"A Papua New Guinea woman gave birth prematurely as she struggled to free herself from a hangman's noose, after villagers lynched her and her husband believing they were involved in sorcery, local media...
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Warning for NP readers: For some odd reason the uploader for the Firefox extension just uploaded several images aimed at other posts. So I apologise for any errors, yet, the images fit the American mindset...
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"By Phil Dzikiy/dzikiyp@gnnewspaper.com “We’ve never had a child quite like Michael.” According to Rhonda Mangus, an employee of the North Tonawanda School District said this about her son, Michael Mangus, who came out as gay in eighth grade. Michael...
"CAIRO (Reuters) - The botched hanging of
Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan on Monday aroused Arab suspicions of foul play and malice, deepening the divide between the Iraqi government and Arabs in other...
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"Colin Powell, perhaps apocryphally, warned President Bush in the build up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, “If you break it you buy it.” Irrespective of the dubious intelligence upon which the case for war in Iraq...
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"AMMAN, Jordan — Hundreds of Iraqis have offered to act as hangman in the execution of Saddam Hussein, according to senior officials in the Baghdad Government.
Some requests have been e-mailed to the office of Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, from around the...
"The page layout is topped by depictions of two scruffy sheets of exam paper, covered in a student's writing and drawings.
The hangman appeared alongside a game of noughts and crosses and amid coffee-cup stains."