Sunday, October 05, 2008
The Crash Course on the Economy. (Must see)
The Crash Course is a condensed online version of Chris Martenson's "End of Money" seminar. The first chapters of the Crash Course are already available; additional chapters will be added as quickly as time allows. Watch the Breaking News page to find out when new chapters are posted.
How long will it take?
Completed sections are between 3 and 14 minutes in length, meaning that all 20 sections should take about 2.5 hours.
What is it?
The Crash Course seeks to provide you with a baseline understanding of the economy so that you can better appreciate the risks that we all face. Click here...
Wall Street not hot on $700bn bail-out...
'There is a growing feeling that banks ... might instead decide to tough it out,' said Thomas Caldwell, chairman and CEO of Caldwell Financial, a $1bn-plus fund manager.
For the past two weeks all eyes in the market have been focused on US Congress and its attempts to pass Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's bail-out package - a bill to allow the US government to buy up to $700bn of toxic mortgage-related assets from American banks, which would in theory free the credit markets and set the gears of global commerce spinning once more.
Last Monday, after the bill was thrown out by the House of Representatives, more than $1 trillion was wiped off the value of US stocks as the market was gripped by panic. The bill was passed on Friday afternoon, however, after the inclusion of $149bn of tax breaks and strict rules for participating banks. More...
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Dubai, where domestic workers are sexually abused...
Christian Fraser reports from Dubai.
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The mother of all bank runs?
The strains in financial markets are becoming more, rather than less, severe in spite of the nuclear option of a $700 billion package: Interbank spreads are widening and are at a level never seen before; credit spreads are widening to new peaks; short-term Treasury yields are going back to near-zero levels as there is flight to safety; credit default swap (CDS) spreads for financial institutions are rising to extreme levels as the ban on shorting of financial stock has moved the pressures on financial firms to the CDS market; and stock markets around the world have reacted very negatively to this rescue package. More...
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Santana wants to abandon the guitar and take up the Bible...
Award-winning guitarist Carlos Santana has said he wants to become a church minister when he retires from music.
Santana, 61, told Rolling Stone magazine he would eventually like to start a church in Maui, Hawaii.
He also described how his faith has helped him get through the difficult times in his life.
"I'm going to stop playing when I'm 67 and work on what I really want to do, which is to be a minister, like Little Richard," he said. More...
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Another top European bank falters...
Germany's second-largest mortgage lender, Hypo Real Estate, said a bail-out deal had fallen apart.
Correspondents say its failure will put further strain on financial institutions in other countries.
The news came as EU leaders at a Paris summit stopped short of offering a US-style rescue plan to banks.
Hypo Real Estate, which has large amounts of bad debt, has suffered from the credit squeeze in international markets.
The bank said a consortium of German financial institutions involved in a government-led rescue plan pulled out of the negotiations after refusing to come up with nearly 36bn euros ($50bn; £28bn) for a bail-out. More...
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Saturday, October 04, 2008
Do you like prawns? Then maybe you should read this...
The single room is rank with chemicals: we cough and sneeze when we enter.
There's an acrid dust all over the mud floor, which makes you worry for little Huong Thi Mai, a seven-year-old girl who is sitting on the bed near the door watching her parents work.
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Modernity, for Mr Huong, appears to be chiefly measured in chemicals. I count 13 different pots, jars and sacks of these in the hut, and he eagerly talks me through them.
He's particularly keen on a compound called 'Super Star' - the Vietnamese print on the label says it 'intensifies the metabolism to help prawns grow fat'. He learnt about this additive on a course run by the Vietnamese government at a local fishery training centre.
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The label has familiar words from stock-cube packets: aspartic acid, glutamic acid and taurine, which is the key element of the energy drink Red Bull. Then there is Vitamix, 'to make prawns grow faster', Calphorax 'to help the shell thicken and give better colour' and Vin Superclear 'to kill pests, viruses and smells'. On top of all this is a seasoning of antibiotics. Full story...
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The woman who uses her skin as a note-pad!!! Oh boy!
A Chengdu resident suffers from a condition that allows her to use her skin like writing paper.
According to 50-year-old Huang Xiangji, when she writes a word on her skin using a fingernail, the letters protrude from her skin a minute or two later.
"I used my body as a notebook for years," Huang said.
