Natascha Kampusch returns to tidy the house that was her prison

" A girl who was imprisoned in a cellar for eight and-a-half years is coping with her ordeal - by returning to clean her captor’s house. Natascha Kampusch, who was kidnapped at the age of ten and held captive...

Niger Crisis escalating after EU suspends all aid to the Country.

By, Uwe Paschen. E.U. Suspends all aid to Niger and freezes all accounts. After Failure of the Niger Government to comply with EU demands as reported in an earlier post. (See links at the end of this post.)...

Victimization of Tamil Peopel must stop - Elie Wiesel

Holocaust surviver, Jewish icon, and Nobel laureate, Professor Elie Wiesel stated that victimization of Tamil people must stop, and they should be able to live in peace in their homeland. " TAMIL PEOPLE STATEMENT:...

Mary Kay LeTourneau hosts hot for teacher night memorial weekend

Mary Kay LeTourneau, the ex-teacher who was jailed for 7 and a half years for raping a sixth-grade student, Vili Fualaau, will host a 'Hot For Teacher' night this weekend at the Fuel Sports Eats & Beats Bar in Seattle. ""It's turned into sort of a love story," says...

U.S. to Release Prisoner From Guantanamo Bay

What this article doesn't say is how this man was tortured. How he was tied by his wrist with leather straps and hung by them for a week at a time. Or how his genitals were mutilated while he was in custody of this...

Human Sex Trafficking problem hasn’t been confirmed in Las Vegas per Metro PD

Another brick wall, because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. How dare Metro Police Captain Terry Lesney to think she is waiting for the "perfect test case to set a precedent".    ...

AHMADINEJAD'S NEW ENEMY: WOMEN

"Posted: 4:36 am, September 6, 2008, by Amir Taheri, NY POST IN one of his last sermons before his death, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini warned of "three threats" to his vision of Islam: the US, the Jews and women....

Woman locked up by family for 18 years

Seems like there are more and more stories like this everyday. People being locked in the basement for some odd reason, and they are living in ridiculous conditions and often abused. When they are finally found, 20years has gone by already. Can you imagine being locked up in...

Austrian Cellar Girl Wakes From Coma

Only days after doctors thought she would die from organ failure, the 19-year-old daughter of a woman held captive in an underground dungeon woke from her coma and opened her eyes.It may be the first time she has...

Josef Fritzl confesses to 'addiction'

Josef Fritzl admitted through his lawyer today that he was driven by an addiction that 'got out of control' and made him repeatedly rape his daughter.An addiction is not an excuse though. If you kill someone...

Josef Fritzl claims he is not a monster

No, you didn't read the headline wrong.Josef Fritzl, the Austrain man who imprisoned his daughter and fathered seven children by her claims that he is upset by the way the media is portraying him and that he is...

Fritzl May Have Planned 'Dungeon' Since 1978, say police

The terrible story of Josef Fritzl's incestuous imprisonment of his own children grows more horrific as new details emerge. He is now suspected of having been planning to construct the 'dungeon' for 24 years,...

Patience for Martin's antics wearing thin

Update May 02, 2008: Brenda Martin returned home today from a Mexican prison, and now is on Canadian soil, arriving quietly at Waterloo International airport to a regional women's institution,where it is said she...

UPDATE:Josef Fritzl - transferred yesterday from police custody in Amstetten ...

UPDATE: TUESDAYA 73-year-old Austrian man who has admitted locking up his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children is due to appear before a magistrates court later today.Josef Fritzl was transferred yesterday from police custody in Amstetten to a court in...

China Troops Seal Tibet Monasteries, Shops Set Ablaze

More news from Tibet as China cracks down on protests there."Chinese troops sealed off three of Lhasa's largest monasteries after Tibet's biggest protests in almost 20 years deteriorated into violence, with...

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