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Lakshmi, second from left, sits in her mother Poonam's lap as she poses next to her father Shambhu and brother Mithilesh, right, at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India, on Nov. 5. Doctors began operating Nov. 6 on the two-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs. BANGALORE, India - Doctors in southern India completed a grueling 24-hour operation Wednesday on a girl born with four arms and four legs that surgeons said will give the 2-year-old a chance at a normal life. The surgery went "wonderfully well," said Dr. Sharan Patil, who led a team of more than...

An illegal immigrant was sentenced today in Chesapeake Circuit Court to a year in prison for having sex with a 13-year-old girl and producing nude images of the child. Carlos De La Cruz Ramos, fomerly of the 3700 block of S. Military Highway in Chesapeake, was arrested in May after a Wal-Mart store clerk processed film he had dropped off that showed images of a nude child, police said. Ramos was convicted in August of producing child pornography and carnal knowledge, both felonies carrying maximum punishments of 10 years in prison. Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney David Whitted said Ramos was 19...

Four-year-old girl dies in Grand Canyon death plunge10-10-2007, 17h34 PHOENIX, United States (AFP) Tourists view the Grand Canyon in Arizona, April 2007. A four-year-old girl plunged to her death after falling from the rim of the Grand Canyon, according to park officials Wednesday. (AFP) A four-year-old girl plunged to her death after falling from the rim of the Grand Canyon, according to park officials Wednesday. The Arizona girl was the second-youngest person to die from an accidental fall from the canyon rim, according to experts. The girl fell 450 feet (150 meters) about early Tuesday from Mather Point on the...

BEIJING - A father tied his 10-year-old daughter's hands and feet and watched her swim in a chilly southern China river for three hours in a task he said Thursday would help the girl achieve her dream of swimming across the English Channel. Huang Li swam more than a mile in the Xiang River on Tuesday, traveling with the current, her father said. The girl swam by moving like a dolphin and would sometimes paddle with her bound hands. "Her swimming skills are perfect and she insisted on doing this," Huang Daosheng said in a telephone interview. The girl, who...

Girl Seen on Sex Tape Found Safe Girl Seen Being Sexually Assaulted on Tape Is Found Safe, Nevada Authorities Say By KEN RITTER The Associated Press LAS VEGAS A young girl who was seen being sexually assaulted in a homemade videotape has been found and is safe with relatives and sheriff's officials, an investigator said Friday. "We found the victim. She's safe," Nye County sheriff's Detective David Boruchowitz told The Associated Press. Widespread media accounts of the case led to the crucial tip that helped find the girl, Boruchowitz said. He did not provide details of her identity, where she...

Teenager Charged with Hanging 6-Year-Old Neighbor GirlLast Update: 1:04 pm CORSICANA, Texas (AP) -- A neighbor of a 6-year-old girl found hanged in her family's garage has been charged in the sexual assault and death of the first-grader, police said Friday. Shaun Earl Arender, 19, is charged with capital murder in the death of Hanna Mack, whose body was found hanging from the garage rafters before sunrise Sept. 10 by her mother. Arender lived less than a mile from the Mack's rural home about 65 miles south of Dallas, Navarro County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Mike Cox said. It wasn't immediately...

Please ping all the prayer lists. I got a call from a good friend who told me one of my 10th grade students, Melinda G. is in the hospital. She was bucked off her horse last night. She was airlifted to Christiana Hospital. So far, they think she may have a spinal injury. Both lungs collapsed. They are still running tests. I don't know if she is awake or not.

Father 'abandoned' girl, 3, in Melbourne train station By Sally Peck and agencies Last Updated: 2:34am BST 19/09/2007 Police in three countries are hunting for the parents of a three-year-old girl who was apparently abandoned by her father at a Melbourne railway station. Xue Qianxun Staff at the Southern Cross train station discovered Xue Qianxun, from New Zealand, crying and confused on Saturday. Authorities said they have grave fears for the mother of the 3-year-old girl. Australian police said they believe Xue Naiyin, a Chinese-language magazine publisher in New Zealand, flew to the US after dumping his daughter at the...