The woman said she had the strange ability even as a little girl and would list goods on her arms before going shopping.
On Wednesday, doctors told Huang that she had the condition called artificial urticaria, which has no ill affects.
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The cause of Tree-man Dede Koswara's strange growths discovered?
For 20 years, the warts studding Dede Kosawa's hands and feet multiplied and sprouted like gnarled roots
His hands looked like contorted, yellow-brown branches extending 3 feet. Unable to clamp his hands into a fist or pick up a fork, he made his living by performing in carnivals in rural Indonesia. He became known as the Treeman.
"His life was taken away from him," said Dr. Anthony Gaspari, an American dermatologist who traveled twice to Indonesia to treat Kosawa. "He was severely disfigured and was sent into a rural isolated village where he was sheltered from his peers. With good reason, he was a sad man. He wanted to be cured and he wanted hope."
The growths encrusting his arms accounted for nearly 12 pounds of his 100-pound body. Kosawa, 36, often became exhausted after taking a few steps because of the dense warts on his feet. The growths that carpeted his limbs were posing more problems.
"He was getting infected," said Gaspari, chief of dermatology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. "He had insects living in the base of the wood-like material." More...
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Jewish 'modesty patrols' sow fear in Israel...
In recent weeks, self-styled "modesty patrols" have been accused of breaking into the apartment of a Jerusalem woman and beating her for allegedly consorting with men. They have torched a store that sells MP4 players, fearing devout Jews would use them to download pornography.
"These breaches of purity and modesty endanger our community," said 38-year-old Elchanan Blau, defending the bearded, black-robed zealots. "If it takes fire to get them to stop, then so be it."
Many ultra-Orthodox Jews are dismayed by the violence, but the enforcers often enjoy quiet approval from rabbis eager to protect their own reputations as guardians of the faith, community members say. And while some welcome anything that keeps secular culture out of their cloistered world, others feel terrorized, knowing that the mere perception of impropriety could ruin their lives. More...
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What the world thinks of the United States...
Favorable views of the United States have increased modestly since 2007 in 10 of 21 countries where comparative data are available. Perhaps more importantly, the polling finds many people around the world paying close attention to the U.S. presidential election. Moreover -- except in countries that are extremely anti-American -- those who are paying attention generally believe the next president may well change U.S. foreign policy for the better. In nearly every country surveyed, greater numbers express confidence in presidential candidate Barack Obama than in John McCain.
However, the survey of more than 24,000 people in 24 countries, conducted March 17 to April 21, finds another change in global opinion that could present a formidable challenge to the United States in the future. Around the world, people have a new concern: slumping economic conditions. And they have a familiar complaint -- most think the U.S. is having a considerable influence on their economy, and it is largely seen as a negative one. More...
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Plane could not take off because couple were too heavy???
And when the stewardess came down the aisle towards Jan Coupe and her husband, she thought the flight attendant was going to check their seatbelts.
Then came the moment Mrs Coupe wished the earth would open up and she could disappear.
For the stewardess had to tell the couple - who weighed 38st between them - that they were too heavy for the plane to take off.
As his wife cringed with embarrassment, 20st Alan Coupe moved to the front of the aircraft to help even out the weight.
While it was a scene they wouldn't have wished on their worst enemies, some good has come of it. More...
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India, where it's not safe to be a Christian...
Today, we are grieved to have received one more report:
Three more believers were martyred and twelve others were severely wounded in a fresh wave of violence in Orissa, India, on September 30. The latest attacks occurred in villages near Kandhamal, which has been the epicenter of violence against Christians since August 22.
The violence in Orissa came as attacks in two other Indian states targeted a Christian pastor and a GFA-related center for children.An estimated 30 Christians have been killed and thousands of others have lost their homes since Hindu extremists went on a rampage after their leader, Swami Laxmananda Saraswati was murdered. His followers are seeking revenge for his death, for which Christians have been blamed. However, Maoists have claimed responsibility for the murder. More...
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- Italian comedian Sabina Guzzanti faces prison for "insulting the Pope..."
- Palin, the born-again, evangelical Christian, M-16 in one hand, Bible in the other...
- Saudi man cuts daughter's tongue, burns her to death...
- Man set on fire for marrying Muslim girl...
