Pope Francis calls on every European parish to host a refugee family...

Pope Francis has called on every European parish to host one refugee family each in a goodwill gesture that will begin in the Vatican state. It comes as Europe faces the worst refugee crisis since World War II.

"I appeal to the parishes, the religious communities, the monasteries and sanctuaries of all Europe to take in one family of refugees," Pope Francis said after his Sunday address.

He added that it is not enough to say “have courage, hang in there” to the refugees making the dangerous journey into Europe.

he pontiff, whose comments were met with applause from the crowd in St. Peter's Square, also said that two parishes in the Vatican will each take in a family of refugees in the coming days.

Francis said the call to action is a "concrete gesture" to prepare for the extraordinary Holy Year on the theme of mercy, which will begin on December 8. Full story...

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Austrian far-right leader blames U.S., NATO for migrant crisis...

The leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) has blamed the United States and the NATO Western military alliance for triggering the refugee crisis that has overwhelmed Europe.

"The USA and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Libya with their military intervention, bombs and missiles; provided financial, logistical and military support to the opposition against President Assad in Syria, and thus made possible the destruction, chaos, suffering and radical Islamism (IS) in the region," Heinz-Christian Strache said on his Facebook page.

Strache's opposition FPO party, which leads opinion polls ahead of the centrist Social Democrats and People's Party coalition partners, typically espouses anti-Muslim and isolationist approaches to dealing with foreign policy.

Strache, who is running for mayor in Vienna elections next month, scoffed at what he called U.S. President Barack Obama's suggestions that Europe is primarily responsible for handling the wave of migrants flooding the continent from crisis spots in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Full story...

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At a Berlin church, Muslim refugees converting in droves...

Mohammed Ali Zonoobi bends his head as the priest pours holy water over his black hair. “Will you break away from Satan and his evil deeds?” pastor Gottfried Martens asks the Iranian refugee. “Will you break away from Islam?”

“Yes,” Zonoobi fervently replies. Spreading his hands in blessing, Martens then baptizes the man “in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.”

Mohammed is now Martin — no longer Muslim, but Christian.

Zonoobi, a carpenter from the Iranian city of Shiraz, arrived in Germany with his wife and two children five months ago. He is one of hundreds of mostly Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers who have converted to Christianity at the evangelical Trinity Church in a leafy Berlin neighborhood.

Like Zonoobi, most say true belief prompted their embrace of Christianity. But there’s no overlooking the fact that the decision will also greatly boost their chances of winning asylum by allowing them to claim they would face persecution if sent home. Full story...

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Wealthy Gulf nations are criticized for tepid response to Syrian refugee crisis...

The Arab nations of the Persian Gulf have some the world’s highest per capita incomes. Their leaders speak passionately about the plight of Syrians, and their state-funded news media cover the Syrian civil war without cease.

Yet as millions of Syrian refugees languish elsewhere in the Middle East and many have risked their lives to reach Europe or died along the way, Gulf nations have agreed to resettle only a surprisingly small number of refugees.

As the migration crisis overwhelms Europe and after images of a drowned Syrian toddler crystallized Syrian desperation, humanitarian groups are increasingly accusing the Arab world’s richest nations of not doing enough to help out.

Accenting that criticism are the deep but shadowy roles countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia have played in Syria by bankrolling rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad. Full story...

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Hawaii sees tenfold increase in birth defects after becomig GM corn testing grounds...

Doctors are sounding the alarm after noticing a disturbing trend happening in Waimea, on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Over the past five years, the number of severe heart malformations has risen to more than ten times the national rate, according to an analysis by local physicians.

Pediatrician Carla Nelson, after seeing four of these defects in three years, is extremely concerned with the severe health anomalies manifesting in the local population.

Nelson, as well as a number of other local doctors, find themselves at the center of a growing controversy about whether the substantial increase in severe illness and birth defects in Waimea stem from the main cash crop on four of the six islands, genetically modified corn, which has been altered to resist pesticides.