6-year-old girl found hanged in TexasBy PAUL J. WEBER - The Associated Press Posted on Wed, Sep. 12, 2007 Family Photo via KTVT-TVShown in this undated family photo is 6-year-old Hannah Mack of Corsicana, Texas. Her body was discovered Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, hanging inside her family's garage. Police said Wednesday the child was sexually assaulted. CORSICANA, Texas --A 6-year-old girl was found hanged inside her family's garage and had been sexually assaulted before she died, police said Wednesday. Authorities have made no arrests or named any suspects since Hannah Mack's body was discovered by her mother on Monday. They...

Medieval women 'had girl power' Books, songs and legal documents were studied A new study by an academic says that "girl power" was alive and kicking around 600 years ago. Dr Sue Niebrzydowski at Bangor university said medieval women enjoyed a golden era with a greater life expectancy than men. "We found women running priories, commissioning books, taking early package tours to visit the Holy Land," she said. She added women were also defending their property and property rights. Dr Niebrzydowski's research involving middle aged women in the middle ages will be discussed at a conference at the university on...

Pfc. Anthony Graves, Paso Robles, Calif., native, and medic with the Fort Stewart, Ga., based A Troop, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment helps draw a coloring book with 4-year-old Rusil, an Iraqi girl living in the Suleikh neighborhood of Adhamiyah. The girl's injured leg was apparently the result of a stray U.S. bullet, and the Soldiers from A Troop have made it their mission to make sure she gets proper medical attention. Photo by Sgt. Michael Pryor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs. BAGHDAD — Baghdad is a city full of sad stories. Soldiers on patrol hear...

An RAF mechanic who claimed he was sleepwalking when he had sex with a 15-year-old girl was cleared of rape yesterday. Senior Aircraftsman Kenneth Ecott, 26, broke down in tears after a jury took two hours to agree that he was not responsible for his actions. Ecott did not deny having sex with the girl but said he had no memory of it happening. Instead he insisted he had a condition known as 'sexsomnia' in which sufferers carry out indecent acts in their sleep. It was this rare affliction which caused him to climb naked on top of the girl...

We will kill your girl, kidnappers tell mother By Mike Pflanz and Kelvin Ebiri in Port Harcourt Last Updated: 5:27am BST 07/07/2007 The mother of the three-year-old British girl who was snatched in Nigeria said the kidnappers phoned and threatened to kill her daughter. Nigeria's most senior policeman, Inspector General Mike Okiro, centre, in Port Harcourt. He has taken control of the investigation Oluchi Hill, whose daughter Margaret was kidnapped as she travelled to school in Port Harcourt, Nigeria's oil capital, said the kidnappers threatened to kill the girl unless her English father, Mike, agreed to take her place. "They...

'Threat to kill' missing UK girl Militants have said they will resume abductions and attacks Kidnappers who seized a three-year-old UK girl in Nigeria have threatened to kill her unless her father agrees to take her place, her mother says. Margaret Hill, the daughter of an expatriate worker, was grabbed from a car on her way to school in the oil city of Port Harcourt. Her mother, Oluchi, told the BBC that the kidnappers had called her demanding a meeting in a town in the Niger Delta. She said they then allowed her to speak to her daughter who was...

This clip from the “Crush on Obama” video should tell the viewer everything he or she needs to know about Barack Obama. The psychology of putting Obama’s picture between the Obama Girl’s “assets” is pretty obvious, but if Obama thinks this is going to appeal to anyone but Bill Clinton, he is deceiving himself.

"Obama" = "Phony Smile on an Empty Suit" It is well known that a word's meaning can be inferred from its context, or the way it is used in a sentence. As an example, "to nifong" means to falsely accuse someone of a crime for personal gain, whether political or financial. Robert A. Heinlein's "Pravda means 'Truth'" was written so the context of "Pravda" meant bovine excrement. Obama's chief supporters are a woman with what looks a ring or stud in her tongue and a crush on Barack Obama, along with George Soros, Allan Houston, Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, and...

