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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Settlers at Virginia’s Jamestown Colony resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter of 1609, dismembering and consuming a 14-year-old English girl, the US Smithsonian Institution reported on Wednesday. This is the first direct evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown, the oldest permanent English colony in the Americas, according to the Washington-based museum and research complex. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Amanda Knox, the American student accused of the 2007 murder of her British roommate while both were students in Italy, paints herself in her new memoir as a naive young woman railroaded by a foreign justice system. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> DAY TWO: In SCMP reporter Zhuang Pinghui’s compelling account of the Sichuan earthquake, she tells of the day after the tremors struck and how shaken and injured villagers began a battle for survival. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A second suspect was arrested on Monday in the rape of a five-year-old girl who New Delhi police say was left for dead in a locked room, a case that has brought a new wave of protests against how Indian authorities handle sex crimes. Pradeep Kumar was arrested on Monday in the eastern state of Bihar, about 1,000 kilometres from New Delhi, and was being brought to the capital, police said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of angry protesters gathered outside the headquarters of New Delhi police yesterday after a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped and tortured, reviving memories of a brutal December assault on a woman that shook the country. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Lu Lingzi learned on Sunday that she had passed a major exam for her studies at Boston University. The next morning, the test and a major project behind her, the 23-year-old Chinese graduate student and two friends headed over to watch the Boston Marathon. They chose spots near the finish line. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 20-year-old student went on a building-to-building stabbing attack at a Texas community college, wounding at least 14 people before being subdued and arrested, authorities said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong on Friday will step up its control measures against a new bird flu strain that has killed six people in eastern China after a Hong Kong girl showed flu symptoms following a visit to Shanghai. The seven-year-old has become the first suspected case of the H7N9 bird flu virus in Hong Kong. The girl has now been put in an isolation ward in Queen Elizabeth Hospital for further observation to confirm whether she has contracted the virus. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An autopsy will be conducted on the body of an 11-year-old girl who died yesterday after being bitten by a hamster at home in Ma On Shan. The asthmatic girl was bitten on the little finger of her right hand while playing with her pet in her flat at Marbella Tower in On Chun Street shortly before 12.45am. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two members of a high school football team were found guilty yesterday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl in a case that bitterly divided this Ohio city and led to accusations of a cover-up to protect the community’s athletes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The man grabbed the woman’s hair, struck her and dragged her from the seat. Several passengers got up and separated them. The man quickly jumped out of the bus after the fight. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Video of Zhengzhou woman attacked on bus by older man wanting her seat goes viral
By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The woman admitted the girl was her daughter and she recorded the video through a webcam installed on her daughter’s desk lamp. “…Today’s homeworkprogress is not bad, but she kept talking to herself, and was singing while doing homework,” the woman commented on the video. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Mother’s video surveillance of daughter angers Facebook users
By , on February 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nine civil servants have been suspended after doing a homework assignment for their boss’ 12-year-old daughter, the Qianjiang Evening News reports. The employees in an undisclosed provincial government department spent three days on the assignment in the girl’s hometown, and claimed expenses. One of the employees, known only as Mr Chen, blew the whistle on the scam, claiming staff with a variety of skills helped out with the project. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 26th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In the first indication of the exact scope of the administration’s controversial request to the court over the issue of awarding right of abode to foreign domestic helpers, David Pannick QC said the government wanted an interpretation of Article 158, which states that the power to interpret the mini-constitution “shall be vested in the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 26th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Court of Final Appeal on Tuesday refused an application by an eight-year-old girl born locally to mainlanders to join the right of abode challenge mounted by foreign domestic helpers. Liang Wing-ki and her mother, Li Yinxian, worried that her right of abode would be affected after the government said it would request the top court to ask Beijing to clarify an interpretation relating to the right of abode of different categories of persons including Chinese nationals born in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The engineer of the sinking Lamma IV waved at a nearby ferry to signal that help was needed, but got no response from the ship, the commission of inquiry heard on Thursday. The nearby vessel belonged to Hong Kong & Kowloon Ferry, Leung Pui-sang told the inquiry into the October 1 disaster, in which 39 people died last year. He did not specify that it was the Sea Smooth – which had just collided with Lamma IV – but left the impression that it was. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> DNA tests have confirmed a New Zealand girl is not missing British youngster Madeleine McCann, police said on Wednesday. Members of the public have twice mistakenly identified the New Zealand girl as Madeleine. The first sighting was last March and the second on New Year’s Eve. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pictures of the roughly-shorn head of Minami Minegishi, 20, were emblazoned on national newspapers yesterday amid news that the pop princess had broken the band’s cardinal rule: no dating. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The rapists who assaulted and murdered a woman on a bus in New Delhi last month tried to run her over with the vehicle after the attack, reports said yesterday, citing a grisly police account. Her boyfriend, who was beaten up and thrown off the bus after the girl had been repeatedly raped, managed to pull her to safety just in time, police are to allege in a 1,000-page charge sheet to be presented in court today. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on December 20th, 2012 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police have released shocking security footage of the brutal attack on primary schoolchildren in Henan less than a week after the attack by a knife-wielding man left 23 pupils injured. The video has caused further outcry among China’s netizens, who blame the school for failing to protect the students. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Starving US settlers driven to cannibalism, say researchers
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Settlers at Virginia’s Jamestown Colony resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter of 1609, dismembering and consuming a 14-year-old English girl, the US Smithsonian Institution reported on Wednesday. This is the first direct evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown, the oldest permanent English colony in the Americas, according to the Washington-based museum and research complex. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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