Hawaii has historically been used as a testing ground for almost all GMO corn grown in the United States. Over 90% of GMO corn grown in the mainland U.S. was first developed in Hawaii, with the island of Kauai having the largest area used. Full story...

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Gujarat teacher couple raised 8 daughters to be teachers...

Raising nine children — eight daughters and a son — from the mid-1960s to about 2000 was quite a struggle for Harishbhai and Madhuben Jadav, both schoolteachers. The couple's meagre salaries meant the family at times survived on 'khichdi' for days together.

But Madhuben (74) recalls that when their first child, Daksha, was born, they decided from the very beginning that they would raise her to become a teacher one day. Today, Daksha (49) and her seven younger sisters — Urvashi (48), Neeta (46), Kalpana (43), Parul (42), Kishori (38), Krishna (35) and Amita (33) — are all teachers in various government, municipal and private schools in Ahmedabad.

All of them were inspired by the life and ideals of their parents. "They were ideal teachers for hundreds of children, so it was just natural for all of us to get deeply influenced by them and inherit their values," says Daksha. Besides, she says, the teaching profession also helped the sisters get married into respectable families. Their brother, Anand, is associated with the IT sector.

 "I managed hundreds of kids in my school, so managing my eight daughters was no big deal," says Madhuben. "Teachers are also preferred as brides because they have secure jobs and will necessarily know how to raise and educate their children." She says with pride that most of her sons-in-law are government servants or well-to-do professionals. Full story...

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60,000 antelopes died in four days and no one knows why...

It started in late May. When geoecologist Steffen Zuther and his colleagues arrived in central Kazakhstan to monitor the calving of one herd of saigas, a critically endangered, steppe-dwelling antelope, veterinarians in the area had already reported dead animals on the ground.

"But since there happened to be die-offs of limited extent during the last years, at first we were not really alarmed," Zuther, the international coordinator of the Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative, told Live Science.

But within four days, the entire herd — 60,000 saiga — had died. As veterinarians and conservationists tried to stem the die-off, they also got word of similar population crashes in other herds across Kazakhstan. By early June, the mass dying was over.

Now, the researchers have found clues as to how more than half of the country's herd, counted at 257,000 as of 2014, died so rapidly. Bacteria clearly played a role in the saigas' demise. But exactly how these normally harmless microbes could take such a toll is still a mystery, Zuther said.

 "The extent of this die-off, and the speed it had, by spreading throughout the whole calving herd and killing all the animals, this has not been observed for any other species," Zuther said. "It's really unheard of." Full story...

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A court on Friday sentenced three Indian men to 20 years in prison for raping a Japanese student who was sightseeing in one of the country's most popular tourist destinations.

Prosecutors said the men met the 20-year-old woman in Jaipur, the Rajasthan state capital known for its historic forts and monuments, and they offered to be her tour guides.

The men, aged 20 to 24, took the woman to a farming village outside the city, raped her on a roadside and fled. Villagers heard the woman crying and helped her contact police.

Judge Girish Oja held the three guilty and sentenced them on Friday in a trial that lasted five months.

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Yes, the vaccines are causing the problem. The authorities know it. It is admitted. This is not conspiracy theory, but sad fact.

The system is willing to break a few eggs and ruin lives in order to achieve their global vaccination agenda – all while they insist that vaccines are both safe and effective. To say otherwise – even in the face of admitted facts – is pure heresy.

A few years ago, I stumbled upon a big dirty secret that is harming tens of thousands of children. It was being reported overseas, but ignored by the mainstream media.

(...)

Now, this problem is cropping up in many other countries, too.

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The Arab world’s wealthiest nations are doing next to nothing for Syria’s refugees...

The world has been transfixed in recent weeks by the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe, an influx of migrants unprecedented since World War II. Their plight was chillingly highlighted on Wednesday in the image of a drowned Syrian toddler, his lifeless body lying alone on a Turkish beach.