COPYING AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE FOLLOWING LYRICS IS NOT ONLY PERMITTED, BUT ENCOURAGED.I'm Al Sharpton, and Obama's my man To make him Pres-i-dent, that is my plan. ...Then came Crown Heights, in 1991 My mob went wild, and boy it had fun! The "diamond merchants" sure got a clue, When my mob rampaged and screamed, "Kill the Jew!" They found one, name of Yankel Rosenbaum The brother that knifed him was no Uncle Tom. They rioted and screamed, that was a fact Like the Nazis did, on good old Kristallnacht.* Four years later, we gave Whitey straight dope Harlem's a...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The 15-year-old girl whose marathon case of hiccups made international news earlier this year has apparently run away from home, police said Monday.

BLOOMFIELD, Conn. - A 15-year-old girl missing for nearly a year was found Wednesday locked in a small hidden room under the staircase of a West Hartford home, and two people who live there were arrested, police said. Bloomfield police said they found the girl alive in a room blocked from view by a cabinet. They had gone to the home with West Hartford police to serve search warrants for DNA and other evidence. Adam Gault, 41, was charged with second-degree unlawful restraint, second-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree custodial interference, interfering with an officer, risk of injury to a minor and...

WASHINGTON, May 29, 2007 – Girl Scouts in southern Nevada are preparing to ship more than 11,000 boxes of Thin Mints, Do-Si-Dos, Tagalongs and other Girl Scout cookies to servicemembers overseas. The Scouts’ donation was made possible through the generosity of the Girls Scouts of Frontier Council, which donated the cookies. The Nevada Benefits Foundation offered its assistance by coordinating the effort and covering the cost to ship the cookies to servicemembers in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Community service is a long-standing tradition in Girl Scouting, allowing girls to learn the value of helping others,” Toni Carey, product sales director...

WASHINGTON, May 17, 2007 – Collecting 50,000 DVDs to send to deployed troops is an ambitious goal, but that isn’t stopping 7-year-old Katherine Toebes of Janesville, Wis., from trying. She said she’s collecting the DVDs “so (servicemembers) can laugh when they’re away from their families.” Katherine’s original goal was to send 50,000 DVDs to soldiers currently serving overseas in two years, her mother, Denise Toebes, said. The project also aims to send boxes of 100 DVDs to Veterans Affairs hospitals, Toebes said. Since the last week in April, Katherine has collected about 100 DVDs and has received cash donations...

LISBON, Portugal — The home of a British man was being searched Monday by police looking for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal on May 3. The man, Robert Murat, was taken to a police station. His mother told Sky News that he has not been arrested. She said no trace of Madeleine had been found at the villa. The property is just 150 yards from the apartment where Madeleine's family were staying, in the southern Portuguese resort of Praia Da Luz. ... McCann vanished May 3 after her parents left her, and her brother and sister, both...

British girl, 11, saved from forced marriage By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor Last Updated: 2:05am BST 09/05/2007 An 11-year-old girl British has been rescued from a forced marriage, the Home Office said yesterday. She had been living in England with her father, who died when she was just six. Her family took her to Bangladesh, where she had to care for her disabled mother. She was forced into marriage but her aunt in Britain reported the case to the authorities. After an operation involving the Foreign Office and the High Commission in Dacca, she was brought back to the...

Little Girl (Media please contact John Mason: jmason@bktc.net)MosulMajor Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue some of our guys a...

