry end for Mata, who wa... | Man Utd star Juan Mata reveals he and Jose Mourinho had 'no relationship'
Manchester United signed the Spaniard from Chelsea for £37.1m in January .
Mata lives on the same street as David de Gea and Ander Herrera . |
0d7383a44955b41c5a472151a35a842751f0004c | By . Daniel Martin . PUBLISHED: . 07:02 EST, 1 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:47 EST, 1 August 2013 . He is only a week old, but the royal baby has already been bombarded with gifts from Britain’s party leaders. Prince George is the lucky recipient of an apple tree, a blanket embroidered by Spanish nuns and a set of b... | Kate and William asked for donations to charity instead of presents .
But the party leaders could not resist sending their choice of gift .
The Camerons chose a box-set of books by Road Dahl .
Nick Clegg and wife Miriam gave a blanket and coffee, for sleepless nights .
Ed Miliband and wife Justine chose a three-year-ol... |
0d75678e20a165105b6ea2250655553c73023022 | LONDON, England (CNN) -- A landscape restoration of a rubbish dump has won the Energy, Waste and Recycling category at the 2008 World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, Spain. Spanish architects Batlle and Roig have returned a 150 hectare rubbish dump back to nature. "La Vall d'en Joan" (The Valley of Joan) project, d... | Spanish architects win prestigious category award at World Architecture Festival .
"La Vall d'en Joan" project turned rubbish dump into architectural landscape .
Millions of tons of rubbish was dumped at the site near Barcelona for 30 years .
Water from site purified for use in irrigation, bio gas used to create electr... |
0d7583f6256585ef49a5b8bbc3b3e6580a37daef | New York (CNN) -- You could be forgiven for thinking no one cares -- or even should care, right now -- about climate change. For starters, there's all that other terrifying stuff competing for attention: President Barack Obama's war with ISIS; the Ebola outbreak, which recently put Sierra Leone on national lockdown; Uk... | Organizers say more than 300,000 gather in New York for climate rally .
The People's Climate March is billed as the largest climate demonstration ever .
CNN's John Sutter says it's easy for people to write off climate change .
But he writes that meeting people at the march should cause a change of heart . |
0d75c9f066878289d552eb76137feb1c512a76bc | Bruce Willis has vanquished terrorists, basement rapists and the defenses of Cybill Shepherd. But in his three decades in Hollywood he may not have faced as daunting an opponent as Apple. According to an unconfirmed report in a British publication, Willis wants to bequeath his extensive iTunes music collection to his d... | Report: Bruce Willis wants to bequeath his iTunes music collection to his daughters .
Apple limits use of digital music to Apple gadgets used by the iTunes account holder .
A legal challenge against Apple could raise significant issues about ownership of digital music .
Actor's wife, Emma Heming-Willis, cast doubt on t... |
0d7650be643a81d26e90a9c4e0296660f941c153 | India successfully launched its biggest ever rocket today in an effort to ramp up its ambitious space programme. The rocket, designed to carry heavier communication and other satellites into higher orbit, blasted off from Sriharikota in the southeast state of Andhra Pradesh. The launch was the next crucial step in Indi... | The rocket can carry heavy communication satellites into higher orbit .
It blasted off from Sriharikota in the southeast state of Andhra Pradesh .
Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk-III was carrying a capsule .
This capsule could someday take two to three astronauts into space . |
0d76e199f3adbf1b7f31191e5bdfc0612729abf9 | (CNN) -- The Marine husband of a slain Fort Bragg soldier was charged with murder Monday and another Marine was charged with aiding the crime, a local police chief said. Fayetteville, North Carolina, police released this undated photo of 2nd Lt. Holley Wimunc. Authorities have been searching for the missing soldier, Ar... | NEW: Soldier's husband, Cpl. John Wimunc, charged with murder .
Marine Lance Cpl. Kyle Alden charged with arson in connection with the crime .
Authorities have been searching for 2nd Lt. Holley Wimunc since July 10 . |
0d770a70a3834ac592321811aff3b6bc73c699f5 | Family and friends of the Indiana aid worker beheaded by ISIS extremists were joined by politicians and prominent figures in the Muslim community at a memorial service Sunday. Abdul-Rahman Kassig, the former Army Ranger who was 26 at the time of his death, was remembered for his commitment to aid work at Butler Univers... | During services held at Butler University on Sunday, speakers touched on the humanitarian legacy of Abdul-Rahman Kassig .
Kassig, a 26-year-old former Army Ranger, was beheaded by ISIS extremists last month .
He was kidnapped back in 2013 while delivering humanitarian aid in eastern Syria . |
0d77c048672908b37950f6cadeb1ea819ac31cd7 | GP Thomas O'Brien told an un-named patient that she should stop taking medication as God was her surgeon according to a Fitness to Practice hearing . A Christian GP performed an exorcism on a seriously ill patient after promising he could 'heal' her without medication, a medical tribunal heard. Dr Thomas O'Brien, 56, p... | Dr Thomas O'Brien told the female patient God was her surgeon .
Tribunal hears he told her to stop taking her medicine as it was 'dangerous'
The GP is said to have changed his patient's TV to The Gospel Channel .
He also brought her to his Pentecostal Church for a 'spiritual procedure'
Dr O'Brien wrote a book, The Occu... |
0d79d056f3e33292dad2f3bebdfdbfae4ee3dc88 | By . Stephen Adams and Jackie Stevens . PUBLISHED: . 19:34 EST, 10 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:44 EST, 14 August 2013 . British holidaymakers needing emergency treatment at Spanish accident and emergency units are being greeted by chip-and-pin machines as hospitals force them to provide upfront payment details befo... | Hospitals in tourist resorts have installed machines to collect payment .
Hundreds of British holidaymakers said they were forced to pay for care .
Patients in popular resorts of Benidorm and Alicante face hefty bills .
Boy impaled on fence asked to hand over cash before treatment . |
0d7af377dfa7a02e788af344cb76fecbdbf3ad06 | By . William Turvill . PUBLISHED: . 14:51 EST, 24 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 20:46 EST, 24 January 2014 . These images show the terrifying moment a lion turned on a pair of children hanging out of their car window to photograph it. The children, a boy and a girl, were allowed to get within metres of two of the deadl... | Boy and girl were allowed to get to within metres of the two deadly animals .
Forced to retreat into their car after the male growled and lurched at them .
The children were photographing the animals in Kruger National Park . |
0d7c47edd0662af58dbb78d666ef131e3532c2f5 | The Premier League says referees chief Mike Riley will contact Swansea manager Garry Monk this week but insist that a letter and DVD from the Welsh club only arrived at its offices earlier on Monday. Monk was vitriolic in his criticism of Riley after the defeat at Stoke on Sunday, claiming the head of Professional Game... | Garry Monk sent Mike Riley a DVD and letter with him complaints .
Premier League claim the package did not arrive until Monday morning .
Referee chief Riley is due to ring Monk this week . |
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