A fair amount of attention has fallen on the failure of many Western governments to adequately address the burden on Syria's neighboring countries, which are struggling to host the brunt of the roughly 4 million Syrians forced out of the country by its civil war.

Some European countries have been criticized for offering sanctuary only to a small number of refugees, or for discriminating between Muslims and Christians. There's also been a good deal of continental hand-wringing over the general dysfunction of Europe's systems for migration and asylum.

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Why would any city want to host the Olympics?

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti really wants his city—which is now the United States Olympic Committee's official Olympic bidder for 2024—to host the Olympic Games.

"We know how to do Olympics, we know how to do them well, we know how to do them economically," he boasted on Tuesday. Los Angeles mayors can only serve two four-year terms, so whatever happens he'll be out of office during the games, but he's working hard to make this thing happen.

The City Council backed Garcetti's bid, but some council members seemed slightly less enthusiastic than their mayor. "All public fund commitments would require express, advance authorization of the council and the mayor. And as of this moment, we've made none," City Councilman Paul Krekorian, who voted in favor of the bid, told VICE.

The need for caution when it comes to Olympic bids is pretty obvious by now: Though the Olympics bring unrivaled publicity to a metro area, the event can cause some pretty serious civic damage. Athens is perhaps the most notorious case: The 2004 Olympics left the taxpayers of Greece with a debt of 7 billion euros (not including the money sunk into a new airport and transportation system), and the mess is regarded by some as a major contributor to Greece's ongoing economic crisis. When the Olympics came to Beijing in 2008, China used it as an opportunity to showcase its status as an economic powerhouse, but wound up with massive bills and headaches, along with a bunch of depressing abandoned stadiums and crumbling infrastructure. Today, some Chinese academics regard hosting the Olympics as a mistake. Full story...

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Putin slams US over refugee crisis in Europe...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday held the US responsible for the refugee crisis in Europe.

Putin said he feels "perplexed" when observing US media criticising Europe for its cruelty toward immigrants, adding that the influx of immigrants was expected.

Russia has been speculating for years that major issues would take place as a result of the persistent wrong foreign policies of its "western partners", especially in regions of the Muslim world, reported Efe news agency.

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The selfie syndrome in Delhi sees the young opting for plastic surgery...

On Instagram, Sahil Kamra has 500 followers. Ample reason, the 23-year-old has concluded, for plastic surgery. So he has just got his nose and lips done, with his parents funding the three-hour and Rs. 80,000 surgery.

"Now I click my selfies freely wherever and whenever i want at whichever angle i like. I feel better about myself, I feel more confident," said Sahil who is well aware that selfies are to Instagram what piano-playing kittens are to YouTube - crowd-pleasers.

To the perpetual disappointment of those not genetically camera-friendly or quaintly predisposed to privacy, this is not a world for the self-effacing. Kim Kardashian, who has turned her entire life into a reality show, allowing cameras to film her with additional 24X7 access through her social media accounts, celebrated 45 million Instagram followers on Wednesday. She acknowledged the "insta-love" with - what else - a Thank You selfie.

Mr Kamra has won instant gratification. "More people follow me on Instagram now, I get more likes on Facebook", he said sitting in a cafe. When asked whether one of many apps that exist to swipe away imperfections, he explains that he expects his surgery to deliver the ultimate real-life like as well - "I will be married in a couple of years so it helps". Full story...

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The 'revenge rape' scandal shows that India's women are worse off than ever...

Local unelected authorities, also known as the Khap Panchayat, reportedly ordered the sexual assault of the sisters from the low Dalit caste (historically called 'untouchables') as a punishment for their elder brother marrying a woman from the upper Jat caste.

One of the sisters, Meenakshi Kumari, 23, told Star News that her brother fell in love with the woman back in their home village of Bhagpat, and the couple eloped to Delhi in March. The woman’s family were furious and began to make unannounced midnight visits to their house to harass his sisters.

Meenakshi said they told the family: “You’ve spoilt our honour by marrying our daughter, so now we will ruin your honour by raping your daughters”.