As they stepped out of cars and limousines and made last-minute adjustments to their outfits, most Fresno High School students seemed reluctant to talk about the reason their prom had become national news. They were all well-dressed, they all smiled -- but most politely said "no thank you" when asked about a classmate nominated for prom queen who ran for prom king instead

RIBTA, Djibouti, March 22, 2007 ? A recent Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa site survey to find water in northern Djibouti turned into a lifesaving medical assist for a young Ribta child. Members of the North Carolina-based 1132nd Engineer Detachment (Well Drillers) were conducting a mission with hydrogeologists from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to identify potential water well sites when they were asked by a local leader for medical assistance. A Ribta girl suffered third-degree burns to her left arm that had become infected, necessitating lifesaving medical attention. The local leader requested the team help the young child....

VENICE, Fla. -- A 13-year-old Venice girl died after being thrown from a horse. Mary Angela Jaquith was practicing for a jumping competition at her family farm on Saturday when another member of her riding club had a problem with a horse. Jaquith saddled up to see if she could help. But the horse reared back, threw Jaquith to the ground and rolled over her. Jaquith's mother, Debra is a former nurse. She rushed to the girl's side and found her unconscious and bleeding heavily. Jaquith was airlifted to All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg. Despite her riding helmet, Jaquith...

In the last two years, international organizations and Asian nations have stepped up their efforts to eliminate sex-selective abortions, which have created a massive dearth of girls in many nations over the past 20 years. With the new year, some new statistics have been released. The result of these efforts? The sex imbalance continues to worsen, not improve, thanks to the ever-increasing spread of cheap abortion and ultrasound technology into more and more areas of China, India, and other countries. One expert who spoke at the United Nations estimates that up to 200 million women and girls are missing worldwide...

A Cambodian girl who disappeared aged eight has been found after living wild in the jungle for 19 years, police say. The girl is believed to be Rochom P'ngieng, who disappeared while tending buffalo on the edge of the jungle in remote northern Rattanakiri province. Her father says he has identified her through scars and will have DNA tests taken to prove she is his daughter. But the BBC's Guy De Launey in Phnom Penh says there are other possibilities to her identity. Members of Vietnamese hill tribes often cross into Cambodia through the jungles, he says. Many are seeking...

The mother of a boy convicted Friday in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl on Labor Day told a judge the girl was also to blame and that her son was the victim of "little flipper girls" who think it's cool to have sex with multiple partners. That prompted Milwaukee County Children's Court Judge Mary Triggiano to abruptly interrupt her. "What he did was rape that girl," Triggiano said, calling the deflection of responsibility to the girl appalling. "He got caught. He didn't take responsibility until something pegged him

Video Clip of Vicious School Bullying Sparks Uproar A video clip showing a group of girl students assaulting another is inciting controversy on the Internet. In the six-minute clip, five or six students without any provocation attack the girl, one ripping off the victim’s glasses and beating her hands repeatedly down on the girl’s head. The victim bursts into tears, a signal for the rest to start battering her in a profanity-laced onslaught of kicking and punching. Images of violence released on Pandora TV site The assailants take the victim’s long hair and pull it behind her head before...

CAMP TAQADDUM, Iraq (Dec. 1, 2006) -- The nine-(and-a-half)-year-old Iraqi girl would have died without their help. Riyam Shihan's cousin was trying to close a heavy, metal door, at a home in Habbaniyah when it became unhinged and fell on Riyam, crushing her skull. The bone was fractured and she was bleeding profusely. With each passing minute, rapidly building pressure within her brain was causing more damage. When she arrived at TQ Surgical, her condition deteriorated quickly. Fearing the worst, doctors and corpsmen "launched into action," said Lt. Cmdr. Pamela C. Harvey, 39 from Muscatine, Iowa and a doctor with...

Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards acknowledged Thursday that amid his criticism of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a volunteer member of his staff asked the world's largest retailer for help obtaining a hot new Sony Playstation 3 for Edwards' family. Edwards, a potential 2008 presidential candidate, told The Associated Press that the volunteer "feels terrible" about seeking the game unit at Wal-Mart while his boss claims the retailer doesn't treat its employees fairly. "My wife, Elizabeth, wanted to get a Playstation3 for my young children. She mentioned it in front of one of my staff people. That staff person mentioned it...