- Einstein: religion is "childish superstitions".
Si vous êtes chrétien en Inde, vous risquez votre vie…
Le dernier meurtre s'est vérifié lorsqu'un groupe d'extrémiste a attaqué au petit matin les habitants de trois villages, mettant le feu aux maisons des chrétiens avec des bombes Molotov, sans que la police n'intervienne. Plusieurs personnes ont été blessées dont un enfant de 8 ans qui se trouve dans de graves conditions. Suite...
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Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, dix ans déjà...
JPD, trois lettres gravées dans la mémoire collective suisse.... Véritable «bête politique» comme la Suisse en a peu connu ces dernières décennies, Jean-Pascal Delamuraz s'en est allé il y a 10 ans, un 4 octobre 1998, emporté par un mal foudroyant à la suite d'une courte hospitalisation à Lausanne.
Doté d'une intelligence brillante, chaleureux, fidèle en amitié et pétri d'humour, ce bon vivant qui a un peu brûlé la chandelle par les deux bouts a présidé à deux reprises la Confédération, en 1989 et 1996. Suite...
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Tata abandons cheapest car plant...
Tata group chief Ratan Tata said: "We have little choice but to move out of Bengal. We cannot run a factory with police around all the time."
He was speaking after protests in a row over land acquired from local farmers.
The car, the Nano, is expected to cost about 100,000 rupees ($2,130). It was due to be launched in October and will be ready "this year", Mr Tata said.
The BBC's Subir Bhuamik in Calcutta says the company is initially expected to produce several thousand Nanos this year at other sites in India.
It had planned to make 250,000 cars a year at the Singur plant in West Bengal, rising to 350,000.
A number of other car firms also plan vehicles to compete with the Nano but have not yet begun production.
The dispute in West Bengal highlights a wider problem between India's growing industry - which needs land - and its farmers who are unwilling to give it up. More...
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Saudi cleric tells women to wear a one-eye veil!!!
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.
The question of how much of her face a woman should cover is a controversial topic in many Muslim societies.
The niqab is more common in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, but women in much of the Muslim Middle East wear a headscarf which covers only their hair.
Sheikh Habadan, an ultra-conservative cleric who is said to have wide influence among religious Saudis, was answering questions on the Muslim satellite channel al-Majd.
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British music stars set to fight the music industry...
Robbie Williams, Radiohead, Kaiser Chiefs and The Verve are among the acts who have signed up to a new pressure group, the Featured Artists' Coalition.
It wants artists to keep the rights to the music they create and to have a greater say in how their songs are sold - and a bigger slice of the takings.
It is a sign of a shift in power in the music industry in the digital age. More...
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Friday, October 03, 2008
Switzerland to get a new saint, Maria Bernarda Bütler...
The villagers of Auw in central Switzerland are gearing up for an historic event. On October 12, the pope will officially declare one of their former residents, the blessed Maria Bernarda Bütler, a saint. The last Swiss person to be made a saint was Niklaus von Flüe, who lived in the 15th century. He was canonised in 1947. Julie Hunt visited Auw to find out how Maria Bernarda Bütler earned her holy status. Watch the video here...
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Inde: fumer est de nouveau interdit dans les lieux publics...
Le tabagisme en Inde, peuplée de 1,1 milliard d'habitants, devrait tuer un million de personnes par an dans les années 2010, représentant environ un décès sur dix dans le pays, selon une étude publiée en février par le New England Journal of Medicine aux Etats-Unis.
L'Inde compte 15% des malades du tabagisme dans le monde. Et 900.000 personnes meurent chaque année d'affections liées au tabac, selon le ministère de la Santé, dont le système d'assurance-maladie ploie sous 300 milliards de roupies par an (5 milliards d'euros) de coûts pour les soins.
Du coup en 2003, les autorités avaient déjà interdit le tabac dans tous les lieux publics --notamment les bureaux-- toute publicité directe et la sponsorisation des événements sportifs par des marques de tabac.
Deux ans plus tard, le gouvernement avait interdit la diffusion de films et programmes télévisés indiens et étrangers, montrant des fumeurs, des paquets de cigarettes ou des publicités pour le tabac. Chaque scène où un acteur apparaît avec une cigarette doit être effacée par les chaînes de télévision.