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The Chinese city where men have 'three girlfriends because there are so many women'

For some it may be classed as 'three-timing', but in one Chinese city having three girlfriends is apparently seen as the norm.

One man from the city of Dongguan, in China’s Guangdong province, has even told media it would be “embarrassing” to have only one girlfriend.

The polyamorous attitude is down to a huge gender imbalance in the city.

The population disparity is reportedly 89 men for every 100 women because local bosses in Dongguan - a centre for manufacturing - shun male employees for more reliable female workers.

One man told local TV, according to News.com.au, it was easier to find a girlfriend than a job in the town, while factory worker Li Bin said: “I have three girlfriends, and all of them know about each other. Many of my friends also have many girlfriends.” Full story...

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Migrants crisis: Unease as Czech police ink numbers on skin...

Images of Czech police officers writing numbers on the hands of migrants are an uncomfortable reminder of a different event and a different era.

But the Czech authorities appeared totally unaware of the unfortunate visual connotations with the Holocaust, when prisoners at Auschwitz were systematically tattooed with serial numbers.

The Foreigners' Police said the priority in dealing with the 200 migrants at Breclav railway station, in the South Moravian region, was identifying them and trying to keep family members together.

This, said a spokeswoman, was a difficult task when many had no documents and did not speak English; hence the numbers in felt-tip pen on their arms.

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France and Germany said European countries must be required to accept their shares of refugees, proposing what would potentially be the biggest change to the continent's asylum rules since World War Two.

Europe's worst refugee crisis since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s has strained the European Union's asylum system to breaking point, dividing its 28 nations and feeding the rise of right-wing populists.

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US and Saudi Arabia war crimes keep killing Yemenis...

Saudi ground forces invaded Yemen for the first time in this war on August 27. Officially, the Saudi government characterizes the invasion as an incursion that will be limited and temporary. The Saudi government made similar representations about their terror-bombing of Yemen that began March 26 and has continued on a near-daily basis to the present.

Other foreign troops have invaded southern Yemen in support of the ousted Yemeni government.

At the same time as the Saudi invasion, the ousted Yemeni government, now talking tough from the safety of Riyadh, the Saudi capital, says it won’t enter into any peace talks until the other side, which has no air force and no navy, surrenders its weapons and withdraws from disputed territory. This “demand” is consistent with the corrupt UN Security Council resolution that passed in April, with the support of the US and other countries then waging war on Yemen.

Saudi Arabia aggression against Yemen, the poorest country in the region, has been catastrophic for Yemen, which is all-but-defenseless. Backed by eight other Arab dictatorships and the US, the Saudi alliance has committed uncounted war crimes and crimes against humanity. The onslaught has killed more than 4,300 people (mostly civilians), subjected roughly half the Yemeni population to severe hunger and water scarcity, and laid waste to World Heritage sites among the oldest in the world. Full story...

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The 2030 Agenda: This month the UN launches a blueprint for a New World Order with the help of the Pope...

Did you know that the UN is planning to launch a “new universal agenda” for humanity in September 2015? That phrase does not come from me – it is actually right in the very first paragraph of the official document that every UN member nation will formally approve at a conference later this month. The entire planet is going to be committing to work toward 17 sustainable development goals and 169 specific sustainable development targets, and yet there has been almost a total media blackout about this here in the United States. The UN document promises that this plan will “transform our world for the better by 2030“, and yet very few Americans have even heard of the 2030 Agenda at this point. Instead, most of us seem to be totally obsessed with the latest celebrity gossip or the latest nasty insults that our puppet politicians have been throwing around at one another. It absolutely amazes me that more people cannot understand that Agenda 2030 is a really, really big deal. When will people finally start waking up?

As I discussed in a previous article, the 2030 Agenda is taking the principles and goals laid out in Agenda 21 to an entirely new level. Agenda 21 was primarily focused on the environment, but the 2030 Agenda addresses virtually all areas of human activity. It truly is a blueprint for global governance.