If the Democrats think the Islamic Jihadists will respect them more than President Bush then read this! This is an article everyone needs to read. If you think that because you refuse to be politically incorrect and see these inhuman animals for what they are that they will somehow respect you enough not to do to you what they did to these young girls, then think again! It will get worse. Beheaded girls were Ramadan ?trophies? THREE Christian high school girls were beheaded as a Ramadan ?trophy? by Indonesian militants who conceived the idea after a visit to Philippines jihadists,...

GEORGETOWN, Pa. (AP) - The number of dead from Monday's Amish schoolhouse shooting could soon rise by one more. A county coroner and a doctor who serves Amish children says it appears that one of the survivors is being taken off life-support and taken home to die. Meantime, the other survivors remain hospitalized and continue to fight their injuries. In Monday's attack, the gunmen sent the adults and boys out and bound the ten remaining girls at the blackboard. He was in the school for about an hour before he shot his hostages and turned the gun on himself as...

An eight-year-old girl hanged herself after watching a suicide scene in a cult film, an inquest has heard.Kyesha Freeman, who fashioned a makeshift noose, was discovered by her mother, Marika Keize, who was eight months pregnant. Paramedics revived Kyesha, but she died in hospital four days later. Police recovered 18-rated DVDs and videos from her bedroom - including Girl, Interrupted. The film, which stars Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie and Whoopi Goldberg, is set in a 1960s psychiatric hospital and focuses on a group of disturbed young women. In a shocking sequence, a patient, played by Brittany Murphy, commits suicide by...

1st Lt. Joshua R. Rosales, Navy Seaman Royce R. Ross and Cpl. Jared S. Nelson, came to the aid of a 7 year old Iraqi girl. U.S. Marine Corps photo taken by Gunnery Sgt. Mark Oliva. CAMP FALLUJAH -- “America’s Battalion” Marines made a midnight run to rush to the aid of a seven-year -old Iraqi girl after she fell from a three-story building.Marines from Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, rushed the girl to Camp Fallujah’s surgical center for treatment after local police were unable to get her proper medical attention. The incident occurred late at night in...

BAGHDAD, Iraq A U-S Army investigator in Iraq is recommending that four American soldiers face a court-martial. The soldiers are accused in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and the killing of her family. Military prosecutors allege the four soldiers also set the girl's body on fire to hide their crime. Colonel Dwight Warren, the investigator, says in a report that "reasonable grounds exist" for the case to go forward. The report was obtained by The Associated Press from the lawyer of one of the defendants. The soldiers, from the 101st Airborne Division, could potentially face the death...

'Abducted' girl says she wanted to leave Scotland (Filed: 01/09/2006) A 12-year-old girl taken to Pakistan by her father without her mother's knowledge has spoken out for the first time, insisting that she went of her own free will. Louise Campbell had appealed for her daughter's return this week Molly Campbell disappeared from her home in the Western Isles on Friday amid fears that she had been abducted. But today she told a British MP that she had gone voluntarily and planned to stay in Pakistan. She also spoke on the phone to her mother in Stornoway for 10 minutes....

Young Iraqi Girl Needs Life Saving Surgery A young Iraqi girl who befriended U.S. Marines and sailors is in desperate need of life-saving surgery in order to save her life. By Cpl. Antonio Rosas1st Marine Division CAMP AL QA'IM, Iraq, Aug. 31, 2006 -- After befriending Marines and sailors serving in this region of Iraq, a 12-year-old Iraqi girl who is in need of a kidney and liver transplant is now in a life-or-death struggle. Hadael Hamade, a young Iraqi girl from Karabilah, a city of about 30,000 near the Iraq-Syria border, desperately needs life-saving surgery in order to...