Satisfaites de cette législation draconienne, les associations anti-tabac se plaignaient des ratés de son application dans les restaurants, discothèques ou hôtels.
"Personne ne mettait la pression sur le responsable du lieu public pour faire respecter la loi", a expliqué Braj Kishore Prasad, fonctionnaire du ministère de la Santé et rédacteur de la nouvelle législation.
L'application de cette loi à partir de jeudi --jour de l'anniversaire du Mahatma Gandhi, qui ne fumait pas, ne buvait pas d'alcool et était végétarien-- a été élargie aux campus universitaires, bars, discothèques et restaurants et des "vigiles anti-tabac" sont censés verbaliser les fumeurs contrevenants (200 roupies, environ 3 euros).
Les gens pourront continuer de fumer chez eux, en voiture, dans la rue et dans certains parcs.
House backs $700bn bail-out plan...
The House vote was the second in a week, following its shock rejection of an earlier version on Monday.
The package is aimed at buying up the bad debts of failing institutions on Wall Street.
US President George W Bush praised lawmakers and said he would sign the bill into law later on Friday. More...
WTF! Albino killings spread from Tanzania to Burundi...
Four albinos were moved to a provincial centre on Thursday in Ruyigi, Burundi, where police were protecting them, the BBC's Prime Ndikumagenge reports.
Authorities have arrested six people in connection with the murder of an albino teenage girl in August.
The attacks follow the killing of 26 Tanzanian albinos in less than a year.
A BBC correspondent's investigation there revealed that witchdoctors were behind the killings. More...
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Prostitutes become addicted to ... prostituition???
So says Lauren Casey, a Victoria, B.C., researcher, advocate and former prostitute.
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Myths about the sex trade persist, she explained, because most research into the sex trade has been conducted solely on street prostitution, which represents only 10% to 20% of the industry. The rest is "inside," in escort agencies, massage parlours and on the Internet.
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In fact, Casey said, only a "tiny minority" who get into it are already addicts. While drug addiction is rampant in the sex trade, most prostitutes develop drug addictions after they go into the business.
Her research found that, by far, most women go into it for the fast money, and it's that easy cash that becomes the most addictive part.
But often they turn to drugs as the business grinds them down emotionally and spiritually. Full story...
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Bollywood strike over...
Union leader Dinesh Chaturvedi told the BBC News website that managers had agreed to their demands.
Unions said staff were working unreasonable hours and in many cases producers were months behind in payments to their staff.
The strike had also hit the booming television production in Mumbai (Bombay) in western India.
"The producers have agreed to our demands," Mr Chaturvedi of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees said. He told the BBC a new committee would look into payment disputes. And he said television filming sessions would be limited to 12 hours. More...
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Thursday, October 02, 2008
India bans smoking in public places...
Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss says he aims to cut the number of smokers and to protect passive smokers from the harmful effects of tobacco.
The government says India has more than 120 million cigarette smokers. Observers say the ban will need to be strictly enforced.
Those flouting it face fines of 200 rupees ($4.50). Tobacco smoking in India kills 900,000 people a year.
That figure is expected to rise to a million by 2010.
India's health ministry says hundreds of thousands of people who have never smoked die each year by inhaling smoke from other people's cigarettes and bidis (small hand-rolled cigarettes common in India).
"From 2 October India is going to go smoke-free in all public places," Mr Ramadoss said.
"The aim is to discourage the smokers, to make them quit or reduce smoking. Also all non-smoking employees have a right to a 100% smoke-free atmosphere.
"The perils of passive smoking are equally bad." More...
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Manuel Uribe va se marier...
«Ce sera une noce de poids, en grande pompe, mais avec un banquet à basses calories», a déclaré à l'AFP cet homme de 43 ans qui avait pesé jusqu'à près de 590 kg et vit dans son lit, souffrant d'«obésité morbide» depuis 1992.
Il va épouser Claudia, une veuve à laquelle il est fiancée depuis deux ans, a-t-il ajouté.
«Nous avions prévu une noce à la maison, avec la famille et un petit repas, mais la chaîne de télévision américaine Discovery m'a appelé pour prendre des nouvelles, je leur ai annoncé mon mariage et ils m'ont proposé de voir plus grand», a-t-il expliqué.