And later this month, nearly every nation on the entire planet is going to be signing up for this new agenda. The general population of the planet is going to be told that this agenda is “voluntary” and that it is all about “ending poverty” and “fighting climate change”, but that is not the full story. Unfortunately, there is so much positive spin around this plan that most people will not be able to see through it. Just check out an excerpt from a piece that was published on the official UN website yesterday… Full story...

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Swiss freeze assets of Malaysian state fund...

Swiss authorities said on Thursday they had frozen tens of millions of dollars in assets as part of an investigation into Malaysia's troubled state investment fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

The Swiss attorney general's office further confirmed that criminal proceedings had been opened against two executives of the fund, which has been at the centre of mounting anger over Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's tenure.

Allegations have circulated for months in Malaysia that huge sums had vanished in deals with heavily-indebted 1MDB, which Najib launched in 2009.

"The Office of The Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has frozen assets amounting [to] several tens of millions of US dollars on Swiss bank accounts," spokeswoman Anna Wegelin told AFP in an email.

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Naked Rambler 'to continue protest'

A man who has spent 10 years in prison because he goes naked in public has told the BBC he will continue his protest even if it means he has to spend the rest of his life in custody.

The former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord (Ken) Macdonald QC says it is not in the public interest for Stephen Gough to be prosecuted as he does not pose a danger to the public.

Mr Gough, known as the "Naked Rambler", was released from Winchester Prison on 14 August, aged 56, having served half of a 30-month sentence for breaching an anti-social behaviour order.

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Sri Lanka massacred tens of thousands of Tamils as the world looked away...

To the Tamils of northeast Sri Lanka and to much of their global diaspora, Isaipriya was a star: a presenter and actress who came to symbolize the Tamil resistance.

She was beautiful, and she read the news on Tiger television and performed in romantic Tamil musicals, singing the praises of Tamil Tiger war heroes and the Black Tiger suicide bombers who raced their explosive-packed speedboats into the vulnerable sides of Sri Lankan Navy ships.

Isaipriya was respected and admired, not just by the people of the Vanni—the small region in north Sri Lanka where the secessionist forces of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had created a de facto state—but also by Tamils around the world, driven from their homeland by decades of discrimination, which occasionally exploded into outright pogroms among the Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka.

"She was a lovely woman," said Benjamin Dix, who for four years was a UN staffer in Kilinochchi, the administrative capital of the Tiger state. Dix knew Isaipriya, and he understood the moral ambiguity of her message. "She was incredibly gentle and respectful," he said, "but at the same time, she stood for and symbolized the movement of the Tigers, which was hard and brutal and completely focused on their objective of gaining Tamil Eelam and an independent state within Sri Lanka." Full story...

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Three arrested in Paris over 'devil's breath' drug...

Paris police have seized two Chinese women and a man on suspicion of using a powerful Colombian drug known as "the devil's breath" to turn people into "zombies" devoid of free will and rob them.

The women, 42 and 59, allegedly approached strangers in the 20th arrondissement and blew a substance into their faces to put them into a "hypnotic state".

They took their victims home and asked them to hand over their jewellery and money. One Parisian lost €100,000 in valuables and cash in this way, police said.

The substance allegedly used by the gang is thought to contain scopolamine, a hazardous drug extracted from a South American tree related to deadly nightshade.

The Soviets and the CIA reportedly used it as a truth serum during the Cold War. The drug's chemical make-up induces powerful hallucinations and in strong doses it is lethal. Full story...

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Chilling effects of the Ashley Madison scarlet letter...

It’s been a little over a week since massive amounts of data from the popular cheating website, Ashley Madison, were published online. Impact Team, the group behind the breach, released everything from email and home addresses of Ashley Madison’s users to their credit card and bank account information. Not surprisingly, the consequences were brutal. Although public reaction has been a mix of jokes about happy divorce attorneys and betrayal-karma for users, the hack’s effects will likely spread far beyond the site, to affect anonymity and online security throughout the Internet.