A 14-year-old girl in Derry Borough thought she had killed her little brother during a fight, so she jumped off a bridge, breaking both her legs. Derry Police Chief Randolph Glick said the girl was taken by helicopter last night to Children's Hospital in Oakland. Her condition was not available today.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi army medic on Sunday told a U.S. military hearing of the horrific scene that confronted him in a tiny home south of Baghdad where he found the naked and burned body of a 14-year-old girl allegedly raped and murdered by American soldiers. The medic testified on the opening day of a hearing to determine whether five U.S. soldiers must stand trial in the March 12 rape-slaying of Abeer Qassim al-Janabi and the killing of her parents and sister in the town of Mahmoudiya. It is among the worst in a series of cases of alleged...

(AP) WAUKESHA, Wis. -- A 12-year-old girl jumped from a second-floor window to escape abuse from her mother and to seek help to free her 10-year-old sister, who was also reportedly being abused, police say. They said the reported abuse included being struck with belts and rods and being pinched with pliers. "They also indicated that they were forced to perform 'stretches' which were similar to push-ups with the arms and legs 'locked' for a period of hours," Lt. William H. Graham said in a statement. "At times, the 'stretches' caused the knuckles to bleed. Other punishments included 'squats' and...

A television documentary team has pieced together details surrounding the case of a 16-year-old girl, executed two years ago in Iran. Atefah Sahaaleh: wrongly described as being 22 years old On 15 August, 2004, Atefah Sahaaleh was hanged in a public square in the Iranian city of Neka. Her death sentence was imposed for "crimes against chastity". The state-run newspaper accused her of adultery and described her as 22 years old. But she was not married - and she was just 16. Sharia Law In terms of the number of people executed by the state in 2004, Iran is estimated...

Some miracles are harder than others to come by. On Wednesday, it looked like the Marines, a congressman and the Blue Star Mothers had moved enough medical mountains to keep a fallen Modesto Marine's promise to save a dying Iraqi girl.

TIKRIT, Iraq - U.S. investigators have asked Iraqi authorities to help them navigate cultural sensitivities to exhume the body of a teenager allegedly raped and murdered with her family by American soldiers, a military official said Saturday. U.S. Maj. Mark Wright said U.S. authorities are aware that Islamic tradition has strict rules governing exhumation and could require religious leaders to become involved in the investigation. "You want to be aware of these cultural issues while at the same time making sure that the accused receives proper justice," Wright, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, told The Associated Press....

[snip] We saw striking and measurable differences in more than half of the genes' expression patterns between males and females," said Dr. Thomas Drake, a professor of pathology. "We didn't expect that. No one has previously demonstrated this genetic gender gap at such high levels."

KOTA BARU, Malaysia - In a softly lit, wood-paneled spa, the personal beauticians of a Malaysian queen are training a new generation of Muslims in the art of feminine grooming as part of a royal effort to save young women from vice. The project has drawn attention as much for its objective as for its location - Malaysia's most backward state, Kelantan, and the only one governed by the opposition Islamic fundamentalist party that recommends keeping the female form under wrap. With the motto "Beauty Is Women's Top Asset," the salon set up in 2004 by Kelantan Queen Tengku Anis...

BOISE, Idaho - Most days, 6-year-old Aubrey Matthews spends her energy fighting a brain tumor growing behind her eyes. But the first-grader managed to foil crimes and chase an arch-nemesis through Boise on Friday, serving the city as the superhero "Star" with assistance from the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Idaho, The Idaho Statesman reported. When she donned her blue and metallic superhero costume, Star took on the super-powers of X-ray vision, superhuman strength, speed and blowing power _ and a mission: To capture the villain who had stolen a golden star from the Idaho Historical Museum. After Star was alerted by...

NAPLES, Fla. -- A 6-year-old special education student who kicked a Naples teacher's aide and spent several hous in juvenile jail is facing felony battery charges. Her mother, however, wants to know why the case has gone so far. Takovia Allen suffers from behavioral problems and attends a special class at Lely Elementary in Naples. According to an arrest report, on May 2, a teacher was trying to line up students to go to music class. Takovia refused to go and kicked the teacher's aide in the ankle. After a discussion among school officials and two law enforcement officials called...