D'autres «parrains» ont rejoint la télévision: la revue People, le groupe audiovisuel latino-américain Televisa, et les maires des localités de San Nicolas Zeferino et de Guadalupe, voisines de Monterrey, qui offriront le gâteau pour 400 personnes.
Il ne lui manque que la musique. Il a demandé à la télévision locale de l'aider à faire venir le groupe mexicain «Pesado» («le gros»), qui a promis de consulter son agenda.
«Rendez-vous compte, Discovery et People viennent, et jamais de la vie je ne me suis imaginé avoir une telle noce», s'est-il exclamé, soulignant «les miracles que Dieu a accordés à un homme qui a été au bord du suicide et qui, aujourd'hui, connaît l'amour».
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L'«éco-terrorisme» se développe aussi en Suisse...
En juillet dernier, des inconnus ont forcé de nuit les grillages de la paisible volière du Parc Mon-Repos, aux portes du Tribunal fédéral. Les oiseaux ainsi «libérés» auront sans doute fait le festin des renards qui rôdent aux alentours. Pour la troisième fois en 16 mois, ces volières peuplées de perruches et de petits perroquets ont été la cible des «animalistes».
Un mouvement en plein essor qui revendique l'égalité entre espèces humaine et animale. Briser une vitrine n'est pas un acte de violence, plaident ces militants d'un genre nouveau pour qui la vie d'un lapin ou d'un chat vaut autant que celle d'un humain: «Notre façon de traiter les animaux, de les considérer comme des biens, de nier leurs intérêts propres, est aussi illégitime que l'étaient la traite des Noirs, l'esclavage et la colonisation.» Suite...
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World's fattest man, Manuel Uribe, to marry!!! Best wishes!
The world's most obese man is getting hitched.
Manuel Uribe says he will wed long-time girlfriend Claudia Solis on October 26 in Monterrey, Mexico. The two will be married in a civil ceremony at a location still to be decided.
Uribe is unable to walk, and leaving his house means being towed through the streets on his specially made bed.
This year the Guinness Book of World Records declared Uribe, who tipped the scales at 1,230 pounds (560 kilograms) in 2006, the world's heaviest man.
The 43-year-old has shed about 550 pounds (250 kilograms) since with the help of Solis. The two met four years ago.
Uribe said yesterday he will have a bite of wedding cake for photos - but he won't eat any more because his diet prohibits it.
It must be love.
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The Blogger, Girls Aloud, and the Law...
The case of Darryn Walker, 35, is being seen as one of the most significant on censorship since Lady Chatterley's Lover.
It is one of the first involving the written word in recent years and is expected to be the first test of the law since pornographic material became widely available on the internet.
Walker is accused of posting the article on a fantasy porn website.
It allegedly described in detail the kidnap, mutilation, rape and murder of Girls Aloud members Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh.
Headlined 'Girls (Scream) Aloud' it is said to have run to 12 pages. More...
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British chicks have bigger bOObs now!!! wOOw!
The shop said changing body shapes, more accurate measuring techniques and the increasing popularity of plastic surgery are fuelling sales of larger bras.
Debenhams specialist lingerie buyer Sharon Webb said: “It’s clear that Britain is now entering the age of the fuller bust.
“Some of the increase has undoubtedly been due to poor bust measuring techniques in the past - our results show that many women are often between one and two cup sizes larger than they realize. More...
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Gas price mistake;people flock to pump: owner happy that people were happy! Cool!
"We lost about 1,000 gallons of gas and about $3,500," Mimi Zidan, owner of the Lucky Mart on Derby Street, said Wednesday. "But I don't feel too bad because the people looked so happy when they were buying gas. If I can do this for them, that's all right."
Tuesday evening, the attendant on duty at Lucky Mart on Derby Street realized something was wrong when the customers' bills added up to no more than $5 or $6 each after topping off their gas tanks.
As he struggled to deal with the hordes pouring in, he called Zidan on her cell phone. Zidan had gone out to pick up some items for Lucky Mart, which like many convenience stores also sells soda, cigarettes and snacks. More...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
A bad day for Wall Street, but a good day for Democracy...