Many are likely reacting to the Ashley Madison hack with humor and righteous glee because they see this data dump as something that will only affect “bad people,” but this sentiment is fundamentally misplaced. Just as the “I’ve got nothing to hide” critique of government surveillance misses the point that many others have legitimate things to keep secret, laughing at the Ashley Madison hack ignores the fact that there are many online services that require privacy, and this breach threatens their use.

Consider the huge range of websites that offer community forums and live chats for dealing with issues such as substance addiction, suicide prevention, mistreatment of LGBT youth, domestic abuse, and sexual assault. Individuals will often turn to these anonymous online services because these topics carry social stigma or the potential for discrimination if revealed. By outing millions of Ashley Madison users, hackers have shown that online safe havens for anonymous activities may not be safe at all. In the process they may chill use of services that provide an important support system to those in need. Full story...

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What really happens when you eat nothing but fast food?

When filmmaker Morgan Spurlock ate junk food every day for a month for his 2004 documentary Super Size Me, the results were shocking.

But despite the litany of problems, among them weight gain, sexual dysfunction and mood swings, reported by Spurlock, the world's appetite for cheap convenience foods is undiminished.

And although fast food outlets have added 'healthy' options to their menus, eating there every day still means loading up on calories, sugar and fat.

So what happens when you live on junk for a week? As one FEMAIL writer, Phoebe Jackson-Edwards, 24, discovered, just seven days is enough to make skin greasy and double the fat on your thighs.

Here she shares her experience... Full story...

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Hundreds of Brits pledging to create a safe haven for Syrian refugees

Hundreds of Britons are calling on the government to take in more refugees, with some even offering their homes as the numbers being taken in remains pitifully low compared with other European countries.

Britain has taken in just 216 people fleeing the war in Syria, which the Washington Post pointed out is not enough to fill a tube train.

A Facebook campaign in Iceland has seen 12,000 people, 4% of its 300,000 people, pledge to take in refugees. That would be the equivalent of 2.6 million people here.

Hundreds of Brits have been signing a pledge to volunteer to help them resettle and calling on the government to do more.

The campaign gathered pace today - with 15 signatures to the petition in an hour - as the headlines have been dominated by the migrant crisis in Europe and the thousands of people arriving on the continent from the Middle East and Africa. Full story...

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Norwegian convicts housed in Dutch prison!!!

A group of Norwegian convicts is getting a new home — in the Netherlands.

Junior Justice Minister Klaas Dijkhoff on Wednesday handed the keys to a Dutch prison to his Norwegian counterpart, Anders Anundsen, saying: "They get the cells, we get the jobs."

Serious crime has been declining for years in the Netherlands and its courts have been dishing out fewer custodial sentences, leading to overcapacity at prisons.

Norway, meanwhile, has too many prisoners and has now agreed to take over the Norgerhaven prison in the northern town of Veenhuizen for at least three years, giving the country enough cells to incarcerate 242 inmates.

It is not the first time the Netherlands has made its cells available to another nation. Belgium cut a similar deal in 2009. Source...

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Sixty-one infants die at Indian hospital in just two weeks...

Sixty-one infants have died at an Indian children's hospital in just two weeks, sparking protests and forcing the state government to launch an investigation.

The deaths highlight the challenges faced in India's underfunded public health system, where successive governments have failed to address the acute shortage of staff and clinics.

Those problems are compounded by the stark poverty and poor sanitary conditions in many villages. Cases of shoddy medical treatment are also regularly reported throughout the country.

A criminal probe was under way into the conduct of three staff at the Shishu Bhawan, or Children's Home, in the city of Cuttack in eastern Odisha, state health minister Atanu S. Nayak said on Wednesday. Five workers have been suspended. Full story...

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Tamil Nadu-born 9-year-od twins taking Australia's spelling bee by storm...

