John McCain 'fails to pay taxes'

When you're getting on in years it's easy to forget things - like paying your taxes - easily done." John McCain and his wife failed to pay house taxes and owe more than $225,000 on credit cards, it has been...

Man gets death for brutal murder

"A QATARI man was sentenced to death yesterday for the brutal murder of his aunt following a fight about money.A Doha court heard that the man, in his 20s, had tried to suffocate his relative before bludgeoning her with a stone and driving a car over her battered body.The man...

Very fishy in one town, my hometown!!!

"My mom, aunt, and dad all voted for RP today in my hometown, My mom and aunt both work passing out ballots, and checking them off. I just looked at the politico map and it says their town has ZERO votes for Ron. Now i know that there isn't corruption on voting in that little...

Man puts out fire with aunt's massive underwear

My natural instinct would have been to go for a tea towel, but whatever works."LONDON - They went from baggy knickers to the ultimate hotpants. A fire department official in Britain says Jenny Marsey's miraculous...

Rottweiler Kills Baby

"Police described yesterday how a Rottweiler killed baby Archie-Lee Hirst after tearing him from the arms of a seven-year-old girl, dragging him into his grandparents' back garden and savaging him. The baby's...

Daughter of the West

" * LRB * 13 December 2007 * Tariq Ali more detail icon * printer icon print layout * mail icon tell a friend Daughter of the West Tariq Ali Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing...

Turkey Demands American Military Intervention

"This is a fine mess. First Turkey was so miffed over the now-tabled Congressional "Turkish genocide" resolutionthat its ambassador flounced back home. Now Turkey is demanding that the U.S.take military action against Kurdish fighters on Turkey's borders: or else. From...

Surrey: Murder victim lured into drug trade: Aunt

Opinion,Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Another myth that the "Gangsta life" is all glamour, made inviting in Movies for impressionable youth markets complete with flashy cars, gats, bling and...

Blackwater's Bloody Sunday: The Real Story

As Washington and Blackwater spin machines crank out a flood of official justifications for the massacre of innocent civilians by Blackwater "contractors" on the mean streets of Baghdad, it's important as a...

British couple's 22-year motel stop

"A British couple have shacked up in a budget roadside motel for more than 20 years because they love never having to do the laundry or cooking, they said Tuesday.David Davidson, 79, and his wife, Jean, 70, first tried out a Travelodge hotel while visiting a sick aunt in 1985...

Yellow Bird: On being Black or Indian 'enough'

""Being 'black enough' or 'Indian enough' usually refers to your experience in Indian country or black America. In Indian country, if you are light-skinned with shades of blond hair, you can be discriminated against by your own people because you are ;different.' The irony is...

Sold into prostitution for $680 in Nepal

""My aunt lured me with tall promises of finding work in Kathmandu. But I ended up in a brothel in Pune," Sunita* broke into tears recalling the old wounds of the past. "I'm totally perplexed. No way for me to return anywhere," she said. "My aunt has ruined me...

Ex-soldier admits killing four of his family

"LONDON (Reuters) - A Gulf War veteran who suffered mental problems after leaving the army admitted on Monday shooting dead four members of his family at close range with a handgun fitted with a silencer. David...

All you need is love: The John Lennon story

By GLENYS ROBERTS .. 23rd January 2007 John as a child with his aunt Mimi, who raised him Headlines Rejected by his mother, raised by a loving aunt. That's the official John Lennon story. In fact,a new book...

Evangelist Sued For Claiming That God Heals

A tele-evangelist with a large following across the United States is being sued by relatives over her claim that prayer cured her brother's throat cancer. Darlene Bishop's claims appear in her book, Your Life Follows Your Words, which fails to mention that her brother, the...

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