Those who created the problem are now the doctors offering the prescriptions. A little while ago we were told everything was fine. Then, less than six months ago, we were told that the economy was on the mend. Now we are told the patient needs a massive transfusion; but everyone can see that the patient is suffering from internal bleeding - in California, the number of foreclosures may already be outpacing voluntary sales. Yet nothing is being done to stem the haemorrhaging.
While the president says the economy faces the risk of economic meltdown, he threatens to veto a stimulus package that would create jobs - and he seems particularly adamant about a stimulus package that includes improved unemployment benefits. Traditionally, this is done when there is a threat of an economic downturn; if the downturn doesn't materialise, it doesn't cost anything. And while the administration and Wall Street promise this is just a temporary loan, not a bail-out, there was strong opposition to making the financial industry pay for any losses. Why would that be, if they are so sure that there won't be losses? More...
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Japanese man goes fishing ... for panties!!!
A Japanese man was arrested for stealing women's underwear, according to a Tokyo police spokesman on Tuesday.
Akira Hino, 51, with a passion for women's underwear, was caught when he tried to steal a pair of knickers from a laundry pole on a second-floor balcony, the spokesman said.
Hino, according to local news paper Mainichi Shimbun, stretched out a 3-meter rod and caught the underwear on a hook, then reeled knickers in.
The local police found more than 500 pairs of women's underwear inside of his house. As he told investigators, he had got into the habit of stealing undergarments since he was 18.
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Le tout Bollywood se met en grève...
Cette grève, qui a déjà provoqué l'arrêt de plusieurs tournages, pourrait retarder la sortie de nombreux films alors que s'ouvre une période charnière pour le cinéma indien, celle des festivals. La situation est aussi critique pour les producteurs d'émissions de télévision, dont tous les tournages ont eux aussi été annulés.
Les grévistes reprochent aux producteurs de ne pas avoir respecté les termes d'un accord signé il y a un an et demi. "Les paiements ont été retardés de trois mois, six mois voire un an pour certains, explique Dinesh Chaturvedi, secrétaire général du principal syndicat de Bollywood. Les producteurs font tout pour réduire les coûts, alors que leur chiffre d'affaires augmente. Nous ne sommes pas heureux de nous mettre en grève, nous sommes juste impuissants».
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Suisse:quatre ans de prison pour aide au suicide...
Le médecin a été reconnu coupable de mise à mort délibérée, une faute nettement plus grave que l'homicide par négligence retenu en première instance, qui lui avait valu une peine de trois ans, dont deux avec sursis.
Pour ce jugement en appel, l'accusation réclamait une peine de six ans, alors que la défense a plaidé l'acquittement.
Le premier cas concerne un homme de 46 ans, que l'association d'aide au suicide Exit avait refusé d'aider en raison de sa dépression. Dans le deuxième cas, Peter Baumann a aidé au suicide une femme de 62 ans, un cas qui avait fait l'objet d'un reportage de la télévision alémanique DRS.
Entre 2000 et 2001, le psychiatre avait offert ses services à Exit à 14 reprises. Suite à des dissensions avec l'association, il a fondé en 2002 sa propre organisation, «Verein Suizidhilfe» («association d'aide au suicide»).
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Oh boy! Bollywood goes on strike!!!
All work in India's film and television hub of Bollywood has stopped after thousands of technicians and actors began a strike over pay and conditions.
Unions representing film employees in Mumbai (Bombay) say many members have not been paid for months and are threatening to strike indefinitely.
Meanwhile, film producers have told the BBC they will meet to decide their response on Thursday.
They say that they are prepared to weather a long dispute if necessary. More...
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Priest, yet another one, jailed for sexual assaults on boys...
William Green, 67, of Cale Lane, Aspull, Wigan, admitted 27 counts of sexual abuse on children in August.
He abused pupils aged 11 to 15 at St Bede's Boys' School in Manchester between 1975 and 1987 where he worked as a religious education teacher.
He also assaulted an eight-year-old boy at St Margaret Mary's Junior School, Moston, where he also worked, in 1968.
He was jailed at Manchester Crown Court on Wednesday.
Police were first contacted in late 2007 by a victim who had been abused by Green during the 1970s. More...
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Spain declares war on child porn...
Millions of images that show child sex abuse were seized in a series of nationwide raids, which uncovered a network spanning 75 countries.
Police say two of those held were using their own children to make pornography.
A further 96 people have been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. More...
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