Barely nine years old, these Tamil Nadu-born twins have a vocabulary of nearly 50,000 words, which they have put to good use to figure among the top 12 contestants on the Great Australian Spelling Bee. The final contest is scheduled in two weeks.

Students of class three, Harpita and Harpith are not only good with spellings but their confidence and attitudes have fetched them fans across Down Under.

Australia's Channel 10 has even come out with a promo pitting the siblings against each other.

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Tackling the deadliest day for Japanese teenagers...

"I couldn't bear the school's ambience and my heart was pounding. I thought about killing myself, because that would have been easier."

Masa, which is not his real name, had an understanding mother who did not force him to go to school. Otherwise, he wrote for a newspaper for children who refuse to attend school, "I would have chosen to kill myself on 1 September when the new semester started".

Masa was not alone in thinking so bleakly in Japan, which has one of the world's highest suicide rates.

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More than 11,000 Icelanders offer to house Syrian refugees to help European crisis...

More than 11,000 families in Iceland have offered to open their homes to Syrian refugees in a bid to raise the government’s cap of just 50 asylum seekers a year.

They responded to a call by author Bryndis Bjorgvinsdottir, who set up a Facebook group with an open letter to the country’s welfare minister, Eygló Harðardóttir, asking her to allow people to help.

Ms Bjorgvinsdottir said she knew someone who could house five Syrians fleeing the country’s brutal civil war, requesting work permits, residents papers and “basic human rights” in exchange for paying for their flight and helping them integrate into national society.

In the letter, she said she started the group to show the level of public support for welcoming more refugees, who Ms Bjorgvinsdottir called “human resources” with experience and skills that could help all Icelanders. Full story...

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Pakistani Christians left homeless told to convert to receive flood aid...

Christians left homeless due to devastating flooding in Pakistan have been offered an unacceptable choice by Muslim charities providing for victims: convert to Islam or become bonded servants, essentially a form of modern-day slavery.

The choice come with the Pakistani government’s alleged decision to ignore the suffering of the country’s Christian communities.

"When it comes to responding to the flooding of Christian communities, the government seems to back off. Whereas with Muslim communities they respond immediately as do the Muslim charities," said Wilson Chowdhry, the president of the British Pakistani Christian Association speaking to The Christian Post.

Chowdhry added that "is not unusual for the government to overlook helping the Christian communities." In addition, the government has not built the proper infrastructure to prevent this type of damage, even though the region is known for severe flooding, he said. Full story...

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Buying organic veggies at the supermarket is a waste of money...

It has happened to all of us. You’re standing in the produce aisle, just trying to buy some zucchini, when you face the inevitable choice: Organic or regular?1

It’s a loaded question that can mean many different things, sometimes all at once: Healthy or pesticide-drenched? Tasty or bland? Fancy or basic? Clean or dirty? Good or bad?

But here’s the most important question for many customers: Is it worth the extra money?

The answer: Probably not.

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In 2010, a study found that some organic pesticides can actually have a worse environmental impacts than conventional ones. Plus, a recent study found that because organic agriculture is now done mostly en masse by big corporations (what’s known dismissively by advocates as “Walmart organic”), the lower yields combined with the use of heavy machinery means it actually releases more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than conventional farming. Full story...

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11 years in a row, South Korea is No. 1 in suicide rate among OECD countries...

South Korea is No. 1 for the 11th year in a row when it comes to suicide rate among OECD countries, according to the organization’s Health Data 2015 report.

The average suicide rate among all OECD countries, according to 2013 data, was 12 people out of 100,000.

South Korea, in 2012, saw 29.1 suicides per 100,000 people. In comparison, Hungary, which came in second, saw 19.4 suicides; Japan saw 18.7; Slovenia saw 18.6; and Belgium saw 17.4.

Turkey had the lowest suicide rate, at 2.6 people per 100,000, followed by Greece (4.2), Mexico (5), Italy (6.3) and Israel (6.4).

Although overall suicide rate in OECD countries has decreased since 1985, in South Korea it has risen since 2000. Source...

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